It wasn’t baaad, but it wasn’t great. It was a solid MEH. What a waste of two hours. I know, I know, I should have known better(it’s a goddamn Marvel movie) but I love the FF and was curious. Great casting and aesthetic, but utterly lukewarm when it comes to memorable scenes or any kind of wow moments. Very FF paint-by-numbers. Esecially after DC killing it with Superman, it makes this movie look even more mediocre. c/movies I promise I’ll never do this again 😭
I think they were hamstrung by the fact that there were 2 franchises before this one, so they didn’t rehash the group’s relationship and chemistry with one another as much. Just jumped into the mundane every day life. Having dinners, appearing on TV, completely mid banter, etc.
If it were about a romantic relationship instead of the FF, they fast forwarded through the meet cute, the dating period, the wedding, the honeymoon and skipped straight to the content old couple. Which isn’t bad, just less compelling.
Honestly, I was more entertained than bored while watching it, but I don’t think I’ll think about this film ever again after this year. Pleasantly surprising for current year Marvel Slop.
Watched the Falcon movie at a friend’s house a couple months after seeing FF because she actually loves the slop and I thought “hey 4 gin and tonics should get me pliable enough to find at least a couple of the jokes funny” and it turns out it was a “”“serious”“” political thriller and also you need to have watched a Netflix series and also the Eternals to understand. The whole time I was thinking “what the fuck are these characters doing” and “why are they doing this now” and “who the fuck is this character” and so on. Fantastic Four may as well have been Martin Scorsese next to that movie.
Yeah, I think that’s what it was for me, the fact that they didn’t really show the character’s relationships on any meaningful level. There should have at least been some short montage showing Reed/Sue getting married, maybe one of Johnny and Ben’s bigger fights (they are friends in the comics but have a rocky relationship at times). They were casted great but we didn’t get to see any real character moments from them that showed how they all get along, the closest we got was Reed and Sue arguing because of Reed’s impersonal at times, practical parsing of a situation and the facts without thought for emotion, and even that was fairly more tepid than what you’d see in the comics.
For me, the bottom line is, I feel like the Marvel movies have this generic tone that I just can’t get past. It’s like how Marvel and DC have had “house styles” at times where the comic artists draw the comic in a fairly similar way making the comics feel homogeneous.