marcicat | movie review: Fantastic 4 (Fant4stic?)

Yup, finally got around to watching the 2015 version of the Fantastic Four movie. And here’s my question: what in the world was that?

1. Similar to ‘Amazing Spiderman,’ a bunch of scenes from the trailers did not actually appear in the movie.

2. Young Ben grew up to be Jamie Bell?! (I find *that* hard to believe!)

3. How old were they supposed to be? And what was up with the whole “scholarship” to the Baxter whatever? Congrats, you get to come do unpaid work on a super shady science project; we call it a school (do they?) but there are no classes!

4. Probably don’t drink and science. (I was floored by the fact that the entire origin story of the F4 in the movie was apparently based on underage drinking and poor decision-making.)

5. “Just the three of us?” HE MEANT SUE, REED. HIS SISTER. NOT YOUR FRIEND FROM 5TH GRADE THAT NONE OF THE OTHERS EVER MET.

6. Miles Teller looks like Shia Labeouf, right? I had weird ‘Transformers’ flashbacks the whole movie.

7. Reed’s casual disregard for basically everything was probably pretty true to his comics characterization, but seriously, what a jerk.

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