But that's not dark and deviant enough for Hollyweird.
Posted on 08/09/2015 11:40:47 AM PDT by SMGFan
Fox's hopes of rejuvenating the comicbook characters and turning the super-team into a cinematic juggernaut to rival "X-Men" have flamed out given that the film debuted to a dreadful $26.2 million across 3,995 theaters. With a production budget of $120 million, plus millions more in marketing costs, the film will need to get a boost from foreign crowds if it wants to avoid being a write-off.
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And this film did not have a Stan Lee cameo.
The fantastic four bombed with the first movie.
i’m sure that ‘the bombing movie’, also made the sales of that comic book go down too.
(yes, i know today’s millemials call these things ‘graphic novels’, which to me means over-priced, over-rated, and still tripe, when compared to what WERE comic books.)
So, apparently, did the director.
Marvel studios will have to get all their rights back and properly do a FF and Spiderman movies.Maybe Ghostrider to. Still waiting for a Moon Knight film.
No Stan Lee cameo and no after movie trailer teasers either.
I saw the movie and on the Marvel scale of up to 10 I gave it a 6. 2 for script and 8 for visuals.
Characters were unappealing and undeveloped, especially the Thing.
I had less than no interest in seeing this.
Also, I think they are releasing too many movies too close together.
Whole lotta donuts right there.
They should have thrown in a few sexual deviants and potrayed them as “heroes”. The LGBTHILKLMNOP crowd would have crawled over used condoms to go see it.
More bad news for Rupert Murdoch.
Flame on!! Johnny Torch was black? Die hard fans do not like this.
There’s a difference between comic books and graphic novels.
Comic books are still approximately 20 pages long and currently cost about $4 apiece. Often, a complete story requires several issues of comics to tell it from start to finish. If a storyline is deemed to be successful, a number of issues may be collected together and published as an anthology, with a new cover on heavier stock.
A graphic novel is a longer story, usually original (ie never having appeared previously in any comic series) and published on stock similar to what is used for an Anthology.
dear be-,
re: “A graphic novel is a longer story, usually original (ie never having appeared previously in any comic series) and published on stock similar to what is used for an Anthology.”
That still doesn’t rate for them to be as expensive as they are, even for ones that have had their run as a ‘new not published’ story, i.e., ‘ghost’, or, ‘femme noir’, which are in the 20 dollar ON EBAY!!
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has partnered with Sony to reboot (again) Spider-Man and to include him in Captain America: Civil War. This time around he will be a high school student as he was in Amazing Fantasy 15 and the first couple of years of Amazing Spider-Man. In turn, Marvel Cinema will help produce Sony’s Spidey 3.0 movie.
always liked John Byrne’s artwork. Brought great stories to the Fantastic Four starting with issue 232 “Back to the Basics”
My original FF #1 is being devalued as we speak.
I fully agree. I have quite a collection of comics I bought that at the time cost me 12 - 50 cents each. Some are quite valuable.
Moon Knight should be a TV show like Daredevil is.
Yup, Byrne has a golden touch with characters. I liked his stint on She-Hulk, even his Sub-Mariner was good.
(I’ve always liked his art style and tried to emulate it).
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