Rate and review The Fantastic 4: First Steps

[jamesb]

Just got back . Really underwhelming to be honest . 6 out of 10 I give it. Like a lot of movies these days . It felt very underdeveloped to me. A good movie in there somewhere, just seems to be a lack of great filmmakers nowadays. Cannot make a genuinely great movie .

 

[jamesb]

Just got back . Really underwhelming to be honest . 6 out of 10 I give it. Like a lot of movies these days . It felt very underdeveloped to me. A good movie in there somewhere, just seems to be a lack of great filmmakers nowadays. Cannot make a genuinely great movie .

 

[Erik Lensherr]

I saw it today. I loved every scene with Galactus. A dream come true. But aside from that, this movie was boring. It was too formulaic. I felt like I'd seen this movie a hundred times. It's always the same plot over and over again. No creativity

 

[InCali]

Saw it last Tuesday and am planning to go again this Tuesday. I saw it in 3D/XD (Cinemark) and am glad I did. I think it really added to the visual spectacle (for me anyway). I've been waiting, literally, decades for a FF movie like this, so my view is probably slanted (along with me being a really S***TTY critic).

I was having so much fun watching it and so I was completely unaware of any problems with the editing until I started reading some posts from people who are able to evaluate a movie with more objectivity than I can. It absolutely would have benefited from a little more filling in at certain points in the movie. In particular the news type coverage of their past exploits and Sue's speech. I thought Vanessa Kirby was terrific and her character was the bedrock of the movie.

This was, by far, superior to anything attempted in the past and I give it an 8+/10.

 

[thegameq]

I give it a 7.5--maybe a shaky 8....

Maybe I was expecting to much. I always thought the coming of Galactus would be an earth shattering epic/event of biblical proportions. This felt small and intimate....which I guess is what they were going for?......... I did enjoy it for what it was.

I get it, every movie doesn't have to be an epic masterpiece, but its fricken Galactus, the devourer of worlds, the eater of planets.

I really hope superhero movie fatigue is not a thing, because Marvel and DC will have no one to blame but themselves for putting out average to above average films for a long period of time.

OT: Is there a lack of talent available to do these types of films? I remember fantasizing about the likes of Spielberg, Lucas, Jackson, Zemeckis, etc. doing these types of films. It feels like there is very little director talent out there that knows these properties and can do them justice. We got lucky with the Russos and to some degree Snyder and Whedon.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I had a great time with it personally. Definitely, the best film version to date of the characters.

There is clearly a longer cut to the film 'out there' and be interesting to see if we ever get it.

It felt like a 'family drama' and that was a good approach and the retro visuals worked.

The most 'important' aspect of it, for me, was it felt like Phase 1 again, and a return to Endgame level passion & emotion, which has been diluted ever since 2019.

 

[Stark Bauer]

I give it a 7.5--maybe a shaky 8....

Maybe I was expecting to much. I always thought the coming of Galactus would be an earth shattering epic/event of biblical proportions. This felt small and intimate....which I guess is what they were going for?......... I did enjoy it for what it was.

I get it, every movie doesn't have to be an epic masterpiece, but its fricken Galactus, the devourer of worlds, the eater of planets.

I really hope superhero movie fatigue is not a thing, because Marvel and DC will have no one to blame but themselves for putting out average to above average films for a long period of time.

OT: Is there a lack of talent available to do these types of films? I remember fantasizing about the likes of Spielberg, Lucas, Jackson, Zemeckis, etc. doing these types of films. It feels like there is very little director talent out there that knows these properties and can do them justice. We got lucky with the Russos and to some degree Snyder and Whedon.

I don’t usually buy movies on physical discs anymore but if they release the extended cut on Blu-ray I might end up buying it if it is justifiably longer say 30 minutes minimum