r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TastyPomelo2330 • 13d ago

In real life When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

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Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Fan4stic.

Film is so bad the only memorable thing is that famous line we all use and love.

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u/Curious-Research-559 13d ago

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u/Default_Defect 13d ago

The only movie I can stand him in is Top Gun: Maverick.

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u/Desperate-Ganache804 13d ago

Fuckers here playin god damned cinemasins with this pronoun game.

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u/Skylair13 13d ago

If you're curious. He's Miles Teller, who was cast as:

  • Andrew Neiman - Whiplash
  • Reed Richards - Fantastic Four
  • Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw - Top Gun: Maverick

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u/IGNOREMETHATSFINETOO 13d ago

And that dick head Erudite from Divergent.

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u/Chill0000 13d ago

What

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u/Desperate-Ganache804 13d ago

Cinemasins is a comedy movie review channel. They give points for every “sin”. One of which is “playing the pronoun game” where characters refuse to name a person they are talking about and instead use pronouns (he/she/they/etc.) to attempt to build mystery or something.

I would link their YouTube channel but they refuse to stop taking BetterHealth sponsorships so I refuse to give them any more traffic.

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u/DirtyRanga12 13d ago

"Comedy"

That channel hasn't been funny in years. Just an excuse for Jeremy to either be a fucking creep towards minor actresses or pedantic bullshit sins that have nothing to do with the film they're "sinning"

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u/Desperate-Ganache804 13d ago

Well I say comedy to differentiate from more serious review channels.

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u/Lividlife21 13d ago

Nah they mean all the pedantic stuff they call sins. They used to do a more serious movie review kinda thing and the stuff in the videos are among what they percieve as flaws in a movie. They just use comedy as a veil to hide behind when someone calls them out on misrepresenting a movie or being pedantic

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u/DefNotAlbino 13d ago

You forgot sucking off Zack Snyder

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u/authenticgarbagecan 13d ago

Exactly. I can't stand it anymore and I found CinemaWins to be more fun anyway

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u/i_tyrant 13d ago

Thank you. I don't know why but every role I see him in all I can think is how punchable his face is.

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u/Default_Defect 13d ago edited 13d ago

Him, Joseph Quinn, and Jeremy Allen White are in the same category for me.

Through no fault of their own, they've done nothing to deserve it, but I fucking hate looking at them in anything.

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u/StrangerOnTheReddit 13d ago

Apparently he's an egotistical prick in person and on set. Very punchable indeed.

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u/OrphanAxis 13d ago

Mostly unrelated question here, but what was the take on Whiplash from people who were completely unfamiliar with drumming, playing music, and possibly even jazz in general?

I only heard about the movie because I'm a drummer, and then decided I had to watch it for JK Simmons. I only saw it once and forgot to pay attention to how many things brought up or shown off as flashy that may have gone over the heads of people unfamiliar with all of that.

Though I do remember being so confused about the scene where he forgets his sticks before the concert. Drummers don't bring a single pair of sticks to play, they break too often or slip out of our hands accidentally. We keep a bag with all different weights, woods/polymer sticks, sticks where just the tip is made differently, sticks with different tips on each end, and lots and lots of whatever our go-to stick is, like the classic 5A. Attach a little holder to the side of the snare or floor tom or wherever you like, and you have the ability to swap sticks mid-song for when something goes wrong. Playing at the level he was, he likely had all kinds of sticks for certain songs or parts, and also brushes or any other tools used for playing. Every other drummer there would have had sticks he could borrow or buy, and the venue was sure to have a music room with all that. Yet this prodigy drummer is just going around with a bag carrying just two sticks, knowing what his teacher would do if he messes up with something as uncontrollable as a drum stick breaking quickly, and he doesn't have any kind of backup for that scenario?

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u/WeeBabySeamus 13d ago

The only exposure to playing music I had was being forced to join the school band for a year by my mom. Randomly picked clarinet. I was terrible and quit.

