Marvel's Fantastic Four
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To quote my mother: It's cute.
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If you're going to approach it from a child's point of view then it kinda changes the topic of discussion, doesn't it.
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This is how you bring a comic book to life
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Boldly going.
Boldly going.
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That is one wild dress on Vanessa Kirby (no relation to Jack Kirby, apparently).
This is based purely on comments I read on YouTube...
Starring... the man who should be playing the next iteration of Gomez Addams... as Reed Richards!
Starring... the man who should be playing the next iteration of Gomez Addams... as Reed Richards!
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Im on my phone so cant post a picture that will do this justice, but their look for The Thing is spot-on! I had no idea how wrong the other movies had it until this current version.
Im on my phone so cant post a picture that will do this justice, but their look for The Thing is spot-on! I had no idea how wrong the other movies had it until this current version.
Previous practical effects made him look like part of the rest of the film as opposed to an animation placed in the film.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the Hulk in the Avengers movies was pretty well done (and he was CGI)... maybe the less human a character looks, the more fake they look when rendered with CGI? Either way, the Thing here looks like an animation and sounds like someone speaking who never read a Fantastic Four (or Marvel Two-In-One) comic book.
P.S. For those who don't know; Ben Grimm / The Thing was basically Jack Kirby. Stan Lee & Jack Kirby based Ben's mannerisms & personality on Jack himself. Both Jack and his creation were from Brooklyn, both smoked stogies, had the same type of personality, and both had the same accent, speech patterns and utilized the same spoonerisms.
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Im on my phone so cant post a picture that will do this justice, but their look for The Thing is spot-on! I had no idea how wrong the other movies had it until this current version.
I agree, he looks awesome!
The idea that he would transform into rocks and have his voice unchanged is pretty bizarre. Don't have to do much, just play with the pitch a little.
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Not to get too geeky, but it does seem a bit unlikely his organs could still function if all of his insides were made of rocks as well.... 
The idea that he would transform into rocks and have his voice unchanged is pretty bizarre. Don't have to do much, just play with the pitch a little.
I would imagine that, as the Thing, his voice would get deeper and more gravely.
Luckily, they kept it subtle so it wasn't very noticeable, but what they ended up with was exactly how I expected The Thing to sound. Although I didn't care for Chiklis as Ben Grimm, his performance as The Thing was almost perfect - he delivered the voice, the accent and the spoonerisms.
If they go ahead with Ben not having a Brooklyn accent in this latest movie, what a revoltin' development that will be.
Irony: I was one of the biggest critics of the "aughts" F.F. movies, now I find myself defending them in the face of stuff that came later. (Except I can't defend against Fant4stic - there is no defense against something so abominable. Probably the single biggest offense to Marvel fans ever put to film. It made Roger "save the copyrights" Corman's version look like a masterpiece by comparison.)
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Not to get too geeky, but it does seem a bit unlikely his organs could still function if all of his insides were made of rocks as well....
It seems Ben is indeed "soft" on the inside (as we learned when Wolverine cut him back in the 90's), yet even his insides are far more durable than an average human's. Basically, Ben was altered on a molecular level by cosmic radiation so that all his anatomy (inside & out) is enhanced to superhuman levels while his exterior became a rocky armor.
Here's a video on the subject...
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Not to get too geeky, but it does seem a bit unlikely his organs could still function if all of his insides were made of rocks as well....
More serious response: every story should be granted its core premise, within reason. But it must then make an earnest attempt to follow the implications of that premise. Man gets turned into a rock monster? Sure, I'll accept that. Man gets turned into a rock monster and sounds exactly the same? Nah. In fact, the premise being fantastical is exactly why they need to make superficial changes like this: it helps sell the fantastical thing.
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