HaemishM
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Yeah, I'm still not feeling it.
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Khaldun
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I don't absolutely hate everything about it but it's not grabbing me either.
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Ironwood
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Nope. Just wrong.
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Soo, Doom is from another universe?  |
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HaemishM
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I get the feeling there will be 5 initial interdimensional explorers, one of whom will be lost while the other 4 will return with special powers. The 5th will be Victor Von Doom and time will work differently in the other dimension, so when he comes back he's spent decades there and gotten his shit all strunk and is a bit pissed.
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tazelbain
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Is there a term movies that highly focused on photogenic 20ish folks for no reason but they are young and photogenic? Because it looks like this FF is exactly that.
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Trippy
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Is there a term movies that highly focused on photogenic 20ish folks for no reason but they are young and photogenic? Because it looks like this FF is exactly that.
FF4 90210!
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Is there a term movies that highly focused on photogenic 20ish folks for no reason but they are young and photogenic? Because it looks like this FF is exactly that.
See Trippy's reply a page back. edit: beaten by the man himself... like fucking Voldemort, he appears when you say his name. |
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I get the feeling there will be 5 initial interdimensional explorers, one of whom will be lost while the other 4 will return with special powers. The 5th will be Victor Von Doom and time will work differently in the other dimension, so when he comes back he's spent decades there and gotten his shit all strunk and is a bit pissed.
From the shot of the dimensional travel device thing, there are only 4 slots. |
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Ironwood
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Photogenic ? Reed is ugly as fuck and has some shit all over his face for the trailer and Mara is just NOT Sue. She's really, really not.
Fuck sake.
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Nevermore
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And Thing looks like Fried Chicken Man.
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Over and out.
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Evildrider
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And Thing looks like Fried Chicken Man.
Thing's got no... thing either. Alicia Masters would be sad. |
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UGH. Weeping now. Not exactly surprised, but still... weeping.
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From the shot of the dimensional travel device thing, there are only 4 slots.
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Khaldun
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A lot of this tracks pretty close to Ultimate Fantastic Four, so I wouldn't be surprised if Doom is a smart-as-Reed guy who is working at Dr. Storm's lab who sneaks in at night to use the interdimensional travel dingus when nobody's looking, maybe because he's pissed that Reed gets all the attention.
The Thing having no thing is sort of close to some long-standing speculation about the regular Marvel character, and why he's as bitter as he is about his transformation, especially early on. A lot of people think that's what inspired Paul Chadwick's character Concrete--a sort of "what if we took more seriously what it would mean to be turned into an alien rock man with no penis" premise.
Though the regular Marvel version of the Thing does eat and he does crap--he's been drawn sitting on the crapper now and again.
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Ironwood
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Yeah, the kid scene and machine is stolen directly from Ultimate 4.
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If we stop watching these bad movies, especially in theaters, then the license will revert to someone that cares about the characters.
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Lantyssa
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You know what would have been a nice twist? Doom follows the Four in a rescue mission because he's a nice guy who cares about his co-workers but gets stuck/zapped himself. The injuries drive him a bit mad. He's still not completely evil, but does get deluded into thinking his methods help everyone, then it just escalates as supers oppose him. That would be a sympathetic villain that might be interesting.
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Khaldun
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He's always most interesting when he's just this side of sympathetic. The Byrne story where it's just plausible that he's a better ruler for Latveria than any other contender is a good example. Or frankly the current Secret Wars stuff, where Dr. Strange has had to concede that Doom is actually pretty good at being a god who is defending the very last of reality against its enemies.
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NowhereMan
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Yeah as a villain Doom works best as a super competent Dick Cheney or a Mark Millar Reed Richards. Which is kind of a problem with the Mark Millar Reed Richards.
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HaemishM
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The Mark Millar Reed Richards has a WHOLE host of problems much more major than the one you list.  The last great Doom portrayal was Mark Waid's, in which Doom trades in the metal armor for some magical armor and goes whole hog on selling his soul to the devil to save his mother's soul from eternal damnation. Then Millar comes along and ignores all of it. |
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Khaldun
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The Mark Millar Reed Richards has a WHOLE host of problems much more major than the one you list. The last great Doom portrayal was Mark Waid's, in which Doom trades in the metal armor for some magical armor and goes whole hog on selling his soul to the devil to save his mother's soul from eternal damnation. Then Millar comes along and ignores all of it. I hated the visual redesign of the armor in that, though. And it left the character in a kind of broken state, so I'm not surprised that later writers (including but not exclusively Millar) just ignored the story. |
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HaemishM
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It wasn't that they ignored the story that bothered me, it's that they ignored all the consequences of it. He went from "I'm all about the magic!" to "I'm the same old Doom you knew before and we're just going to handwave away what was the last good motivation I've had in a decade." It was a reset to a status quo without really any purpose other than "this writer wanted to use old Doom and not THAT Doom." Of course, I also dug the visual tweak to the armor in that story as well.
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It's okay guys! Individually this movie may appear stupid, but if we all work as a team and combine our snark...  |
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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! It's okay guys! Individually this movie may appear stupid, but if we all work as a team and combine our snark...
Let our snark combine! Green! Tits! Dmart! Grump! Hate! By your powers combined I am Captain Snark!!! That will be a million dollars, movie makers. |
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It wasn't that they ignored the story that bothered me, it's that they ignored all the consequences of it. He went from "I'm all about the magic!" to "I'm the same old Doom you knew before and we're just going to handwave away what was the last good motivation I've had in a decade."
I never read that storyline as a whole but just that part of it (all magic Doom) to me seems to contradict what Doom is (magic + science) and the one issue I did read made it feel that Doom implicitly conceded that Reed was the better scientist. That's an automatic fail for the entire story line in my book. And trying to free his mother isn't something new either. At any rate if the movie had Annihilus or any other Negative Zone character as the main villain I would probably at least pirate watch this, but you can't get Doom wrong and expect me to care about this movie. |
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Khaldun
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The opening to the storyline is totally worth it, though. Possibly the most villainous thing Doom has ever done, and wholly in line with his character.
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HaemishM
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Rotten Tomatoes currently has this at 9% from critics. Compare that to Ant-Man's 80% (from critics) and the last Fantastic Four movie (the Silver Surfer one) at 37%. This one has bomb written all over it. I'm still trying to decide whether I want to waste the money and time for it on the opening weekend of the Premier League.
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Lantyssa
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I'm still trying to decide whether I want to waste the money and time for it...
Why? This is one you'd feel bad about pirating simple because you wasted the bandwidth. |
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Soneone go watch it and tell us all about it!
Who'll take the hit for the ol' f13 team?
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Rotten Tomatoes currently has this at 9% from critics. Compare that to Ant-Man's 80% (from critics) and the last Fantastic Four movie (the Silver Surfer one) at 37%. This one has bomb written all over it. I'm still trying to decide whether I want to waste the money and time for it on the opening weekend of the Premier League. It takes a special level of sucktitude to be WORSE than the Silver Surfer movie. |
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If this is real, then I really have no idea why any of you would go see this...  |
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HaemishM
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It does seem like every time the Thing hits something or lands on it, shit explodes in the trailer. Maybe he's passing extradimensional gas?
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