Paying tribute to the hard working people of WNY in a year where PSL’s have made it more challenging than ever before to afford going to the games is a choice.
Unfortunately, this looks really bad.
Filmmaking wise, it’s MCU fakery from top to bottom. Washed out fake looking CGI sets. Cheap-looking costumes. It doesn’t look like anyone ever set foot in a real place.
The cast seems…small. Characters with very little to no following (Namor, Shiri, Shang-Chi) & at best, characters who have only gotten 1 movie so far. INFINITY WAR and ENDGAME worked because they’d spent 11 years building up these characters. This will only be the 2nd time we’ve ever seen this FANTASTIC FOUR.
It feels desperate. They’re giving us old X-Men (somehow?), spoiling the return of Steve Rogers in the first trailer, plus Thor’s “no, seriously, this movie is even more important than all the other movies, I swear!” speech.
You get the sense everyone understands they just have to put out a final big movie to give themselves the excuse to do what they really want to do: start over.
We’re in the Multiverse Saga, America Chavez’s literal power is traveling the multiverse, and yet she’s only appeared ONCE this entire saga. She’s not in Doomsday, and right now it’s not even clear if she’ll be in Secret Wars. What the hell?
At 88 years old, Ridley Scott has already lined up his next three films:
• TREASURE ISLAND starring Hugh Jackman
• WWI epic COVENANT WITH DEATH
• Western FREEWALKERS