10 Exact Moments Fans Turned On HYPED Movies
4. "It's Clobbering Time" - Fantastic Four (2015)
Every once in a while a blockbuster will make it to cinemas despite the strange, self-evident fact that the filmmakers actually actively despise their own audience.
Director Josh Trank was reportedly a nightmare on the set of 2015's disastrously dark Fantastic Four reboot. But he was a young director fresh off the success of 2010's subversive found footage superhero movie Chronicle, so some outsized ego was inevitable.
That said, the film's abhorrence of its own fandom was a lot less excusable. It's a big claim to make, but it is painfully epitomized in the brutally misjudged first appearance of the Thing's famous catchphrase in this gloomy reboot.
The film gives this iconic line to the Thing's abusive older brother before a hard-to-watch sequence wherein he beats him up, a bizarre and tonally disastrous decision that permanently derailed this attempt to revive the franchise.
It was the moment fans knew that this reboot had no chance of capturing the spirit of the original, and with any luck it'll be the moment director Trank returns to when he decides that attempting to shoot a harrowing depiction of abuse isn't the time to smugly repurpose beloved lines from children's media.