Fantastic Four (2015)

WHAT WENT WRONG

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History, Movie, Hollywood, Directing, Flop, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, Film History, Film, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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There are only two good reasons to make a movie - one, the script is great; two, if you don’t, Marvel gets their characters back. This week, Chris & Lizzie fire up Fox’s 2015 misfire reboot of Fantastic Four, from director Josh Trank’s schadenfraude-laden fall from grace to comic book culture’s weird obsession with race.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast about what went wrong on some
0:20.1	of Hollywood's biggest hits and biggest flops.
0:22.6	This week, we watched the 2015 superhero film, Fantastic Four.
0:29.4	Lizzy, what were your initial thoughts?
0:32.0	Okay, my general reaction was,
0:34.8	why are the wigs so bad?
0:36.7	Okay.
0:37.7	Uh, I'm so glad that everyone who starred in this
0:42.4	has continued to have a career.
0:44.0	I would say biggest critique is that nothing happens and also the wigs are bad.
0:51.0	Fair enough.
0:52.0	And we'll get into why both of those problems exist in this
0:54.7	movie because there are very clear reasons through our research. Fantastic Four was
1:00.8	released in 2015 it was a reboot of the 2005 2007 Fantastic 4 series that
1:08.4	started a young Chris Evans, Jessica Alba and Yon gruffled.
1:14.4	No, come on, it's Joen Griffith,
1:16.4	Horatio Hornblower.
1:17.8	There it is, Yowen Griffith.
1:20.5	A Welsh actor who was in Titanic as well.
1:23.3	My mom loves him.
1:25.0	Okay, fair enough.
1:27.0	Those fantastic movies were a critical disappointment,
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