fantastic four

Be prepared: It’s a lot of stuff.

We might be living in a golden age of comic book movies, but they’re not all winners.

Here’s the thing about this Fantastic Four movie: it was supposed to be horrible. This movie has been riding an almost unprecedented level of bad buzz since earlier this year. Strangely, it seems to have started over literally nothing. Fans were upset they hadn’t seen anything official from the movie and began to suspect it stunk. Then, depending on who you talk to, the director was fired, the actors were upset and the script was a mess. But, the days of speculation are over and none of that bad buzz matters any more; there’s an actual film that can be judged on its own merits. Sadly, Fantastic Four, on its own merits, is still horrible.

I am a fanboy.  I've loved comic books for as long as I can remember. There are so many great superhero movies these days ("Iron Man," the Dark Knight Trilogy, etc.).  But there's one super group they have yet to get right. Until maybe now...