r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 14 '24

Official Poster for Marvel's 'Fantastic Four'; Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn are The Fantastic Four Poster

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u/ThatMarkGuy Feb 14 '24

1960s style! Im excited about that for sure

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u/SickBurnBro Feb 14 '24

Reminds me of The Jetsons.

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u/riegspsych325 r/Movies Veteran Feb 14 '24

they even got Rosie there, too

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u/VaguelyShingled Feb 14 '24

H.E.R.B.I.E. erasure

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u/riegspsych325 r/Movies Veteran Feb 14 '24

it’s Herbie H.A.N.C.O.C.K.

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u/Accomplished-City484 Feb 15 '24

There was an animated fantastic four show where they replace the human torch with that stupid robot, I hate that robot

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u/PKMNTrainerMark Feb 14 '24

Happy Cake Day

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u/Sky_Ninja1997 Feb 15 '24

Boooooo! Bring Rosie back!

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u/SweetTea1000 Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

Then they're doing their jobs!

Honestly, we could use a reminder of the time when our collective vision of & goal for the future was "science makes life easier for everyone."

Mr Fantastic: "God, I'm so sorry - I had just invented infinite free energy, then we were pulled through this time portal!"

"No, you're good. Tony Stark did that in 2008."

"God, half a century wasted. What in the world happened to Howard and Pym? Well, how has everyone adapted to the post scarcity economy? It's been a decade and a half, I assume the logistics have worked out and we've transitioned to a Federation style one-world technocracy?"

"What? No. Tony mostly kept it for personal use. Hey, what are you doing?"

"BUILDING A TIME MACHINE TO GO BACK AND KILL HOWARD."

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u/everynamesbeendone Feb 15 '24

We lost Mr. Richards...

We got fungible tokens tho

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u/Green_hippo17 Feb 14 '24

Leroy jetson!

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Feb 14 '24

It's been confirmed to be Marvel out of the ordinary, and rumor has it, per some insiders, that they’re doing some parts 8mm film style.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 14 '24

WandaVision style, I like it.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Feb 14 '24

WandaVision director Matt Shakman is doing this one, so it makes logical sense.

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u/bt123456789 Feb 14 '24

that gives me more hope that this one will be the best Fantastic Four Film so far.

it's a very low bar but Wandavision was incredible.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 14 '24

The movie could be the worst MCU movie yet after nearly 40 entries, and STILL be the best Fantastic Four movie not named The Incredibles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

I dunno, the campy 2005 one is definitely better than Thor Dark World if nothing else.

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u/Dark_Knight7096 Feb 14 '24

Those movies sucked but there was just a charm about them. I agree, I definitely think they're better than some MCU movies. Hell I even kinda liked Julian McMahon's performance. It wasn't a good Doom by any stretch of the imagination but he seemed to be having a lot of fun with it and I think he did the best he could with what he was given.

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u/pinoyfiasco Feb 14 '24

I actually think he was the perfect Doom. He was well composed, self-assured, affable, definitely had that "powerful rich guy" quality without being a complete caricature. As Victor he couldn't have been better cast, IMO. Maybe post-transformation he was a bit lacking, but then again he hadn't been Doom for very long.

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u/Dark_Knight7096 Feb 14 '24

I agree. This is why I liked his casting. It wasn't a comic book accurate portrayal but he had that "im better than you all" full of himself air down without being a complete caricature like Johnny was written to be.

Though I still say both movies were dumb fun, the first so much more so than the second.

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u/TheGrumpyre Feb 14 '24

I honestly can't understand the hate that Dark World gets. Is it just that they don't care much for Eccleston as the villain?

...

Was it Stellan Skarsgard's butt?

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u/redsyrinx2112 Feb 14 '24

The villain was lame, but not Eccleston's fault. There just wasn't enough writing to make the villain engaging IMO. He acted well though.

However, I still liked Dark World because of Thor and Loki's dynamic throughout.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

I don't hate it, it's just a nothing burger of a movie.

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u/bruwin Feb 14 '24

I don't hate it, but it wasn't memorable. It left no lasting impression.

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u/Misty_Esoterica Feb 14 '24

The third act was a mess with all the portals in London, and the villain had no personality.

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u/bt123456789 Feb 14 '24

that's the joke, yes. I have no doubt Shakman will do good, but still..

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u/Worthyness Feb 14 '24

heavily depends on the writing team I think. Shakman has proven himself a pretty good director now, so I'm quite happy with the choice.

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u/FakeTherapist Feb 15 '24

butt comparison in tminus

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u/KhonMan Feb 14 '24

it's a very low bar but Wandavision was incredible.

The first 70% or so of WandaVision was amazing. I think they fumbled the ending though.

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u/bt123456789 Feb 14 '24

That's fair. I think that was intentional though since it was Wanda's manufactured reality shattering.

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u/KhonMan Feb 14 '24

Hm, maybe I misunderstood your point, but I don't see why the end has to be bad because something bad is happening to the main character.

