i think they’re wary after benedict cumberbatch’s ny accent as strange.
Crater_Raider2025-11-13 22:11
I wouldn’t have cared if they made Strange British.
Taragor2025-11-13 22:17
I have said this SOOOO many times! What would have been wrong with him having his true British accent???
nwill_8082025-11-13 22:52
Only if Idris Elba kept his as Heimdall
TheBosk2025-11-13 23:24
Now all I can think of is how we could have had a scene where Heimdall calls Loki a c*nt
HiddenStoat2025-11-14 01:08
And then Scourge calls Heimdall a cunt.
Because Karl Urban...
TheLoganDickinson2025-11-13 22:59
From an actor’s perspective I doubt Cumberbatch would’ve ever wanted that.
LeoNickle2025-11-13 22:19
They should have made strange cockney
OI BRUV THIS SUM MAGIC INNIT
rvdp662025-11-13 22:28
U AVIN A BLADDY LAFF MORDO? ILL DO U IN BRUV
LeoNickle2025-11-13 23:03
Oi, Daw-mammy! I’ve come ta bahg’n, I ’ave!
Milo-Law2025-11-14 01:04
I laughed so much I stared coughing lol, if his cape could speak it should be Cockney
M4DDIE_8822025-11-13 22:26
Was that controversial?
notsam572025-11-13 22:42
its over exaggerated like fran drescher’s from the nanny. he could’ve just done his normal american accent and it would’ve been fine.
The_Broomflinger2025-11-13 22:30
Maybe, who am I to judge?
b2thec2025-11-13 22:45
Still the best back and forth comedic wordplay in a marvel movie.
DumbWhore42025-11-13 23:38
As a New Yorker he sounded fine to me.
Alpha_Storm2025-11-14 00:33
But why? He sounded fine as a New Yorker. I didn't even know there was controversy about it.
deemoorah2025-11-14 06:44
Only people who were exposed to him by Sherlock who mostly have a problem with it
Killericon2025-11-13 22:11
[deleted]
brecoco2025-11-13 22:13
Marketing photo of an in-universe marketing photo vs mid battle shot
Legit insane how the could have different hair!
Killericon2025-11-13 22:19
[deleted]
Live_Angle46212025-11-13 22:45
Grime isn’t the issue. But that 60s hair in first picture don’t look like that when it’s open and messy
Crater_Raider2025-11-13 22:25
There is also a second example of Sues hair in the post.
It’s clear they were originally planning to give them 60’s accurate haircuts for awhile, as we see both the actors for the storms sporting them in the post, but decided on something modern.
Her haircut doesn’t change during the battle scene, so I am not sure what relevance that has.
CascoBayButcher2025-11-13 22:46
Those are objectively two different haircuts, and even when she wasn't fighting she didn't have a hairut like the marketing
iwannalynch2025-11-13 22:48
Eh but she doesn't really have any 60's hair either way. It feels pretty modern, which is a shame, because the movie definitely could have used more emblematic hairstyles like in the promo.
brecoco2025-11-13 23:53
Did her hairstyle really take you out of the movie
Or are you trying to find and justify things to complain about
rmarkmatthews2025-11-13 22:12
In fairness to Marvel, this was the accent Pedro wanted to do:
Careless_Royal82092025-11-13 22:14
I liked the movie, but I prefer the vintage hairstyles.
carapocha2025-11-13 22:25
Johnny's hairdo was awfully ridiculous.
ConnerBartle2025-11-13 22:34
The more I look at it the more I get used to it. But yeah. It’s rough
Milo-Law2025-11-14 01:01
Inhala-
DON'T LOOK AT ME I DIDNT DRESS YOU
mlaislais2025-11-14 02:30
Nah it was ridiculously awful.
MagoModerno2025-11-14 04:02
So bad… was it a wig?
CohlN2025-11-14 05:20
good, let it be controversial!
reminds me of johnny’s mustache in north’s fantastic four comics- every single issue someone points out they love it or they hate it lol
Punningisfunning2025-11-14 05:28
It looked kinda hot.
MortalJohn2025-11-14 17:25
Going to defend it by proposing it was probably down to the post effects requiring it.
