I think the last bit is the usual answer: he's really not built like a person anymore, in the same way that Ben Grimm isn't just a person with rocks sitting on top of his skin. The fact that the comic books are drawn, and often in relatively simple lines, makes it more plausible than it would be on film where you'd…

Also apparently Robert Downey Jr. has some trouble with even the more limited stuff we've seen in the movies already, given his past.

Reed: "This is The Invisible Woman! And I'm Mr Fantastic! And.."
Reporter: "Wait "Mr Fantastic"? Why would you go with that? I mean, what does it even mean?"
Reed: "Look, we tried to brainstorm something better but someone just kept shouting "Captain Rubber-Band-O!" over and over and we never got anything done as a…

The ending (or at least big set piece at the end) of the film really is kind of great.

Doom does wear a mask at all times…

"…and also starring BRIAN BLESSED as GALACTUS: DEVOURER OF WORLDS!"

Old fashioned Two-Fisted-Science-Adventure! style could probably work, in a relatively light hearted way.

The weekly numbers are actually kind of hilarious in a dark way.
First week: $209,072,793!
Second week: $64,177,749
Third Week: $29,051,188

It's really not hard to excessively praise it. Almost any praise would qualify..

I suspect it will be the opposite: we're going to spend a month or two after Civil War hits having people writing pieces on the question of "Why is Marvel's Civil War so amazing, and Batman V Superman such utter miserable trash?". It'll probably get to the point where a contrarian "you know it wasn't that bad" take…

I feel like that bit at the end is just saying "but [half of the people who made it] and [other half of the people who made it] made this movie feel empty."

"I get how amazing this is - I can stretch to incredible lengths! You can turn invisible! And flying around and super strength - ok with some drawbacks - is pretty badass too. BUT DON'T TELL ELON MUSK!!"

This is very, very true. The obsession with origin stories is what has resulted in so many awful superhero movies (even with the ones that made a lot of money).* The origins are almost always ones that could be summed up in a sentence ("Two married scientists and their less mature relatives** get crazy powers in…

Original? The original FF movie starred Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, and Michael Bailey Smith!

It's just kind of tragic when the single best adaptation of something like this was the one that the studio had made by Roger Corman for as little money as possible in order to make sure they didn't lose the rights to the characters, and which can only be seen in bootlegged form because they never released it at all…

All those blaxploitation style split-screen transitions were kind of awesome. I've always thought that was a fun visual style and that it doesn't get used enough these days.

I love the fact that Marvel has conclusively demonstrated at this point that people really could not care less about whether the character is one non-comic book readers have heard of or not as long as the movie itself works, and it would be nice if the other people making superhero movies would learn this lesson a lot…

There might not be a rule, but there's a really strong guideline there just due to the fact that almost all the characters that are up for adaptations have arisen out of decades of continuous storytelling which does a really good job of coalescing around something that genuinely works really, really well. (Reading…

The fact that a visa came up at all probably means she wasn't. (I mean, leaving aside the clearly European accent.)

Are you sure you don't mean *headdesk*?