Posted August 10, 2015
011284mm: Your write up really matches with a lot of the other reviews. I guess the comment made about the film before they had even finished filming was true. This film exists exclusively so that Fox can keep the Fantastic Four film rights for another five/ten years.
It really strikes me as utter madness that both Fox and Sony would happily pump out films (EDIT:: F4 and Spiderman) at cost to themselves just to keep the rights to it a few more years. If they have nothing constructive to do with it, why not let Marvel take back their IP and let them do something meaningful with it.
As a side note I really liked the fist Fantastic 4 film, and Sliver Surfer was okay. So I do want to watch this, I just might weight for it to be on television though.
I don't know anything about their arrangements beyond what you are saying, but given how much money superheros are making in the movies, it makes plenty of sense that business men would not want let someone else walk off with their potential. Movies don't tend to get made out of respect for the source material. It really strikes me as utter madness that both Fox and Sony would happily pump out films (EDIT:: F4 and Spiderman) at cost to themselves just to keep the rights to it a few more years. If they have nothing constructive to do with it, why not let Marvel take back their IP and let them do something meaningful with it.
As a side note I really liked the fist Fantastic 4 film, and Sliver Surfer was okay. So I do want to watch this, I just might weight for it to be on television though.
I tried to be very specific about what the movie was, but I don't want it to discourage anyone from seeing it. My main point is the story isn't all that traditional which won't work for some people (neither is Ant-Man's but it did ok) . If you have an interest in it, just go find out what you think for yourself. Overall, I did enjoy myself, and I did like most of it. The production value is solid, and I ended up liking the cast. Now the origin story is out of the way there is no reason to think that a sequel with a good script couldn't yield a very good movie out of what was started here. That's probably not super likely to happen now, but I would like to see them get another chance to get it right.
To put it into perspective, I definitely preferred this to Silver Surfer.