Okay, I can understand abbreviating it as FF and I can understand abbreviating it as F4. But FF4? what is the extra F supposed to stand for? It’s like when people say ATM machine when the M already stands for machine.

  • TootSweetEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    “Fuckin’.”

    “The Fantastic Fuckin’ Four.”

    (I mean, if I hadn’t posted this, someone would have.)

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      5·
      12 days ago

      It is actually the fourth Fantastic Four movie if you only count the ones officially released (there was one in the 90s that never got an official release) but it is a reboot and so not fourth in a series

  • logging_strict@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    FF$ isn’t really four.

    it’s two and their pet slug and the science wizard stereotype. One bullet later and it’s one. The only one that can block a bullet and reach a target before the movie ends.

    the slug is the most powerful slug in the metaverse. But lacks mobility. Most of the movie is spent waiting for the slug to reach it’s target. An amazing slug if it ever got the chance to do anything more than excrete slime, grumble, and complain. Under all that rock suspect the useless super power came with a sex change. So instead of grumble and complain, became nagging in a smoker voice.

    The FF4 is dead IP. There are only two stories that keep getting recycled. It’s sad.

    Some ideas:

    • throw the slug into the sun as fuel. Or if it has to be somehow epic, have Ego eat him and crap him out.

    • rubber band science guy stereotype put him in an Iron suit then retire him. Afterall his only power was being rich and ruining the lives of young boys.

    • the shield emitting chick spends most of her time not getting a handle on her powers. Occasionally, by complete chance, mildly effective. Sadly her limitation is herself.

    • flameboy is sorta there and no one knows what to make of him. Think he’s allegory for historical firemen who set fires on purpose as extortion to land full time gov’t employment. Which he did. So at least one of them is effective at something (besides nagging).