Melodic-Cycle39942025-11-13 22:27
It's a nitpick but I agree tbh. Especially when we will get to see them in doomsday again and they should be looking wildly out of place lol
Stillwindows952025-11-14 08:20
I think that's why they modernised the hair and clothes a bit, they are going to jump not only to another universe but presumably about 60 years ahead too. Plus their earth is so much more advanced than ours even for their time period, I could believe that they have more modern hairstyles than the 60s stuff we expect from 616.
It is at least 60s inspired still, I think they will still stand out.
SmallLetter2025-11-14 15:02
The lady from Ted Lasso had a period appropriate hair style though
Stillwindows952025-11-14 18:37
I haven't seen that show, I thought it was about football? Are there time travellers?
Detective-Crashmore-2025-11-14 19:30
They just mean the actor lol. Sarah Niles.
corzekanaut2025-11-13 22:14
I’d wish they’d given Pedro Pascal some freedom to bring certain traits he wanted to his performance as Reed. I’m not complaining about his performance at all, I was skeptical af when he was casted as Reed as to how he’d pull it off and he still knocked it out of the park as Reed but just I kinda wish they allowed to him to be a bit goofy and used his powers in combat in more effective ways. Hopefully they fix these issues in Doomsday.
Also Johnny’s hairstyle looks a whole better for the marketing than in the movie ngl.
ubutterscotchpine2025-11-13 22:16
I’ll never forgive them for what they did to Johnny’s hair in the movie lol.
corzekanaut2025-11-13 22:17
The haircut is actually the only gripe I have with Johnny in the movie, I just could not take my mind off of how silly it looked ngl
TomCBC2025-11-13 22:47
Tbh my main gripe was the crappy contact lenses they had him in. They literally never look real. They should have just let him have his natural eye color.
ubutterscotchpine2025-11-13 23:25
I feel this way about Kate Bishop too 😩
TomCBC2025-11-14 00:40
Yeah, also Brandon Routh was a great Superman with terrible contact lenses in a really boring movie.
Studios need to either abandon contact lenses, or develop a way to change eye color using vfx that looks real. But tbh that would increase the budget significantly. Better off just letting them be natural.
MusicalSmasher2025-11-14 20:58
Blue color contacts always just look bad, they just shouldn't bother.
RGud_metalhead2025-11-13 22:34
TBH it makes sense for his hair to be a bit messy- no hair product would withstand the fire.
incepdates2025-11-13 22:38
If we can believe he got a fireproof suit we can believe he has fireproof hair products
CeruleanEidolon2025-11-14 00:20
It's really a miss on the level of Thor's bleached eyebrows.
paul_332025-11-14 02:40
It looks awful
SirBing962025-11-13 22:40
I feel like Reed hardly used his powers in the film.
InformalJello93222025-11-13 22:48
I think that’s kinda his schtick tho. Reed’s power has always been his intellect, almost to a fault, and his stretching ability was more of a secondary power to him.
Thybro2025-11-13 23:32
I think they both focused properly on his intellect as his main asset /what he relies on the most and completely dropped the ball in portraying his stretch powers. Even if they are secondary when he does use them stretching powers should be fun and versatile, he barely stretched.
Don’t get me wrong I am more than happy with what we got but to quote another Pascal’s role on a much worse movie “it’s good! But it can be better.” The flash CW show was able to pull off fun stretchy powers with a relatively much smaller budget.
InformalJello93222025-11-14 20:13
I feel you on that. Could have used more “stretch” in his day-to-day ala nonchalant convenience. We got him extending his arm on a chalk board but blink and you miss it
Randolpho2025-11-14 20:28
> The flash CW show was able to pull off fun stretchy powers with a relatively much smaller budget.
I never watched CW Flash. Did they have Plastic Man on? That's wild.
Thybro2025-11-14 20:38
Elongated Man, less powerful still stretchy.
Randolpho2025-11-14 20:42
Ahh. Not nearly as fun a character, but also more obscure.
*edit* as I google, I realize he's more associated with Flash, which I had forgotten, so the choice makes more sense
CodeFun17352025-11-14 20:50
The VFX budget was too high, even for Marvel.
