- Joined
- Oct 20, 2019
Good:
- The aesthetics are gorgeous.
- Like the retro-future look to the car and other elements.
- Stretching looks good though that's because they chickened out from going full comic book.
- Galactus potentially looks pretty good.
Bad:
- Dialogue sounds trite.
- Everyone is doing that Amateur Dramatics conception that speaking slowly is dramatic. "I herald his beginning. I herald your end. I herald..." <make coffee> "... Galactus".
- I have strong expectations that Reed Richards will be taking a back seat.
- Noreen Radd has no presence.
- They all have weird uncanny valley faces - Johnny Storm and Sue especially. I don't know what it is. It's sort of weirdly smooth and alien proportioned.
- How is Johnny Storm lifting The Thing and accelerating away with him? The guy weighs about 400kg.
- They're starting it post Sue and Reed's first kid. I feel it should start before that.
- Sue Storm needs to be attractive and she just isn't.
- Everyone feels kind of humourless. When Johnny salutes those women he looks miserable as Hell. He should be down there taking phone numbers. Thing can be grumpy, he can be happy, but he can't be 9-to-5 which is the vibe I get from him in this. And his voice is pitched like a much smaller guy. The whole thing has a rather grey-filter feel despite many of the elements that should lift it.
- Echoey sad piano tune coming in for slow emotional segment of the trailer as per the official Hollywood trailer guidelines, 2020's edition.
- YouTube comments are already posting the required talking points and upvoting each other.
- Sue appears to be pregnant in this movie (see pic below)
All in all, I think this might turn out worse than I thought. Though trailers are often misleading. My original feeling and fear was that this would be a bad movie done well. I dislike those more than I do wholly bad movies because slick execution and high production values somehow blind people to the more fundamental flaws. In this case, though, it's looking rather dreary.
I wont be seeing it at the cinema because of the Pedro Pascal casting. But maybe will watch it on Amazon. Of course by that point, word of mouth will have told me if it's good or not.
- The aesthetics are gorgeous.
- Like the retro-future look to the car and other elements.
- Stretching looks good though that's because they chickened out from going full comic book.
- Galactus potentially looks pretty good.
Bad:
- Dialogue sounds trite.
- Everyone is doing that Amateur Dramatics conception that speaking slowly is dramatic. "I herald his beginning. I herald your end. I herald..." <make coffee> "... Galactus".
- I have strong expectations that Reed Richards will be taking a back seat.
- Noreen Radd has no presence.
- They all have weird uncanny valley faces - Johnny Storm and Sue especially. I don't know what it is. It's sort of weirdly smooth and alien proportioned.
- How is Johnny Storm lifting The Thing and accelerating away with him? The guy weighs about 400kg.
- They're starting it post Sue and Reed's first kid. I feel it should start before that.
- Sue Storm needs to be attractive and she just isn't.
- Everyone feels kind of humourless. When Johnny salutes those women he looks miserable as Hell. He should be down there taking phone numbers. Thing can be grumpy, he can be happy, but he can't be 9-to-5 which is the vibe I get from him in this. And his voice is pitched like a much smaller guy. The whole thing has a rather grey-filter feel despite many of the elements that should lift it.
- Echoey sad piano tune coming in for slow emotional segment of the trailer as per the official Hollywood trailer guidelines, 2020's edition.
- YouTube comments are already posting the required talking points and upvoting each other.
- Sue appears to be pregnant in this movie (see pic below)
All in all, I think this might turn out worse than I thought. Though trailers are often misleading. My original feeling and fear was that this would be a bad movie done well. I dislike those more than I do wholly bad movies because slick execution and high production values somehow blind people to the more fundamental flaws. In this case, though, it's looking rather dreary.
I wont be seeing it at the cinema because of the Pedro Pascal casting. But maybe will watch it on Amazon. Of course by that point, word of mouth will have told me if it's good or not.
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