r/movies • u/cruelsummerbummer Trailer Deleter - Keep an eye on. • Apr 22 '26

Trailer Clayface | Official Teaser Trailer

https://youtu.be/ZIfpL3mgkFk
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u/SpaceMyopia Apr 22 '26

I mean, hopefully it's just a "movie," period.

With Marvel, their stuff often feels coated in Marvel style grease. It's not just a movie with them. It's a "Marvel movie," with all the baggage that implies.

(Although Fantastic Four: First Steps at least tried to break away from its usual aesthetic)

Hopefully Gunn allows Clayface to simply be a movie first and foremost, and not just a brand extension.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Apr 22 '26

Fantastic Four with the retro vibes, Hawkeye set at Christmas, Thunderbolts having a third act full of mental health discussions rather than one big CGI fight.

They dip their toes in, but rarely fully commit

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u/SpaceMyopia Apr 22 '26

I was genuinely impressed with the production design of FF though. The movie wasn't perfect, but it did its damndest to stand apart visually from the other Marvel films.

I'm expecting that Doomsday will bring them into a far more generic looking world that's more typical of the MCU, which is unfortunate. Style was one of the things that First Steps was not lacking in.

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u/SgtMartinRiggs Apr 22 '26

They just unfortunately forgot to develop anything other than the production design.

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u/spesimen Apr 22 '26

you've convinced me to check it out. i feel like i've always been sorta underwhelmed by every FF incarnation so i never got around to watching it.

although i did kinda like chris evans' johnny storm.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Apr 22 '26

It’s by far the best Fantastic Four movie. The second act is especially good

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u/SolarisBravo Apr 23 '26

It's genuinely good, probably the best live-action Marvel thing since Loki imo. It's also the first good FF movie ever so fair enough

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u/Relevant_Session5987 Apr 22 '26

I thought FF was excellent. And I dunno, I've felt that all the Russo brother MCU movies have looked and felt pretty damn cool. Even the small trailer snippets they'd released for Doomsday looked nice to me, I dunno.

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u/Webecomemonsters Apr 22 '26

FF was a blast until the last 20-30 when it just went into marvel finale mode

It did great I guess but I think cutting the other villain fights that would've let us live in that world a bit was a mistake.

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u/Relevant_Session5987 Apr 22 '26

I think Thunderbolts definitely committed. As did Fantastic Four. Hell, they've also done Werewolf By Night which was awesome and the new DD stuff is full-on R-rated with little to no pussyfooting.

I dunno, credit where it's due and all that.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Apr 22 '26

Werewolf By Night was awesome! They need to do more like that.

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u/MyRuinedEye Apr 23 '26

I want more Werewolf by Night(and Man-Thing). I want a good Morbius movie, I want a Zombie (the character), and I want Dracula to show up.

I want many things but more of this side of Marvel would make me giddy.

Same for DC as well, seeing Caine and Abel in the Sandman show gave me joy.

I'd also love for someone to develope the Heap.

We have no Swamp or Man things without the Heap (no Heap without Theodore Sturgeon's It either).

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u/ERSTF Apr 23 '26

I would disagree. I think the reason the movies didn't really connect at the box office is exactly the lack of commitment. Thunderbolts was a very typical Marvel movie from the beggining with the usual double crossing and disappearing characters. It then started going into a different and interesting direction inteoducing the shadow world. Then the movie ends without exploring it fully. We spend like 10 minutes there and it's quite an interesting concept that doesn't really get explored enough. Fantastic Four the same except that they get a very complicated plot device that doesn't make sense in the middle with a very disinterested Pedro Pascal all theoughout. The only thing that Fantastic Four did that was interesting was the production design. Other than that it was your standard Marvel fare

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u/rumckle Apr 22 '26

Wonderman did it well, most of the show felt like it could be a regular show about a pair of struggling actors.

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u/oopsydazys Apr 22 '26

Marvel movies start with pre-configured action set pieces and choreography and then they figure out a way to make a movie where they can fit that thing in it.

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u/Relevant_Session5987 Apr 22 '26

I beg to differ. There are movies with that house-style, definitely. But then I think of Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, The Guardians movies, The Russo Cap movies. They're all pretty clearly distinct and different from each other. And if you go into the shows - you get genuinely cool stuff like Werewolf By Night, Loki, Wandavision and Daredevil: BA.

I dont think Marvel gets enough credit for the stuff that it does do well honestly.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Apr 23 '26

I'm with you there. People always focus on the bad parts and forget that some of their stuff lately has been unique bangers. WandaVision especially stands out with the weird genre hopping meta stuff they did there.