Marvel Studios’ ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ (7/25)

[Primetime]

Some of yall sayin it surprised you how boring the fantastic four's four characters were...?


So basically no different than how they've been the last 20-years of comics outside of when Reed was on some villain shyt

I brought it up months ago in this thread how they each represented out-dated (or just meh) character themes and it'd be a challenge to sell that to modern audiences that consider the GotG as more of the "first family". Some of yall said i must not read the comics to be sayin that but nah i was just a long-time reader with common sense. I done told yall about the x-men as well but that's still a bit away and first things first in seeing just how well this hail mary by Disney (the Russos + RDJ + nostalgia bait + kitchen sink, etc) will work.

 

[Conz]

the movies aren't the comics. what a perfect time to make pretty boring characters not boring. the shytty 2000s movies that everyone dunks are were less boring and way more fun than these 4. put them with this filmmaker in this world, and we're talking about a better movie, and i don't even think they're good

 

[Conz]

fukk it, i'll go there - Josh Trank's vision for the characters in that absolutely terrible movie was more creative and interesting than what they did here. b/c it's a fukkin movie. the original texts should only be a guidline, not sacred. making them all a little angry and "body horror" is more interesting than just... bland. failed on every level, but the thought process was novel. I don't even know what Reed did in Fan4stic, but i do know there is one scene where he stretch his facial features to look different. that alone was more creative than anything Reed did in the 2025 movie. dude did nothing but stretch his arms and get pulled by Galactus... which still makes no sense to me, b/c i thought that dude has unlimited stretch. wouldn't the worst way to hurt Reed be to stretch him?

 

[DosCadenaz]

There's definitely a twist coming and he can't do Doom for another 5+ years, but even reintroducing RDJ as Doom is not only going to nerf any other actor that plays him unless it's another actor as equal or big as RDJ, but it low-key taints RDJ's legacy in the MCU. Marvel knows better than this from the whole Trevor Slattery fiasco.

I can't believe MCU wasted Mads on Kaecillius.

It’s Tom Cruise

 

[Spidey Man]

Alexander Hoffman (@thelast.alexander) on Threads

What exactly is getting stretched in this movie ?!?

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AYE YO!!!!!

No wonder Sue was pushing around Galactus after that

 

[Lefty Gunz]

I remember when MCU movie where guaranteed to do 700 mill minimum

 

[Carl Tethers]

fukk it, i'll go there - Josh Trank's vision for the characters in that absolutely terrible movie was more creative and interesting than what they did here. b/c it's a fukkin movie. the original texts should only be a guidline, not sacred. making them all a little angry and "body horror" is more interesting than just... bland. failed on every level, but the thought process was novel. I don't even know what Reed did in Fan4stic, but i do know there is one scene where he stretch his facial features to look different. that alone was more creative than anything Reed did in the 2025 movie. dude did nothing but stretch his arms and get pulled by Galactus... which still makes no sense to me, b/c i thought that dude has unlimited stretch. wouldn't the worst way to hurt Reed be to stretch him?

Nah. That film was ass. All of it

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Doesn't surprise me that Feige and a stooge are afraid to try new shyt. After the 'Infinity Saga' he had clearly run out of ideas, a bunch of shyt flopped and now they just want to go back to the well. So they are bringing Downey back and riding on the coattails of nostalgia.

This is why they don't want to make 'Blade' because it's not "fun" like a phase 3 movie

 

[Conz]

Nah. That film was ass. All of it

The pitch wasn't. Everything after that was a masterpiece of dogshyt. They better make a documentary about this movie one day

 

[Jazzy B.]

Reed was dumb as hell for telling people at the press conference what Galactus really wanted. Some shyt you just keep to yourself, lol.

They pulled a T’Challa with the character.

They had to dumb him down to make the women look better.

Ain’t no way this is the “smartest man in the world”