I try not to watch YouTube Shorts, because it’s easy to just swipe to the next one and thus spend much more time then you were planning to. However, I had a few minutes of waiting, so I did just that. (It’s fine to watch them if you know your scrolling is going to be interrupted.)
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.
Just based on pure stats.
Fantastic Four is essentially a bad concept.
For the record, I’m not for it, but I do get there are situations where it might actually work.
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.
These are the ones I found easily, but this is just a very surface-level look at the topic. This was partly inspired by Hades 2, which I’ve been playing quite a bit lately, and it’s predecessor.
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.