I just rented the last Fantastic Four video via Amazon. Got 30-40 minutes in. Bailing out.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

E-yikes. What the hell were they thinking with this?

[kentauros]

1. It seems like there are certain comics movies where

they just can't get good writers. Fantastic Four is one. Plus, Green Hornet, Green Lantern, the first Hulk (anything "green" seems to be a problem with them.)

I haven't seen the latest FF. And yet, every time I see "Captain America: Winter Soldier" on one of the non-premium channels, I do stop and watch, some times to the end, some times not (like if I'm not in the mood for that kind of movie night.)

So, why can't the failures get writers like that?

Maybe Hollywood has been burned too many times on those failures to attempt giving them better writers. Of course, that just means they'll shoot themselves in their collective feet yet again. I guess certain comics to movies are doomed to failure, no matter what.

[FSogol]

3. Hollywood has a huge ego. Instead of talking the works of others and

putting them on the big screen, they think they can improve on them. Then of course, they stink because they don't understand the characters. For example, they made The Thing a murderous monster when the original character only works because he is a good man transformed (unjustly) into a monster. Making him murderous ruins the intent of the character. It would be like making Sherlock Holmes unobservant and foolish.

Notice that most Marvel movies stank until Marvel started making them themselves and could control the characters.

[kentauros]

2. By the way,

I like your Shoveler quote