Le_Fedora_Cate2025-11-14 00:34
It's not either or, he often uses his intellect to think of creative ways to use his powers. In a recent issue in the 2025 run, he stretched his eyes to make it a microscope. Something like that would've been cool
AlgerianTrash2025-11-14 00:49
I hate this argument bc his stretchy powers are supposed to be a manifestation of his intellect with the way he uses them creatively
Reed being uncreative with his powers us literally out of character, and just flattens him into a boring "smart guy" archetype"
JizzEMcguire2025-11-14 03:37
its a play on words.. "see how far you can stretch the mind" the brain tissue is also known to experience thermoelastic "expansion" when exposed to specific varieties of microwave radiation. so his power is more or less secondary to his true power, which is his mind. But you knew that.
FreeStall422025-11-14 05:32
Oh so just like all the other super smart characters.
How dull.
AlgerianTrash2025-11-14 09:54
I read comics. Reed is usually less boring than that
Reshar2025-11-13 22:57
I felt that way too until I rewatched it on Disney. Reed uses his powers more subtly. Like he extends his arm while writing on the chalkboard
OneBigRed2025-11-14 04:09
I happened to have it on literally today, and thought why have him tippy-tapping like Wyle E Coyote to change the bassinet on the trap for an empty one, instead of streching his arms from further away.
Hvad_Fanden2025-11-13 23:14
Who would he use it on though? They faced Galactus and Silver Surfer, two people that really don't care about him as a fighter, they would need to change the script to add people he could actually fight to let him use his power more.
ftaok2025-11-13 23:24
He used his stretch powers to beat up Red Ghost and sling shot him into the Hudson.
Cultural_Comfort58942025-11-14 00:00
That’s true but I respect it
They stuck to telling a story vs setting up excuses to use powers
They showed how powerful Sue is
Alluded to how powerful Johnny is
Ben & Reed’s powers got sidelined which I’m alright with
Their power sets don’t match well with the Surfer and Galactus
Punching and wrapping aren’t going to be too effective
And Reed wins with his mind
cowpool202025-11-14 00:55
Kinda accurate to Reed in the comics though tbf. He uses his powers, but his main power has always been his brain.
Ralph--Hinkley2025-11-14 01:07
The Stretch Armstrong scene with Galactus was the Main Event, it seemed.
RogueEyebrow2025-11-14 02:46
The worst part is they changed Ms. Marvel's Embiggening powers because they thought they were too similar to Mr. Fantastic's, and then they barely had him use his powers.
Live_Angle46212025-11-13 22:45
I don’t know if 60s accent would have been a good idea. He likely would have copied the way movie stars talked then. But they didn’t talk that way outside of films
arelse2025-11-13 23:22
A mid-Atlantic accent?
ANGLVD3TH2025-11-14 02:23
That accent wasn't just movie stars, it evolved from the upper levels of society, which is why the movies adopted it. It would have been perfectly in character for him to have it, but not everyone.
Edboy7962025-11-13 23:15
I had no issue with Pedro being cast. It sounded to me like he had a bit of the transatlantic speech patterns in there, but yeah it could have been pushed a bit more to feel that much more old school. But seeing that the studio wanted less of it is pretty disappointing, like they had no faith that the film would still resonate with that way of talking present.
As far as the stretch ability in combat, sure I'm sure some will argue it was a good amount and kept it from being too goofy, and maybe there were other ways to push its boundaries and still be far from campy.
And yeah, Sue and Johnny could have retained the more 60s style hairdo for both
vim_deezel2025-11-13 23:50
I am glad they let him keep his mustache. It's like burt reynolds without a mustache, it just ain't right.
ampersands-guitars2025-11-14 04:46
I felt pretty happy with the freedom he appeared to be given to shape the character. Particularly, he really imbued the character with neurodivergence in a way that I felt was something he brought to the role rather than just being on the page.
Funmachine2025-11-14 09:38
>casted
Cast
Unholy_mess1692025-11-13 22:21
I thought that was the idea, marketing, whether its the 60s or the 20s is a lie. People never really looked or dressed like they did in magazines and MTV cribs episodes.
