4. Marvel's First Super-Team Looked... Well... Fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRoD28-WgU The Film: Fantastic Four What It Promised: The feature film Marvel's primary heroes truly deserved and the one fans have been awaiting. What It Actually Was: The most misleading thing about the Fantastic Four trailer is that it promises a film... When the trailer for Josh Trank's 'revitalisation' of Marvel's first superhero fraternity first debuted, we all sat back with moderate surprise. "They've done it. They have made a decent-looking Fantastic Four movie..."; well, that's certainly what it seemed to be suggesting, but then we all actually watched the thing and those initial hopes quickly died. For starters, there are moments in the trailer which aren't actually in the film (always infuriating), plus it again aims to shift tonal strands to trick the spectators into the style and textures of the narrative. Here, Dr. Doom actually looks like a major part of their quadrant's tribulations, and he looks pretty evil too. In the final film, he is wholly redundant; serving practically no point to the development and progression of the team, and he looks absolutely terrible. An equal offense is the means in which coloured visuals screen here. Offered with a husky but vibrant glaze, Trank's film screamed with moody energy. What we saw was actually cheap, grainy and relentlessly ugly. And this film cost $120 million...
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