The Fantastic Four (film): Difference between revisions

 

In 1992, The Constantin Film production company held the film rights to the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' comic book, but they were about to lose said film rights unless they began production by December of that year. Since both the budget and the technology necessary for such a venture were lacking at the time, they instead opted to do a ''very'' low-budget film Produced by [[Roger Corman]] and directed by Oley Sassone; purely as an [[Ashcan Copy]] to maintain the rights, and never released it in theaters, VHS, DVD or any other form. Although a release date was set for 1994 and the cast and crew were told the film would be released, this turned out to be [[Blatant Lies]].

 

 

* [[Actually a Doombot]]: Seems like one, or else Doom's gloves are living beings.

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Doom's brilliant plan involves taking the team's powers and adding them to his own.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Happens to [[Doctor Doom]] at the end.

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Alicia Masters is blind but when Ben Grimm bumps into her, she can "sense" that he feels sorry about it. Sure, she has no super powers to speak of and Ben did get through telling her how sorry he was, her blindness just gives her that ability to sense peoples' emotions somehow.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Reed doesn't seem to react at all during the scene where the Four are irradiated, as opposed to the rather exaggerated reactions of the other three.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Doom's laugh is so epic that it appears in the background of a scene that has nothing to do with him, and even follows him to his death.

* [[The Grotesque]]: The Thing

* [[Head Bob]]: Dr. Doom has a severe case of this.

* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]:Eric and David Wurst's score is essentially slight alterations of many popular John Williams pieces.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: A two million dollar 35mm film can only be seen on noisy second generation VHS tape dubs burnt to dvd.

* [[Large Ham]]: Joseph Culp's performance as [[Dr. Doom]]. Strangely, as the Agony Booth's review notes, Culp actually gives a sinister, understated performance in the early sections of the film, only to go batshit insane about half an hour in.

** Which is absolutely right for Doom.

** When Ben wanders the streets, it's a surprisingly dark and depressing scene that might seem appropriate in some gritty 70's drama.

* [[No Budget]]: It was made for $1.4 million and on a shooting schedule lasting only one month, as its only purpose was keeping the filming rights.

* [[Personality Powers]]: The reasoning behind their powers.

* [[Precocious Crush]]: Sue had one on Reed when she was younger. It developed into a relationship years later.

** Believe it or not, the scene in which Sue grabs the zero-g pen while in space was obviously a direct homage of [[2001]].

** It may not have been on purpose but when Reed sees Sue for the first time since she grew up, it is almost identical to the shot in [[Blue Velvet]] in which the protagonist meets his love interest. [[David Lynch]] used the same shot in [[Eraserhead]].

** Likewise, the Jewler has apparently been stalking her and falls in love with her.

* [[Take My Hand]]: Even in his moment of victory, Richards lacks the courage to deliver the final blow.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Kragstadt and Trigorin.

* [[Title Drop]]: Mrs. Storm does it with enthusiasm and little explanation.

* [[Was Once a Man]]: Doom feels this way.

 

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