Before I begin my how "spiel" on Fantastic Four; I want to tell you the mood I was in yesterday before I decided to go see this. Cinemark, the pieces of human excrement that they are, wouldn't do anything but give me a free pass because their projector was messed up on Straight Outta Compton. In my frustrations, my fiancee and I decided to go to the Springmill Drive In to go see Hitman: Agent 47 and Fantastic Four. I was quite surprised with Hitman: Agent 47, I would need to refresh on the previous film to compare which is better. But, I liked it. But, the real fun began when Fantastic Four began to grace the screen.
Before I start to sink my teeth into this horrendous waste of $100+ million; as far as Fantastic Four goes as a Marvel property, I do somewhat like it and enjoy it. Though, as the years pass on and Marvel themselves taking it upon them to make their own movies has given me more to look forward too than the wrath of Doctor Doom and Galactus. So, where does this leave us? I did follow the production pretty closely and read about the horrible production process for this film that literally has destroyed Josh Trank's career. To be fair, I didn't care for Chronicle, so, I expected more from him.
So, we re-establish the origins and fumble it all to hell within an hour and forty minutes. The story establishes Ben Grimm and Reed Richards as being childhood friends who create a portal for outer-dimensional travel. At first Reed believes it to be China until he and Grimm are told by Professor Baxtor and his adopted Caucasian daughter, Sue, inform him that it's from another planet.
Reed is given a full scholarship, but, not Grimm for some reason. Baxtor wants Reed to build a bigger version along with someone who came up with the theory; Victor Von Doom. And in the first scene, he looks like the obese man from Warcraft episode of South Park. Which, I feel that it was probably a scene directed by Josh Trank as in all of the other scenes before the incident, he acts totally different and is an ass.
After the incident in which Grimm, Doom, Reed, and Johnny travel to the other planet; for some reason; Sue receives the abilities by some sort of blowback from them returning to Earth or something. It was never explained even though she didn't travel with them, but, hey, why not?
So, after much dragging about and Reed escapes the military installation of Area 57; we jump to a year in future with Reed running while Grimm is now a military weapon and is fighting the war on terror. After Prof. Baxtor convinces his adopted daughter to help the government to track Reed, he finally comes home. Then we're all ready towards the end and nothing has really happened and the government decides to go back to the planet to collect samples when ... VICTOR IS ALIVE!!!
Surprised? Really? He's been on that planet for a year and is still going. I don't get it. But, whatever, Doom comes back and he's a little cranky and starts killing for no real reason other than he feels that he needs too. Doom kills Prof. Baxtor and goes back to the planet and somehow after being alone for a year is able to make a portal that is sucking Earth through a portal. With no real explanation how, he has it and is trying to kill the planet. And after a quick battle that is virtually two minutes long, Doom is killed and the Earth is saved. And thus ... the Fantastic Four was born! The END!
The biggest thing, continuity wise, Kate Mara's hair! In one scene alone, her hair changed three times in like a minute. Her hair would be short and dirty blonde; then to cut to long solid bright blonde; and then cut again and then in a ponytail. It got to a point where my fiancee and I would notice that her hair would be different in shots in almost every scene that she is in. You can have a drinking game with her hair change.
The lack of story and how overall weak it is. Doctor Doom is a weak villain who dies all too easily. A real storyline that is non-existant. This film deserves to get it's ass kicked. It could have been so much and more. Josh Trank cries foul over this, I call bull. After everything, bull.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Sunday, August 9, 2015
The Man with the Broken Heart. The Dead Cinema 10.
So, back last Wednesday, my fiancee and I had the day off. She had been begging me that she wanted to go shopping to look for new clothes. We decided to go to Kohl's. As I loaded our son up in his stroller, I decided to tell my fiancee to go ahead and that I'd let her have some time to herself to shop. I asked for her iPod and began to walk away with our son. As we went in between Staples and some desert shop, I snapped the first photo.
The theater was owned and operated by Cinemark and closed in 2013. From what I could find on the internet, this theater was opened to the public in the Summer of 1989, just a few months before I was born. As we walked closer, and you cannot tell looking up close is that someone must have been vandalizing it as one of the glass doors was smashed and wood was nailed over it. When I walked up to the building itself, I saw that whoever owns the theater clearly didn't clean up the mess and shards of glass laid all over the ground. It broke my heart.
I pushed my son up to the ticket booth and snapped a photo. Honestly, the ticket booth was never really opened. A few times during the weekend during the summer, but, never during the winter. You always had to buy your tickets on the inside. Oddly, Cinemark yanked out the center speakers to communicate, leaving three hollowed out holes in the center of the glass. But they had left the three wooden wedges at the bottom of the glass where you would hand over payment and get your tickets.
