Amazing visuals. Story was fantastic. Exceeded my high expectations.

Five stars

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Enjoyed it, for sure fits towards the end of the first third of MCU. Better take on the Origin story with how the introduce the universe and family. Galactus and Shalla Bal looked very good on screen. Ending surprised me and even more confused with the mid credit scene on what the motiviations for Doomsday is going to be but I am exctied to see what happens

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Doom wants to be healed. Removed his mask and had child trying to touch it. Not sure what his motivation will be for doomsday though

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Franklin Richards can manipulate reality. Going to guess that plays a pretty significant role in the different dimensions meeting.

And that was probably my favorite MCU movie in a while. I'd say Spiderman 2&3, Shang Chi, Deadpool, Guardians 3 Thunderbolts and this film are the quality post Endgame movies.

One thing I enjoyed was the portrayal of Sue Storm. She was kind of a joke for years but this film showed her as the most powerful of the 4 (which apparently she is in the comics).

I saw this last night and was not really too fired up to see another version of the same story. To be fair, this version seemed to be the closest to the comics to me with the goofy robot and the 50's era decor. That being said, this was boring as heck to me. I think I even nodded off it was so slow and predictable.

I realize that Galactus can manipulate his size but to be pushed down the street by Sue was a bit far fetched. I mean he's Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds!! He's suppose to be HUGE!

I sat through most of the movie just shaking my head at the ridiculousness of it all.

I mean lets launch a big ass rocket right from downtown, fingers crossed nothing goes wrong!
Sue about to pop going on a fighting mission and uh oh, gives birth in zero gravity.
Ben's rock beard! (I know he grows one in the comics but still).
Pedro, who I like, was kind of getting on my nerves with his scientific muttering all the time.
The Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa choir singing through the whole movie was about to drive me nuts!

I'm sure the more I think about it the more stuff will come to mind. Just was glad it was over!

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I saw this last night and was not really too fired up to see another version of the same story. To be fair, this version seemed to be the closest to the comics to me with the goofy robot and the 50's era decor. That being said, this was boring as heck to me. I think I even nodded off it was so slow and predictable.

I realize that Galactus can manipulate his size but to be pushed down the street by Sue was a bit far fetched. I mean he's Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds!! He's suppose to be HUGE!

I sat through most of the movie just shaking my head at the ridiculousness of it all.

I mean lets launch a big ass rocket right from downtown, fingers crossed nothing goes wrong!
Sue about to pop going on a fighting mission and uh oh, gives birth in zero gravity.
Ben's rock beard! (I know he grows one in the comics but still).
Pedro, who I like, was kind of getting on my nerves with his scientific muttering all the time.
The Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa choir singing through the whole movie was about to drive me nuts!

I'm sure the more I think about it the more stuff will come to mind. Just was glad it was over!

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You might just be old

I liked it but can see how someone would say it was boring

Just finished watching this one. Best Marvel flic in a very long time.

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AgTrip said:

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I saw this last night and was not really too fired up to see another version of the same story. To be fair, this version seemed to be the closest to the comics to me with the goofy robot and the 50's era decor. That being said, this was boring as heck to me. I think I even nodded off it was so slow and predictable.

I realize that Galactus can manipulate his size but to be pushed down the street by Sue was a bit far fetched. I mean he's Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds!! He's suppose to be HUGE!

I sat through most of the movie just shaking my head at the ridiculousness of it all.

I mean lets launch a big ass rocket right from downtown, fingers crossed nothing goes wrong!
Sue about to pop going on a fighting mission and uh oh, gives birth in zero gravity.
Ben's rock beard! (I know he grows one in the comics but still).
Pedro, who I like, was kind of getting on my nerves with his scientific muttering all the time.
The Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa choir singing through the whole movie was about to drive me nuts!

I'm sure the more I think about it the more stuff will come to mind. Just was glad it was over!

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You might just be old

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Bizarre take. A lot of people were applauding at the end. Thought is was fantastic (pun intended). Especially considering the movies that preceded it.

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People who applaud at movies are morons and their takes should be disregarded completely.

I thought the first half was about as great and as perfect as could possibly be. Like, holy-crap-they-finally-nailed-the-Fantastic-Four, well-on-its-way-to-top-ten-MCU territory for me.

But after the big (and admittedly incredible) space sequence, once Franklin was born, and Reed gave that weird, way-too-honest press conference, I thought the second half (or however much was left) was a significant step down. Not bad, necessarily, but average at best and rushed as hell.