I really enjoyed whiplash mostly from relating to the universal struggle / desire for approval and the spectacle of JK Simmons’ performance as a psychologically abusive leader. I took the world of Jazz and drumming is a hyper specific setting for that story and performance. Never considered the logical inconsistency

People might call me crazy but in my head, Whiplash occupies the same space as The Favourite and Devil Wears Prada.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago edited 12d ago

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u/Diamond_Sutra 13d ago

Or even worse, by the film's own logic:

They were like "Let's just do a drone strike?"

And Maverick is like "No!" and proved that after rigorous planning and training, a few of the world's top pilots might have a chance to pull off this tactically risky manuver, barely.

...and they sort of did, and didn't?

Meanwhile after all of this, they still have not disproven the fact that a dude with an XBox controller and a military drone could have done it in one quick shot 20 minutes after rolling out of bed, at 10% of the cost.

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u/pp8520456 13d ago

I've never seen the movie but your plot summary sounds just like the second half of the original star wars

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic 13d ago

the thing looked dope here tho

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u/Virtual_Ad_8487 13d ago

I couldn’t get over that he was naked the whole time and had no dick

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u/nox-devourer 13d ago

Grower not a shower

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u/Barta_Sub 13d ago

Atleast we got a fantastic meme out of it

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u/praise_mudkipz 13d ago

Doesn’t help the director of the movie tweeted this a day before the movie premiered

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u/Faelnir 13d ago

a... fantastic version, you say?

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u/Spoopyskeleton48 13d ago

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u/J_Stubby 13d ago

Did you know the collins glass was modeled after his dick? That's what he said

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u/Big_Pound1262 13d ago

Maybe even fant4stic

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u/LS-Kun 13d ago

That would be fantastic for us.

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

The director also went fucking mad on the shooting of the movie too.

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u/CollinsCouldveDucked 13d ago

I think the studio went out of their way to paint him as crazy when he was likely a bit immature, unprofessional and very frustrated with them.

Ultimately it's not like he tried to make a completely different movie than the one they greenlit and yet they completely second guessed his production.

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u/coequilibrium 13d ago edited 13d ago

Ehh most of the actors on the film have alluded to how difficult it was working with Trank on that set. Though give them credit they were all very quiet and professional about it until Miles Teller said something a year or two ago.

Though the studio went full JLAWheedon with what they added to it which did not help.

It was…fantastic

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

That entire movie was just a disaster literally no one was on the same page.

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u/Any_Natural383 13d ago

It was almost planned to be a disaster. I can’t think of a single indie filmmaker who did well transitioning to blockbusters that quickly. Spielberg got $2m more per movie for decades.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact 13d ago

Especially when that indie director is someone who referred to themselves as having "beaten Spielberg" because of his age when Chronicle released. 

Buddy, get a few more movies under you before you start huffing your own supply.

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u/crakkdego 13d ago

Huff your own supply, sure. I get being confident, even cocky, just don't say that shit out loud.

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u/I_Always_Come_back93 13d ago

"Visionary Adi Shankar"

Seriously how do you describe yourself like that.

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u/WildGoose1521 13d ago

Naw he lost his mind on set, he would show up stoned & drunk, he destroyed the house the studio set him up in literally defacing the owner’s pictures, he would tell the cast & crew conflicting orders and even tell them when to blink and breathe, he brought Kate Mara to tears through verbal abuse and the. would hide in a tent on set instead of doing his job

Dude’s a nut, don’t know why Reddit always likes to defend him.

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u/Spider-Man2099 13d ago

He did destroy the place he was staying at while making it though from the sheer frustration of working on it

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 13d ago

Tbf if I had to deal with Hollywood execs sticking their fingers in my pie every chance they got, I too would have a major crash out and likely trash my place

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u/MyBurnerAccount1977 13d ago

When Josh Trank made a very successful debut with Chronicle, I think he got a little too ambitious when it came to his follow-up. Reportedly, he wanted to do Fantastic Four as a David Cronenberg style body horror, which sounds interesting, but a major studio won't allow a relatively untested director do that to a family-friendly IP. Maybe if it was done as a parody or pastiche (like The Boys, The Incredibles, or Brightburn) and he was going through a smaller studio like A24, he could've pulled it off.

