Who was Toby McGuire before Spider-Man? Who was Hugh Jackman before X-Men?
Actually, Toby was quite acclaimed before Spider Man... including oscar talk. So that one falls through.
Word. Pleasantville's one of my favourite movies and he got good reviews for Cider House Rules/Wonder Boys too.
The mere fact that FF's released after Batman Begins means it's going to suffer (if people judge by trailers, that is). I'll watch it because I mark for Ioan Gruffudd, but I'm not exactly optimistic.