GrumpyMovieBuff

I'm tired, so I'll make this brief. I was entranced for the first and second act of this movie. Like, I was really into it. And that's rare these days, as I often find myself checking out in a lot of movies because the writing is just awful, and it's obvious that the director and producers don't care about half the crud they make anymore. But this was different. This was something special. I was actually really enjoying myself-pretty much all the way until the end. But then something changed. And it changed fast. It suddenly switched to a comedy. I was jolted out of my entrancement and was suddenly reminded that people who make movies nowadays just can't help themselves. Do they hate their audience? Do they just not understand their audience anymore? Or does the audience just love crud now, so they feel obligated to give it to them?

WHY did they play the end for laughs? WHY did they take a dive into the absurd? It wasn't by accident. The director clearly wanted us to have a laugh, but I just didn't understand why. All that buildup just to have a laugh at the absurd? I just don't get it. I don't regret seeing this, but knowing what I know now, I will never be revisiting this movie.

Galactus gets nerfed into some big non-powered dude who Sue Storm can just trip and shove around like she's ejecting a drunk from a bar at closing time. Why in the world would you make The Thing hate saying his catchphrase!? That's insane! And that little girl surfette was the least intimidating creature in the universe! Reed Richards was underwhelming and unimpressive, let alone 'fantastic'. Johnny just looked weird, but he wasn't Johnny as we know him in the comics, he was neutered and watered down. The CGI Torch looked pretty cool, though. Sue Storm was alright, but she was too monotone. Aside from little girl surfette, my biggest disappointment was The Thing. The only thing similar to his character in the comics was the fact that he was made out of rock. Nothing else about him was cool or bada**. I can't believe the slop that people will praise these days. They are like babies when you dangle keys above them. The movie went pew pew boom boom and the normie audience went goo goo gaa gaa.