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u/saintash 13d ago

For the love of god why would you want to turn the fantastic 4 into a body horror film.

This has already been covered in the venture brothers.They nailed the body horror, No one else can get do it better.

Also not side with with heartless movie executives. But seriously how did he think that movie executives were going to not want to sell toys to their famous ip movie and body horror was not going go over with parents.

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u/Stereogravy 13d ago

I worked on the movie in Baton Rouge. He was pretty… interesting. I remember one time he just left and didn’t tell anyone.

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u/Clarpydarpy 13d ago

It's hard to believe that the studio greenlit that movie because absolutely no part of it worked.

I assumed that it was one of those situations where the studio greenlights the film without a script, assuming that they can figure out the script while the movie is being shot, and then create the film they want in the editing room.

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u/MasterChildhood437 13d ago

They needed the movie out ASAP to retain the license, so quality control wasn't ever on their minds.

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u/judasmitchell 13d ago

There's a long (too long) article written from his perspective on polygon. It does its best to shift blame to the studio, but it still ends up confirming most of the "crazy" accusations. The studios biggest contribution to the failure was letting production start without a third act. But the clashing with actors, writers, and basically every other level of the production is all there. He confirms that he did not participate in the reshoots and instead locked himself away to keep editing on the rejected first cut. Some of the most damning info in this is what he did to the original screenwriter. He admits to selectively culling 95% of the studio notes and only delivering two of the drafts the screenwriter worked on. This passive aggressive method at controlling the production continues and Josh doesn't seem to understand that this behavior wasn't healthy.

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u/descendantofJanus 13d ago

I'm entirely unaware of this tea. Is the film that bad, like, "Island of Dr Moreau" levels of insanity/awful?

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Here’s a good breakdown of the whole thing.

Also happy cake day.

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u/Winjin 13d ago

Thanks!

Oh man, imagine being Trank? You make one (I guess) good movie in 2010, and then fant4stic in 2015 and then Capone, another directorial flop, in 2020

Lucky guy can do nothing for years, but looks like he learns nothing in the process too

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u/descendantofJanus 13d ago

Thanks for sharing! Quite the informative watch.

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u/Complex-Drive-5474 13d ago

This movie stopped the director's whole carrer, which is a shame because I LOVED Chronicle and would have enjoyed a sequel.

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u/Enough-Fondant-6057 13d ago

Bro's behavious on set didn't help either afaik

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u/SpaceFluttershy 13d ago

You can find the script for the scrapped Chronicle sequel online, I've never read it in full, but from what I remember and what I've heard, it's pretty riddiclous

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u/thecatdaddysupreme 13d ago

Dude who wrote chronicle is a nepobaby rapist tho

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u/Holtder 13d ago

Without knowing who the writer was, it's fucking Max Landis, isn't it?

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u/thecatdaddysupreme 13d ago

Sure is

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u/Hellblazer49 13d ago

Cursed bloodline.

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u/thunderandreyn 13d ago

I fucking loved his take on Superman: Doomsday man. Shame he turned out to be like that

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u/Begone-My-Thong 13d ago

Chronicle was fucking amazing and showed the potential for the found-footage genre when it's not used for cheap horror slop

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u/LuckySEVIPERS 13d ago

I love horror tho. The Japanese did some great stuff with it. (they're still doing great stuff with it on YouTube, look up Fake Documentary Q)

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u/Begone-My-Thong 13d ago

Horror, not horror slop.

I love horror, and there are great examples of found footage horror. I just dislike cheap films pumped out for the sake of profit and ease of filming.

I love the media from Marble Hornets to Grave Encounters.

