The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shakman, July 25, 2025) Movie • Page 35

Yes? Like?

 

There’s no way Gilford could have played Eddie Munson or Quinn play Matt Saracen and it hit the same.

 

Reed is working on the teleportation thing before the Galactus stuff comes up, and then finds a way for it to be used in the end.

Johnny has space vinyl of recordings he found in space that happens to be recordings of Silver Surfer, and is able to get them translated from one sentence to learn a lot about her.

Those are the most directly comparable things. And also arguably Galactus finding out about the fetus he wants. Though, as annoying as that is, I guess in a better story it’d be easy to hand wave?

But for things that are convoluted in different ways. There’s the plot cul-de-sac of Reed telling the news that Galactus wants the baby, there being a crowd that suddenly hates them, and then Sue’s speech suddenly quells all of that.

 

I think teleportation is a pretty standard scientific goal to want to achieve. I get it, it's an unrelated thing he's working on that he applies to the problem. But what would he possibly be working on that he could apply to make Galactus the Lightbringer?

The Johnny thing, I don't think he got all of that from one sentence. He just applied what he got from that one sentence to other sentences until he pieced the language out through trial and error. Isn't that how any language is deciphered or what am I missing?

Galactus knowing about Franklin can really just be handwaved as him being drawn to the Power Cosmic, I don't think there's any big mystery there.

The last part though I can't argue. It was a sweet moment with Sue, but in the real world it would absolutely be that scene from Mother.

 

Reed had a huge arc in this film. He literally is trying to solve everything at the start and “baby proof the world” but is faced with a threat he can’t fix and a power he can’t learn in Galactus and Franklin. He comes to grip with the fact that he can’t just solve everything to keep his son safe. He’s going to have to let Franklin learn and grow and become his own person and unfortunately be in harms way, but being a parent is about helping him and caring for him no matter what. It’s very reminiscent of the Hickman FF run.

 

Entertaining enough but felt like the first half of the movie is all montages.

 

Fantastic Bore

 

Nice one.

Fool.

 

Um. Excuse me. How did some people not love this? This was easily a top 5 Marvel film for me. I loved everything about it and can't think of anything I would change.

Can't even compare it to Superman. Loved both. Marvel is back. DC is back.

 

It's just you and me, two heavily armed men in a bunker fighting extradition.

 

Lmao. What I really loved about this (and Superman) is both movies are so full of love, hope, and optimism. Idk. It was great. And of course all the stylistic choices, too. Crazy good chemistry between everyone.

 

Also, Mole Man's "I don't trust the surface world, but I trust Sue Storm" was great stuff.

 

Isn't this exactly what happened? He was working on the side project of teleportation and it helped him lol

 

Favorite part was the Weapons trailer playing in front of a room full of kids at my screening.

 

Tim meant as a way to make Galactus the Lifebringer.

 

Ohh. Fair, my bad @Tim !

 

I said something like this the day it came out, but while I enjoyed both, Superman felt like hope for the world we live in and FF was hopeful for an ideal world. The ideal world feels too out of reach to feel as strong for me.

 

The ideal world felt refreshing and hopeful to me tbh. I don't want to be reminded of the kind of world we really live in lol. Gave me feelings of being a kid again, blissfully unaware of how dark the world really is. I needed that escapism

 

Eh, I want hope that fits in the world I live in. Obviously, we won’t have superheroes. But a person who wants to believe in the best of people and that everyone is worth saving is applicable to right now. In FF, every country on the planet worked together to build all the tower things. Deeply impossible. Would never ever happen in the real world. I enjoyed it, but it felt far more fantastical for it. Superman felt more grounded. Which is very funny to say.

 

Idk I feel like knowledge that a god like entity is going to eat the entire planet through evidence of a flying space alien is believable enough to make people want to put their differences aside for a brief moment. Would it really happen? Eh. Probably... not. But I can't think of anything more likely to unite humanity to a common goal more than something like that

 

Have you met people? Haha

 

That's why I said probably not lol. But idk. The flying space alien could appeal to science denying nuts, Reed Richards appeals to people who actually believe in science.

Meh. It's just a comic book movie, it's good enough for me

 

All I’ve said is to explain how I feel. Shouldn’t change anything for you.