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Fantastic Four Is Just More Marvel Slop

2025-08-04 News & Politics
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Critique of Corporate Superhero Films Versus Artistic Integrity

Understand why major franchise films are failing commercially by analyzing their corporate, non-artistic origins and lack of deep narrative substance.

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  • Superhero box office performance is declining because the movies lack artistic depth and soul.
  • Films originate from boardroom decisions to monetize Intellectual Property (IP), not from an artist's need to tell a story.
  • This structural flaw differentiates them from classic genres like Westerns, which embedded humanity even within strict formulas.

This segment critiques the current state of blockbuster cinema, focusing on the economic drivers overriding creative vision, exemplified by the Fantastic Four's immediate box office struggles.

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Top Comments (10)

@thecakeladytm 2025-08-04

People are tired of Pedro.

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@Deby-e5h 2025-08-05

MOST rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them

198 8 replies
@adammartin5866 2025-08-05

2005 was the year of Batman Begins. Masterpiece.

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@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r 2025-08-06

Female Silver Surfer didn't light up the box office? Man who could've seen that coming lmao.

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@Donutandcoffee 2025-08-05

"We need a guy who shoots arrows" 😂 😂 😂

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@Existoutsidethebox 2025-08-05

The genre is dying because of the woke nonsense, not because the fans don't love the genre.

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@rjm7166 2025-08-04

Vote for Pedro….. to take a 20 year hiatus.

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@SammiCurr 2025-08-04

The film was affected by not just superhero fatigue but Pedro Pascal fatigue too. I'm sure the female silver surfer also gave some people the impression that the film would be woke so they avoided the movie.

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@ayushmann_gautam 2025-08-08

Richard Reeds’ real power isn’t just the ability to stretch like a rubber on steroids. His real power is his brain. He has created “Theory of everything”, created pocket universe, created a device that could kill Galactus, a cosmic being older than the universe. Reed Richards is the guy cosmic gods and aliens call when they don’t know what to do. Dude has no knowledge about the Fantastic Four and sat down to talk shit about the characters. Just shit on the movie, it deserves it. Don’t shit on the characters you have no idea about. Also, Hawkeye is basically Captain America without the serum. He can shoot moving targets, can shoot multiple opponents at a time, etc. Matt talking about the superhero characters is like Tess Holiday talking about health.

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@JayK305 2025-08-05

Despite what Matt says, because he has let go of his childhood imagination, is the fact he didn’t see the movie and that in fact, it portrays all the morals he’d enjoy and appreciate in a film. FAMILY!!

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