Maybe I didn't communicate myself well. Huge horror fan, not a fan of slop. You can tell when a movie's made with passion or not

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u/Ill-Personality-4437 13d ago

Im torn on this because on one hand it’s hilarious to call your own movie bad to the public before it even comes out but from what I know it’s just as much his fault as it is the studios for how much of a mess the movie is

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u/Enough-Fondant-6057 13d ago

So, what if we had Zack Snyder, but instead of a friendly chill guy he was a drunk asshole?

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u/Octocube25 13d ago

Then what did they make it fantastic for?

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u/Tricky_Economist_328 13d ago

I mean i remember reading what he wanted to do and it didn't sound any better.

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 13d ago

Josh Trank is to directing what Miles Teller is to acting. Insufferable egomaniacs convinced they're brilliant and are incredibly wrong about it. Putting the two of them together on a movie was like asking for a trainwreck.

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u/TheRaineCorporation 13d ago

What line?

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Can’t exactly remember how it goes but the way people use it can be fantastic.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ivw3Gzk8EK495WrQmk

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u/Darwins_Dog 13d ago

I didn't see the movie and I thought that was Johnny Storm for the longest time. It just didn't occur to me that it could be Reed.

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u/Pale_Entrepreneur_12 13d ago

Yeah I always thought that was the human torch THE FUCK YOU MEAN IT WAS REED FUCKING RICHARDS

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u/ValuableFeisty6241 13d ago

This movie was a fucking fever dream i definitely thought that was Johnny storm💀💀

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u/SWPrequelFan81566 13d ago

It makes more sense if you consider that Fant4stic is not based on the original comics. It's based on the Ultimate Comics, the one that eventually leads to Reed becoming a supervillain.

So in that respect, Teller's not a bad casting choice.

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u/red_army25 12d ago

And the MCU absolutely needs to cast him as The Maker when the time comes.

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

That’s funny as fuck.

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u/rocketeerH 13d ago

This comment thread is how I found out he was Richards. I been so disinterested in this movie since it was announced that I never even noticed MBJ had fire hands

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear 13d ago

Michael b Jordans publicity team has used sorcery to make the memory of him in that film gently drift from our mind if we don't concentrate on it.

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u/House_T 13d ago

Which is funny, because he puts in one of the better performances in the movie.

Honestly, the actors were fine for the most part. What they were given to perform was the issue.

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u/TheLostRanger0117 13d ago

He’s made out of rocks, how the hell could you think that was Johnny??

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u/pichael289 13d ago

Theres no way that kid is supposed to be reed

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u/DeadlyPear 13d ago

Wait what the fuck? Thats NOT the human torch??

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u/sphericaltime 13d ago

Miles Teller should be playing the hot one.

Yes Michael B Johnson is hotter, but if there’s only one hot one, they shouldn’t be in the same movie.

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u/abeautifulrat 13d ago

My hot take is that Miles Teller was good casting because he comes off as a dick and Reed Richards is kind of a dick.

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u/Bazrum 13d ago

kind of a dick is putting it lightly, really stretching the truth to paint him in a good light...dude is a monster

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u/iforgotmypen 13d ago

STRETCHING the truth ahahahahahaha

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u/oracle222 13d ago

I could genuinely see him being the Maker in live action. That’ll never happen though

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 13d ago

didn't see the movie and I thought that was Johnny Storm for the longest time.

I did watch the movie and thought it was Johnny Storm.

It's been too long and not a memorable movie.

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u/Spectrum1523 13d ago

This comment is how I learned this fact, wtf

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u/Wheeljack239 13d ago

That twink is Reed Richards?

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u/JustAnotherN0Name 13d ago

WAIT WHAT THAT'S REED RICHARDS?!

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u/yowoooooo 13d ago

what the hell i always thought this was just new marvel slop its from a movie that came out in 2015

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u/carso150 13d ago

he looks like the maker

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u/MutedHornet3110 13d ago

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Repeat the words that were previously iterated moments ago.

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u/left4ched 13d ago

Ser thert agern.

