The Fantastic Four and why audiences are spoilt brats

I want it to be on the record that this movie has had my full support from day one and I am completely confident that it will be good. With that being said, after months and months and months of no promotion for this film, we finally got a trailer for it and people are split. Some people (Like me) love the trailer, it teases the audience, hints at a big scale story and the film looks beautiful, i'm talking cinematography wise, it looks great. But those who didn't like the trailer all say the same thing "why is it dark & gritty? Comic book movies are supposed to be fun! I thought we were done with this dark & gritty phase."

First of all, to the people who assumed it sucked just because they waited this long to reveal the trailer for it, shut the hell up, just because a studio decides maybe for once you should be patient and wants to surprise you, doesn't mean you should conclude that it's going to be a bad movie.

Second of all, if you hate the fact that this movie is going for a dark & gritty tone and think that's been overdone in superhero movies "they should be more fun and light hearted!". I absolutley despise this comment because it doesn't make any sense. I did an entirely seperate rant about this here so you can go check that out, but long story short, the dark & gritty phase is nothing but complete bullshit. Only 7 out of 27 comic book movies Post-Dark Knight were dark & gritty, including X-Men Days of Future Past (Didn't hear anyone complain about THAT!). But nevertheless, that's 20 movies that are made to be fun and colourful and only the minority were attempting to be dark & gritty, does that sound like a trend to you? And besides, isn't it just as bad if ALL comic book movies are light hearted and fun, the same way if all comic book movies were dark & gritty?

And finally, the first two Fantastic Four movies were light hearted & goofy and they sucked. Now if you're going to say "well they can still be light hearted & goofy, but still be good in the hands of a good director" then why can't the same be said about it being dark & gritty? Why can't that be good in the hands of a good director?

My point being stop focusing on the dark & gritty aspect as if that's a death sentence and stop pretending this was ever a trend in the first place.

P.S. The trailer was awesome.

-Danny