The bonus features for The Fantastic Four: First Steps are so lackluster compared to 2005 and 2007 Tim Story films.

I am excluding trailers, TV spots and audio commentaries.

**1\] The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025): 41 minutes 10 seconds**

* "Meet the First Family" featurette (9:08)
* "Fantastic Futurism" featurette (13:04)
* "From Beyond and Below" featurette (9:37)
* Gag Reel (2:56)
* Deleted Scenes (with Play All) (6:25)

**2\] Fantastic Four (2005)**: **4 hours 20 minutes**

* "Heroes Are Born: The Making of 'Fantastic Four'" Documentary (97:30)
* "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine" Documentary (59:09)
* "Jack Kirby: Storyteller" Documentary (63:58)
* Extended & Deleted scenes (with Play All) (26:41)
* "Origins of the Silver Surfer" Featurette (8:02)
* Multi-Angle Animatic to Scene Study (with Play All) (5:31)

**3\] Fantastic Four:** **Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007): 2 hours 16 minutes**

* Extended and Deleted Scenes with optional audio commentary by director Tim Story (9:36)
* "Family Bonds: The Making of *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer*" documentary (46:11)
* "The Fantasticar: State Of The Art" featurette (10:37)
* "The Power Cosmic" featurette (15:10)
* "Sentinel of the Spaceways: Comic Book Origins of The Silver Surfer" documentary (39:02)
* "Scoring the Fantastic Four" featurette (4:39)
* "Character Design with Spectral Motion" featurette (11:34)

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Commentaires

greenergarlic2025-10-27 08:40

dvd extras are a lost art

eagc72025-10-27 08:49

That's the extra of todays, they don't wanna spend money on doing movie lenght extras for the physical releases anymore, they even cancelled Marvel's Assembled which was the BTS hour long doc for the MCU films and shows.

Razar_Bragham2025-10-27 12:44

That's a shame, I adored them.

Chaoticgood7902025-10-27 13:21

Which sucks bc those were always great

Correct-Chemistry6182025-10-27 09:24

Home video is a dead market, fueled by IP fans or cinephiles who still love to own a physical copy. Look at the back of DVDs/Blu-rays, too: I rarely see descriptions of the plot and content (useful for a casual buyer in a DVD store, but neither exists anymore), because they know the person buying it already knows everything about the film.

It's terrible and disheartening, but unfortunately, there's nothing more that can be done.

H_Melman2025-10-27 13:48

I wouldn't call it dead. It's more of an evolving market. Everybody and their brother was ready to proclaim the end of books in the late 2000s because of Kindles and Nooks, but physical media won out. As streaming services continuously hike their prices and occasionally edit films I anticipate some backlash and a resurgence of physical media.

And let's be honest...most people aren't watching 5 hours of special features or reading the summary on the back of the case. Most people just want the film in good quality with some basic extras.

j1h152332025-10-27 10:34

Bonus features have never been good for MCU releases.

dbkenny4262025-10-27 20:19

Especially the bloopers. They're mostly just people dancing and making faces.

j1h152332025-10-27 20:40

I know and I love a good blooper reel. Marvel sucks at making those.

dbkenny4262025-10-27 20:41

It's the fist thing my wife always wants to watch after watching a new movie at home, but she always ends up disappointed. I keep telling her not to bother, but she insists.

dongsuvious2025-10-27 11:31

They didn't even put the special features on the Superman Blu-ray, it's all digital. Not even a commentary track.

Sir__Will2025-10-27 15:12

That is so stupid

Benjamin_Grimm2025-10-27 11:31

Back in the 00s, DVDs could bring in as much money to the studio as the theatrical release did, so they tended to go all-out. Nowadays, it's an afterthought.

MrJoyless2025-10-27 12:13

Maybe if they spent less time on the extras, they would have released half decent movies instead of the other way around.

ZachRyder2025-10-27 12:45

Disney has made most behind-the-scenes content released be carefully curated mini-productions rather than be transparent and honest for fear of inadvertently revealing what went wrong during production. [The best example of this happening to a major studio is the BTS for The Phantom Menace](https://youtu.be/da8s9m4zEpo?t=3284).

TH3PhilipJFry2025-10-27 12:48

Tell me you’re over 40 without telling me you’re over 40

OdoWanKenobi2025-10-27 13:46

This is not a useful comment in any way, shape, or form.

TH3PhilipJFry2025-10-27 14:15

And a post crying about dvd features is useful how? They aren’t gonna press new copies with more footage that didn’t get captured lmao

AdultSWIMDeep2025-10-27 12:51

Okay, and? Elektra has a 2-hour documentary about the creation of it as a bonus feature, but the movie is still dogshit. It just shows they put more effort into the behind the scenes content more than the actual movies themselves.

mega5122025-10-27 15:27

Par for the course with 99% of releases these days. It's all about getting the product out asap.

Grootfan852025-10-27 20:07

DVD extras unfortunately are a relic of the past. Red Letter Media pointed out they are too controlled by the studio’s PR teams. Compare the making of documentary on the Phantom Menace vs something like the Force Awakens. TPM’s was an honest look at the movie making process. You see George Lucas struggling to come up with ideas. TFA’s: everyone got along great, and there weren’t any conflicts ever!

eagc72025-10-28 07:39

Like i betcha if they had done an Assembled episode for Brave New World or Daredevil: Born Again, zero chance they would go in depth on their troubled production, they would ignore the fact they had a different version of the Serpent Society, or that they had changed the Leader, they would not address in full detail the fact they wanted to use BA as a reboot (either hard or soft) and so on

and i know alot of people would be dissapointed if they skipped that cause i know what most of the people here wanna hear is what the original version of the film was, why they changed it and getting to see footage from it

marvelcomics222025-10-28 12:58

That's really sad. Physical Media, and the concept of putting a DVD into a DVD player is so fun, and now studios don't really care anymore.