Fantastic four---- When normal failure isn't enough,,,

What started as a promising and interesting movie, ended into something that only would come from the asylum not fox...

When I went to see the movie, I knew all the bad buzz the surrounded the movie so I wasn't really sure what to expect and till now I can't really figure out what to write because this movie is so marvelous on so many levels, I've never seen such a terrific way to kill and botch your own franchise. So I decided to split this up into two parts:

1- The good parts (the first part of the movie).

2- The bad parts (the final parts of the movie).

So what went right?? what made me think that this movie might not be as bad as people are saying??? 

The first part of the movie felt like as if Trank and co wanted to take this movie into a more sci-fi direction and It had this Nolan feeling into it, which was fine by me. We first get introduced to a younger version of Reed Richards and Ben Grim and how the became best friends and then we get to see them grow up and we find out that both of them succeeded in building a prototype teleporter that has the ability to transport stuff into another dimension, so far so good. Then we get introduced to Dr. Storm and his adopted daughter Sue after they find out about Reed's machine and it turns out that Dr. storm has been working on the same project but a bigger scale so he asks Reed to join him and try to make the machine work after years of failed attempts. Till now the plot was good and I had the feeling that this might pay off by the end. We then get introduced to the rest of the gang, Dr. Storm's son Johnny and the one and only Von Doom but lets talk about him later. The chemistry between those guys in the first part was really good plus the cast did their best into making us buy into these characters but before we reach into the next part of the story you could feel that a lot of stuff was edited out of the movie, you never got the chance to see what made those young people so special (Reed aside). And after re watching the trailers I do think that they took out a lot of essential parts might have helped us into understanding those young people and their gifts. So they finally manage to build the machine and went into the other dimension which had a bit of a cool design, before shit hit the fan and the whole place started to explode before they return back, leaving Von Doom behind and by god how brilliant and horrifying the whole scenes were. The whole accident thing was nicely shot and it was disturbing enough to make me feel how horrifying the whole accident was. It was scenes like this one that made me buy into the movie and like it for a bit. But the really, really disturbing and horrifying part was when then found out that the accident made then into freaks, when we got to see them after the accident, it had this horror movie feeling into it, it was so dark and grim and this when the movie stopped making any sense and started to lead into nothing. But till this point I was invested into the movie and I was expecting that all of this will lead to something. 

And then when we were about to see how will they adapt their new powers and how will they interact with each other as a unit, this happens:

This when I started to feel that I'm watching a whole new movie, because starting from here nothing really happens. But they started to show us that the military are using them and trying to figure out how to make more of them which is ok by but the thing is that this didn't lead to anything. They started to throw things at you like they started to know how to control their powers and that Reed is a total dick, speaking of, at some point you would expect him doing something which he was as he was trying to find a cure for his friends but finally the army decided to catch him and bring him back. Problem is that all of this happens so fast and the more the movie progresses the more you feel that there were huge changes were made. What's more frasturating is that when something starts to happen, it never really goes anywhere. Like there was this cool action scene in the woods between Reeds and the army but it ended so fast, like why???!!!!!!

So now we have the whole gang back together again and we're like an hour into the movie maybe?? an hour 10 minutes??? I don't know, but I started to ask myself if I was watching the same movie, may be I'm in the wrong theater??? And this is when I'll just stop talking about the movie and discuss something else, why the fuck did fox make this movie?? Having a melt down between a director and the studio isn't something new, heck, ant freaking man had some backstage issues and Marvel decided to bring a new director o board but at least Disney (marvel) had a vision. Disney wanted the movie to connect with the rest of Marvel's universe but Edgar Wright was like fuck you guys, I don't want to do that so Disney didn't really give a shit, brought a new director, rewrote some stuff and released the movie that they wanted to release. On the other hand, that second part of the movie showed that Fox didn't really have anything on their minds. So yeah, the guys at Fox didn't like Josh's version so what did Fox want to do?? I'm really sure that even if Trank's version wasn't that great (we'll never know) but at least the guy had a vision, he had something on his mind. But the guys at Fox didn't really care, they really didn't give a fuck so things like this for example slipped away:

A fucking wig in a 120 million dollars produced movie, the wig was so fake and obvious that I felt as if Fox was saying ''Fuck you'' to who ever went to see this movie. So if the studio it self didn't really give a damn about the movie, so why should the people?? But it was really obvious that Fox knew that the thing that they had in their hands was so shitty and horrific that even the cast didn't see the movie till it was released. And by god, the god awful climax!! When doom came out of no where and added him to mix he did have some cool stuff like making people's heads explode and shit but he didn't really use his powers in the final scenes, fuck, the finished the guy off in 10 fucking minutes!! 10 freaking minutes!!! The climax, the movie's most important (and only) real action scene started and ended in 10 freaking minutes. The F4 destroyed their emo arch nemesis in 10 minutes and boy did they ruin Doom's character to the point that I really didn't give a single fuck when he appeared, I was like ''Is he in the movie?!''. 

