Mid credits (important) and post credits (fun).

I liked seeing the Timely Comics store, but as I told my wife about it in the car, I couldn’t remember why it was important. Can y’all help? Was that the first imprint that printed Captain America comics or something along those lines?

Seeing the Latveria chair empty early on made me think we’d see him later I the film. As we watched the mid-credits scene, my wife mentioned Robert Downey, Jr., as Doom. I told her I was reminded of the recent Ultimates comic where Doom was introduced as a repentant Reed Richards. She said that’d explain why the baby wasn’t freaking out. Four years is a long time to create stories.

Been thinking about this...

Ending spoiler:

It was a visual splendor and I loved all the actors and roles, but I left wondering if Galactus was a good choice as a first villain.

I’d say the only really new dynamic we got here was adding a child into the mix. Curious to see where this goes since they went with literally their biggest villain off the bat.

Prefacing with I am a person with not much F4 comic knowledge and not even that much of a fan. I really loved this movie though! It was a great story with real stakes and entertaining performances. I loved the strong family dynamics and problem solving!

I thought Pedro did a passing job as Reed. I wasn’t blown away. He was just ok to me. I’m not sure what would have made the performance stellar, but I don’t think he was the perfect casting after watching it. I couldn’t even tell you who would be.

I guess I was maybe expecting someone even more scattered about his work and maybe the voice felt off to me? Like I said, he was passable and I enjoyed it but I think someone else might have been the one to elevate that character.

Vanessa Kirby knocked it out of the park for the motherhood parts. There’s something off about her looks for me with respect to Sue but she was still great and had a ton of presence in every scene she was in.

I thought Ben was underused and Johnny maybe should’ve been a little more showboat-y? I enjoyed them both though and wanted more fun stuff with them I think.

I also like the nods to the Incredibles (which were ultimately nods to the F4). The interiors of the living room domains were similar with the steps and the rounded couch seating in a large open room. I also loved the end with running out of the building with the baby in the stroller to get into the car to respond (very Incredibles when they left were leaving the football stadium and the Underminer appeared).

Me one week ago learning Red Ghost had been cut,

I would have loved a, the Fantastic Four is short on resources and has to team up with the bad guy they just defeated, story. But that doesn't sound like the story we're getting.

Thanks Moleman.

Just got home, we caught the "Screen X" version which has a main fake Imax size screen, then projects additional footage on the left and right walls.

Hardly anyone went to the Screen X version so we had that going for us.

What it looks like going in:

What it looks like in practice:

It's... interesting. It's not 100% through the movie, just key scenes, and it does appear to be unique footage shot for the format, not stretched or copy/pasted.

Obviously the main screen is the real movie and everything extra is, well, extra. It also makes daylight scenes way brighter in the theater due to three projectors running.

If you like comic books and comic book movies, there's a lot to like here. No spoilers. I was concerned about a run time coming in under 2 hours, but everyone did a great job.

My only real complaint is not enough Ben. Reed, Sue and Johnny all seem to have projects in the movie, oh, and Ben was there too. :( Feels like if they had wanted to add more run-time, fleshing out Ben would have been a good start.