WEBVTT 00:00:00.430 --> 00:00:04.730 Hello everyone so Jay and I just got back from 00:00:04.730 --> 00:00:08.169 a lovely Thursday night screening of Fantastic 00:00:08.169 --> 00:00:11.910 four first steps the newest MCU thingy and we 00:00:11.910 --> 00:00:14.429 got much like we did with the Thunderbolts Early 00:00:14.429 --> 00:00:23.829 screening. We got these cool key chains Okay, 00:00:24.329 --> 00:00:27.550 let's kind of go bottom Bottom line up front, 00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:30.510 Jay, what did you think of this film Superman? 00:00:30.850 --> 00:00:34.170 You called the best comic book movie since Endgame. 00:00:34.390 --> 00:00:43.729 Did Fantastic Four beat it? No. No, but. But 00:00:43.729 --> 00:00:49.039 it is the best Fantastic Four movie period. Now, 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:52.140 that's not a very high bar to clear in the history 00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:56.060 of Fantastic Four Phelps. Where do you rate this? 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.740 Like, like if you go into MCU, like A tier, B 00:00:59.740 --> 00:01:03.280 tier, C tier, D tier after like, where do you 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.340 put this in the in the grand scheme of MCU films? 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:16.680 I would say like. Hmm. I would say this is like 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.280 a solid B. Like a solid B level like like not 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.040 not bad. It's good. And by the way, y 'all got 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.299 to get off this like if it's not perfect, it's 00:01:26.299 --> 00:01:30.680 it's bad. No, it's a it's a good movie. It is 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.579 a good movie. Let's kind of run through it here. 00:01:34.859 --> 00:01:36.819 Obviously, we know we got this kind of retro 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:40.299 futuristic vibe to the whole thing. We did see 00:01:40.299 --> 00:01:44.879 it in IMAX, which I'm glad we did. Visually, 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:50.000 I thought it was stunning. It looked good. Start 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.260 to finish. And honestly, the one I was worried 00:01:52.260 --> 00:01:55.980 about was Reed's powers, right? Like, because 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:59.420 it's hard to do Reed's powers well and make them 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:02.299 not look completely ridiculous. But I think they 00:02:02.299 --> 00:02:07.299 did a pretty good job of that. Yeah. Everything 00:02:07.299 --> 00:02:11.139 looked great. This looked how a Marvel movie 00:02:11.139 --> 00:02:15.099 should look. The effects were great. I didn't 00:02:15.099 --> 00:02:18.000 have any problems with like any of the superpowers. 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:22.659 Everything looked. On par, like everything looked 00:02:22.659 --> 00:02:29.759 great. Casting. Pretty solid. Yeah, very solid. 00:02:29.939 --> 00:02:31.960 Good chemistry. That's the thing that I think 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:36.199 I bought the most of. Right. Like Sue seemed 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:40.199 like Johnny's older sister. Yes, 100 percent. 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:42.909 Right. There was a little bit of love. a little 00:02:42.909 --> 00:02:46.009 bit of frustration, right? You know, and Johnny 00:02:46.009 --> 00:02:48.729 being the little brother. And I actually want 00:02:48.729 --> 00:02:50.469 to stick on Johnny because we talked about this 00:02:50.469 --> 00:02:53.030 a little bit as we left the theater. Hang on, 00:02:53.030 --> 00:02:56.810 I'm blurring out here. This is the best version 00:02:56.810 --> 00:03:01.550 of Johnny I've ever seen. I loved this Johnny. 00:03:02.030 --> 00:03:06.210 I thought he I thought Paul Quinn did such a 00:03:06.210 --> 00:03:14.580 great job as this Johnny. I 100 % agree. No, 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.240 no issues there. I think he was perfect. Obviously, 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.800 he's funny. And then yeah, he has that like little 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.759 brother thing going on. And I'm sorry, it's Joseph 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:29.020 Quinn. And so here's the thing that I want to 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:30.599 say about this without getting into spoilers. 00:03:30.819 --> 00:03:33.020 And we are going to do a spoiler video. So if 00:03:33.020 --> 00:03:34.560 you've already seen it, or if you don't care 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:35.960 about spoilers, go ahead and go back and watch 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.039 our spoiler reaction, which will be a lot more 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:39.379 in depth and we'll go into full spoilers about 00:03:39.379 --> 00:03:41.919 the thing. But I do want to say this. There's 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:43.879 this tendency with Johnny and this is what I 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:45.360 liked about this movie that they didn't do this 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.939 There's this tendency with Johnny to make him 00:03:46.939 --> 00:03:50.740 very one note, right? Johnny's the