Talk:Fantastic Four (film)

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Contents 1 1994 Movie 2 Page Move 3 What about Ben Grimm? 4 Naming 5 Clearly inspired? 6 Reluctantly 7 Paul Walker 8 Supernova at 4000 Kelvin??? 9 Major Disappointment? 10 Torch'd 11 X-Men joke in the theatrical version? 12 "when the ship carrying them experiences unusual electronic interference"

[edit] 1994 Movie

Anyone got anymore info on the 1994 version?

Yes. See The Fantastic Four (film). -Acjelen 02:32, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page Move

This article is now here to comply with Wikipedia naming conventions for movies. Please help change the wikilinks pointing to Fantastic Four (movie). -Acjelen 02:32, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What about Ben Grimm?

At the risk of picking holes, the plot summary never tells us who Ben Grimm is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.79.38.74 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 27 July 2005

[edit] Naming

I believe the real title for the movie is actually Fantastic 4. I think so because on the DVD case, that's how it's labeled. Also, in the movie, I think it shows the logo with a 4 on it. I think the page should be renamed. Anyone else?--M2K e 01:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Now the page contents contradict the title. Plus the title contradicts the display text of most references to this page. Almost everywhere it says "Four", except for the title which says "4". Also, if somebody moves this page again, please check for double (or circular) redirects (which was a problem, till I just fixed it). --Rob 03:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Ditto, I've moved it back. Almost every single source lists as "Four" rather than "4", contrast this the Star Wars films, there is no dispute over whether the films should be titled "Episode III" or "Episode 3" or "Episode Three" because they are always listed with their roman numerals. The Filmaker 20:52, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clearly inspired?

I don't want to sound nitpicky, but the "plot elements were clearly inspired by Ultimate Fantastic Four" line in the Trivia section seems to be more of a personal opinion. All arguments about how close it is to Ultimate Fantastic Four aside, I think unless that can be backed up by something from, say, the commentary tracks then that item should be removed.--MythicFox 10:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I removed all the speculation regarding inspiration.Blue Spider 03:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't know, I didn't think bad of the movie. --Yancyfry jr 05:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reluctantly

In the trivia section, it lists that Jessica Alba was given the part of invisible Woman "reluctantly" by the casters. Now, it's clear that she wasn't the first choice, but does that necessarily mean they were reluctant to give her the part?

[edit] Paul Walker

The page contained the line "*Paul Walker was considered for the role of Johnny Storm but he was considered too young." This doesn't make any sense, considering the actor that played Johnny is nearly ten years younger than Paul Walker. If there are references that support it, then anyone who would like to can add it again and cite it.BOne 19:40, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Supernova at 4000 Kelvin???

When the group are finding about their powers, they test Johnny in a chamber to see how hot he can get. From memory, Reeds says something about approaching a nova at 6000 degrees, and that it would burn all the oxygen in the atmosphere. The script from IMSDb says the following:

                                  SUE
                        You were at 4000 Kelvin.  Any hotter,
                        you're approaching supernova --

                                  JOHNNY
                        Sweet.

                                  SUE
                        That's the temperature of the sun.

                                  REED
                        Not only could you kill yourself, but
                        you could set fire to Earth's
                        atmosphere and destroy all human life
                        as we know it.

                                  JOHNNY
                        Gotcha.  Okay.  Supernova bad.

However, that's not truthful; the surface temperature of the Sun is around 5000 Kelvin, but the center of our star peaks at about 15,000,000 Kelvin - And our star isn't even big or old enough to cause a supernova until at least several billion years into the future. Perhaps this little morsel should be listed under 'Trivia'. - Xander T. 05:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major Disappointment?

"A major disappointment with the movie was the choice of casting, 
 as neither Alba nor Evans have natural blond hair."

THAT is why the casting was dissapointing? It makes no sense. I suppose Chiklis' casting was a major disappointment since he doens't actually have orange, rocky skin.

Either reference something tangible, like performance: (Alba was wooden), or age (Alba is not old enough to be a contemporary of Reed Richards) but to claim that the issue with casting was actors hair color is absurd. - stonesean

[edit] Torch'd

Should it be noted that Johnny Storm's liscence plate, which reads "TORCH'D", could be a reference to an internet cartoon site, homestarrunner.com? -- 16_BIT_MARIO1

[edit] X-Men joke in the theatrical version?

I've only ever seen this film on DVD and my understanding is the fourth wall-breaking joke involving Reed turning into Wolverine was only a deleted scene and not included in the theatrical version. Can anyone confirm that the joke did in fact appear in the movie when it played theatres, as the article indicates? (It's not too hard a stretch to imagine this did happen -- in the sequel Reed looks right at the camera in several scenes). But sounds a bit unlikely. 23skidoo 19:22, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

• In the 2 months since my original question I have found no evidence to suggest the Wolverine joke was in the theatrical release, so I have removed that reference. 23skidoo (talk) 06:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "when the ship carrying them experiences unusual electronic interference"

Is this plot description from the film or from the extended edition? If it's the latter, it should be moved to that section. -Lwc4life (talk) 00:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)