This sounds like they made the movie to try to be much as possible, attitude-wise at least, like the FF stories in the classic comic books. Maybe Disney is finally hearing the masses.
Thanks for the report. Sounds great.
Is it possible I’m not holding my breath, but my fingers are still crossed?
I was never a FF fan (grew up on DC), but may give this a watch. I liked the idea of placing them in a retro world (though the FF started in early ‘60s, NOT 50s), as that allows us to avoid anachronisms stemming from heroes created in a different era. Also, it helps plotting a story if you don’t have to constantly deal with the boring presence of smartphones and cameras (unless it is a dystopia where that is the focus of the story).
I always liked the Venture Bros parodies of superheroes way better, particularly the one for the FF, “The Impossible Family”.
I was not expecting to hear this. Good if it is so.
I had planned to stay away from it, mostly b/c actor Pedro Pascal is starring in it. Pedro is big on allowing Trans surgeries for kids. Maybe the movie itself still has merit, separate from any grandstander.
I just can’t get past the casting. Mr. Fantastic does not have a beard. The chick is ugly. Johnnie looks like some kind of fag, and Ben; he just doesn’t work for me. Sorry, but that’s my take.
I remember the old cartoon fondly. Never read any comics nor saw any of the movies. Ben Grimm is the first character to occur to me when thinking about them.
Anyhoo, it just struck me that the four heroes are based _loosely_ on the four classical elements: Earth and Fire are easy to figure out. Invisible Woman is Air. Mr. Fantastic is Water…sort of. (If you accept that the he can “flow” like water to create his fantastic shapes…)
Sorry but I can’t get past the F4 suits. They look like four overgrown children in super hero pajamas.
My favorite comic book series ever.
later
Wasn’t there a thread a few hours ago about how Disney snuck a pro-gay message into the movie?
Worst review I saw of it was of course Pascal, and that at the end it was a girlboss team-up that stopped Galacticus.
Oh yeah, and THE WORST is that they made the Silver Surger a woman! Wha the crap!?
Get a load of this...
John Rocha
@TheRochaSays
Some people won’t want to hear this, but it might be time to stop putting ALL the blame on studios or creatives for underperforming movies. It might be time to start looking at the intelligence level of moviegoers.
If a phenomenally STUPID film like #JurassicWorld Rebirth can crush films like #Superman and #FantasticFour at the box office, then something might be wrong with all of us and NOT the studios or the creatives...
https://x.com/TheRochaSays/status/1951780050996498646
(h/t: YouTuber Vailant Renegade)