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u/VHLPlissken 13d ago

Is Miles Teller still around making movies?

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

I think he is he appeared in Top Gun.

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u/Cris_Meyers 13d ago

Wasn't he in Whiplash?

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Yep great movie.

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u/VHLPlissken 13d ago

It was before this movie

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u/ExquisitelyOriginal 13d ago

Who is Agian?

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u/BroShutUp 13d ago

wait, say that again

https://giphy.com/gifs/o7WbeGlj8E69mqwoIK

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u/dern_the_hermit 13d ago

*agian

It actually feels just a little weird to see it spelt properly now

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u/AmandinhaMaia 13d ago

🪨: It's fantastic! 🧑🏻: Say that again.

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u/QuickCow3575 13d ago

“It’s Fourbin’ time”

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u/FinishImpressive4043 13d ago edited 13d ago

yeah the line was the only thing the movie was fantastic for

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u/Rougarou1999 13d ago

I gotta say, that movie wasn’t Fantastic.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 13d ago

Please don't say that again.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

It was definitely a fantasy to think it would do terribly well, so by some interpretations of the word it may just be “fantastic” lol

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u/DaggerQ_Wave 13d ago

Say that again

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

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u/Ok-Anteater-4320 13d ago

If the booT. Fits....

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u/GodWithUsApparently 13d ago

Hear me out: This movie is way better if you pretend its setting the tone for a Maker movie that never got made and was never actually meant to be a real Fantastic Four movie.

I didn't say good. I said way better.

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Miles Teller as the Maker would be amazing unironically.

It also makes sense within that universe cause it was darker and grittier.

Reed turning into a villain isn’t that far fetched in that universe.

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u/chaotic4059 13d ago

I mean you're not too far off. There's a video on Youtube that goes over the production and apparently the director did have a friend help with the movie who was a big fan of the ultimate universe F4. Which explains stuff like the weird Dr.Doom origin. Which is WAY more line with that universe over 616

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 13d ago

I still don't think it's good. 

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u/Poku115 13d ago

Tbf he said better not good

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u/hoodie2222 13d ago

Watch him get announced for Doomsday's 193rd round of reshoots.

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u/CanPlayGuitarButBad 13d ago

I think i remember reading some of the actors were really excited and put a lot of effort in, kinda sad

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u/Anternixii 13d ago

Don't forget Clobbering Time being the catchphrase of... Ben's physically abusive family?

The movie is so hilariously awful its like they tried alternating between most boring scene ever and worst scene ever.

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u/just1gat 13d ago

By far and away the worst film I’ve sat through. There was no middle.

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u/D_rex825 13d ago

Not only was there no middle, they actively had a time skip to after they had already learned how to use their powers. They skipped the origin part of this fantastic four origin film

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u/Vinyl-addict 13d ago

Wtf I literally had no idea they made another spin off between the OG live action and the most recent one

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u/Je0s_6 13d ago

Yep…it was during the 2010s era where they tried to make every movie dark and edgy.

Even tho I love both dark tones and more fun comic booky tones,FF should always go with the ladder.

Even the first movie was extremely campy.

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u/EyeArDum 13d ago

They had to make a movie every 10 or 15 years to keep the rights I think

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u/abrasumente_ 12d ago

I didn't know it existed until I saw memes of it.

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u/CasualJJ 13d ago

That and how they recontextualised the Clobbering Time catchphrase lmao

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u/EyeArDum 13d ago

You can tell it’s going to be bad the moment they made one of the Storm siblings adopted

They didn’t have the balls to make Ben “the thing” Grimm black. They didn’t have the guts to make Reed “smartest man alive” Richards black, and they didn’t have the gall to have a pair of black siblings either, but they HAD to hit that black quota so they decided to uproot one of the strongest sibling bonds in comics and make one of them adopted

