Fantastic Four quotes

[yendi]

The movie may well blow, but it's inspired some great writing:

sweinberg: Buy a box of M&M's on your way into Fantastic Four, and eat one (1) candy every time Ms. Alba offers a new facial expression. You'll be going home with a mega-full box of M&M's, trust me.

Roger Ebert: Alicia tenderly feels [The Thing's] face with her fingers, like blind people often do while falling in love in the movies, and I guess she likes what she feels. Maybe she's extrapolating.

nihilistic_kid: Sue Storm isn't just a chikie-poo in the movie, she's a geneticist. She wears make-up like she's a ninth grade whore and never does any science stuff, but really, she's smart.

Walter Chaw: . . . and then we're told that when our lovable quartet's DNA were altered, the DNA of their uniforms was altered, too, meaning that their clothing is able to perform the same feats of derring-do as these superheroes. Not knowing that fabric even had DNA, I was amazed to discover that the stupidest movie of the year actually taught me something. (I hope to one day have the power to clone my battered "Members Only" jacket using this fabulous technology.)

A.O. Scott: But really, Ms. Alba - who has certainly made the most of her own genetic advantages - is no more laughable in such a role than Ioan Gruffudd, who does his best to achieve the emotional depth and physical grace of a plastic action figure. Mr. Gruffudd plays Reed Richards, a genius who has lost the financing for his pet project, which involves both space travel and DNA sequencing.

Really, any movie that inspires this much fine writing is worth the production costs.

Comments

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

Review from Doctor Doom himself (http://www.flipsidemovies.com/fantasticfour.html)

[maneaterlad.livejournal.com]

Fantastic Four doesn't blow.
It just sucks.

[montykins.livejournal.com]

Heidi MacDonald: Fantastic Four is such an arbitrary film that it makes you question the entire movie-making process. (http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/archives/2005/07/the_toyetic_fou.html).

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Also from Ebert's review:

"If you could burn at supernova temperatures, would you be able to stop talking about it? I know people who won't shut up about winning 50 bucks in the lottery."

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

Who cares? Ioan is so pretty in that tight blue jumpsuit. I hear he had to wear increasingly bigger codpieces underneath his suit because the studio was alarmed by his manly bits.

(Still, I'm not going to see the movie in theaters. It looks like crap. I'll just look at pictures for free and drool.)

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

bingo...same for me and Alba stuff...why sit thru a crapfest when you can get the good stuff for free online?

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

That movie looks so so bad.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the reviews! I've linked to you over in our little seattle-friends-of-summer-movies community emerald_citizen. We'll probably go see the movie, but the M-and-M game sounds like it might be in order...

[whiskey-man.livejournal.com]

Acctually saw it. Not bad, but then every other superhero movie I've seen since I suffered through 'Batman & Robin' is better that that waste of film. And not having to pay full price for a ticket helps too.