Board Thread:Movies/@comment-4651179-20140124221431/@comment-1895174-20150820074432

I think it's more FOX's fault than Kinberg's. They wanted a movie that would be (relatively) cheap to make, so Kinberg had to cut out the action sequences with the Moloids and in Latveria that would be too expensive to make. And having the FF get their powers from green lava goo is cheaper than having to make a CGI Galactus. Kinberg pretty much cut everything that happens after they get their powers out of the script. Perhaps it's not a surprise then that so many people think the movie feels unfinished and rushes to its conclusion.

The other problem with that is two of the movie's major action sequences were cut. That's another criticism leveled against the movie - it's largely action-free. FOX knew this, though, and agreed to finance that scene where the Thing drops out of the plane and gets shot at that you see in the trailer but isn't in the movie. So why was that one cut? I'll quote the EW article on it:

Late in production, when Fox executives realized they had a comic-book movie in dire need of action, sources sympathetic to Trank say they agreed to finance the scene – but Trank was not allowed to participate in the filming. As a result, the crew returned with footage shot in documentary hand-held style – which didn’t match the previsualization, or the planned digital effects, and also clashed with the visual style of the rest of the movie.

At that point, according to sources close to Trank, the exasperated director chose to kill the scene entirely.

If they really needed another action sequence, maybe they should have just let Miles Teller and Josh Trank go at it like they wanted to.

You know... I have been very skeptical of this movie from the beginning, but I could not have imagined how much of a ****storm it would turn out to be.