The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Caught this on a flight the other day. What a strange fucking thing.
The first half is good. Genuinely good. Everything involving those kids working on their teleportation project is well directed, well performed stuff, compelling even. I liked those characters and I wanted to spend more time with them
But then they actually get powers and the whole thing just goes off the rails. It loses any sense of fun, and any of the magic around the character interactions. The plot speeds up (and jumps forward a year for some reason) and culminates in a CGI bash-fest that genuinely feels ripped from like 2005. Seriously, there's this moment at the end where they insert Johnny's voice going "time to go" as he speeds up off the screen with the rest of them in their bubble and its the most cringeworthy "this is what a superhero movie looks like, right?" thing I've seen in ages
So much wasted potential. This shouldn't have been a Fantastic Four movie, they should have done something else with these actors that maintained the strength of the first half
Oh, and that end sequence, where in about two minutes they tell the government to screw off and the government responds with "okay then take this super advanced secret facility to keep as your own. Have fun kids". What the fuck
The first half is good. Genuinely good. Everything involving those kids working on their teleportation project is well directed, well performed stuff, compelling even. I liked those characters and I wanted to spend more time with them
But then they actually get powers and the whole thing just goes off the rails. It loses any sense of fun, and any of the magic around the character interactions. The plot speeds up (and jumps forward a year for some reason) and culminates in a CGI bash-fest that genuinely feels ripped from like 2005. Seriously, there's this moment at the end where they insert Johnny's voice going "time to go" as he speeds up off the screen with the rest of them in their bubble and its the most cringeworthy "this is what a superhero movie looks like, right?" thing I've seen in ages
So much wasted potential. This shouldn't have been a Fantastic Four movie, they should have done something else with these actors that maintained the strength of the first half
Oh, and that end sequence, where in about two minutes they tell the government to screw off and the government responds with "okay then take this super advanced secret facility to keep as your own. Have fun kids". What the fuck