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Fantastic Four Teaser Trailer

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-for-cowboyneal dept.

Brian Renner writes "20th Century Fox will debut the teaser trailer for Fantastic Four , on January 14th, before theatrical screenings of Elektra. Only moviegoers attending Elektra showings will get this first look at Fox's epic incarnation of Marvel's first family of comic superheroes."

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  1. Dear god no... by EvilCabbage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... this movie could only possibly look worse if Paul W.S. Anderson had written and directed.

    Jessica Alba may be a fine piece of ass, but she is totally wrong for this film, as is the rest of the cast.

    I almost wish this Hollywood comic book phase was over so they'd stop fucking with my childhood heros.

    1. Re:Dear god no... by Osty · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Jessica Alba may be a fine piece of ass, but she is totally wrong for this film, as is the rest of the cast.

      Jessica Alba is hot as a brunette, but Susan Storm is a blonde, and I don't think Alba can pull off blonde well. However, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm and Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom look like good matches to me. As for the rest, I'm not really familiar with them, so I couldn't really say.

  2. heh by aztektum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're trying to churn up some ticket sales to Elektra

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  3. Shades of "Meet Joe Black"? by SensitiveMale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sad when you have to use a trailer in order to sell tickets to a crappy movie.

    And Elektra is GREEK! Geez.

  4. Re:Random thoughts by Forge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not as worried about the purity of the story as I am about the quality. I.e. I try not to grumble too much over 3 separate girlfriends being amalgamated into Mary Jane for Spiderman.

    I am even willing to forgive letting her survive being tossed off a very high bridge (Spidy lost a girlfriend that way in the comic)

    Those things are sometimes necessary to fit a long story into 2 hours or to promote the "new" paradigm of monogamy among heroes. (Seen a recent James Bond flick?)

    In Spiderman's case they managed to still pull it off. The Hulk was another matter.

    One thing I do like about the Marvel Superheroes movies is that they usually stock them with actors who look the part. No 5'10" 160 lb guys playing 6'4" 240 lb Vigilantes. That's where the problems began in the Batman movies. They went far and deep, but they started there :). So Wolverine was a little thin and too tall. He was still believable. Hugh Jackman made up for the physical differences by _acting_ the part. If only more movie stars would do that :)

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