The Fantastic Four Movies Should Go Back to Marvel! Scrap the Reboot Plan!

Seven years we hardly had a Fantastic Four movie. SEVEN YEARS! What is Fox thinking about keeping the Fantastic Four rights just by makin a reboot, already scheduled for next summer!? Look at the box office gross of F4: Rise of the Silver Silver (only $289 million worldwide on a $130 million budget) compared to the 1st one ($330 million on a $100 million budget) back in 2005! And why plan a sequel already for 2017 when it's obvious no one's going to appreciate Josh Trank's new vision of the Fantastic Four!? Since the delay was so long between ROTSS and the F4 reboot, I think the F4 rights should have gone back to Marvel/Disney already! That way, we could have a more proper Fantastic Four movie (set in the world of Avengers), and the Dr. Doom, Silver Surfer (his overall origins and source of power, I mean) and Galactus (needs to be portrayed NOT AS A GIANT CLOUD!) characters done right!

Once I learn that the Human Torch, brother of the Invisible Woman (CAUCASIAN WHITE!), is being played by fellow Chronicle star Michael B. Jordan (a BLACK person!) and that the F4 reboot will have a "found-footage feel" (similar to Josh Trank's 2012 sleeper hit Chronicle), I suddenly have extreme mixed feelings. While the 1st 2 Fantastic Four films from Barbershop and Ride Along director Tim Story are not that great, I think the casting of the 4 cosmic radiately-powered heroes (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans (CAPTAIN AMERICA!), and Michael Chiklis) are MUCH BETTER than the so-so casting of their reboot counterparts (Miles Teller (hmmm), Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan (boo!), and Jamie Bell (huh!?))! Regardless if the reboot is likely based on the Ultimate Fantastic Four comics! But come on! While their acting is okay, at least the Tim Story version of the heroic foursome GREATLY RESEMBLED the Fantastic Four comic book/animated show characters compared to their Josh Trank selves! Especially Michael Chiklis, who I think has the best physique and resemblance of Ben Grimm/The Thing unlike Jamie Bell who just felt a little too scrawny to be the Thing even with a little help of motion-capture and CGI! Now for Johnny Storm, A.K.A. the Human Torch, he was a lot better as a WHITE person! Big mistake changing the hot flamin show-off by letting Michael B. Jordan sign up for this! We don't care if Josh Trank had fun with this young African-American in their first breakout movie! Now how are Johnny and Susan going to be REAL siblings!? Chris Evans will forever remain to be the best Human Torch besides being a great Captain America! Flame on! Kate Mara, the sister of Rooney Mara, seemed beautiful enough to be Susan Storm who can turn invisible and create force fields. She's the only star that I don't mind since she's almost like her comic book character. Just as long as she does better than the oh-so-pretty Jessica Alba who almost won a Razzie for Worst Movie Actress. Miles Teller, I don't know. He's a little too chubby to be Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic. I doubt that the star of The Spectacular Now and Divergent has the scientific 

personality and the look of Ioan Gruffudd's stretchable team leader of the Fantastic Four. For Dr. Doom, Toby Kebbell appears to be a decent actor since Wrath of the Titans and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but is he going to be better than Julian McMahon's Dr. Doom character (he could have been more threatening without his cheesy voice)? The reboot had better not ruin the image of the Fantastic superhero quartet!

I hope that once the Fantastic Four reboot comes out next year on August 7th, it will probably perform LESS in between Fantastic Four 1 and 2 (pulling a "franchise fatigue" stunt since the Spider-Man/Amazing Spider-Man films) due to the initial mixed fan reactions to the reboot's overall concept! No matter how much money it makes whether its budget is higher/lower than the original F4 films' budgets of $100 million and $130 million or how it better performs overseas, fans might still say NO to another Fantastic Four movie like Fox is just attempting to "milk the franchise" until it's dried out. If the critical and/or financial results are disappointing at most in every film, Josh Trank and Fox would have no choice but to CANCEL production for any more Fantastic Four reboot sequels despite one being scheduled for June 9th, 2017 already! Fox is much better off owning just the X-Men after losing the rights to Daredevil (a new 13-episode Netflix TV series of the "Man Without Fear" is being made for Marvel) 2 years ago! The X-Men movies (now up to 7 films (if you count 2 Wolverine films) with a grand total of over $3 billion!) are more known to fans than Fantastic Four, anyway.

What is Happening to the 'Amazing Spider-Man' World?

