The Four Color Media Monitor

Will you look at that: it turns out the remake of the previous 3 FF movies was not worth the celluloid it's filmed on at all. It's been almost universally panned by reviewers, grossed little more than $11.3 million on its opening weekend, and the Newark Star-Ledger says it's bad for fans. Yes, that could sum it up, but I'd also like to make a point that this makes it more like a followup to Marvel's awful writing and editorial mandates back in the pamphlet pages.

As bad as it looks for this movie, and as terribly as Marvel's modern writers have handled the comics, does that mean Marvel's staff should've declared a moratorium on all publication of new series and merchandize based on the comics, if not the movie, just to protest Fox's continued grip on the film rights? I'd say no. Though it'd be hard to encourage anybody to buy modern stories in pamphlets to get their minds off a bad movie when recent writers haven't done anything good for the FF on their part.

After this fantastic failure, it'll surely be a long time before another attempt is made to adapt the FF into a movie again. It could also prove that Blacks/Latinos/Asians aren't asking for Johnny Storm's racial background to be changed, as this sloppy propaganda article claimed. What matters is the screenplay's overall value, and judging from the opening grosses, it's clear many filmgoers have concluded what they think.

What a waste.

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