Hello, hello, hello. Long time no see. I have been lurking on DW, reading your posts in silence like a creep and maybe sometimes commenting, but I haven't gotten round to posting in ages.
I should probably do a RL update (spoiler for those who don't follow me on Instagram: rerember how a few years ago I mentioned that one of my bucket ist items was getting into a gallery show? Well, I've had art in three group exhibitions in the last year and two more plus a small solo exhinition scheduled for next year), but I'l just start off easy with a meme ganked from
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muccamukk:
Bold = Watched Entirety
Italic = Watched Part* Watched more than once.
† Watched in the first few weeks of release (at least initially, for TV shows).
(I'm skipping the watched more than once thing because I literally can't remember)
( long-ass list of MCU movies and shows plus some musings )Now, the reason why I'm even thinking about MCU again is because I actaully finished watching a thing when I went to see The Fantastic Four. The only reason I did so was because a) I really like Pedro Pascal and he hasn't let me down in anything yet, and b) I was promised it would be 100% stand-alone.
Non-spoilery review: It was 100% stand-alone (except for a brief mid-credit scene), and I can wholeheartedly recommend it even to people like me who have completely lost interest in the wider MCU, and have no interest in going back to it. And Pascal was very good in it, as was the whole cast. I really liked all four members of the team, and they felt like a real family (the humour was also more like the kind of stupid injokes that a family would have than Whedon-like quipping that a lot of other MCU movies have).
The plot was very predictable, but it was still very entertaining. In a weird way it reminded me a lot of early 00's superhero movies like the first two X-Men and Raimi's Spidermen. There was just something very charming and nostalgic about how simple it's story was. Also, visually the movie was very unique - not just the retro-futurism, but also the kaiju-imagery they used for Galactus.
On a more spoilery note,
( spoilery spoilers )But in short, I really enjoyed watching Fantastic Four (even if it was a bit too heterosexual in general for my taste), and would watch a sequel if they ever make one, but as much as I liked the characters, I doubt their presence will be enough for me to want to watch The Avengers next summer.
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fan_flashworks2025-08-12 12:52 pm
