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 

  

Doctor Who "Thin Ice" Review

Welcome back Doctor Who fans it is the time of the week that you all love since you get to read one of my reviews and oh yeah there was a new episode of Doctor Who so let's crack on with it shall we this is my review of "Thin Ice".

So then what is the plot of this episode i here you ask well there's lights underneath the Thames and it's up to The Doctor and Bill to find out what's going on. That's all i can say without really going into spoilers but i really did enjoy this episode since it not only gave us some great character scenes but it was also really well paced.

Now of course we have Peter , Pearl and Matt in this episode and now i can talk about Pearl i really like her she really is a different kind of companion and even tho i can see her character dividing fans for me she is great and she's great in this episode her scenes with Peter especially towards the middle of the episode were a treat to watch Peter as always does a fantastic job he has made The Doctor his own and it will be sad to him go. As for guest character we have Nicholas Burns , Asiatu Koroma and Peter Singh i have to admit the guest cast for this episode was a little on the weak side for me they weren't bad but they weren't helped by the fact that the episode was moving at a fast pace so you really couldn't connect to any of them.

From a visual standpoint this episode was stunning who ever shot this episode did a really great job and it couldn't have been easy to make the setting of this episode not only look like London but also look like it would fit in within the world of Doctor Who but tho i would say they overused the snow machine in a few scenes so i would toned that down a bit.

The CGI in this episode wasn't just TV quality for me it was movie quality it was that good i can't say which effects look the best because not only might they be considered a spoiler but also there all that good there's only one i can mention and that's the elephant that we saw at the end of last weeks episode i liked it then and i like it now so well done effects team you did a great job.

As mentioned Bill and The Doctor get alot of great character based scenes in the middle of this episode and i really liked them because they gave Bill a bit more of a character and they gave her a chance to really bond with The Doctor which until this point they havn't really done but another thing this episode did and it was something that i wasn't expecting was they touched on the racism that was rife in the century that this episode takes place and i have to give the writer credit for including that little detail.

Now then i won't mention the music not because it was bad but because i've already mentioned the music twice in a row now but i will mention that this episode is actually pretty creepy it's not going to make you run for the sofa but it will make the hair on the back of your neck stand to attention.

Overall this was a great episode from start to finish and i think most of the fan base will love it but tho for me there was issues that i have mentioned so for me this episode is an 8 out of 10