goofy hot 00:03:50.740 --> 00:03:57.139 shot guy But Johnny actually has a very important 00:03:57.139 --> 00:04:01.280 role in the story That has nothing to do with 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:08.099 his ability to turn into fire Right he does something 00:04:08.099 --> 00:04:13.199 that critically turns the story in a really important 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:18.720 way. And I was surprised that they did that, 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.180 right? Because again, the temptation is to make 00:04:21.180 --> 00:04:23.420 Johnny very one note. And I really want to say 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:24.579 what it is, but again, I'm not going to go into 00:04:24.579 --> 00:04:26.980 spoilers here. Again, you guys come watch our 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:32.180 spoiler video for that. But I think Joseph Quinn 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:36.939 just crushed it. Eben Mosbacherak as the thing. 00:04:40.110 --> 00:04:49.709 He emoted so well. Yeah. I just like I bought 00:04:49.709 --> 00:04:53.629 it. I bought him as the thing. Yep. And again, 00:04:53.629 --> 00:04:59.750 he wasn't one note either. I think maybe maybe 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:01.189 that's the thing I noticed the most about the 00:05:01.189 --> 00:05:04.949 characters is previous Fantastic Four's all the 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:07.639 characters felt very one note. Reed is really 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.579 smart. Sue is this Johnny's a hot shot goofball. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:14.040 You know, Ben's a clobbering guy. Right. Like. 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:17.980 I didn't get that sense from any of these characters. 00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:23.920 No, there was definitely some pretty good depth 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.839 with all of them. They all have, I would say, 00:05:27.899 --> 00:05:34.379 like their. Character flaw that they're trying 00:05:34.379 --> 00:05:38.949 to like kind of overcome during the movie. They're 00:05:38.949 --> 00:05:41.230 trying to like prove themselves in a very specific 00:05:41.230 --> 00:05:45.750 way or trying to overcome their I don't know 00:05:45.750 --> 00:05:51.589 fame if you will Yeah, I I really like there 00:05:51.589 --> 00:05:55.430 was a lot there was a lot of depth to This fantastic 00:05:55.430 --> 00:05:58.990 for which the other two. I mean, I I fell asleep 00:05:58.990 --> 00:06:02.290 the the last one I fell asleep during fan for 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:07.649 stick. Yeah The only casting and I told you this 00:06:07.649 --> 00:06:10.370 on my way out. I don't think it's bad But if 00:06:10.370 --> 00:06:12.589 there was a weak link in the chain, I really 00:06:12.589 --> 00:06:17.629 do think it's Pedro Pascal I I don't know. I 00:06:17.629 --> 00:06:22.110 don't I Don't think so. I I really enjoyed him. 00:06:22.350 --> 00:06:27.410 I liked him. I just Maybe I'm just a little Pedro 00:06:27.410 --> 00:06:31.569 Pascal and I love Pedro Pascal Okay, and I appreciate 00:06:31.569 --> 00:06:34.189 Latino guys who grow patchy beards. Thank you 00:06:34.189 --> 00:06:41.209 Pedro like it it helps all of us okay but he 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:43.149 was the one i maybe i'll have to watch it again 00:06:43.149 --> 00:06:44.910 and maybe on a second watch through i'll feel 00:06:44.910 --> 00:06:50.189 differently but he to me was uh the the way it's 00:06:50.189 --> 00:06:57.810 like um galactus looked amazing yeah galactus 00:06:57.810 --> 00:07:05.990 i god that um Yeah, very comic booky, but not. 00:07:06.269 --> 00:07:10.129 Didn't look ridiculous. Yeah, he did. He looked 00:07:10.129 --> 00:07:17.350 like he belonged in this reality. Yeah, it was 00:07:17.350 --> 00:07:24.129 sick. I liked it. He has. It's amazing. Yeah. 00:07:24.529 --> 00:07:26.209 I want to go back to the glass. Ralph Anderson 00:07:26.209 --> 00:07:29.639 is Galactus. He even had the goofy helmet. Which 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:31.339 under normal circumstances, you'd be like, why 00:07:31.339 --> 00:07:32.879 do you wear that stupid hat? But you know what? 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.800 It almost makes sense in this movie. Like it 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.240 didn't pull me out of the movie at all. Yeah. 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.420 Julia Garner, as our silver surfer, shall a ball. 00:07:41.860 --> 00:07:47.800 Right. She did a really great job. Yep. Right. 00:07:49.379 --> 00:07:51.839 Yeah, I'm really trying to think of anybody that 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.600 I didn't love in this that I didn't like. And 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:58.199 again. Reed is probably the closest. I loved 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.980 Herbie. The little robot is great. He's awesome. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:09.000 Right. You know. Yes, there's just there's so 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.879 much to say that was just, again, really well 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:17.180 done. Also didn't resolve the way that I that 00:08:17.180 --> 00:08:19.300 that I thought it was going to. But again, you 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:26.009 don't. You don't feel like they won too easily, 00:08:26.569 --> 00:08:29.629 nor do you feel like it was too hard? Like they 00:08:29.629 --> 00:08:35.309 balanced it really well. Yeah. The stakes made 00:08:35.309 --> 00:08:43.690 sense. It did. And I don't think I can say anything 00:08:43.690 --> 00:08:53.580 else without spoiling, so like, um. Yeah. Yeah. 00:08:53.899 --> 00:08:58.059 I mean. It was it was a it was a tough fight. 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.519 Yeah. Yeah. But again, it all made sense. There 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.820 was nothing there where I was like, what? How 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:08.580 did that happen? Right. Right. There was nothing 00:09:08.580 --> 00:09:11.980 in the fight where I was like, really? Right. 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:14.740 And again, you felt that menace from Galactus, 00:09:14.779 --> 00:09:18.620 you felt that menace from the surfer. I think 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:21.820 she was used really well in the parts where they 00:09:21.820 --> 00:09:26.620 used her. um it's kind of like the the tier two 00:09:26.620 --> 00:09:29.360 antagonist here uh which again we've all seen 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:33.860 the thing on tiktok all right i herald is beginning 00:09:33.860 --> 00:09:38.019 i herald your end um don't worry i know a lot 00:09:38.019 --> 00:09:39.519 of people i was talking to were worried that 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.460 they were getting too spoiled by all the clips 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:44.620 and shit that disney's been releasing on this 00:09:44.620 --> 00:09:46.860 most of that's in the first 20 minutes of the 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:51.600 movie Right, there's a whole middle section there 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.980 and and like but the middle section which visually 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:58.120 again if you've read the Jack Kirby comics it 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.360 feels so Like again, there's a whole middle section 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.639 that just looks amazing. We saw it in IMAX I'm 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.580 glad we saw it in IMAX because there's some cool 00:10:08.580 --> 00:10:12.980 visuals Trying to think what else we could say 00:10:12.980 --> 00:10:16.179 without spoiling too much I really don't know. 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:21.779 It's it's so hard. So, yeah, Jay, overall, let's 00:10:21.779 --> 00:10:24.360 let's run this down again really quick. Is this 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.820 a you should see this in theaters or wait for 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:31.179 streaming? 100 % should see in theaters. The 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:34.700 only thing that really upset me, you they were 00:10:34.700 --> 00:10:37.100 already sold out of the Galactus head buckets. 00:10:37.179 --> 00:10:39.669 So if you want one, they're gone. They're already 00:10:39.669 --> 00:10:41.629 gone. Now, I'm going to say this. We saw this 00:10:41.629 --> 00:10:44.309 early screening at AMC. We got our cool keychain 00:10:44.309 --> 00:10:46.190 like we did for Thunderbolts for our early screening. 00:10:47.149 --> 00:10:49.450 And unlike the real where we had to see Superman, 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:51.669 we got to do our own butter on our popcorn and 00:10:51.669 --> 00:10:54.029 their popcorn popcorns. Just better. I'm sorry. 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:57.090 Sorry, Regal. You're not going to let that go. 00:10:57.190 --> 00:10:59.370 Oh, yeah. No, I'm not. But yes, they were sold 00:10:59.370 --> 00:11:01.490 out. They did have the Herbie drink holders. 00:11:01.490 --> 00:11:03.769 And I almost want to put there. They're a little 00:11:03.769 --> 00:11:07.669 pricey. I think those things don't just a smidge. 00:11:07.889 --> 00:11:11.470 Yeah. It's it was a little expensive drink holder. 00:11:11.649 --> 00:11:18.070 Eighty two. Holy crap for Herbie. It was 80. 00:11:18.429 --> 00:11:24.690 Yeah. So, again, I didn't do it. Anyway, folks, 00:11:25.070 --> 00:11:27.149 are you planning on seeing Fantastic Four? Are 00:11:27.149 --> 00:11:29.409 you excited about this movie? We really like 00:11:29.409 --> 00:11:32.309 it. I think it's it's I think it's actually almost 00:11:32.309 --> 00:11:36.080 fair to say the MCU is back now. You know, three 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.220 of the last four movies they've released between 00:11:38.220 --> 00:11:40.580 Deadpool and Wolverine Thunderbolts and Fantastic 00:11:40.580 --> 00:11:42.799 Four are great. Captain America is really kind 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.019 of the only misstep movie wise I've seen in the 00:11:45.019 --> 00:11:47.019 last couple of years. So I think it's fair to 00:11:47.019 --> 00:11:52.879 say the MCU is back. Yeah. You know, I think 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:54.700 we can start putting some faith back in the MCU 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:57.419 again. Let us know what you think down in those 00:11:57.419 --> 00:11:59.679 comments below. And if you want, come back for 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.820 our lovely spoiler talk.