TrollTollTony2025-11-14 01:18
I don't know, I've seen pictures of my grandparents in the late 50's early 60's and it's pretty much exactly like the magazine versions.
jamesbondswanson2025-11-13 22:21
I mean the haircuts changed…but 99 percent of the rest of the movie kept the aesthetics.
iwannalynch2025-11-13 22:49
But it's kind of a bummer and detracts from the immersion, like seeing Instagram face in a period piece.
cyphersama952025-11-13 22:53
but is it a period piece?
iwannalynch2025-11-13 23:04
It's set in what is supposed to be the 60's, so yes
jamesbondswanson2025-11-13 23:07
It’s set in a different universe that has a 60s aesthetic but it’s not a facsimile of our 60s
iwannalynch2025-11-13 23:26
Ok so they just get to pick and choose aesthetics with no particular reason why besides "oh it's a different universe" despite obviously having considered giving them more period-accurate hair, and other people in the movie having period-accurate hair.
jamesbondswanson2025-11-13 23:31
Yes lol. Its hair. They can nitpick that as much as marvel fans nitpick frivolous things to complain online about.
TheBosk2025-11-13 23:22
I think we all hoped it would be, but it really wasn't unfortunately.
iwannalynch2025-11-13 23:35
It's too bad, because some of the best Marvel stuff really leans into its genre/aesthetic
ftaok2025-11-13 23:25
Period pieces are supposed to portray an eta many years in the past. The 60’s are only like 20 years ago.
iwannalynch2025-11-13 23:34
> The 60’s are only like 20 years ago.
Huh??
Also, there is no set definition of how far back we have to go in order to consider a movie or show a "period piece", it just has to be far enough that it's clearly not set in the present, and that fact that its plot is tied to its era.
Which it is.
ftaok2025-11-13 23:35
It’s a joke man. Sheesh.
iwannalynch2025-11-13 23:36
> The 60’s are only like 20 years ago.
I guess I got smoothsharked lol
jamesbondswanson2025-11-13 23:08
I have no idea. Not sure what time of the month it was for Sue.
GoatDifferent12942025-11-13 22:21
You’re cherry-picking. All of that was in the movie but you can’t honestly expect exactness when comparing random and cherry-picked promotional material directly to the finished film like that.
Gilded-Mongoose2025-11-13 22:22
Wow. I didn't realize this difference from the trailers (I largely avoided them), but it did feel like something was *different* than the usual period appropriate aesthetic. Like it felt very elseworld-60's.
The marketing pics here absolutely highlight that.
FX1142025-11-13 22:24
I'm worried we'll never even see this amount of the aesthetic again once they join the main continuity.
MyNameCannotBeSpoken2025-11-13 23:09
Just like how Wanda Maximoff lost her Eastern European accent
Successful-Topic88742025-11-14 00:50
She got it back in WandaVision.
MyNameCannotBeSpoken2025-11-14 00:55
Did she?
Successful-Topic88742025-11-14 01:03
Intentionally, yes. Elizabeth Olsen wanted her to have her accent back. It slips in and out during MoM, too.
Edit: If I remember correctly, she regains it during the flashbacks in the penultimate episode of WV.
lick_cactus2025-11-14 01:06
it becomes a plot point, agatha calls her out for it lol
Successful-Topic88742025-11-14 01:22
I thought so, but wasn't sure so I didn't want to claim that.
Lived_Orcen2025-11-14 16:18
If you rewatch the series and MoM, she basically regains it every time she loses control, or gets really mad, which I found great.
caty03252025-11-14 11:59
I noticed her accent comes back in scenes when she's mad/angry.
euphoriapotion2025-11-14 02:11
yes, in episode 4 I think? When she confronts SWORD outside of Westview.
____mynameis____2025-11-14 06:48
Though they gave an understandable explanation for that and had her codeswitch in her subsequent appearances.
I like how they handled her accent situation. They gave solid ground work for thatm
CeruleanEidolon2025-11-14 00:27
I keep hoping that post-Doomsday, the MCU will have *many* interconnected universes that can interact in times of great need but otherwise maintain their own storylines. A world for the F4, a world for the X-Men, a world for the Avengers.
