Teller seems to continue shading Marvel superhero movies with his next comment as well, by arguing that “Fantastic Four” will be better than what we’ve been getting so far. Variety’s Brian Lowry writes, “Fox’s stab at reviving one of its inherited Marvel properties feels less like a blockbuster for this age of comics-oriented tentpoles than it does another also-ran – not an embarrassment, but an experiment that didn’t gel”. “There has to be some type of adoption thing going on”. Yet if this latest version, with a significantly younger cast (one’s tempted to call it “Fantastic Four High”), clears that threshold, it’s just barely, drawing from a different source to reimagine the quartet’s origins without conspicuously improving them.
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Reviews from advance screenings note that “Fantastic Four” is a generic action movie that is poorly edited and even worse directed.
“Well, from what I understand, you’re brother and sister”, Rickman said, pointing to Jordan and Mara, who play Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and Sue Storm (Invisible Woman), respectively.
Writer/producer Simon Kinberg recently defended the film after speculation that the movie faced trouble during production. As I said before, it makes this look like a very eventful movie, much more so than its 106 minute runtime would suggest.
Not Teller, whose frat boy goofiness is all but suffocated in emo monologues about no one understanding him. Not Bell, who is barely in the movie. Still, it’s as if after every take, the director was like, “OK, but now do it like you’re angry at everyone else in the scene”. She insists she cares about both equally, explaining the main difference is that when flicks have less money behind them, she probably won’t get a dressing room. When things go wrong, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are given unbelievable powers while their colleague Victor von Doom (Toby Kebbell) is left behind in that other dimension. The film opens August 7th in the US and most of the world. But, reshoots are fairly standard for big films. He was right about the Fantastic Four, to be fair. It’s all Doom and gloom.
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During an interview on July 30, radio host Steven J. Rickman asked Jordan and Mara, “From what I’ve seen, you’re brother and sister”.
