marcicat | movie review part 2 (Reply)

So it turns out I have more to say on the topic of “Fant4stic.” (How do you even say that out loud?)

First! WTF, Franklin Storm — so, ‘hey we found this planet let’s go take stuff’ is totally okay, but ‘the military wants to use my powers for their own gain’ is exploitation and not okay? I mean, I agree that the second is sketchy and we didn’t really see enough of their situation to know just *how* sketchy, but the first really isn’t cool either. Did they really never think to ask ‘gee, I wonder if that planet maybe already belongs to someone?’

AND ANOTHER THING! Because apparently the planet belonged to its own self, is what I’m saying. Victor said it was alive, and I think a significant argument could be made in favor of that statement. Which means from the planet’s point of view, Earth spent over a decade essentially poking it and leaving its toys lying around, then showed up in person and immediately started wrecking the place. I’d be pissed too.

(I thought it was interesting that Victor, or whatever Victor/planet hybrid he had become, had no interest in ruling the Earth — so refreshing for a Marvel villain! And possibly Victor’s attitude of ‘the Earth can’t be saved and ruins everything’ wasn’t the best for the planet to absorb, because it meant a ‘destroy the Earth before it destroys us’ strategy seemed like an A+ idea, but it was still a more interesting story than revenge or whatever.)

Okay, one more thing: The military guy who chewed gum (what was up with that, by the way?) was the same actor who played Sterns in ‘Incredible Hulk.’ Which was weird for me, especially with Reed doing the Bruce Banner science exile thing there. How much of that were they doing on purpose, and how much was just shortcut storytelling?

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