The thing that really broke my heart over this theater to see the disrepair that it is in. After a year and a half, the concrete slabs on the outside ceiling are all ready crumbling apart. Upon facing the theater, on the right side where the entrance is at, I couldn't get over to the far door where the exit is because of the broken debris and I did not want to possibly endanger my infant son. The first picture is the right hand side and the second is on the left hand side.
We have had some harsh winters since the theater closed. The winter of 2013 to start off 2014 was brutal. We had the temperatures down to - 50 F. And as a dare, I walked to work in it. I had the first stages of frost bite developing in my legs, but, I walked it off and worked for ten hours that day. Last winter it was bad, but, not as brutal. This is something that I've told to my friends and co-workers and of course my fiancee, I honestly don't know which is worse, the Cinema 10 or the Cinema 4.
I think the difference is that the Cinema 4 is probably still heated and cooled by the building owners, even if it's still falling apart. I might try to get around to taking photos of it on Friday if I can find time.
Upon seeing the entrance, on the right side (facing the theater), seeing the lifeless insides almost brought tears to my eyes. The black and white tiles on the floor and walls still looked somewhat persevered and untouched. I can remember seeing countless movies and now, there is nothing. I know the final movies that I saw was Elysium and Kick-Ass 2. I know that right before they had closed, there was a screening of The Purge that was playing, It was a closed captioned copy that was for the deaf and hard of hearing. They did these types of screenings all the time and it usually was a movie that was all ready out on Blu-ray. I remember that Summer I had caught a closed captioned copy of Oblivion and it had all ready been out for a good three weeks. But, for $1, I could never resist going.
I remember telling my fiancee that when I was single after my second fiancee left me, if I had a Monday off from work, I would go kill a full day. Literally, I could take $20, and I would spend a whole day. The last time I did was probably around the end of February 2013. I want to say that I saw The Last Stand; Wreck it, Ralph 3D; A Haunted House; Red Dawn; and Skyfall.
All though, something that I noticed in the photo above, and I did make mention of it in my podcast; someone must have broken in and vandalized it as the doors to the main theater have been busted off the hinges.
I am going to bet that it was vandals and not mother nature taking back what belongs to her. The main theater is what angers me the most about Cinemark killing this theater. The reason why this theater shut down is because they didn't want to finish converting the theater to digital from 35mm. The main theater was converted to digital in 2010 after about a year I had returned from Hilo, Hawai'i. They had it and even had 3D projected in that main theater. They could have saved it. Even if it meant upping the ticket prices to say $4 or even $5, they still could have saved it.
In that photo right there where the concession stand is at, that spot where the candy display box is at was where you purchased tickets. It was just alien seeing the display signs off of the walls. In the zoomed out photo and in the next one, you'll see the light box displaying the film mylars off the walls, it is just sad.
You know, the funny thing is that Cinemark took everything out of the theater and oddly left the trash cans. There was one outside too and in the previous photos, you can see that they left the other one on the otherside and left the door open too. Very odd. In this photo above, you can see that there's a gallon of water on the stand. I don't know if that was from the possible break in or if someone working there had left it behind. The fire extinguisher is also in the previous photo by the supply room at the center of the concession stand.
Then this is from the exit on the left side. Again, the right side had debris blocking the way and I didn't want to push my son near it. The light boxes with the posters displayed in them are all gone. You can see the wall with the light box with the mylars gone. We can see the doors on the right to the main theater are still standing up. The doors on the left are to one of the screening rooms. I wish that I could have been able to get inside and see. I think to see big giant empty rooms would have been more heartbreaking. No seats, no screens, nothing...
After spending a few moments there and my son making some audible noises that he was ready to be moved around, I decided to depart from something near and dear to my heart. I decided to walk back, as a I stopped, I snapped one photo of a sign. I found it fitting as I was pushing my son.
I told my fiancee that if I was to ever become majorly successful while making movies, I would to buy one of these three empty theaters in my town and bring it back to life. I would love to see more indie and foreign movies play. Cinemark here in Mansfield has had lots of missed opportunities to bring some stuff here. They screwed us over on the last few Studio Ghibli films. I missed the Wind Rises which was Hayao Miyazaki's last film. They advertised it on their site, but, never came here. The misses and I did travel out to Columbus to see When Marnie Was There and it that had played here, they could have gotten my money.
And finally, I did a video podcast discussing it. I rambled a bit. But, if you want to see it, enjoy!
The theater was owned and operated by Cinemark and closed in 2013. From what I could find on the internet, this theater was opened to the public in the Summer of 1989, just a few months before I was born. As we walked closer, and you cannot tell looking up close is that someone must have been vandalizing it as one of the glass doors was smashed and wood was nailed over it. When I walked up to the building itself, I saw that whoever owns the theater clearly didn't clean up the mess and shards of glass laid all over the ground. It broke my heart.