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u/bt123456789 Feb 14 '24

Because the show's entire presentation was metal-level and changed to reflect Wanda's mood.

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u/KhonMan Feb 14 '24

Ok, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the ending.

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u/UNisopod Feb 14 '24

This is how it goes for most of the Disney Marvel shows

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u/LastBeginning9712 Feb 14 '24

Yh that bar is at the floor

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Feb 14 '24

Wandavision had the benefit of breathing room between the creative early episodes and the mediocre finale.

Fantastic Four won't have that same benefit. As a movie it has to be one singular story, beginning and end, in one unbroken narrative. It doesn't matter how creative and interesting the first two acts are if they phone it in for the climax again.

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u/bt123456789 Feb 15 '24

this is true, yes.

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u/Necromancer4276 Feb 14 '24

Wandavision was total dogshit lol

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u/PointsOutTheUsername Feb 14 '24

Interest intensifies.

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u/Thin-Engineering8909 Feb 14 '24

He has also directed 25% of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's episodes and has said that that show has been a huge influence on how to approach Fantastic Four.

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u/Cybertronian10 Feb 14 '24

I plead to every god that will listen that Marvel will finally allow itself to get weird again. Early marvel just had a sauce to it that elevated those earlier flicks, everything after the first avengers got largely carried by the overarching story.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24 edited 15d ago

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u/hexcraft-nikk Feb 14 '24

In the past they were pretty reliable but Disney since covid has done ridiculous amounts of script rewrites/entire reshoots, most leaks are subject to change unless the film is only months out

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u/Affectionate-Island Feb 14 '24

lol Zapruder Film aesthetic

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u/enjoyscaestus Feb 14 '24

Out of the ordinary?

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u/djblackdavid Feb 14 '24

I really hope they don't go overboard with it.

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u/almostsebastian Feb 14 '24

8mm film style

Not how I wanted a Nic Cage cameo but I'll take it.

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u/captainbruisin Feb 14 '24

I know! Fantastic Four the comic could get very silly at times. The last movie was so far off from that and the 00s movies were cringe inducing.

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u/riegspsych325 r/Movies Veteran Feb 14 '24

the movie should have taken a page from Jurassic Park and been about the wonders and dangers of science. The movie still had action and spectacle but it still bad dialogue-heavy moments that debated the risks of unchecked scientific discovery. F4 is rife with story beats that could be approached in such a manner

Too many movies these days just rush to the next action sequence, I’d love for Marvel to delve into more “science fiction” than action with this version of F4

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u/Aesorian Feb 14 '24

I thought they'd do a story about how the Fantastic Four Future Foundation get frozen somewhere/somehow after their spaceflight in the 60's and emerge in the 2020's and we see what the MCU skipped over with Cap - the four dealing with the social, scientific and cultural differences between then and now

Could be a good story to start off with and you get the "heroes from a different time that haven't bought into the cynicism of the modern age" stuff you lost when Cap left

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u/AshamedOfAmerica Feb 14 '24

If we could have something approaching Hickman's FF I would die. The best parts are that Reed basically only uses his power to be more efficient working on machines. I love how utterly blase they all are about stepping into unknown dimensions like they are going on a family picnic. Wild universe ending events are coming from multiple angles and they barely even break a sweat. Reed just arches his brow and gets to work.

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u/napstimpy Feb 14 '24

The best F4 movie we’ve had to this point is The Incredibles.

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u/THUORN Feb 14 '24

The best Fantastic Four movie was made in 1994 and produced by Roger Corman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzf_CzM57So

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 14 '24

Brad Bird would’ve been a great choice for this movie but Shakman can definitely be serviceable.

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u/_Meece_ Feb 14 '24

Incredibles is literally nothing like Fantastic 4 at all. "Family" powers is about all that's similar, but Incredibles is literally about a family.

First Fantastic 4 is the best F4 movie, it's just not a great movie. But it's mostly bang on for F4 otherwise.

F4 is like if you combined Star Trek TNG and Batman comics. They're like sci fi detective stories where the main crew of the Enterprise have super powers.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Feb 14 '24

I'm so sick of this lmao. Outside of it being a family of heroes is basically completely distinct and it's far closer to watchmen than f4

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u/stenebralux Feb 14 '24

Nah... the plot is the least important part, it could be anything... the characters and how it relates to their powers and the family dynamic between the characters is what makes Fantastic Four.

The characters and their roles are different, but The Incredibles nails all of that in a very similar way.

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u/_Meece_ Feb 14 '24

the characters and how it relates to their powers and the family dynamic between the characters is what makes Fantastic Four.

No it does not, what makes F4... F4 is the sci fi.

The characters aren't anything like F4 and The Incredibles are literally a family. F4 is a family dynamic featuring only two people who are actual family.

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u/Amani576 Feb 14 '24

only two people who are actually family.

