Board Thread:Movies/@comment-4651179-20140124221431/@comment-1895174-20140301225249

A good example of this is the first Fantastic Four movie that was made.... But still not that great a movie. A Doom who isn't menacing, a Johnny more annoying than fun, a Thing in a body suit that makes him look like a giant scab, a Sue Storm primarily around just for a few shots of Jessica Alba in her underwear, and Ioan Gruffudd lacking the charisma it takes to make a buzzkill like Reed Richards interesting to watch. In the early comics, you still get the sense these people still like each other at the end of the day, even if they get on each others' nerves, but the movie Fantastic Four are too mean-spirited towards each other to understand why they stick around each other.

You can maintain plot elements, you can maintain character, but none of that matters if it's poorly executed. That's where talent comes back into play. If you have no little to no faith in the people working on a movie to deliver something worthwhile, you're completely in your right to be disappointed. That's not immediately writing-off the project because of your high expectations, that's lowering your expectations because you have reason to.

It goes both ways, too. Don't like Michael Bay or Megan Fox? You have good reason to be worried about the upcoming TMNT reboot. Like James Gunn and Chris Pratt? Guardians of the Galaxy should be something you're looking forward to. But it's not a sure thing; people get burned by movies they looked forward to almost as often as they're surprised by ones they aren't.

Heck, the cast isn't even the biggest reason to be worried about the new Fantastic Four. They have to start shooting in less than a month, but are just now putting together the main cast and they don't have an official name for the movie yet. And it's being made primarily to retain the Fantastic Four license (because that hasn't happened before, right). All evidence points to this project being half-a**ed at all levels of production.