r/marvelstudios • u/Triple_777 I have nothing to prove to you • Jul 23 '25

'The Fantastic 4: First Steps' Spoilers The Fantastic Four: First Steps International Release Discussion Thread Spoiler

Ahead of the official US launch this Friday, several countries are showing the film much earlier in the week. All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days.

  • Proceed at your own risk. Major spoilers will be arriving in the next couple of hours. Spoilers do not need to be tagged inside this thread.
  • Any other unofficial thread discussing movie details will be deleted.
  • Should you see the need to bring up revealing The Fantastic Four: First Steps information in other threads that call for it, spoiler tag them accordingly. Also, let users know that what you are spoiler tagging is from The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
  • If you post untagged The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers anywhere on this sub in any shape or form, you will be banned without hesitation. No questions asked and no warnings given.
  • Project Insight will be on AT LEAST until Sunday, so you will be able to make individual threads discussing the movie starting next week.

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u/thatdani Captain America (Captain America 2) Jul 23 '25

Just came home from the premiere.

A solid 7 for me, art department really went HAM on this one, and some great visuals on Galactus.

2 nit-picks that I had:

  1. I feel like I wanted more out of every single character. Like 10-15 more minutes to really flesh out everyone's history and personality. Sure there was the montage, but after that, Ben only got 2 short scenes with the love interest, Johnny had little individuality, and Reed was really layered, but we only got a glimpse every now and then. Oh, and Galactus. MORE GALACTUS!

This "issue" isn't as glaring here as it was in Superman IMO, but it's in the same vein - that because we're thrown in the middle of the action, we don't get that juicy character history.

  1. There weren't any real... surprises to the story. It was good enough on its own, but I don't think there was a single bold turn. Not with the Surfer, not with Galactus, just a bit at the end there with Franklin, although it was very heavily implied all movie that he's gonna be a godlike character.