Here is a quote that I really liked from a review:

''If “Victor Domashev” was even remotely interesting at one point, these cuts and changes have removed every aspect of his personality. All that’s left is a one-dimensional psycho that still doesn’t look or act like the traditional Doctor Doom''.

Read More: Everything That Was Cut From ‘Fantastic Four’ Before Its Release | http://screencrush.com/fantastic-four-trailer-scenes-cut-from-movie/?trackback=tsmclip

Doom's character suffered from the re-shoots and the rewritings to a point that   his character didn't make any sense. And that laughable fighting scream was so bland, so green screened, so shitty that even the cast didn't give a single fuck, you could see how flat they were. Plus, you will really have to ask yourself why are the even fighting?? Why are they together?? The f4 didn't really interact with each other for like half the movie, the whole thing had this big MEH feeling into it. After that horrific scene you'll have to ask yourself about the stuff that we saw in the trailers, It's like ordering a big mac only to receive a happy meal instead. If you are interested, here are some of the scenes and stuff that didn't make it to the final version of the movie:

http://screencrush.com/fantastic-four-trailer-scenes-cut-from-movie/

And then after this grimness, darkness and Meh , the movie turned into some sort of a parody or a campy 1960s movie. Those final scenes feel like as if they were shooting another movie, not the one that we were watching!! It's a shame to see such a talented cast getting wasted in such a terrible excuse of a movie. It's a shame to see Josh Trank getting fucked that way and by god it's a shame to see that the backstage drama is more interesting than the movie it self, It's a sad movie, a really sad one and I really want to see a director's cut to see where did Trank want to take this, but I guess this won't happen but at least the people said fuck you to Fox and decided to just skip the whole thing. If you really want to know the true meaning of epic fail then don't waste any time and go watch this, you will be amazed (Lol, it costed more than $120 million) ,,,, 

  

Beautiful Creatures movie,,, Underrated, campy and not twilight!!

Let's be clear, I love this movie and I really do think that it's one hell of an underrated adaptation!! And it's way better than stuff like Divergent and the god awful Twilight series, I was about to mention the mortal instruments then I remembered that no one bothered to go watch this shit. It might not be the best movie ever, or one of the best adaptations ever but its magic lays in its campiness, and yes the movie does have its faults but for me, this movies has its own charm that made me fall in love with it. 

The first thing that caught my attention are the two leads and by god I loved them!! They acted like normal teenagers, not too god damned depressed or too god damn bitchy, there was this balance that made them likable to me and taking the witch part away I at some point was like ''Well yeah, I can relate to this a bit!". I really do think that both Alice Englert & Alden Ehrenreich did a great job and were charming together, there was this chemistry that is missing from other movies like The mortal instruments. Plus I found Alden's (Ethan) character really interesting and not  one dimensional though he had issues . The thing with most YA movie adaptations is that some people think that every god damn novel should be turned into a movie, and the way the choices they make for these movies. 

Movies like The mortal instruments and the Divergent series are huge examples of those wrong choices like the cast members, the screenplays and those who were hired behind the chair to do the job. Choosing a director like Robert Schwentke was really odd and that's why Insurgent had this meh feeling to it, plus the way they translated the book into the big screen felt awkward as if the writers and screen players mashed things up so things didn't feel smooth or cohesive enough to make the movie interesting. Adapting books into a movies isn't an easy task and for a movie like Beatiful creatures I really do think that writer/director Robert Schwentke tried to bring something new to the table and give the film this campy feeling to it which is another problem that faces YA adaptations. It feels like those are behind these movies want to give you this serious tune even if the topic itself is ridiculous and stupid, or unrealistic. In the divergent series those who have read the book understand what led to creation of this version of Chicago and why are the divergents so special even if the whole conclusion is stupid but at least you understand but the movie really failed in making people getting invested in this weird ass society. The whole idea of fractions is tricky and you need a hell of a screenwriter and director to make the whole thing digestible for the viewer. The first Harry Potter made you get invested into the whole special boy thing and made the movie watchable for both parents and children and as our heroes grow up and so are the viewers and so for each new part the brought on a new director to take the movie to a new level and climax to make people stay hooked. Most YA movies fail to do that, most movies feel like ''meh'' wtf am I watching?! Why is a divergent so special ?? Why would someone go through all of this trouble to kill a couple of people?? A movie goer won't wait for the next movie to know so you have to make him hooked and want to know more, that's the whole thing, a movie isn't like a book and some books aren't adaptable. I guess that's what Beautiful creatures tried to do, make the movie a standalone thing that will hook the readers and the casual movie goer. Yeah, the movie did suffer from some plot holes and some weird ass reaction from our heroes and the CGI wasn't that epic and we can question the ending but this movie was brutally criticized and didn't get the chance to shine like other movies, I think this movie is way better than other adaptations like Twilight and COB. And you could feel that the cast were having fun in the movie especially Jeremy Irons and  Emma Thompson, boy, did they do a great job. That's the great thing about the movie, it had a nice cast, good direction, it felt different and the screen play was written in a good way. It may not be the perfect adaptation but by god it isn't a bad adaptation at all.