We're not taking anything away from Michael Chiklis here, he really was pretty great as Ben Grimm/The Thing, but you couldn't help but laugh at the pretty terrible physical suit they gave him. It just looked cheap and like it was made out of styrofoam, which it probably was. The only way to make the character as awesome as the comics is to make him completely CGI, using motion capture. It worked for The Hulk and King Kong, why can't it work for The Thing? The thing that let the character down in the originals was just how he looked barely different in height to the rest of the cast. When The Hulk stood next to Captain America, you really saw the huge height difference between them, but when The Thing stood next to The Human Torch, he looked about 3 inches taller. It just didn't work. The Thing is meant to be a huge hulking monster, not a tall bloke. The only way to fix that is to make him computer generated! Like this article? What do you reckon? How can we ensure that Fantastic Four doesn't suck?
3rd Year Film and Television Production student at Edge Hill University. Writer of "Stockton's Last Stand" and screenwriter/director of "Hunted" and "Spyfail 2: The Search for Spyfail 1".
I also do stand-up comedy sometimes... I'm told I'm marginally funny.