I pushed my son up to the ticket booth and snapped a photo. Honestly, the ticket booth was never really opened. A few times during the weekend during the summer, but, never during the winter. You always had to buy your tickets on the inside. Oddly, Cinemark yanked out the center speakers to communicate, leaving three hollowed out holes in the center of the glass. But they had left the three wooden wedges at the bottom of the glass where you would hand over payment and get your tickets.
The thing that really broke my heart over this theater to see the disrepair that it is in. After a year and a half, the concrete slabs on the outside ceiling are all ready crumbling apart. Upon facing the theater, on the right side where the entrance is at, I couldn't get over to the far door where the exit is because of the broken debris and I did not want to possibly endanger my infant son. The first picture is the right hand side and the second is on the left hand side.
We have had some harsh winters since the theater closed. The winter of 2013 to start off 2014 was brutal. We had the temperatures down to - 50 F. And as a dare, I walked to work in it. I had the first stages of frost bite developing in my legs, but, I walked it off and worked for ten hours that day. Last winter it was bad, but, not as brutal. This is something that I've told to my friends and co-workers and of course my fiancee, I honestly don't know which is worse, the Cinema 10 or the Cinema 4.
I think the difference is that the Cinema 4 is probably still heated and cooled by the building owners, even if it's still falling apart. I might try to get around to taking photos of it on Friday if I can find time.
Upon seeing the entrance, on the right side (facing the theater), seeing the lifeless insides almost brought tears to my eyes. The black and white tiles on the floor and walls still looked somewhat persevered and untouched. I can remember seeing countless movies and now, there is nothing. I know the final movies that I saw was Elysium and Kick-Ass 2. I know that right before they had closed, there was a screening of The Purge that was playing, It was a closed captioned copy that was for the deaf and hard of hearing. They did these types of screenings all the time and it usually was a movie that was all ready out on Blu-ray. I remember that Summer I had caught a closed captioned copy of Oblivion and it had all ready been out for a good three weeks. But, for $1, I could never resist going.
I remember telling my fiancee that when I was single after my second fiancee left me, if I had a Monday off from work, I would go kill a full day. Literally, I could take $20, and I would spend a whole day. The last time I did was probably around the end of February 2013. I want to say that I saw The Last Stand; Wreck it, Ralph 3D; A Haunted House; Red Dawn; and Skyfall.
All though, something that I noticed in the photo above, and I did make mention of it in my podcast; someone must have broken in and vandalized it as the doors to the main theater have been busted off the hinges.
I am going to bet that it was vandals and not mother nature taking back what belongs to her. The main theater is what angers me the most about Cinemark killing this theater. The reason why this theater shut down is because they didn't want to finish converting the theater to digital from 35mm. The main theater was converted to digital in 2010 after about a year I had returned from Hilo, Hawai'i. They had it and even had 3D projected in that main theater. They could have saved it. Even if it meant upping the ticket prices to say $4 or even $5, they still could have saved it.
In that photo right there where the concession stand is at, that spot where the candy display box is at was where you purchased tickets. It was just alien seeing the display signs off of the walls. In the zoomed out photo and in the next one, you'll see the light box displaying the film mylars off the walls, it is just sad.
You know, the funny thing is that Cinemark took everything out of the theater and oddly left the trash cans. There was one outside too and in the previous photos, you can see that they left the other one on the otherside and left the door open too. Very odd. In this photo above, you can see that there's a gallon of water on the stand. I don't know if that was from the possible break in or if someone working there had left it behind. The fire extinguisher is also in the previous photo by the supply room at the center of the concession stand.
Then this is from the exit on the left side. Again, the right side had debris blocking the way and I didn't want to push my son near it. The light boxes with the posters displayed in them are all gone. You can see the wall with the light box with the mylars gone. We can see the doors on the right to the main theater are still standing up. The doors on the left are to one of the screening rooms. I wish that I could have been able to get inside and see. I think to see big giant empty rooms would have been more heartbreaking. No seats, no screens, nothing...
After spending a few moments there and my son making some audible noises that he was ready to be moved around, I decided to depart from something near and dear to my heart. I decided to walk back, as a I stopped, I snapped one photo of a sign. I found it fitting as I was pushing my son.
I told my fiancee that if I was to ever become majorly successful while making movies, I would to buy one of these three empty theaters in my town and bring it back to life. I would love to see more indie and foreign movies play. Cinemark here in Mansfield has had lots of missed opportunities to bring some stuff here. They screwed us over on the last few Studio Ghibli films. I missed the Wind Rises which was Hayao Miyazaki's last film. They advertised it on their site, but, never came here. The misses and I did travel out to Columbus to see When Marnie Was There and it that had played here, they could have gotten my money.
And finally, I did a video podcast discussing it. I rambled a bit. But, if you want to see it, enjoy!
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