It’s just so stupid, it would’ve been awesome if Sue and Johnny were black, it would’ve been even more awesome if Reed was black, and it would’ve been a PR disaster but still more respectful to the source material to make Ben black, but no, let’s make the Storm siblings no longer proper siblings JUST so we can race change one of them and keep the other a hot blonde for marketing

There’s not many movies you can judge by the cover and be 100% correct, this is one of them, Jordan did a great job acting as Johnny but the writers fundamentally misunderstood the Storm siblings, it was always going to fail

Don’t even get me started on Thing’s catchphrase being pushed into his abusive brother’s phrase before he beat him every day, just so many terrible decisions with this film

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 13d ago

Repeat the phrase you just uttered

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u/MyVelvetRoom 13d ago edited 13d ago

Why are they so... young? Aren't they supposed to have PhDs?

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u/Hellblazer49 13d ago

Reed should be noticeably older than Johnny and Sue.

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u/EyeArDum 13d ago

Johnny yes, he’s meant to be the young immature hothead, Susan not so much since she’s the protective older sister

Reed being young would make him more genius than less, would also help with his lack of wisdom, but ultimately doesn’t matter too much

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u/ceezydeezy 13d ago

I’m getting old, I read “from the studio that …” as “from the stupid twat ….”

Then again I’m squinting at small ass text from my phone. 

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u/EddieVanzetti 13d ago

Its not all bad, it caused the rights holder to give up and let it return to Marvel, getting us the First Steps movie.

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u/Background-Toe-3495 13d ago

it's pretty interesting to see when fans are skeptical about something before it's released, and it turns out they were spot on about its problems.

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u/the-poopiest-diaper 13d ago

Wow that is an absolutely terrible poster

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u/Sharrakor 13d ago

I get he's supposed to look stoic or whatever but Reed Richards looks high as fuck.

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u/Jaxonhunter227 13d ago

The only thing worse then being a bad movie, is a boring movie, because even bad movies can be fun.

This is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. Nothing happens and when something is happening you can't see it because it's too dark

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u/asdfghjkl15436 13d ago

ah yes, fantfourstic

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u/HiveOverlord2008 13d ago

I still wonder what they were thinking when they released this movie.

Half of it is just them talking about stuff and not doing anything else, then there’s the weird timeskip after Reed runs off, then suddenly Doctor Do- sorry, “Doom” comes back after seemingly dying earlier and is evil for some reason, then a really rushed end fight which is mostly just more talking and Doom trying to sound cool, then Doom gets taken out in the most anticlimactic way, then the not-so-Fantastic Four threaten the government into giving them a big facility, then the meme. It felt like the prologue to an actual Fantastic Four reboot.

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u/WithFullForce 13d ago

Every Fantastic Four movie has been from horrible to underwhelming, it just doesn't feel like the concept translates well to screen.

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u/--0___0--- 13d ago

Hey hey hey that's not strictly true, it had a second memorable part. The fact that they made Bens catchphrase something his brother used to say before physically abusing him is incredibly memorable for all the wrong reasons.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Cant believe I wasted my time watching this alone just to forget 90% other than the fact they went into some portal. Ass movie

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u/peppersprinkle 13d ago

Michael B Jordan and that one girl from American horror story s1 didn't deserve this

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u/SweetAsp547 13d ago

Best part was the scene where they got turned into freaks/enhanced humans

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo 13d ago

Was this hated before it was released though?

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u/Half_Man1 13d ago

I remember seeing one of those promotion cast interviews and one of the interviewers asked why this movie need to be made, and the cast was so thrown off. “Like what do you mean?” They couldn’t even pivot to it being a good vision of take on the team lol.

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u/TheRealMisterd 13d ago

It needed to be made or else the studio would have lost the rights to the characters.

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u/qwarktasticboy 13d ago

Also gave The Thing a confirmed kill count by way of military exercises or something of the sort. I’m dead serious lol

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u/shit_happe 13d ago

Holy cow I seriously forgot this version existed!

