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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I think Stars Wars will do well just because the old cast is involved but the new characters come across as bland.
Flame on!! Johnny Torch was black? Die hard fans do not like this.
Have to agree. I can’t stomach PC movies. Hollywierd will never learn. Lone Ranger anyone?
In the original series,,,wasnt it Johnny and Susan Storm,as in brother and sister? So how is Johnny black? Does his momma have some splainin to do?
Sue was adopted by the black Storm family.
i’m not exactly sure what the breakdown is but Avengers and Guardians and i believe X Men and Thor are Disney properties. Fantastic Four belong to some other studio. The best written comics were the early issues up to and beyond issue 50. There have been 3 movies and Doctor Doom is in every one. With the wealth of stories this is what the script writer come up with?
Tons of sci fi in those stories and just like the Avengers are going that route and Guardians was very much that so to do they need to use that genre for the FF.
exactly. Ronan first appeared in an FF issue. They probably can’t use him due to rights? They totally screwed up Galactus. Theres a reason thats a $1000 book in high grade.
‘Green Hornet’ had an opening weekend gross of $33,526,876. We’ll see if this winner catches up with that winner by Monday morning.
Whatever happened to movies with real people that had plot lines, interesting characers and intelligent dialogue? Movies like "Shawshank Redemption," "Fargo", "The Godfather", "Back To The Future", etc.
Your correct - it was based off the Ultimate universe version that came out in the 90s as I understand it. The book didn’t do that well either so I’m surprised they thought this would go over. The non-geek/fanboy crowd is kinda super-heroed out based on some review comments so it only makes sense.
Antman was a better film, not quite as funny as Guardians of the galaxy, but not as serious as Avengers/age of ultron.
"People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!" - President Not Sure (Idiocracy)
There is, and yet there isn't.
When I was of comic-book-reading age* in my tweens and early teens (the early 1980s), comic books were short magazines of 20-odd pages (not counting ads), in which storylines generally carried over multiple issues but rarely more than two, or on the outside three.
In recent years, while the physical medium hasn't changed (it's still a magazine of 20-odd pages), the stories have become longer and more complex. They span half a dozen or more issues, and then later get republished in a single trade paperback as a graphic novel.
Obviously the comic publishers have realized there's more than one potential market for the same story.
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*Not that I ever really outgrew them, I mean . . .
Or a cameo in the (hypothetical) next Richie Rich movie. Oh, the zany adventures they could have!
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