Monday, December 19, 2005

Factual Inaccuracies in the Movie Version of Fantastic Four

1. People can't turn into fire or rocks.

2. Super-powers don't exist.

3. Susan Storm wasn't able to create invisibility force fields until Fantastic Four issue #22, January, 1964's seminal "The Return of the Mole Man." This was well after the Four's first battle with Dr. Doom in issue #5, July 1962's "Prisoners of Doctor Doom."

Bonus Fact: Fantastic Four isn't actually totally awful.

2 comments:

Geoffrey said...

Fantastic Four is the perfect movie to accidentally watch on HBO one day.

Chris Serico said...

Totally agree! One day to pass time, I saw FanFour in a nearly empty theater with low expectations and found myself enjoying it. Not the same awesomeness of Spidey or X-Men, but not Fneh.

In a somewhat related story, I think you guys should rename yourself Fantlarstic Four when one of you wins the lottery and quits. (Scandal!)

Jeff will kill me though: I only rate King Kong "very good." Like a B+. Peter Jackson needs an editor (for all his movies). And how many action sequences against squishy worms and arthropods are needed in a 90-minute span? Still, the big monkey was seamless and Naomi Watts was rocktacular.