sabato 10 maggio 2014

Fantastic Four - a bit absurd maybe

It's not a bad movie, we have Stan Lee as always, and the characters are pretty much like in the comics: Johnny is handsome silly and irresponsible, and his sisters is always shouting at him; Sue is... to say the truth, in the movie is not really explored her character, they pretty much concentrate on her power and her relationship with Reed and Viktor; Reed is supposedly the smart one, although you tell me: he loves her but he lets her go away because she wanted to live together, and when they meet again he says how happy he is that she's with Viktor, and that he thinks Viktor is perfect for her...  seriously you call this smart? I call it infuriatingly stupid, who needs a slap in the face to wake him up a bit, but yeah I admit he knows a lot about science; Ben has a few scenes in human form, and when he's The Thing he has a sort of orange rubber costume on that looks very much like the comics, in a way too much. It should look like rock, not like rubber. When I look at him I should think he's made of rock, but it's impossible, it looks too much like rubber. Everything goes as if in a comics book: Ben stops a truck with his shoulder, the thing is kind of destroyed but the driver is not even scratched; to make their way into the crowd was it really necessary for Sue to strip down to her underwear? No it wasn't, if they wanted so much to show Jessica Alba in her underwear they could have come up withsomething better. And if you're going to say: well they needed to show her power, since every one of them is showing it in front of everybody, still I think they should have come up with a better plan, one that actually made sense.
Ben shows his strengh as I said before, Reed saves a man who's falling off the bridge by stretching halfway down and catching him, I guess that when getting back to his normal height he doesn't feel the weight of the man in his arms? Must be heavy, a grown man like that. Johnny save a little girl about to get hit by an explosion, all three of them saves someone, and Sue does a streaptease!
I didn't like the whole scene when Debbie leaves Ben, and they made it as if she left him because of his appearance, but it's not, he's made of stone! They can't even hold hands!
I think they couldn't really decide what they wanted out of it, they had better make a clear decision. Let me explain using Batman as example: they either could do a very  cinema-like film, like Nolan, or they could do a very comic-like thing like Burton. Both great because clear about what they are. I like them both. In this movie too they should have made a clear decision. But they didn't, and it turned out to be a comic pretending to be real, as if we would believe it.
Well, I could rewatch a tv re-run, but I certainly won't go looking for it.

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