The Xenos
01-28-2005, 11:33 PM
Well some people are screaming 'Ripoff!' about a scene in the new Fantastic Four trailer. In it, the Thing jumps in front of a huge mack truck to stop some guy from getting hit. This seems very similar to when Hellboy uses his large stone fist to stop a SUV from hitting Meyers in the Hellboy movie
Director of Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro, replied here (http://www.comics2film.com/FanFrame.php?f_id=11437).
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The whole "dented car" gag in HELLBOY was done in comics many times- by Jack Kirby and Berni Wrightson, to name just two- and in film- by Richard Donner in SUPERMAN...
I was MIXING HELLBOY at Skywalker when I got offered FF, I read it and enjoyed it... the gag was already there.
Just a note.
GDT
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I gotta agree, that scene is nothing new if you've read comics. Yet I have to wonder if it was wise to have such a similar scene in the FF movie, especially in the trailer. I belive that simialr scene in Hellboy was also in its trailer, so why give people a sense of something they've already seen? I think this is a bad sign that the Fantastic Four isn't going to capitalize on what they have and just give us more of the same superheroics and Hollywood action we've already seen in other films. Of course if you want to talk about bad knockoffs in bad Marvel mvoies I can't help but think that Daredevil with the flaming DD ala The Crow or the main bad guy bring the hitman who killed the hero's father ala Batman and a few other things being much worse.
-Xenos
Director of Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro, replied here (http://www.comics2film.com/FanFrame.php?f_id=11437).
--quote--------------------------------
Actually-
The whole "dented car" gag in HELLBOY was done in comics many times- by Jack Kirby and Berni Wrightson, to name just two- and in film- by Richard Donner in SUPERMAN...
I was MIXING HELLBOY at Skywalker when I got offered FF, I read it and enjoyed it... the gag was already there.
Just a note.
GDT
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I gotta agree, that scene is nothing new if you've read comics. Yet I have to wonder if it was wise to have such a similar scene in the FF movie, especially in the trailer. I belive that simialr scene in Hellboy was also in its trailer, so why give people a sense of something they've already seen? I think this is a bad sign that the Fantastic Four isn't going to capitalize on what they have and just give us more of the same superheroics and Hollywood action we've already seen in other films. Of course if you want to talk about bad knockoffs in bad Marvel mvoies I can't help but think that Daredevil with the flaming DD ala The Crow or the main bad guy bring the hitman who killed the hero's father ala Batman and a few other things being much worse.
-Xenos