Watched: 07/27/2025
Format: Drafthouse
Viewing: First
Director: Michael Shankman
Well, nothing says "I am a cool dude" like showing up for a 9:00 AM screening for Fantastic Four by yourself. I don't know if 12-year-old me is dying inside or deeply impressed I'm still committed to the cause.
Fantastic Four is not a comic I read a lot. I very much enjoy the first issues by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, but kind of lose interest after that - though Mark Waid's run is mind-boggling. I do love the idea of the team as a bunch of science-adventurers more than just caped vigilntes,* and their individual personalities and the family dynamic. Also, my earliest memories include watching that jenky Fantastic Four cartoon of the 1960's the movie references - although in the cartoon - both the versions with and without Johnny Storm.
I've never seen the Corman movie, but have seen the two 00's-era movies, and the 10's body-horror movie that was Fox's "edgy" take on the FF. The movies were uniformly not-good, no matter what your Millennial nostalgia brain is trying to Space Jam Fallacy you into believing.
