Friday, August 14, 2015

51.) Fantastic Four [8/14/2015]

This movie could be read as an extended metaphor for itself: a self-centered but super intelligent Reed Richards (here: Fox) doesn't understand what he has (here: the Fantastic Four franchise) and he ends up hurting himself and those who love him (read: the audience); while trying to fix it they end up making things worse and inadvertently unleash Dr. Doom on the world (here: rebooting the franchise); it wasn't the little things (they sent video and audio across interdimensional space with no time lag, there was a super busy highway running along side the super secret military base, Dr Doom's world ending destruction machine was made of rocks, Reed Richards could stretch his face into a different ethnicity, etc.) which piled up and distracted from the movie, it was that the movie took all the right pieces and still managed to make something so shitty that it manages to disappoint even those with the lowest of expectations - like a child who takes all the ingredients for pancakes but instead makes some ungodly concoction so terrible that the parents question ever having had children to begin with. 

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