Over the past few months I've been seeing the trailer for this whenever I went to the theater, and I rolled my eyes each time it came on.
I thought it looked horrible just from the trailer, in those 3 or so minutes the characters just seemed so bland and boring. The "dark and serious" tone seemed boring as well, pretty much everything seemed SO BORING! Even the big explosions and flashy stuff looked so uninspired and the Thing looking like some CGI robot. Every single thing from the trailer was a complete turnoff and I knew I was going nowhere near this movie when it came out.
However, I still kinda thought that they just screwed up with the trailer and that the movie wouldn't be so bad... Well, it turned out that the trailer pretty much said it all. Quite honestly I didn't expect it to be this bad.
I thought it looked horrible just from the trailer, in those 3 or so minutes the characters just seemed so bland and boring. The "dark and serious" tone seemed boring as well, pretty much everything seemed SO BORING! Even the big explosions and flashy stuff looked so uninspired and the Thing looking like some CGI robot. Every single thing from the trailer was a complete turnoff and I knew I was going nowhere near this movie when it came out.
However, I still kinda thought that they just screwed up with the trailer and that the movie wouldn't be so bad... Well, it turned out that the trailer pretty much said it all. Quite honestly I didn't expect it to be this bad.
Thing is though what worked for a Batman movie isn't necessarily going to work for other franchises like Fantastic Four, or Superman - this is what the directors don't seem to get.
To me FF always seemed like it was on of the "goofier" franchises out there, so even though the previous 2 FF films felt to me just like a Saturday morning superhero cartoon, I still think the campy style fits FF a lot better than this dark and dreary theme. The producers however are just copying a successful formula without regard for the source material or why it was successful in TDK to begin with.