re: Fantastic Four Review Thread 86% RT Score 111 Reviews

Fantastic Four: First Steps is facing a decline of almost 70% in its second weekend in wide release.

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A bit of a calm spell before the Freakier Friday-Weapons double bill happening next weekend, with The Fantastic Four: First Steps eyeing around $12 million today for a $40M-$45M second weekend, which gets it close to $200M+ (or $198M on the low end). On the low side, that’s a 66% decline in the vicinity of Captain America: Brave New World (-68%), but harder than Thunderbolts* (-56%) which indicates the front-loaded rush to Marvel’s first family. The pic is booked at 4,125 theaters.

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I don't think this pic will break even given the endless amounts of money Disney used to market it.

I watched it last night with a group of friends. We all enjoyed it, it's a very good comic book film. The whole sequence where they head out to space looking for Galactus was damn good.

Most of the cast was great, but I'm definitely on the side that Pedro was miscast. I just did not buy him in this role. It's not that he's bad, Pedro's a good actor, he just looked out of place for me compared to everyone else.

Are you implying that companies are always honest as to whether or not they make a profit?

So then no. Got it.

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But then again, a mom about to lose her baby, maybe she could manifest enough

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That was part of my critique. I can buy that level of sacrifice, they just needed to make her look more the part. She needed a Stranger Things nose-bleed, maybe blood trickling from an ear, eyes getting bloodshot... I don't know, but something more than just losing some tint to her skin color. I think if that had made that minor adjustment, it would have sold the whole scene a lot better.

I mean it's just a comic book problem. You set up a nigh omnipotent immortal being like Galactus and then set him up against regular superhero characters (much less powerful than the Silver Surfer for example). Writers often trap themselves with this type of impossibility, especially when they involve immortal beings in human story lines.

The analogy they want to invoke is something like a mother lifting a car off her child in a moment of stress.

But the whole point is you are supposed to be in awe of Galactus' demonstrated power. It would be more helpful to regard this as a mother lifting something much heavier than a cement truck (rather than say a small car off her baby). Granted, it still isn't as silly as the idea of Reed being able to transport Galactus across the universe (or earth to another galaxy) but whatever.

There was just one last year. It just has to be the right one. Regular shite just doesn’t fly anymore. Yes there is fatigue but a billion dollar superhero movie is very possible if it’s the right one.

I give it a C+

Too many lazy plot points for me.

- Reed telling the World about not giving up the baby.

- Sue's speech.

- Johnny translating an alien language.

- Johnny shaming the surfer and it working. Galactus knows exactly what she is doing and where she is all the time. He can strip her powers whenever it just cease her existence.

- Sue pushing Galactus with any success was the worst though. That was an incredibly lame way to end it.

The teleporting the Earth away but something goes wrong had tons of potential.

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And again, this movie's biggest sin is Ben's beard. WTF?

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Why was that necessary? Was it some way to save on special effects?