Blu-Ray Review: DOOMED! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four.
Who would have thought that making a movie out of the World’s Greatest Comics Magazine would be such a challenge? Ever since their creation in 1961, the Fantastic Four had great movie potential, getting inspiration from the Lee-Kirby team’s vast array of monster comics, themselves galvanized by the trend of monster movies of the late fifties. The family dynamic of the super-powered quartet made room for rich interactions between the characters that went beyond any other team comics up to that point. And while it would take a certain time for the comic book series to achieve true greatness, but by the time it reached its 60 th issue, it had introduced to the World such memorable characters as Galactus, The Silver Surfer, the shape changing Skrulls, Doctor Doom, the Inhumans and the Black Panther, amongst others. However, they seemed to translate poorly to other medias. The first animated cartoon by Hanna-Barbera in 1967 was cute enough, but like all othe...