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This week I saw the new Fantastic Four movie. I was intrigued as I went it to find out what had made this movie less successful in it’s opening weekend than the first two Fantastic Four movies (2005, 2007). It made $25.7 million on the first weekend, as opposed to the first movie’s equivalent takings which were $56 million (more than double).
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This week I saw the new Fantastic Four movie. I was intrigued
as I went it to find out what had made this movie less successful in it’s
opening weekend than the first two Fantastic Four movies (2005, 2007). It made $25.7
million on the first weekend, as opposed to the first movie’s equivalent
takings which were $56 million (more than double).
The problem with Fantastic Four (2015) is that it never feels like a superhero
movie. It has a negatively mysterious mood, which is aided by the gloomy colour
tuning and depressing feel at times. The heroes’ super powers are painted as
curses, not benefits. It takes a long time to get into any action and takes too
much time setting up the story and the characters.
Fantastic Four has the Marvel logo at the start, but it is
co-produced by 20th Century Fox, not Disney like the other Marvel
cinematic universe movies. It seems like Fox was trying to buy into the current
success of Disney’s Marvel series (while already owning the rights to this
property).
But this never feels like a Marvel movie. It has some humour, but it is not the
wise-cracking happy sense of humour as in the Avengers and Ant Man. The action
was never really fun. Fantastic Four’s main issue is that it doesn’t know when
to be silly and when to be serious. It was is too serious.
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Somebody was trying to make some dough out of Fantastic Four, but they missed. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! If you want to make money out of a Marvel movie, make it like Disney does – hilarious and heart-warming with epic cartoony action.
@Steve_sipple
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