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"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" comes to Disney+ on November 5 (gizmodo.com)
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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Personally I was pretty disappointed in this movie. Felt like it was pretty boring for most of the middle. I don't think Pedro Pascal is a good fit as Reed. But this might just be the fact that I'm really tired of Marvel talking.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It felt like the second film in an eventual trilogy. Essentially the world has already been saved, so it would have been nice to see the first film show our heroes saving the world, then this film uniting the world against a common outside/space enemy.

I think part of the problem is that the saved world feels doomed, pun intended. So The Thing having a sort of relationship with Natasha Lyonne's character feels pointless because it was so brief in this film, and it doesn't feel like it's going to continue in a future film.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Overall, they did a good job with the characters, but you're right in that Reed isn't exactly cinematic.

They didn't really show his stretching powers, so instead you just had a lot of him lecturing which, yeah, that's Reed, but not good for a movie Reed. 😉

Also, everyone had a role to play except Ben. Reed was figuring out how to stop Galactus, Sue was a world leader and tight with Mole Man for the big rescue at the end + wrangling Franklin, Johnny did the alien translation work because he thought Surfer was super hot... and... Ben was there too? I guess?

They had snippets of him at the school for Jewish kids and kind of implied he was getting with the teacher... but nothing really.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I wasn't disappointed, but I didn't find it to be anything special either. The entire time, it felt like an afterthought to further what's next in the franchise. Things felt quick or rushed where no matter the problem, it was always solved almost immediately. Maybe it could have passed if it wasn't for Galactus being the antagonist. It felt like a disservice for how quick things were wrapped up.

Another funny thing my friend pointed out is that the underlying plot is basically just the plot to Ghostbusters, lol.

Edit: Oh, and last point to why I wasn't disappointed is due to this probably being that this was still better than all the previous attempts at making a decent fantastic 4 movie. It's cursed!