All this interconnectivity was great when there were a handful of characters who could dip in and out of one another's stories. And in comics, where time passing is not really an issue and it's easy to shrug off powerful characters being absent from giant events, a big canvas where everyone is part of it all is fun. But in movies where you get one of two a year and maybe a TV series in between, you just can't keep up the connections with this many characters anymore.
EndlessUndergrad2025-11-14 07:51
I hate this idea.
chewywheat2025-11-14 02:37
Eh, depends on how they go about it. They could be that one quirky family “out of the loop” - going against the status quo. Kind of like how Star Lord has this “stuck in the past” vibe to him, especially in the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
MaderaArt2025-11-13 22:25
Johnny Storm's hair looks better in the marketing
dooxtabthefilthy2025-11-13 22:27
Anyone else confused by what a 60's accent sounds like, and how it differs 60 years later?
Kevin_Rubio2025-11-13 22:36
You have to understand that what looks good and it still does not always look good in motion, and vice versa.
And what Pedro wanted to do was talk and what is known as a “mid Atlantic accent.” The rhythm of this dialect does not sound right to the modern ear. Yes, it’s a period piece, but you also have to understand what audience you are playing to.
If you want to hear the classic example of a mid-Atlantic accent look up: HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
TheBosk2025-11-13 23:30
Come up to Maine we still got a bit of that up here. Jus don pahk yer cah in the bahnyahd
Cultural_Comfort58942025-11-14 00:14
What Pedro didn’t grasp was our 1960’s accent wasn’t relevant to
a not our 1960’s Earth
——
As he was, was great. I knew if they cast him he could deliver.
But I really really like this Reed even though Ioan’s looked more like the comics and he delivered too.
Shagyam2025-11-13 22:37
Wow leaving out the biggest memberin your comparisons is Grimm
SuperMajesticMan2025-11-13 22:40
Bro pic 4 and 3 are damn near identical.
Maximus3612025-11-13 22:40
I guess I’m not very familiar with FF source material. What kind of accent would be more authentic for Reed?
ftaok2025-11-13 23:26
A pompous dickish accent.
Maximus3612025-11-13 23:27
NY? British?🤷
ftaok2025-11-13 23:30
I don’t really know either. My Reed Richards is based on 1980’s comic books. I read his voice as a pompous dick who always took Sue for granted.
So maybe he sounds like Peck (the man with no dick) from Ghostbusters.
GreenWoodDragon2025-11-13 22:47
Studios are such pussies when it comes to anything that feels remotely risky.
East_Highway_84702025-11-13 22:47
Ok here are my two cents thrown in. I really like the movie and I'll be watching it again. I think they did a very good job of blending the classic 60's vibe with a bit of the super science that Reed would have brought to the world and it was closer to the way the comics looked in the 60's. They will being doing a lot more with them in future movies.
Rock3tDoge2025-11-13 22:50
Man I loved this movie. Pedro’s Reed is one of my favorite portrayals ever
cyphersama952025-11-13 22:54
my question is — does the movie take place in the 1960s? or in the 2020s, in a world where the optimistic view of future science and aesthetic prevailed? (i.e. flying cars)
incepdates2025-11-13 23:10
In universe the main events of the movie take place in 1964
A version of 1964 with civil rights, worldwide demilitarization, manned flights to the Moon, and flying cars
ftaok2025-11-13 23:27
In real life, the Pan Am building was built in 1963, according to Wikipedia.
Cultural_Comfort58942025-11-14 00:05
Not our Earth and definitely not our 60’s
AT ALL
People (articles I’ve read not the comments here) saying they should’ve showed more of what the sixties was like mystify me
It was an aesthetic not a period piece
lavahot2025-11-13 22:57
Not taking the aesthetic far enough was not Fantastic Four's problem.
_steve_rogers_2025-11-13 22:58
I definitely feel like a transatlantic accent would’ve been a bit much
East-Bluejay68912025-11-13 23:10
God forbid they change their clothes
deekaydubya2025-11-14 02:32
This is clearly more than that, lol
hopeless_dick_dancer2025-11-13 23:16
The only real complaint I have is Johnny's hair. It was such an obviously bad wig, and in the photo you provided he clearly can grow the hair into a perfect style himself. Why'd they do that route?
