The Fantastic Four: First Steps

F4 carries so much baggage from their previously awful films. They had managed to cast it very well, and then blew it with the script and direction. Hopefully this turns the tide, though "origin story" saturation point has been reached, so they better be brief with that.
 
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Even if they are true to the comics, the suits look corny in real life.
 
Even if they are true to the comics, the suits look corny in real life.

Some of this stuff is going to be difficult to pull off. Mr. Fantastic in particular, there's just no natural way to get your mind to accept him stretching and it looking good / OK. It's uncanny valley stuff that your brain will just not be OK with.
 
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Some of this stuff is going to be difficult to pull off. Mr. Fantastic in particular, there's just no natural way to get your mind to accept him stretching and it looking good / OK. It's uncanny valley stuff that your brain will just not be OK with.
YES. Not sure whether or not FF should ever be more than the comic/cartoon.
 
Mr. Fantastic in particular, there's just no natural way to get your mind to accept him stretching and it looking good / OK.
Part of the reason "Green Lantern" had trouble being made into a live-action movie, it's a Comic Superpower that doesn't translate to real-world physics.
 
Viewed it last night, girlfriend loved it, while I will give it a quite good score.

Also, felt very short, needed more character development, specially the Silver Surfer.
 
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It was a very quick 2 hours. Product of a TV director running the show IMO (from the excellent WandaVision). As a result the whole thing felt kind of muted and the highs weren't as high and the lows weren't as low because nothing had room to breathe with the pacing issues - and when they did pause for a beat, it almost felt awkward instead.

They managed to cram a lot in, but ultimately I was just disappointed it didn't really lay the foundation for much going into phase 6, or provide a more concrete explanation for the Thunderbolts post-credit scene.

Presumably after the post-credits stinger Doom will blink away with Franklin, which will leave a residual energy Reed can trace so they can lock onto and follow him across time(lines)/space.
 

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