But you haven’t had one of these for years.
I own a Galactus, Devourer of Beers bottle opener
Is it in your mansion or on your yacht?
80 bucks!? Yikes.
Mansion. I got one of these for the yacht…
I hired that guy once, terrible employee.
I’ve got the same bottle opener!
Diamond Select Toys sells them for $29.99.
WANT! WANT NOW! Yes, that is correct, spellcheck!
As long as we are talking Galactus, I’ll just put this here.
New Trailer. Looks like Reed’s stretchy powers are taking a lesson from Spider-Man.
I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good. I want it to be good.
::: sigh ::::
Things I do like so far: not going too crazy with the stretchy powers - Reed Richard’s superpower is as much his brain/genius as his stretchiness
Sue Storm is called Invisible Woman (not girl)
Ben Grimm has a normal voice, not some weird super-gravely or weirdly deep voice.
Some of that is kind of nitpicky, but meh - until I actually see it there’s not much more I can say.
The voice is fine. As I’ve seen pointed out, he just has a rocky exterior, and normal vocal cords and lungs. There’s no reason he should sound like some inhuman monster.
I don’t like his delivery though. He was always written as a very blue collar guy with a distinctive way of speaking, and that doesn’t seem present at all in this character. He doesn’t seem to have Ben’s personality, which is a massive miss to me. He just sounds like a bored emo guy, at least in this preview.
Ben Grimm was certainly written as a guy with “blue collar” speech patterns, but folks forget he was also a smart, highly educated guy. That’s why he was hanging out with a geek like Reed. Grimm’s fictional biography had him will a full scholarship to college (albeit, and athletic one), earning an engineering degree and becoming a test pilot/rocket pilot/astronaut. He’s a smart dude in his own right. I really don’t like portrayals of him as less than that.
We’ll see how he winds up in the movie when it comes out.
And that particular blue collar speech pattern doesn’t exist anymore. Sure you could have him try to talk in an oldtimey Manhattan accent. It is a different universe after all. But I don’t see how it wouldn’t sound fake to modern ears.
On the other hand, the film appears to be supposed to be set in a version of the 1960s – which would make the classic Ben Grimm working-class New Yorker accent and dialect appropriate. On the gripping hand, it’s 2025, and as you note, the viewers aren’t in the 1960s.
Everybody knows Ben Grimm speaks just like Jack Kirby.
The final trailer is making me come around on the way they are handling Reed. We saw more of his performance in this one and I am liking what I saw.
My thoughts on the final trailer:
“This looks terrible. However, it could be great for all I know.”
My wife said, “The Thing still looks stupid.”
Maybe I’m just burned from the previous F4 movies, but I always think they look so silly and lame. I still think the Roger Corman produced one is the best of the current batch we have.
Also, was Invisible Woman kind of doing a Jean Grey type thing there? I thought her bonus power was making shields in front of herself, not manipulating objects.
She can change the shape and size of the invisible forcefields, which gets pretty close.