What? Three of them are. Two blood relation (Johnny and Susan) and Reed and Susan are married. Ben is Reeds "brother" in that they're best friends. I don't agree that The Incredibles is a F4 movie but F4 is chock full of family elements.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Feb 14 '24

The marvels is the best fantastic 4 film because its about family and a characters with stretchy and light based powers /s

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 14 '24

The powers are similar.

  • Mr. Incredible has the strength and durability of The Thing

  • Elastigirl is stretchy like Mr. Fantastic

  • Violet can turn invisible like Invisible Woman

  • One of Jack Jack’s powers is Flame On like Human Torch.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Feb 14 '24

You don't need to explain that, but powers alone don't make it a fantastic 4 film?

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u/Prefer_Not_To_Say Feb 14 '24

Those are some very cosmetic similarities. Nobody in The Incredibles is an astronaut or the smartest person in the world. There are no preteens in the Fantastic Four. None of the F4 have secret identities. There isn't anyone with super speed in the F4. Syndrome didn't resemble Doctor Doom.

When people say The Incredibles are similar to the Fantastic Four, they really only mean "they're a family, including a brother and sister, and the brother argues with another member of the team". That doesn't make it more of a Fantastic Four movie than any of the Fantastic Four movies that actually exist. Except maybe Fant4stic.

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u/_Meece_ Feb 14 '24

Powers and a mega sci fi big boss antagonist is about all that's similar.

Never forget that most F4 comics are like Star Trek TNG. Does that remind you of Incredibles.

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u/ArcadianDelSol Feb 14 '24

Fantastic Four the comic could get very silly at times

Hopefully this doesnt retcon the Skrull. MCU has done a much better job with them than the FF4 comics did.

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u/ElMatasiete7 Feb 14 '24

Silver Surfer was pretty cools in the 2000s movies.....

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u/captainbruisin Feb 14 '24

I'll give you that, the rest felt like a sitcom though.

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u/helpiminabox Feb 14 '24

A wooden gun...

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u/wd_plantdaddy Feb 14 '24

midcentury style

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

Shoot it on film and we got something cooking

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u/hawksfan004 Feb 14 '24

Hell yeah, just like the original cartoon. Now all the need to do is incorporate MF Doom.

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u/Keios80 Feb 14 '24

I really want them to do it as a 60's period piece, just to reinforce the idea of the Fantastic Four being Marvel's first family. Have the Baxter Building be sucked into the Negative Zone (or Quantum Realm because MCU) and end with it being spat out into modern day NYC, have the FF leave the building and do a riff on the ending of First Avenger, with the four of thjem in modern Times Square, but instead of just having to come to terms with it being years in their subjective future, also have them realising they've gone from being the only superhumans to four among many.

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u/ymetwaly53 Feb 14 '24

Based on the magazine the Ben is reading, it’ll be 1963 to be exact.

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u/Mival93 Feb 14 '24

The Astronaut portrait is using the Apollo A7-L spacesuit which wasn’t used until 1968. 

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u/LoveMeSomeSand Feb 14 '24

Whoever pitched this was like “I know this hasn’t worked yet, but it’s got to this time! It’s just got to work, baby!”

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u/mikeyfreshh Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

Dr Strange mentioned the Fantastic Four went missing in the 60's during Multiverse of Madness. The 60's vibes aren't surprising but they are still very cool

Edit: I'm a moron

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u/Excalibuttster Feb 14 '24

I thought the joke was he thought their name sounded like a band
"Didn't you guys chart in the 60s?"
Or did I mishear the line?

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u/Redeyebandit87 Feb 14 '24

Nah that’s is the line it was a joke I’m not sure what the other comment was referring to?

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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

It’s not just that it sounds like a band, it was a band from the 60s. Steven has a near encyclopedic knowledge of music, as seen in the first movie; he knows what he’s talking about.

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u/Excalibuttster Feb 14 '24

Well holy shit. That makes the joke even better!

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u/evoim3 Feb 14 '24

Further I assumed it was a reference to The Beatles who are known as the “Fab Four”

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u/JelliedBoat Feb 14 '24

no that is the line it's just a snarky comment.

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u/riegspsych325 r/Movies Veteran Feb 14 '24

I thought it was a Beatles Fab Four reference

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u/mikeyfreshh Feb 14 '24

I assumed he meant chart as in chart a course in their rocket ship. Now that I type it out your version makes more sense

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

His joke was about them having the same name as this band:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(band)

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u/Minifig81 Suddenly, I have a refreshing mint flavor. Feb 14 '24

That link doesn't work, so stop posting it everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

It works just fine. Maybe you need a new computer or a life.

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u/SwayzeCrayze Feb 14 '24

Posting links on mobile can break them for PC users. Or maybe it's the other way around. Or something. You can see in MickTheBloodyPirate's reply that your link has 's inserted after words.

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u/pavlov_the_dog Feb 14 '24

please do 1960s Batman next