In fact, it's pretty obvious there was a good 20 minutes worth of material, at least, cut from the movie throughout. And maybe it was all terrible/rightfully cut, but it still needed another 20 minutes or so of… something, I don't know what. More character development? Reed not being such a damn mope all the time?

All I know is that Galactus was the one thing that was outright terrible, IMO. He made absolutely no sense to me, and neither did the final plot to take him down.

As mentioned earlier, for such an apparent big, bad, planet-consuming god I was shocked at how small he was (relatively speaking), and how easily beatable he seemed. He had no interesting or world-dominating powers, and I feel like Godzilla, for instance, could have mopped the floor with him. Glactus seemed so beatable that it made no sense whatsoever why the military - or literally anyone else - wasn't working in tandem with/alongside the Fantastic Four. I mean, movie-wise, I get it. The Fantastic Four vs Galactus - in the simplest/cleanest way possible - was clearly a purposeful choice, in the spirit of the comics, etc. But from a more realistic, live-action perspective, I just couldn't get over how dumb it was that all of Earth left their fate in the hands of four people, one of whom just had a baby. Like, fifteen fighter jets barraging Galactus with missiles seems like it would have easily done the trick. Or hell, just luring him to the desert and then nuking him. But no, let's leave it up to four people and their flying car smack dab in the middle of the city.

Trust me, I understand how much we were already suspending our disbelief up to that point, but man that really bugged me. It just felt so half-assed and ill-conceived. Never mind not even bothering to show how a guy the size of a building consumed entire planets or why (other than his "eternal hunger" or whatever). Put bluntly, it was one of those instances where slavish devotion to canon - i.e. to some ridiculous idea a couple of guys randomly had one day in the 1960s, probably after smoking a joint - hurts a movie rather than improves it.

Anyway, it was a fun, then very-okay time at the movies, but I doubt I ever watch it again. And this is coming from someone who really, truly wanted to love it.

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I saw this last night and was not really too fired up to see another version of the same story. To be fair, this version seemed to be the closest to the comics to me with the goofy robot and the 50's era decor. That being said, this was boring as heck to me. I think I even nodded off it was so slow and predictable.

I realize that Galactus can manipulate his size but to be pushed down the street by Sue was a bit far fetched. I mean he's Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds!! He's suppose to be HUGE!

I sat through most of the movie just shaking my head at the ridiculousness of it all.

I mean lets launch a big ass rocket right from downtown, fingers crossed nothing goes wrong!
Sue about to pop going on a fighting mission and uh oh, gives birth in zero gravity.
Ben's rock beard! (I know he grows one in the comics but still).
Pedro, who I like, was kind of getting on my nerves with his scientific muttering all the time.
The Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa choir singing through the whole movie was about to drive me nuts!

I'm sure the more I think about it the more stuff will come to mind. Just was glad it was over!

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You might just be old

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Bizarre take. A lot of people were applauding at the end. Thought is was fantastic (pun intended). Especially considering the movies that preceded it.

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People who applaud at movies are morons and their takes should be disregarded completely.

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People who refuse to applaud at movies are joyless, cynical losers and their takes should be shoved alongside the poles already up their asses.

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Like, fifteen fighter jets barraging Galactus with missiles seems like it would have easily done the trick. Or hell, just luring him to the desert and then nuking him. But no, let's leave it up to four people and their flying car smack dab in the middle of the city.

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This is a fair takeaway. I guess my thoughts are… while Sue is the powerhouse of the team, that's not really the point here (it's not like X-Men: Apocalypse where he's unstoppable until you just Phoenix him to death). It's more about that mama bear strength, like when a mom lifts a car to save her child… and even then she died in the process, and only managed to push him back like 50 yards.

I think Galactus would have shrugged off missiles, and while a nuke may have stunned him (and destroyed the portal and the city), he's basically unkillable. The best you can hope for is diverting him somehow, either by turning the Silver Surfer against him, tricking him through a portal (or both in this case) or using something like an infinity gauntlet against him.

Surely it's not a thing of "get Sue real mad and she can do anything" like crush Doctor Doom inside his armor or something. I think this was the exact scenario where force of will (and theme) could do just enough to save the day.

Now you've given me the movie that I didn't know I need:

Godzilla Versus Galactus.

Him being bothered by fire was convenient writing so they could temporarily blind him to do the baby switch out.