Underwhelmed by Fantastic Four First Steps. No Spoilers

No spoilers please. Started watching on Disney Plus last night for the first time. I’m about 30-40 minutes into the movie, and it’s not sucking me in. I like Pedro Pascal and Joe Quinn, but the writing and pacing is not working for me. I actually shut it off and I plan on finishing it tonight. I just need to know how it ends and how it might connect to Avengers Doomsday. I’m sad that I’m not excited to finish watching it. I hope it picks up and pulls me in.

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roastedmarshmellows2025-11-17 18:06

If you don't like it, you don't like it. The MCU isn't a curriculum, just read the wikipedia page if you want to know what happens that might impact future movies. 🙄

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:22

Reading a wiki page is different than actually watching it happen. Bad suggestion.

roastedmarshmellows2025-11-17 23:25

Given that you’re basically whining on Reddit, you’ll excuse me for not trusting your judgment.

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 23:40

Not whining. Just talking about my experience. You should stop using Reddit to be rude to people that are not being rude to you.

INKatana2025-11-17 18:06

Surprising amount of people I've talked to about the movie said that they had to start/watch the movie 3 times, because they fell asleep during it.

And these people are all big superhero fans.

gavinashun2025-11-17 18:07

You couldn’t wait a few minutes to finish the movie before posting? You really think it is worth sharing your take minute by minute?

No-Sweet-63372025-11-17 18:13

People are more interested in getting some arbitrary upvotes than actually watching a movie. They couldn’t even wait to finish it to come running to get engagement online. We’re doomed.

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:23

Don’t care about upvotes. Genuinely wanted to speak with people and see their actual opinions without trying to trash the person that asks a question

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:23

Simply had a question. Nothing wrong with that

HereWeFuckingGooo2025-11-18 01:32

There are no questions in your post.

Ok_Negotiation312025-11-17 18:08

Loved this movie, way better than Superman

garbage19952025-11-17 18:08

It's not very action packed.

k3n12ock2025-11-17 18:08

"I just need to know how it ends and how it might connect to Avengers Doomsday" then finish the movie

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:17

I already said that I am going to watch the rest of it tonight

drntl2025-11-17 18:09

I thought it started just ok as well. Overall I ended up liking it though.

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:23

Ok cool. That’s promising. I’ll finish it tonight. I hope I enjoy it more as well.

Bitter_Classic_892025-11-17 18:12

Can’t disagree. I did enjoy it, but it was safe. Very well made, but safe. Nothing about it concerned me though. Hopefully they can use First Steps as a solid foundation to take more risks in the future

NobodyQuiteLikeMe2025-11-17 18:13

This to me is a perfect and borderline insane example of humanity being incapable of putting down their phone for five seconds and just absorbing something before forming an opinion

You started a movie, watched half an hour of it, then decided to pause it and make a reddit post saying you don’t like it and that you hope it gets better. What the actual hell haha

Providing you were paying attention during the first 30 minutes and understand that most movies take more than 30 minutes to unfold and get exposition out of the way and tell a story, you’d probably just be better off finishing it at that rate. It’s a two hour movie bro. Maybe finish it before making a reddit post about your distaste for it?

Idk why I find this such NPC behavior but I feel strongly that it is lol. What do you want replies to even be?

“It gets better buddy! 🤓☝️”

“No spoilers, but keep watching :))”

Good god haha

dbomco2025-11-17 18:35

I saw the whole movie in a theater and felt the pacing was off and wasn’t grabbing me entirely. It’s tough enough to throw in a backstory for one or two characters and a villain but there’s a lot of new characters to absorb here and the editing could have reflected some more nuanced character building.
I felt the writing and acting was there, just missing the beats.
To address your comment, it’s less humanity and more lack of self-awareness from segments of our tech distracted society.

