The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shakman, July 25, 2025) Movie • Page 39

Out on digital!

 

Nice. Hope it blows up more once it's on there. Truly one of the best MCU movies in years and it's a bummer it didn't do better in the box office

 

I still don’t know why Reed anxiety-blurts out that they were offered a deal by Galactus, what the terms were, that they rejected it, and with no consideration to whether Galactus is even trustworthy at all. Is it just couched under the “in this universe everyone is old timey and innocent and idealistic without cynicism” umbrella and it was Reed being honest about the nature of the failure of the mission?

 

I kinda assumed Reed has misjudged how beloved his family was and never considered they’d say “good deal, I’d do that”

 

I think it also shows that Reed will be honest and direct even when it’s in his best interest not to be

 

It's where the illusion that people are morally decent and understanding at their core meets the harsh reality that they're not.

 

It's very common for people with book smarts to not have the greatest common sense socially lol

 

Because they “needed” to manufacture some melodramatic tension, building up to a speech from Sue about being a mom.

 

Yeah. It felt like they needed the public to know the rejected deal to keep the plot moving and IMO they didn’t really show why he needed to say it in that moment. My first thought as the crowd would not be to take the God-like evil planet devourer at his second-hand word that he’d spare us in exchange for a baby.