RJ P

So, like....sure, Fantastic Four 2005 isn't perfect, but I don't think it deserves such hate (all of you guys out there who think this as well...I feel ya!). When this film has little action scenes and sparse dialogue (the dialogue isn't ALL bad....it's just bad in certain instances), it has an abundance of great performances (although I'd argue that Chris Evans is better as Captain America), a good plot, surprisingly good CGI, and it also had humor, which is important in a superhero film so that it doesn't descend too far into self-seriousness. I went onto Wikipedia the day after I watched this film in December 2022, and it currently garners a 28% approval rating. That took me aback. This film totally doesn't deserve such harsh hatred. I mean, sure, I don't think it's universally disliked like the 2015 reboot was, but I don't think it's worthy of being bad. This film made me so much more excited for the MCU reboot in 2025 than I was before, and that's showing that the 2005 film was good. If it makes you excited for the next film or reboot, then that's a sign that it was a good film. It's how I felt after watching the 2005 film, and although I wouldn't rank it among the best superhero films of all time, it was enjoyable enough for me to not feel like I just watched one of the worst superhero films of all time.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is probably the worst MCU mini-series I've ever seen. The pacing was bad (why the hell did it take so long for Sam Wilson to actually become Captain America?), there wasn't any humor (Marvel could've brought in a more humorous character to provide comic relief where the rest of the show failed), and the acting wasn't really all that great (Wyatt Russell is a TERRIBLE Captain America). It took 6 episodes for the show to actually succeed (the finale was great), and that just goes to show that this show was definitely Marvel's biggest failure since The Incredible Hulk.