The usual suspects are missing the point of ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
Every time a new Marvel movie comes out, the usual crop of annoying white men with beards start yapping about it. In the case of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, they seemingly enjoyed the movie but from one “review” of it, they missed the point entirely.
Nerdrotic, who is known as a bad and offensive take machine, posted his review of First Steps and while he said it was the “best” Marvel movie, that’s not a good faith review. Mainly because he not only completely misunderstands who Reed Richards is as a character, and blames Pedro Pascal for his own inability to understand the character, but he also talks about how Johnny (Joseph Quinn)isn’t a “gentle soy boy” in this movie…
That’s before we even get into his take on Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby). Instead of giving him the clicks, you can watch the Age of Nostalgia’s breakdown of his bad review here:
Men like this are insufferable because you “like” a movie and yet you completely misunderstand everything said film is presenting to you. Pascal’s Reed is “miserable doing it” and “spends most of the movie looking like he’s on the verge of tears” because his literal child is on the line because of Galactus. That might have something to do with it!
Basically, Nerdrotic doesn’t understand any of these characters and is putting his “criticism” on the film through that lens. It isn’t the film’s fault that you don’t understand how these characters function in the world of the comics. That one is on you, my guy.
Even when they “like” it, they still don’t understand
It is exhausting to constantly see these guys who label themselves as “nerds” continue to misunderstand the things they claim to love. Reed Richards has never been a man who operates as a “confident” man. He’s smart and he works through every possible scenario but no version of Reed Richards is the epitome of an “Alpha Male.” He’s too analytical.
Sue Storm isn’t a “girl boss” because none of the characters they label as such ARE girl bosses to begin with. But that’s just the way these types of men respond to a woman being in any kind of Marvel property. I feel like the only reason they don’t have an issue with Sue in this movie is because she’s pregnant and then a mother throughout it.
At the end of the day, no one wanted a “soy boy” Johnny Storm. We know what we’re getting with Johnny. What we wanted was a smart Johnny who felt like he belonged on that team and that’s what we did get with First Steps. But hey, if you think that Johnny’s only defining characteristics are that he’s straight, then you probably don’t care about him being intelligent too.
So I guess a win for the MCU is everyone, even the weird “nerd” guys who don’t know what they’re talking about, likes this movie.
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