CommanderYin2025-11-13 23:19
Second picture on the left screams: Im a bit of a scientist myself
elProtagonist2025-11-13 23:22
Release the transatlantic cut!
Slammogram2025-11-14 01:53
That’s what I was wondering. I would have liked to seen that.
Mister-Lavender2025-11-13 23:23
I just wish they had slowed the tempo down a bit.
gingahwookiee2025-11-13 23:31
If the movie just attempted a little more to mimic the look of technicolor I would have been so much more interested in it. Should have gotten the team from Hail, Caesar! that’s the only modern movie that successfully pulled it off
EugenesMullet2025-11-13 23:31
Yeah, that’s Disney for you I guess lol.
gingahwookiee2025-11-13 23:31
If the movie just attempted a little more to mimic the look of technicolor I would have been so much more interested in it. Should have gotten the team from Hail, Caesar! that’s the only modern movie that successfully pulled it off
Illustrious-Long51542025-11-13 23:38
The problem was, the world felt fake. The supporting characters were very barebones. As a result, the stakes didn't feel as high. Many people assumed the world would end, setting the FF up to escape to 616. I'm glad this didn't happen, but I just wish that world that looked beautiful felt a bit more than a decoration. I wish we go Alicia, Willie Lumpkin, the Yancy Street Gang and more.
More bold. More stylish, but also more substance.
balthazar_edison2025-11-13 23:47
I mean the whole movie was a retrofuturistic earth and stayed with the 1960s “approach” to overall aesthetics.
flame2bits2025-11-13 23:51
Loved the style. Really disliked everything else.
npozath2025-11-14 00:01
While I can understand how people wanted the '60s feelings to be a bit stronger (even I did), I can see how considering how advanced their technology is that it affected how sociocultural dynamics and perception worked in their world.
And considering how Reed is the most intelligent person on that planet who's made great strides in the advancement in technology and science, it might just change how things work in their earth.
hamsolo192025-11-14 00:04
Pedro wanted to do the transatlantic accent which was kind of already fading by the 60s. You can still hear it come thru in a few of his lines in the movie.
Vegetable-Dog52812025-11-14 00:07
What the hell is a 60’s accent
DashingMustashing2025-11-14 00:13
100% A slight tinge of that midatlantic would have worked great! And would doubley so worked with a multiverse crossover. Sadness..
bassturducken542025-11-14 00:14
Just watched it last night. Fairly slow I guess. Something off with the pacing. It was entertaining enough. I’m certainly glad we didn’t get an entire origin story and I think it did a good job laying the foundation for the family dynamic. Repeatedly focusing on family meal was very important. If they had only done it once it would’ve not worked. Love the team’s appreciation for Herbie.
I’m not sure what there plans are with this team but I would want a trilogy or something of these guys before a whole avengers movie.
Wooden_Passage_26122025-11-14 00:41
DogHogDJs2025-11-14 00:41
Maybe it’s so that when they start interacting with the main MCU characters it’s not such a huge difference between the two and not so jarring.
cowpool202025-11-14 00:54
Loved the movie, but agree with you 100%.
Better_Edge_2025-11-14 01:02
Regarding the mid Atlantic accent, no one spoke like that in private so I'm fine with them not using it.
Johnny's hairstyle was so weird thou
Milo-Law2025-11-14 01:02
Inhala-
DON'T LOOK AT ME I DIDNT DRESS YOU
I like Johnny's promo picture, his hair kept distracting me thinking he doesn't have such a weird face shape that they couldn't have done something better with it 🤔
BalladOfBetaRayBill2025-11-14 06:01
The movie felt disappointingly normal on a few levels.
ProjectNo40902025-11-14 06:40
One thing I wasnt sure about, is the movie set in the 1960s in their universe or is it the 2020s and their earth just as a 1960s retro fashion and design aesthetic?
BerserkerRed2025-11-14 06:42
It’s kind of hard to balance a 60s aesthetic but also make it more “modern” since they were significantly more advanced than our 60s were. And I think that’s the balancing act they tried. Do think keeping the hairstyles would have been good though.
