AndrewGilkison
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Honestly, its like Marvel went into this with the mentality that all they had to do was not make Galactus a space cloud and everyone would love it because the bar for live action FF movies was so low that it was practically underground. Marvel Studios won by default, because they did the bare minimum.
Hollywood only seems to know two Fantastic Four movies that they know how to make. The origin story for the team, with Doctor Doom as the main villain, and Galactus and the Silver Surfer being introduced in the sequel. They didn't want to tell the FF's origin again (although they do in a opening montage) , so they defaulted to the only one other FF story they know. God ****ing forbid we actually mine the IP and tell other stories in the FF universe.
The most interesting conflict is Galactus being willing to spare earth in exchange for Franklin, which turns the city of New York against the FF for about five minutes before Sue Storm puts an end to it with a speech. Whew! The movie almost had an interesting and complex problem for our heroes to solve. Can't have that!
Why couldn't we just have the Fantastic Four save the world at the cost of their popularity? Like maybe they stop Galactus, but people died that otherwise would've been saved if the FF had just handed their son over. Given that the FF are known for being the celebrity superhero team, and in this movie Sue Storm is a diplomat and the Future Foundation practically runs the world, the FF's goodwill is something very important to them, so losing that or having to take a big hit on that would be an interesting story to tell. But that would require the heroes of the movie to lose something? Sacrifice something? Speaking of civilian casualties, I know Man Of Steel scared the big studios and now every time we get a big battle in a big city we have to bend over backwards to show them being evacuated, but can we move past this now? Avengers had a third act where citizens clearly died. Even Age Of Ultron had fallout that lead to Civil War. That was fine. No one complained about that. Having our heroes fighting Galactus in an empty city just doesn't create a lot of tension or excitement but maybe I am wrong?