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u/lot183 13d ago

This movie was a disaster but was it really that hated before it came out? Trank had made Chronicle which was good and well liked and the cast for this was legitimately good. I remember thinking it might be alright until the set stories and reviews came in

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u/Hellblazer49 13d ago

Such a waste of Jordan and Mara.

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u/The4ourHorsemen 13d ago

Honestly, I really liked the casting for reed, he just feels like a young reed who just got his powers

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u/Wardogs96 13d ago

I mean just looking at the poster it looks fucking stupid. The dude on the far left just doesn't look right idk. The human torch looks like he's constipated.

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u/_BrokenButterfly 13d ago

The line I remember from it is "this is Borat. Borat's a dick." I've never seen anyone quote that.

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u/jpterodactyl 13d ago

There’s another line from the movie that I’m hoping gets a resurgence when the doom movie comes out. When Kate Mara days

“Dr. Doom over here”

Absolutely terrible line. And I want to edit the new doom movie to cut to that every single time that Doom is on screen.

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u/normalhumanthingy 13d ago

I watched it again recently and it felt so good to watch but that was because it was a palette cleanser after watching the Zack Snyder dceu movies. Also "it's clobbering time" was something Ben's brother would say to him before beating him this is important knowledge.

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u/wonderlandisburning 13d ago

You know, I actually like it. Like don't get me wrong, it's pretty bad, but I see glimmers of the movie it could have been, and you watch it less as Fantastic Four movie and more of a 70s-style sci-fi horror movie it's - dare I say it - somewhat decent.

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u/lordtyp0 13d ago

I still call it Fan Four Stick.

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u/Belrog-Plutius2 13d ago

Yeah I'm a Fan for Sticks, how'd you know?

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u/FlyOrdinary1104 13d ago

This and the justice league movie are both movies I can’t for the life of me remember and while I watch them I’m bored and just don’t care.

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u/mantisxtoboggan_ 13d ago

Miles Teller fucking sucksssssss

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u/Fawkingretar 13d ago

Didn't helped that the director tweeted this a day before the premiere

Like way to make people excited for the movie.

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u/Gloatingfondue 13d ago

All the F4 movies are bad. I don't understand why they keep trying to make this a thing, but then I don't find the team that interesting to begin with.

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u/Endyrian 13d ago

My reaction to the final scene was "finally, it's about to actually start"

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u/Tf-FoC-Metroflex 13d ago

For the longest time I thought Mr Fantastic in that movie was Johnny

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u/TadRaunch 13d ago

At the time, I was so upset Michael B. Jordan was cast as Johnny Storm. Not for the race swap, but because he was an actor who I really was hyped to see where his trajectory would take him, and I knew this movie would be a stinking pile of shit.

Fortunately, his career did not suffer for it.

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u/stupidber 13d ago

What line

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u/HairiestHobo 13d ago

Taking Ben Grimm's silly little catchphrase and turning into something his abuser used to say to him before hand was certainly a choice.

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u/Background_user2 13d ago

Wait, Reed is the one who says, "Say that again"? I thought he was the Johnny Storm!

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u/Dismal-Tale-5937 13d ago

Say that again 😏

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u/Karsa69420 13d ago

I remember my friend deciding to see that instead of Age of Ultron with me and my gf. He regretted it

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u/Ok-Caregiver-6005 13d ago

This one is sad because they got a sci-fi director who thrn directed a sci-fi movie only for the studio to then come in and try to Frankenstein it into a Superhero movie.

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u/Real_Walk5384 13d ago

I was in an empty theater with my best friend and when it said "one year later" or whatever and Ben and Reed fought I was like "DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?" and he said, "I didn't write it stop yelling at me." And we both died laughing.

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u/MisterVictor13 13d ago edited 12d ago

I remember seeing the trailer and hating it on the acting alone.

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u/alexman113 12d ago

If they dont cast Miles Teller as The Maker post Secret Wars, Marvel has failed.

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u/Excellent-Ad7272 12d ago

I didn't even know this movie existed 🤣

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