I am amazed that a comic book I enjoyed when I was 10 has become some crappy lame film 45 years later.
20th CF should just give me all the money they spent making this turd and I’ll go make an indie. Couldn’t be any worse. I mean CGI can only do so much, even with the Millenials.
I picked up a number of e-comic “first issue” comics for free (Spiderman etc) when Comixology had a big promotion. Reading them now, I can sure see why they’d be engaging to a 10-year-old, but fail to translate to movie format _and_ satisfy the aforementioned as an adult: there’s a whole lot going on between a few frames of comic book that the young mind richly fills in and generously excuses, but which pseudo-live-action just cannot present & justify to adults. Of personal recent reading: the one-page (9-12 frames) of Spiderman racing around trying to rescue J. Jonah Jameson’s son’s about-to-crash space capsule is a compelling casual read on paper, but trying to fit that into the time-and-space reality portrayed in a movie - an impending crash in minutes of a craft traveling hundreds of miles per hour vs. our hero traveling hundreds of miles & engaging in multiple conversations in what must take hours - _just_doesn’t_work_. Ditto any number of comic books we read while young: the time-and-space realities of the cinematic world can’t be glossed over like ink-on-paper can. Never mind all the other cultural changes which allowed then what is laughable or offensive now, or the technological changes that make the amazing from half-a-century ago into what is mundane, moot, or impossible today.
FWIW, on top of all that I never did get what was so great about F4 (as child or adult). Seemed a laudable attempt at a conceptual franchise that just didn’t work out as the genre matured.