In Finland cars are considered classics if they are at least 25 years old. Following that same rule, I have arbitrarily decided that a movie needs to be of a same age to qualify as a classic. However, not all movies of that age are classics.
Since in some of these the magic is the movie, I can’t really avoid spoilers, so I’m not going to.
Maybe this is just a problem with trailers in particular, but the trailer for this movie didn’t really sell me on it. Sure, there’s a mystery, but the mystery didn’t seem very intriguing in the way it was presented. It felt like the movie would focus on a different thing, but after this got 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, I thought I have to see this. It did help that it’s directed by the guy who did Barbarian.
That’s 264 movies. I have seen quite a few before I started this almost three years ago when the list was published, but since many of the movies are not readily available, it took me this long to see them all.
Fantastic Four is essentially a bad concept.
Why did I even bother?
We get that young man who just wants to help everyone, but we also get a more intersectional vision of the world he is helping. He might be American, but he isn’t just interested in the well-being of Americans. In fact, the incident, which starts the movie, but actually happens before the movie starts, is him stopping a foreign war.
First, not that kind of adult.
Here I am, sitting in a guesthouse in Tórshavn (that would be the capital of Faroe Islands, a town with a whopping 14k people) that functions as a student dormitory during the semester and somehow this idea for a post pops in my head. No idea why. This isn’t a sly joke or anything. I just found it weird I came up with this idea when looking at the skeletons of a pilot whale and an orca hanging from the ceiling of the National Museum. The problem with this is that I can’t rewatch any of these right now, so this is based on my memories of these movies (which has been waning, but here we are).
But why do we tend to think of animations as children’s entertainment? There is nothing inherently child-like in animation. It is just another production method or, more precisely, a set of methods.
TL;DR: It definitely feels like a movie from that franchise, but also manages to be different enough to be worth a watch.
Well, it’s an M:I movie. What else do you need to know?