Posted on 08/07/2015 6:43:48 AM PDT by C19fan
Fantastic Four begins quite promisingly, with a schoolboy standing up in front of his classmates and telling them about the science experiment he's conducting in his garage. He's trying to build a teleporter that will beam human beings from one location to another, like in Star Trek. As you'd expect, his schoolmates laugh and his teacher tells him to stop fibbing, but one boy's curiosity is piqued. This is Ben Grimm and the science nerd turns out to be Reed Richards, a brainiac to rival Albert Einstein.
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They changed the story in order to be PC and ‘inclusive”. I won’t be watching.
they turned johnny storm into a black kid. whatever. more PC garbage.
Was this ANOTHER beginning story of the FF???
Is Hollywood just planning on remaking the same movie every few years now?
In Hollywood speak is it called a reboot. :)
Yes.
He was white before he started flaming. Now he’s just a cinder.
Yeah, a reboot in the ass.
I thought the other ones were OK. I would like to see these guys get their acts together and bring together the “universe” the way its supposed to me.
Making the the fire guy black makes no nevermind to me. Its the story, the acting, and the SFX.
After this third abysmal attempt. And they still haven’t gotten it right?!
NO SALE!!!
Expect it to crash, burn and be forgotten before its opening weekend is over!
An Invisible Girl and Human Torch who aren’t brother and sister? No sibling rivalry?
I’ll pass.
Do adults actually watch this tripe, or take it seriously?
I remember the cartoon when I was a kid.
Johnny Storm (FF), black; Perry White (Man of Steel), black; Iris West and Wally West (Flash), black; Ben Urich (Daredevil), black; James Olsen (Supergirl), black; Electro (Amazing Spider-Man 2), black...give it as rest...there are PLENTY of good BLACK comic characters (Blade, James Rhodes, Luke Cage, Black Panther). Notice they NEVER take a well-known BLACK characters and insert a WHITE actor. It's an insult to the original creators and exposes the laziness of Hollywood writers.
Create an original black characters...nah; we'll just change a white character's ethnicity.
“Making the the fire guy black makes no nevermind to me. Its the story, the acting, and the SFX.”
They made him black just to have a black as a main character. Had nothing to do with acting or the story. Just obvious PC pandering, which is lame.
Sue is the one adopted. Mr Storm is black as well.
Yes, adults watch this stuff. They were raised on it, it’s their cultural myths that form their iconic social axioms. The stories keep getting retold, upgraded & sophisticated as they get older. Having few other positive models (real or imagined) to work with, these icons grow darker and grittier over time. Yes, they’re made for grownups (the impending _Deadpool_ movie, same genre, is rated “hard R”).
This stuff ain’t for kids no more.
What a bunch of cow patties.
My question was rhetorical.
I recently rewatched Superman with Christopher Reeve. To me it is how a superhero movie should be: the main character is NOT ‘dark’ or ‘troubled’ — he is a hero. Also, Superman goes around the whole movie saving the world and doing hero stuff. In many of these modern super hero movies, the only saving the ‘heros’ do is cleaning up a mess they themselves caused.
Well, it's not a Marvel Studios movie, and if we are just talking movies based on Marvel comics in general, this statement is laughable. It's not even the worst Fantastic Four movie. That honor would go to this:
On the other hand, Michael Clarke Duncan as a black Kingpin in Daredevil was, by far, the best thing about an otherwise forgettable movie.
I just noticed that. I wouldn’t be that upset over that, except his sister, Sue Storm, is somehow white?
I guess they could say one was adopted, but that’s a major change from the source material, for no good reason. I guess they wanted diversity, but not so much diversity that half the team was black.
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