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Fantastic Four 2025 (Minor spoilers)

I want to start out by saying that I’ve never been a big Fantastic 4 fan. I saw this movie because I thought the aesthetic looked neat, Pedro is hot, and I was interested in seeing whether or not they finally made a decent Fantastic Four movie. And I can honestly say it is pretty good. Especially compared to the trash that came before it. 

I liked the performances. It was definitely a visual treat. When it was announced that Sue was pregnant I was worried she wasn’t going to be very useful for the rest of the movie and was very happy to be proven wrong.

Overall, it was a really neat movie but the whole time I was kind of wondering, what about the movie wasn’t clicking with me. And I think I figured it out.

There are some characters, some teams that require no introduction. The Fantastic 4 at least to the general moviegoing public are unfortunately not counted amongst them. 

They aren’t like Superman or Batman, you can’t just skip the first four years of their development and expect everyone to be emotionally invested in them. 

They spend all this time telling us how great they are and how much people love them and how Fantastic they are but they don’t do enough to really show us and I think that’s a mistake. 

That being said, this wasn’t a bad movie. It was pretty good. Definitely visually. I love retro futurism/modernism and they really pulled that aspect off. Maybe I could’ve also used some more time spent in that world. The whole thing just sort of felt like it was scratching the surface. It was so long and yet by the time it was over, I couldn’t help but think I needed more. 

More emotional depth, more relationship development, more character interaction.

Just more. 

7/10 my opinion might change with a rewatch.

Keep in mind that you’ll probably like this movie a lot more if you’re a big Fantastic 4 fan.

With all the serious shit out of the way, here’s some random thoughts I had while watching it:

1. Of course they gave Pedro a baby. He always has a baby.

2.Mr Fantastic's plan:

3: What was going through my mind every time the Silver Surfer was on screen.

4.Galactus looking like those Roboworld bitches in Redline.

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R.I.P. Malik Ali, the falafel vendor 💔

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Without spoilers, I must say that watching the new Superman was like seeing someone take all of my worries and put them in a movie for Superman to punch. I felt like a child in all the best ways. He truly did return when we needed him most.

In a time of hatred and meanness, He took to the skies and told us that kindness and caring are still virtues worth fighting for. And even though I know Superman won’t show up to handle our problems for us somehow as I walked out of that theater I did so with hope and with a newfound drive to do better myself.

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Outing myself as a rusted brakes shipper

Also if people wanna send me ask for like design or head canon stuff you can.

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Yeah i do paintings. Time for me to switch fandoms 2 more times before i paint again

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the third doctor in literally any situation is the perfect visual equivalent of being the only gay person in the room

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Geese-ball

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Ferro My Beloved (A Stexico review)

I watched Expreso Astral (stexico) for the first time and I’m kind of obsessed. There were things I wasn’t crazy about, like cutting a couple of songs, including wide smile\CB, and right place right time. but the things that were great were really great and I was having so much fun that I honestly didn’t notice some of the cuts until the end. Oh my God this is my favorite Rusty. Everything was so on point for him. Physical acting, voice. He was perfect. I was genuinely emotionally moved by starlight express. Something I didn’t expect to say this week. I wish there were more recordings. My friend and I don’t speak Spanish, so what we did was pull up the translations on the wiki. But if you are familiar with at least one of the 90’s productions you don’t really need to know exactly what they're saying at all times to enjoy it. 

Spoilers ahead: 

One notable change is that Rusty or Ferro as he is known here is explicitly stated to be Mexican, and it's one of the things Greaseball (Turbo in this) bullies him about. And there’s something so hilariously fucked up about that. Like Ferro has it bad, he’s gotta deal with twice the oppression, to the point where the song Call Me Rusty is mostly about how he’s Mexican. And then when he goes up to Perla asking if she wants to ride with the fastest engine she’s like “That would be great. Where is he?” Like Jesus, talk about the worst she can say is no. But that won’t stop Ferro because he is a proud Mexican Steam train, and train god prefers him specifically.

Spoilers finished.

 Also, the audience was infectious. They were clearly having so much fun. If you’re a Stex fan and you haven’t seen this, please do. I had this big smile on my face for most of it. I think future productions can actually learn from this one.

A couple other things I wanna shout out. The Rockies were fantastic. Like seriously, keep an eye out for them. They’re amazing. There’s so much great physical comedy in this one honestly everyone was pulling their weight in that regard. There are two additional nationals in this, The Brazilian Engine Carioca and the Argentinian Engine El Pibe. At several points during the races engines will just stop to beat the shit out of each other and I think that’s really funny. Purse and Krupp join the girls during Pumping Iron, and that’s just wonderful. 

One thing I want to point out is that this production has one of the same problems that the new Bochum one does. That being the pearl is clothed entirely in white and silver. When the light shines on her, she becomes blindingly invisible.

In short, this production just further cements my feelings that people who don’t like Starlight Express either saw a really bad production, or just don’t like fun. I was dazzled by this production and it made me fall in love with Starlight Express all over again. 

One last thing. The actor who played Ferro Ricardo Villarreal unfortunately passed away only seven years after Expreso Astral closed in 2005. I can't help but wonder what brought about the death of this talented man at such a young age, but I haven't been able to find any information about what happened. If anyone knows any thing about him or how he died please share what you know. Thankyou.

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Can someone hook me up with a stexico bootleg? I need to see it.

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This show is insane. This serials tone was so silly and then an entire bus full of innocent tourists just gets murdered.

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lol The Doctor’s face during this scene. He reacts to a free trip to Disneyland like this man just told him he was going to lick his face.

Imagine getting promised Disneyland and then you end up in a holiday park in Wales

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Loving watching Romana and The Doctor just run around Paris for several minutes. Very entertaining.

Also, really love The Doctor’s little easel lapel pin. Really cute. I want one.

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💜💲💜fuck it, purse the money truck fancam💜💲💜