ashdsteele

Went in wanting to hate it because of Kim Kardashian but I binged all three episodes! Suspend your disbelief that any realistic things will happen in this show. The storylines and costumes are incredibly dramatic and unbelievable, over the top. The dialogue is very gen z gay buzzwords, actually shocked brat wasn't mentioned. Yes, Kim is flat and one note but seeing all the ways Ryan Murphy dresses her up and acts out these scenes from a lifetime drama. It's campy and for the girls and gays.

The costumes, lighting, writing, everything is so good in the first like 75% of the movie. But towards the end, the twist is revealed and I completely checked out. Not only because I had guessed it long before but the visual effects, and plot just kinda fall apart at the end. It was giving camp where the rest of the movie was a... thriller? Overall, the acting was great.

It's fine, it's watchable but it's crazy how by the end of the movie, we hardly know anything about the four main characters. It feels like we're "already supposed to know" which is insane for a "first" of a film franchise.

I loved the 2000s version of Fantastic Four because it focused on how each character coped with their powers and losing their human lives + the challenges they each faced fitting into society. Ben lost his family, and had to rebuild his life and find love again. It had depth. This one, it's like the director said to each actor- ok you have one character trope and we will milk it the entire movie.

My poor man Ben got like five minutes of screen time! Also why did Ben's rock body look 10x more real in the movie made 25 years ago?! Bad CGI, Spiderman made in 2000 had better effects.