Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four Review

Hello there movie fans i don't usually cover documentary's at all not because there are no good ones but because i'd have no idea what to talk about but i have chosen to review this film since it's about a film that no one knows about so here is my review of Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four.

This film is about the production of the unreleased Roger Corman movie "The Fantastic Four" and what really interested me is the fact that no one involved with the movie be it cast or crew knew that this film was never going to see the light of day at least legally. This film doesn't shy away from the production issues that the movie went through from having to stop working on the movie because there was no money to the cast finding out the movie wasn't going to be released.

All of the cast and most of the crew that worked on the movie are interviewed here i can't give an exact list because i couldn't find one anywhere but from this movie i got the feeling that everyone involved had a true passion for the movie and to some degree even the characters and for me at least it's refreshing to see actors and directors and editors that have a true passion for the movie that they are working on.

This movie does something that most Marvel films won't like and that's the fact that it paints Stan Lee in a bad light in the movie one of the cast says that Stan told them this was going to be a great movie but then at a con basically says that it's not going to be a great film and this documentary does supple video proof but tho he isn't the only one that get painted in bad light as at times the cast and crew start painting Roger Corman in the same light but not for very long tho.

I'm not gonna lie the cast these days look good and as someone who has seen the trailer for the movie tons of times it's great to see how they look now and yes the above as an image of how the Sue Storm of that movie Rebecca Staab looks today i personally think that she doesn't age at all and she is meant to be in her fifties.

I loved hearing how the cast made the most of a very small budget which considering they only had $1 million dollars to make a superhero movie and from the clips that they show in the movie every penny of it shows that cast and that crew made the money last for the most part yes some of the effects today look but considering they didn't have much money to work the effects come out looking for the most part really good.

Speaking of the effects the film goes into detail about how someone who was claiming to have worked on Independence Day as the lead animator was basically giving them unfinished effects for months and months the person was pretty much just being lazy until one day when he stopped working on the movie and i have to say that person was lazy as hell anyone who works in the movie business will tell you you give each project you work on 100% and not just 1%.

  

This film at times does start to drag especially nearer the end of the movie which is when they start to wonder if the film was truly meant to be released or not and it turns out the story that we have all heard about the movie only being made so they could keep the film rights might not be true at all and they even mention that the film does exist somewhere.

Overall if your like me and are interested in seeing how what is basically a lost piece of media got made then this is the film for you but if you have no interest in the film then i would say avoid it but for me this movie is a 8 out of 10