It started out great... The film started out great and brought the box office out of its slump that seems to last forever. But the film slipped. It could have been bad word of mouth or upcoming films took away its spotlight but it deserved what it got.

I personally really enjoyed it and I'm glad I saw it for my birthday film.

Lemme guess... this'll be a single disk version with some cool packaging. Then, in 6-9 months, they'll release a 2-disk SE. Any other takers?

One the biggest surprises of the year IMHO.

I expected Batman Begins to be great and Fantastic Four to suck.

I never thought it would be the other way around.

FANTASTIC FOUR (2005) BE WARNED, this is gonna be a single-disc release with as much features as the MR. & MRS. SMITH did, commentaries and whatever. Then expect the 2-Disc Collector's Edition to coincide with Fox's Summer 2006 Big Budget films. I will ask for this for Christmas so I do not have to spend my money on it and then sell that copy and buy the 2-Disc Collector's Edition. But since it was a big film in 2005 and a superhero film it might have a slight chance to be a 2-Disc Collector's Edition on the first try but since its Fox don't hold your breath. As for the film it was decent. No where near the best comic book film but lots of fun. It was funny and the action scenes were cool. The acting was ok but the actors were just getting a hold of their charecters so thats understandable. Since it made decent money and will do great on DVD you can almost gaurentee we will see FANTASTIC FOUR 2 in theatres in late 2006 or 2007. And lets hope that Fox will take a lesson from George Lucus and learn from your past mistakes and listen to the fans and make the movie for them not the studio.

Its more likely the 2nd DVD release will be a director's cut.

Quote: Originally posted by Steven Carrier
BE WARNED, this is gonna be a single-disc release with as much features as the MR. & MRS. SMITH did, commentaries and whatever. Then expect the 2-Disc Collector's Edition to coincide with Fox's Summer 2006 Big Budget films. I will ask for this for Christmas so I do not have to spend my money on it and then sell that copy and buy the 2-Disc Collector's Edition. But since it was a big film in 2005 and a superhero film it might have a slight chance to be a 2-Disc Collector's Edition on the first try but since its Fox don't hold your breath. As for the film it was decent. No where near the best comic book film but lots of fun. It was funny and the action scenes were cool. The acting was ok but the actors were just getting a hold of their charecters so thats understandable. Since it made decent money and will do great on DVD you can almost gaurentee we will see FANTASTIC FOUR 2 in theatres in late 2006 or 2007. And lets hope that Fox will take a lesson from George Lucus and learn from your past mistakes and listen to the fans and make the movie for them not the studio.

Man, you're that one conviant ghost every forum has that spares us from wasting our money. Thanks for the warning, Steve!

YUCK This movie was pretty bad IMO. First off the dialogue and direction were terrible and the action...THERE WASN'T ANY! I mean whatever there was wasn't fun or thrilling. It was just there. The special effects were also out dated. The Human Torch effects were only decent. I was expecting to at least have some fun, and you know what...I DIDN'T HAVE ANY! Catwoman and Elektra were more entertaning than this and I'm serious. The sad thing is that this was successful and considering that most successful FOX Marvel release movies get good DVDs the first time around so will this. Unless FOX has completely gone insane.

PS- Batman Begins is Oscar Gold compared to this.

Quote: Originally posted by Bret Conneau
What are you smoking?!?  What ever it is I'll take a couple of key's.  It must be pretty good shit to make you think The Fantastic Four was a better movie than Batman Begins.  FF was good, but better, come on!!!! Next you'll say that Superman 3 & 4 and Batman & Robin were the best comicbook movies ever.  Batman Begins revamped and saved that film franchise.
Fantastic Four was a lot better than Batman Begins.
Batman Begins was OK, but they should've picked someone other than Christian Bale to be the caped crusader.
I didn't think Batman Begins was as good as a lot of people made it out to be. Honestly, it's a little overrated, IMO.

Quote: Originally posted by Nick Wesley
I second that!  but then again the Dare Devil cut was better then what was in the theathers..and I can't wait to check out the Punisher cut
The Punisher is getting a new edition? I must've missed that announcement.

 I could see The Punisher getting a second release for two reasons.  It's a action movie, so I'm sure there's lots of stunt scenes that got cut off either because it was too violent or because it was getting of subjects, etc. and second of all, it would promote the sequel with maybe a trailer for The Punisher War Zone.  As long as Travolta is not on the cover.  I hate the region 1 cover.  I was a bit disappointed with the movie, but I'm a huge Punisher comic book fan.
    As far as Fantastic Four, I can't comment on it because I haven't seen it but, I heard that Jessica Alba doesn't have that big of a role in it!?

I don't know why people compare the two.  I found Fantastic Four to be hella-cool.  But Batman was a lot better.  I actually liked the way Fantastic Four was done with the exception of some of the visuals.  I like the casting too.  Chris Evans as the Human Torch?  Perfect.  The Torch was always a bit of a smart-ass.  I liked Julian McMahon as Doom.  I don't think anyone else could've pulled it off.  Very sinister even before he got his powers.  Jessica Alba?  Eye-candy only.  Ioan Gruffudd?  Way miscast.  It's not that he's not a good actor, this just wasn't the part for him.  As I said before, some of the visuals were pretty bad.  Reed Richards stands out the most.  I know when Richards stretches the only you can do it is with CGI, but it could've been done better., I feel.

believe it or not, I found elektra to be one of the better marvel movies, along with The Punisher.  Those flicks are underrated unfortuantly.

I also agree with some of the other comments...Batman begins was awful!

I thought this was pretty good I'd give it an 8/10 IMO it was better than Batman Begins which I would give a 6.5/10

Well . . . Fantastic 4 is no classic, but it's highly entertaining.

Quote: Originally posted by Steven Carrier
BE WARNED, this is gonna be a single-disc release with as much features as the MR. & MRS. SMITH did, commentaries and whatever. Then expect the 2-Disc Collector's Edition to coincide with Fox's Summer 2006 Big Budget films. I will ask for this for Christmas so I do not have to spend my money on it and then sell that copy and buy the 2-Disc Collector's Edition. But since it was a big film in 2005 and a superhero film it might have a slight chance to be a 2-Disc Collector's Edition on the first try but since its Fox don't hold your breath. As for the film it was decent. No where near the best comic book film but lots of fun. It was funny and the action scenes were cool. The acting was ok but the actors were just getting a hold of their charecters so thats understandable. Since it made decent money and will do great on DVD you can almost gaurentee we will see FANTASTIC FOUR 2 in theatres in late 2006 or 2007. And lets hope that Fox will take a lesson from George Lucus and learn from your past mistakes and listen to the fans and make the movie for them not the studio.

Did I not say that exact same thing several posts before? Ah well... better it's said twice rather than not at all.

Oh, and saying that FF was better than Batman Begins is a CRIME. Bale was the perfect choice for Wayne and his dark counterpart. The second I saw him in American Psycho (who plays a snobby rich boy with a dark, violent side) I instantly thought Batman, and thank the maker that WB thought so too.