Weighing in on the Fantastic Four...
If I see Bruce Wayne’s parents die one more time, I’m gonna choke somebody. I mention this, before speaking to you about the disastrous Fantastic Four movie, to say that we don’t need another origin story. Flaming dude, stretchy guy, invisible chick, Rock man… we know who they are, don’t need to see how they became that way. Just get the movie started bro. So while we are officially in retirement at the FCU, we do still watch movies, albeit with less frequency, but we had to come out briefly just to talk about what we saw with this movie, what seemed to go wrong, why it has performed so poorly and where they can go next. For starters, as I have stated many times, I was a kid who loved comic books and I loved no comic book more than the Fantastic Four, so one could call me a FF purist or even an FF snob. And also let me say that I didn’t think director Josh Trank’s FF film was terrible movie, not a good movie, but not a gawdawfully terrible one… and there are some really