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Looks like it’s being marketed as a hyped-up action movie. Hopefully it’s more than that as the familial gestalt provides much of the FF’s appeal.
And I’d just like to say that as a blonde, Jessica Alba is SMOKIN’! Day-am! 
Okay, I haven’t paid much attention to the development of this film, but…
are they actually having Victor von Doom being, um, enhanced in the same incident?
That’s just wrong.
That is an issue some would have problems with. But as with the X-Men flicks, I don’t have a problem with origin-changing as long as the heart of the characters remain unchanged.
They are, and it is.
I mean, I can kinda see why they’d change ol’ Doom… they’ve only got 1.5 to 2 hours to get the story across… but damn. Color me dubious.
So why not just make him the high-tech leader of a band of Latverian terrorists whom the FF need to defeat to protect New York? He could still have known Reed in college, and the armor could still be a mini-mech, but there is NO REASON AT ALL for Victor to share an origin with the FF.
Colour me an old curmudgeon…
I so want this movie to be good, as the FF are my favorites. I’d love a movie on (or above!) the level of the Spider-Man and X-Men movies, but what I ceaselessly pray for is something well above the Catwoman goat-rope. As I heard someone else say, however, The Incredibles gave the FF a tough act to follow.
I don’t mind so much the origin changes, if they work within the context of the movie and are part of a good story. After all, we’re talking two different mediums, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Wasn’t Dr. Doom invented after the origin of the Fantastic Four? If so, I don’t see why it’s such a crime to adjust the origin story… I mean, in a movie setting, it’s a lot harder to believe that there just HAPPENS to be several uber-powerful beings running around the world. Connecting all the events to one instigating factor helps the suspension of disbelief.
Of course, the movie could still suck balls even if they stayed gospel-true to the origin story.
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Yeah! The comics were such high literature, why must they lower it’s quality? [/sarcasm]
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR has the same premise: Doom, Richards, Grimm and the Storms were all in the same incident. It’s not the same Fantastic Four when you involve a fifth person.
No Fantasti-car? No signal flare? No Baxter Building establishing shot? F’crissakes they could have least have had a bundle of the Daily Bugle dropped off with a headline referencing Blade, Spider-Man, The Punisher, Daredevil or even Howard the Duck.
Wa-aaa-Ay unimpressed with the Thing and Human Torch. Any promo that doesn’t have the decency to have Johnny say “Flame on!” Ben say “It’s Clobberin’ Time!” while demolishing something is gonna get points deducted, man.
Heh, not only do I release a stray apostrophe on the world, I muck up the coding. Obviously, I’m not nearly as smart as Reed Richards. I am, however, as strong as the Thing and as hot as Susan Richards.
Definitely looks better than the Corman FF flick.
I loved X-Men, I loved Spider-Man.
This doesn’t grab me.
Uh… watching McDonalds peeps put together burgers would be much more interesting than the Corman. Heck, watching burgers defrost would be better.
I’m also not crazy about the Doom origin tie-in. True, Doom is the best-known and most prominent of the FF’s villains. He’s the Joker to the FF’s Batman, the Green Goblin to the FF’s Spider-Man, and is quite suitable for an introductory movie.
But if they felt they couldn’t accommodate Doom’s proper origin somehow, if they felt they needed to somehow tie the villain into the FF’s own origin, they could have gone with a different villain for the first movie and have Doom and his separate origin in a second movie. You could easily tie in Galactus (instead of cosmic rays, they might have been bathed in the glow of his “power cosmic” because he was approaching Earth…and then when he arrives, the FF fight him) or the Skrulls (an advance agent of the Skrull invasion force tries to attack the FF’s rocket, and the cosmic rays turn him into the Super-Skrull) to the FF’s origin without sacrificing story or jettisoning comic history.
Still, I’ll be seeing this one. I was too much an FF fan back in the day for me to not see this. I’ll hold out hope that Doom’s personality is still the same. If whatever causes Doctor Doom’s origin happens because he arrogantly refuses to listen to a warning from Reed Richards, then I guess it’s still similar enough in nature to the original source.
Can anybody point me to a like where I don’t have to install some code from Apple in order to watch it? Thanks.
Or they could have made Doom an established threat, and the experiment that the Four are caught in could have been some new device to use against Doom. I mean, in their universe, Dr. Doom would have already had control of Latveria by the time the flight is made anyway, right?
Movie looks like it might be okay. Couldn’t help but notice Maynard’s music in the background. Neat.
Word. And where the fuck is Ben’s cigar? The Thing ain’t The Thing without a stogie.
That looks fucking terrible.
Hm. Reed is too young. Not sure I like how the Thing looks, but I like the actor.
Johnny Storm is cute, and seems to work. Since he and Susan still have the same last name, he’s still her little brother?
Jessica Alba is hot. But Susan Storm is a scientist now? And can shoot invisible force blasts from her hands? Please.
AFAIK, Dr. Doom was created and introduced as the FF’s main enemy, so I can handle his origin being tied to theirs. His real origin is kinda dorky anyway.