I cannot believe this. Treated badly in a similar vein as Iron Man 2 and Quantum of Solace. Just when I thought things were going so well as, I for one, ENJOYED The Amazing Spider-Man 2 after my completion in the final History 102 exam at the start of this May! How can this anticipated Amazing Spider-Man sequel get unexpectedly mixed reviews when it was starting to prove to be more exciting than the 1st Amazing Spider-Man and FAR MORE SUPERIOR than Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3!? What's the big deal? Especially when its opening record of $91 million is deemed "disappointing"? I mean, a $700 million worldwide haul a "disappointment"? Sure it's waaaaaay behind the predecessors (Spider-Man: $821 million, Spider-Man 2: $783 million, Spider-Man 3: $890 million, The Amazing Spider-Man: $757 million)' worldwide grosses, but I thought it should be worth it for The Amazing Spider-Man 3-4 and the Venom/Sinister Six spin-offs to happen in the new few years. Let's see if the DVD/Blu-ray sales will make up for it by the time the Blu-ray 2D/3D pack comes out next month, whether it's still less the previous ASM's $757 million gross (including DVD/Blu-ray sales of over $90 million) or not. This would have gone better if The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wasn't having a tough competition with Neighbors, the 2014 Godzilla reboot, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Maleficent at the May 2014 box office!
I thought Andrew Garfield is a MUCH BETTER SPIDER-MAN than Tobey Maguire! Just like Emma Stone is a far better choice at playing Gwen Stacy than Bryce Dallas Howard! As do Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (to me, better than the James Franco counterpart with a JERK-like attitude and the anti-climatic New Goblin costume!) and Jamie Foxx as Electro (a better ASM villain than Rhys Ifans' Lizard)! Spider-Man in this movie acted a lot more like his comic book/animated TV character! He really makes me laugh at everything he says onscreen, especially in the beginning! Unlike Tobey's, Andrew Garfield brought some life into his character when dressed as Spider-Man in scenes like fixing the invention for the glasses kid! Everybody should know THIS is how Spider-Man should act no thanks to how he was handled in Spider-Man 3! If many people disliked how "forced" the plot was, maybe they should have thought about improving the written script without shoehorning anything that would have been developed a bit more. In fact, Paul Giamatti's Rhino character would have worked better as an Amazing Spider-Man 3 villain instead of just being in the end for no reason. But at least I get to see some closure with the missing Parker family going on an unknown mission prior to their deaths on an airplane! Plus, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with having 3 villains when the Rhino was only in like 4 mins, making Electro and Harry/Green Goblin as the major villains and thus have taken one step at a time to focus on any ONE Spider-Man villain! I don't understand how The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is completely disliked for everything it has compared to the Sam Raimi films? When people are the ones who won't shut up about things like the Green Goblin costume, Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane being so "forgettable," Tobey Maguire's lack of Spidey's sense of humor, as well as the majority of the infamous Spider-Man 3 (such as Sandman being Uncle Ben's killer, Tobey Maguire's EMBARRASSING performance, and Topher Grace's poorly-handled "Venom")! Know what might be better? The Sinister Six teaser ending credits should have ended with Gustav Fiers ("The Man in Shadows") finding what's left of... Norman Osborn (thought to be dead due to an illness) and told him it is "time to wake up"! We don't need a brief X-Men: DOFP Mystique clip playing midway through the credits when the X-Men movies (owned by Fox) have NOTHING to do with The Amazing Spider-Man! 'Cause then we'll know for sure that we ARE gonna see more of Chris Cooper as the original Green Goblin in the next film as he had promised!
To make things perfectly clear for the last and thousandth time,…. I WILL ALWAYS SEE THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN WORLD AS THE REAL DEAL! Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 1 and 2 were SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT SPIDER-MAN 3! Who cares if Spider-Man 3 had a huge opening of $151 million and having the title of the "#1 Movie of 2007" (its domestic gross was $336.5 million), "the most expensive movie ever" (the budget was $258 million), or "the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie of all time" due to its $890 million worldwide record!? We should PRETEND THAT SPIDER-MAN 3 NEVER HAPPENED despite Spider-Man 2 hinting Harry becoming the next Green Goblin! I wish people should be thankful that the Amazing Spider-Man movies have ERASED SPIDER-MAN 3 FROM OUR HEADS! It's Sony's fault that Spider-Man 3 is the "final chapter" when it was SO POORLY-EXECUTED and didn't quite end in a happy way! If Spider-Man 3 wasn't so bad the studio can't get agree with Sam Raimi on the Spider-Man 4 story, then none of this would have ever happened! The Amazing Spider-Man story just can't go incomplete without The Amazing Spider-Man 3 (out in 2018) and the villain-centric spin-offs to tie up the loose ends if this franchise fatigue is going to continue like this! If the next Amazing Spider-Man films were never made on time or not meeting the box office expectations, then everything that foreshadows the Sinister Six team in the 1st two was ALL FOR NOTHING! Oh, and how can we also have a proper Venom after the whole Topher Grace fiasco when Alex Kurtzman just had it all planned out to direct the new Venom spin-off movie? What's the point of rebooting the web-slinging hero blockbuster movie franchise if people instead ended up having EXTREMELY MIXED FEELINGS towards the Marc Webb-directed Spidey films? Perhaps Sony should have reconsidered letting the Spider-Man rights GO BACK TO MARVEL after Spider-Man 4 was shelved, instead of keeping them for the sake of a reboot!

Registered 4 Art Classes at George Mason University!

Mom and I went to today's orientation at George Mason University this morning. Later in the afternoon, I was able to register 4 art classes for this fall! AVT 101 (New Majors Colloquium), AVT 215 (Typography), AVT 253 (Intro to Digital Photography), and AVT 418 (History of Graphic Design)! And best of all, Friday is the only day that I don't have class at GMU! Hopefully, the schedule isn't gonna be difficult for me, and neither should the classes I'm taking be extremely hard for me as long as I know one of my new teachers' past experiences and efforts! GMU, here I come!