10 2015 Movies That Are Destined To Disappoint You

10. The Fantastic Four

Oh yeah, there's a Fantastic Four movie coming out this year. You'd be forgiven for not remembering because, aside from the original casting announcement a year ago, 20th Century Fox have been keeping suspiciously schtum about their reboot of Marvel's original super-team. Now that really doesn't fill you with confidence, does it? The casting of Billy Elliot as The Thing, turning the super-villain Doctor Doom into a disgruntled blogger and making the Human Torch black have all been popular points of criticism for the film, but they're all secondary to a bigger issue with The Fantastic Four (the definite article has been added for this version in a bid to be The Batman-level edgy). The enduring problem with Marvel's first Silver-Age superheroes is that their historical significance is only reason they're still famous. Like Superman, they're characters of legacy, with little to them beyond their easy to draw powers. There's no moral complexity inherent to the idea, meaning you have to do a Man Of Steel-level reimagining to make something marketable to modern audiences, which inevitably just confuses things. Marvel have recently pulled the Fantastic Four comic, reportedly because they weren't happy with the direction Fox were taking the property, although a more cynical (read: reasonable) assumption is that it's an attempt to kill the project so they can retain the rights. Either way, it's a big sign Josh Trank's blockbuster debut may be one of the big reboots to miss this year.