It’s been a heckuva week for franchise trailers. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" pushed nostalgia buttons hard, everyone is still bickering about "Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice," and now comes a new trailer for "Fantastic Four," which offers a far different take on the quartet of heroes than we’ve seen before.
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Josh Trank‘s reboot for Fox goes serious, and make no mistake about the "body horror" approach he’s been promising. Also, the movie has the ribs guy/White House gardener from "House Of Cards," so there’s that too. Anyway, this time around dimensional travel causes problems for the young kids who come back with special powers and then have to use it to fight Doom. Certainly, the scale of this one is pretty big, and the tone is familiar, but for my money, there’s nothing particularly exciting about this one yet either.
"Fantastic Four" arrives on August 7th.
I\’m with Joseph. \’The Ribs Guy\’? Don\’t bother to look up the actor\’s name. What an asshole.
Admittedly the first generation of these films were lame but my kids loved them. Why do all action/superhero movies have to be so dark lately? I mean costumes, sets, time of day, etc. They all look the same and nothing like Marvel comics. They all seem like 30-something male basement dwellers fantasy. Boring.
The fact that he highlighted that a black man was a "rib guy/gardener" only perputatues the racist undertones in that comment.
Seriously. You\’re racist.
Still a bagful of "nope". Also nice to see that the leaked shots of Doom we got months ago were not far off from the final product. Nice in the sense that it definitely doesn\’t live up to even the Doom design from the Story films. At this point, I would\’ve been more impressed if Trank opted to cast a female Doom (all respect to Kebbel though).
Also, c\’mon Joseph – be glad that he didn\’t write "the dead black guy from The Mask".
This isn\’t getting me into the theater. It just looks kind of boring and way too taro. Would have been cooler if they just adapted the visual style of Chronicle.
joseph, i suggest you view this site more like a gossip/rumor blog than a film criticism website. the masthead are just here to keep the ad money rolling and not to appreciate the art of film in any capacity beyond the superficial. i mean, they had a certain g toro writing here. need i say more?
Chill. It was clearly a just a throwaway comment.
It\’s a real shame and an INSULT that you refer to Reg E. Cathey as "the ribs guy/gardener from House of Cards". First of all, this is a famous actor that MANY people are familiar with. His role on The Wire was iconic and every Movie/TV enthusiast is aware who this man is. MANY people got excited when he heard his voiceover in the first teaser trailer. Secondly, House of Cards is a famous show and anyone who watches it knows who FREDDY is. We don\’t call him the "ribs guy"…We call him FREDDY. You have no business writing articles about movies or TV if you can\’t give the proper respect to WELL KNOWN actors. There\’s no need to assume that your readers don\’t know the name of the "ribs guy". Unbelievable. I\’m surprised you didn\’t say "it also has that black dude from Chronicle and that white dude from Whiplash".
Kevin, I agree with you. My opinion of how this looks has improved from \’idiotic\’ to \’okay.\’ But \’okay\’ is not enough to get me in a theater.