Why we should give Fantastic Four a chance

What do you mean give it a chance? It has a chance.
It's coming out in the summer and people will see it. It'll make money and it'll guarantee a sequel.

Even if it looks like crap to some people right now, if it gets good word of mouth those people will see it too.

Just don't expect skeptics to watch it if the consensus when it comes out is that it sucks.

If we're honest you'd point out one of the best things "from the first two movies" was the Silver Surfer.

This will be a true test for Teller

Whiplash was awesome because of J. K. Simmons, Teller was good in it but he has played drums all of his life so his role in Whiplash wasn't much of a stretch

He is a relatively unknown director and had some movies that were good and some that were awful.

Uhhh...he's been credited for having directed one and only one film, Chronicle.
Which is why I'm excited since that's all I have to go off of - one really good flick.
As a director you're responsible for framing the narrative and getting the right performance out of your actors....I'm oversimplifying here. That is precisely what Trank did with Chronicle and I can't wait!

Anyways, good first try on an editorial.

The mere existence of this article isn't a good sign for the movie. I'm optimistic about this movie. It may well be surprisingly good. I just don't believe it can recover from a year of negative press. It has become the pariah of the CBM community. It will cover it's expenses and word of mouth may give it decent DVD/BluRay sales. I don't believe it will perform well enough to get a sequel.

I am excited and eager to see this film. I have accepted Marvel will not get the rights back, Doom will never be his Comic counterpart, and it's a new FF.

I like Trank's work, and I love his approach to this FF.

I love that they are explorers, they were basically explorers with super powers in the comics, and he is taking that angle. I also love the Fly influence, that has me excited.

I am also excited to see Toby Keith as Doom.

I have been supportive of this film since Trank was announced to be directing the film.

I know I should give this movie a chance and avoid judging it prematurely.

However, I am confident in the fact that this movie doesn't deserve it's title. Even if it turns out to be the best cbm of the year, I would never think of it as a Fantastic Four movie,

It's the same with the X-Movies. Most of them are brilliant movies, but they are X-Men in name only.

They try to add so much new and "edgy" stuff, but they ALWAYS neglect the stuff that made the original comics and their successors so darn amazing and popular. When the "new" stuff outweighs the charm and appeal of the comics, we get shitty CBM's. This is EXACTLY why movies like X3, MoS, and ASM are less than good, while films like Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight are still viewed as CBM classics today.

Of course, we also have the outliers, who are exceptions to this rule. Green Lantern is just about the most faithful DC movie (apart from Donner's Superman), and it still sucked. I think most of the recent MCU movies (everything after Avengers) occupy a sort of middle-ground, since they add plenty of fresh material whilst keeping the core of the characters intact. The results of this approach range from successful (TWS and GOTG) to OK (Age of Ultron) to outright stupid (IM3).

This is why my favorite MCU movies are the origin stories or "number ones". Marvel Studios were too worried about making faithful, modern, and appealing adaptations of former B-list and C-list characters to add weird new "spins" on everything. It makes me think that their recent blunders with the sequels come from their own arrogance.

Nevertheless, the MCU heroes remain awesome and well-defined for this generation.

Would you want kids all over the world thinking of this movie by Fox, when they hear the name "Fantastic Four"?

Because trailer looks like shit

This film will be incredible. Teller was flawless in Whiplash and The Spectacular Now. Jordan was robbed of an Oscar nomination for his fantastic performance in Fruitvale Station, while Mara and Bell are both dope talents.

Say what you will about Trank, but after Days Of Future Past, I have an incredible amount of faith in Fox and their cinematic universe.

There is a small part of me that wants the movie to succeed and Jordan do well just to irritate fanboys. But, so far the only good thing I have seen in the trailers is Kate Mara as Sue. Trank changing Sue and Johnny into adopted brother and sister just because he felt like it is wrong, and arrogant as well. I don't really care much about "respecting" source material, as long as they keep the basic fundamentals of major characters. And yes, that includes ethnic background. Especially when it also includes a sister. (And yes, I think there is a difference between changing Perry White's ethnicity and Johnny Storm's.) Giving the X-Men black costumes instead of their ugly (yes, I said "ugly") comic uniforms is fine. So is having Tony Stark create Ultron instead of Pym in the MCU. Changing Johnny Storm's ethnicity or having Steve Rogers be from New Jersey instead of Brooklyn (just to give another example) is very wrong. So, frankly, my hope is that the movie bombs, so other writers/directors will know that some stuff just shouldn't be messed with.