JustAnyGamer2025-11-14 14:37
This just in, photographs that are shot and editing in a vintage style look more like the 60s than frames of moving pictures
Commentaires
Because Karl Urban...
OI BRUV THIS SUM MAGIC INNIT
Legit insane how the could have different hair!
It’s clear they were originally planning to give them 60’s accurate haircuts for awhile, as we see both the actors for the storms sporting them in the post, but decided on something modern.
Her haircut doesn’t change during the battle scene, so I am not sure what relevance that has.
Or are you trying to find and justify things to complain about
DON'T LOOK AT ME I DIDNT DRESS YOU
reminds me of johnny’s mustache in north’s fantastic four comics- every single issue someone points out they love it or they hate it lol
It is at least 60s inspired still, I think they will still stand out.
Also Johnny’s hairstyle looks a whole better for the marketing than in the movie ngl.
Studios need to either abandon contact lenses, or develop a way to change eye color using vfx that looks real. But tbh that would increase the budget significantly. Better off just letting them be natural.
Don’t get me wrong I am more than happy with what we got but to quote another Pascal’s role on a much worse movie “it’s good! But it can be better.” The flash CW show was able to pull off fun stretchy powers with a relatively much smaller budget.
I never watched CW Flash. Did they have Plastic Man on? That's wild.
*edit* as I google, I realize he's more associated with Flash, which I had forgotten, so the choice makes more sense
Reed being uncreative with his powers us literally out of character, and just flattens him into a boring "smart guy" archetype"
How dull.
They stuck to telling a story vs setting up excuses to use powers
They showed how powerful Sue is
Alluded to how powerful Johnny is
Ben & Reed’s powers got sidelined which I’m alright with
Their power sets don’t match well with the Surfer and Galactus
Punching and wrapping aren’t going to be too effective
And Reed wins with his mind
As far as the stretch ability in combat, sure I'm sure some will argue it was a good amount and kept it from being too goofy, and maybe there were other ways to push its boundaries and still be far from campy.
And yeah, Sue and Johnny could have retained the more 60s style hairdo for both
Cast
Huh??
Also, there is no set definition of how far back we have to go in order to consider a movie or show a "period piece", it just has to be far enough that it's clearly not set in the present, and that fact that its plot is tied to its era.
Which it is.
I guess I got smoothsharked lol
The marketing pics here absolutely highlight that.
Edit: If I remember correctly, she regains it during the flashbacks in the penultimate episode of WV.
I like how they handled her accent situation. They gave solid ground work for thatm
All this interconnectivity was great when there were a handful of characters who could dip in and out of one another's stories. And in comics, where time passing is not really an issue and it's easy to shrug off powerful characters being absent from giant events, a big canvas where everyone is part of it all is fun. But in movies where you get one of two a year and maybe a TV series in between, you just can't keep up the connections with this many characters anymore.
And what Pedro wanted to do was talk and what is known as a “mid Atlantic accent.” The rhythm of this dialect does not sound right to the modern ear. Yes, it’s a period piece, but you also have to understand what audience you are playing to.
If you want to hear the classic example of a mid-Atlantic accent look up: HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
a not our 1960’s Earth
——
As he was, was great. I knew if they cast him he could deliver.
But I really really like this Reed even though Ioan’s looked more like the comics and he delivered too.
So maybe he sounds like Peck (the man with no dick) from Ghostbusters.
A version of 1964 with civil rights, worldwide demilitarization, manned flights to the Moon, and flying cars
AT ALL
People (articles I’ve read not the comments here) saying they should’ve showed more of what the sixties was like mystify me
It was an aesthetic not a period piece
More bold. More stylish, but also more substance.
And considering how Reed is the most intelligent person on that planet who's made great strides in the advancement in technology and science, it might just change how things work in their earth.
I’m not sure what there plans are with this team but I would want a trilogy or something of these guys before a whole avengers movie.
Johnny's hairstyle was so weird thou
DON'T LOOK AT ME I DIDNT DRESS YOU
I like Johnny's promo picture, his hair kept distracting me thinking he doesn't have such a weird face shape that they couldn't have done something better with it 🤔
More news at 12