NobodyQuiteLikeMe2025-11-17 18:50

I watched it in theaters twice, once the day before it officially released and the second time on its last day of its theatrical run. Loved it both times

I liked the pacing quite a lot. I felt it had sufficient, fresh action scenes and plentiful quieter, character scenes. And well established the F4 as likable, followable leads that can carry the franchise on. Breath of fresh air for the MCU, considering it’s the best thing since Endgame. The only other noteworthy MCU releases since then to me was WandaVision, No Way Home, and Born Again. Two of them were shows and one was a nostalgia movie so they barely qualify

My opinion is it was a solid 9/10 movie. So to see someone express distaste for it when they watched half an hour of it is something I find very strange. Your “it’s less humanity” sentence is just a word regurgitation of the same thing I said, but yeah

AdventurousStock46092025-11-17 19:18

i watched it on my apple watch during a run and was not intrigued at all. This guy is based and red-pilled, movies aren’t nearly as interesting as my awesome phone, you twerp

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:21

I did not stop it and go to my phone. I was watching it last night. Got underwhelmed by it. Pacing and dialogue is meh so far. I sat with it until this morning to make sure i was not expecting too much from it. But i still felt the same way. So i was curious how other people felt about it. Most MCU movies pull me in within that 30-40 minute timespan. I think it’s reasonable to shut something off if it hasn’t pulled you all the way in in that time frame. The fact that I’m planning on finishing it tonight shows that I am not what you’re accusing me of.

Wooden-Radish-90082025-11-17 23:55

You're absolutely right. People don't immerse themselves in film anymore. Couldn't watch a whole movie before thinking, "everyone should know my opinion."

These kinds of people don't have the attention span for movies anymore. It's sad.

LoveTechHateTech2025-11-17 18:14

I thought that it followed a pretty good storyline. It actually progressed throughout and leaned on that rather than focusing on big action scenes doing the heavy lifting.

I will say that I found the ending to be a bit abrupt, but maybe a second watch through would make me feel otherwise.

doggonedad2025-11-17 18:17

Didn’t work for me either. I enjoyed the casting actually and cinematography but I didn’t like the story at all or directing style. It comes down to preference but if I’m comparing the 2 superhero movies that released in close proximity to each other this last summer and both adapted a thrown into an active plot—no backstory approach, I’m picking Superman hands down. Fantastic 4 to me didn’t feel very friendly for new viewers and relied heavily on nostalgia and having a history and knowledge for these characters.

alexjf562025-11-17 18:33

You are doing the Peter Griffin meme. Finish the movie before making a reddit post. I cannot figure out why anyone would think this was worthy of a reddit post. I wouldn’t even tweet this opinion

scallopsmustagottem2025-11-17 18:34

I bet you stop sex because you don’t climax immediately.

Affectionate-Bus9272025-11-17 19:35

i don't like it either

EagleForty2025-11-17 19:46

I was excited because the reviews were very positive. I had the same issue while watching though. The casting felt off, the story felt off, the dialogue felt off, and there was very little that felt great.

I finished the movie in one sitting, but had to look at the length, because it was a bit of a slog. I figured "well, they took a move that should have been 1.5 hours and stretched it to 2.25 hours to make it feel more epic, but NOPE. The movie is 1.75 hours long.

I came to Reddit to make sure I wasn't taking crazy-pills, and again, NOPE. Everyone disagreed on the official threads.

My best explanation is that either people are so used to terrible MCU movies that they're grading this one on a curve, or there was a massive astroterfing campaign by Marvel to convince the audience that it's actually good.

Now, I'm not saying it was awful. It wasn't...

...but it wasn't very good either. Certainly not the median 8/10 that was given to it under the official r/movies poll here: [https://strawpoll.ai/poll/results/BIvB6HmTP7r7](https://strawpoll.ai/poll/results/BIvB6HmTP7r7)

Go ahead an finish it, and let me know your thoughts. I give it a 6/10.

TheForceWillsMe2025-11-17 22:16

Sounds like you had the same issues that I am having with it. Ya I’ll finish it and report back.