JWeinCom said:
Because comic book movies were generally terrible before recent times. The first FF movie was a stringshoe budget thing made to keep the license for the FF. The second one came in the post Spider-man boom where companies were trying to capitalize on what they had without realizing why X-men and Spider-man were successful. We're talking about the time of Daredevil, Catwoman, Hulk Dogs, and so on. And the third one had the Dark Knight envy that Superman Returns and Amazing Spider-man dealt with. Trying to make a dark franchise out of a franchise that isn't dark. If you think the problem is with the source material... then you're wrong. Because the movies only shares a passing resemblance to the actual comics. When Galactus is a cloud, Dr. Doom is a generic 90's businessman, and Mr. Fantastic is on the run from the military, you're not really making a Fantastic Four movie. |
I need to express that Galatus was NEVER a cloud. The only reason he was shown as if he were a cloud at the end of the Rise of the Silver Surfer was because Tim Story wanted the next director to have the creative freedom to render a full fledged tangible Galactus anyway he deemed. Behind the scenes renditions supported that Story originally wanted to show Galactus from head to toe as seen in the comics, but opted to have the chracter shrouded behind a cloud for the next director. Too bad most viewers reacted very narrowly and negatively at what they THOUGHT was Galactus, thus hurting the chance of a third movie that would have shown Galactus as they had hoped.
