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Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom

doom away from the ff might be tolerable. abstracted victor von doom is a passingly interesting character. that said im not sure how you make this a feature movie that compels any non comic fan to want to see it.

im not a doom fan but i read some ff issues when John Bryne was trying to rehabilitate the character.
character cliff notes:
gypsy mother taken by mephisto(aka the devil) when he was a child
goes to university to become scientist so he can make a device to rescue mom
reed richards points out math error but doom ignores him
device blows up, scarring his face. blames richards.
goes on to conquer latveria (fictional european nation smaller than luxembourg)
spends rest of time trying to get revenge on richards, thus becoming twirling moustache caricature


you can theoretically make some sort of "becoming proto darth vader" or count of montecristo deal but getting the average joe to get excited about a barely anti hero is a bit of an uphill struggle. i dont think you can throw that much marketing money at something like this and make a profit.
 
BudAshes said:
They really are the worst. Even Jessica Alba in her prime couldn't save that dogshit.
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I think the whole problem was they had Jessica Alba. Instead of putting effort into story and writing they just made a film to showcase her goodies and prayed real hard they'd sell a hundred-million tickets.

At this point, I think Marvel is just getting desperate. They're throwing every piece of shit at the wall they can find, and hoping some of it sticks. I dont know why. They've already got several franchises kicking butt right now.
 
shortylickens said:
I think the whole problem was they had Jessica Alba. Instead of putting effort into story and writing they just made a film to showcase her goodies and prayed real hard they'd sell a hundred-million tickets.

At this point, I think Marvel is just getting desperate. They're throwing every piece of shit at the wall they can find, and hoping some of it sticks. I dont know why. They've already got several franchises kicking butt right now.
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This is Fox trying to keep their "use it or lose it" movie exclusivity license for a comic book property that is assumed to be pricesless. That's what they had been doing with Spiderman and X-Men too.

I think Disney/Marvel decided they *really* wanted to do whatever was necessary to negotiate that exclusive Spiderman license away from Sony, so they worked something out.

Sony suits see the larger trend that comic book movies are big money and it's all they care about. They think it would be monumentally stupid to lose any comic book based movie exclusivity license, so they won't let it go. They don't understand that the overwhelming majority of people (even comic book fans) just don't like Fantastic 4 in any form.
 
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chibi doom best doom
 
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