Looks good, overall, but I really hope Thing’s CGI is going to get more polish than that. Currently, it’s looking very low budget.

I’ll be there for it (because I’m there for any MCU stuff) but the only things that bothered me were that the Thing looked a little too CGI (but they may clean that up some before release) and that I’m still not sold on Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards. Could be because I feel they had the perfect casting with John Krasinski but that’s just me. Vanessa Kirby will be awesome as Sue Storm/Richards though.

A pretty good trailer. Love the retro vibes and everyone seems to act like they should. Love the retro feel of it all.

On 2/4/2025 at 6:49 AM, Ron said:

I have mixed feelings. I’m an old school FF fan. The movie appears polished with a nice retro vibe but the casting has me thrown a bit. Pedro Pascal is great in his many roles, but for me, he is not, nor looks like Reed Richards. Perhaps the mustache is visually getting in the way of selling his portrayal for me? Sue Storm seems nicely cast. There wasn’t enough of Johnny Storm in the trailer for me to see but he seems to at least look the part. I hope there is more to him than that. The look of Ben Grimm as the Thing is great but: 1) While I know he is not the Hulk, he appears a bit too small; 2) his Rocky body seems to always be covered up; and 3) his voice doesn’t evoke the rough and tumble Yancy Street New Yorker personality that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created him to be. Notwithstanding, I look forward to it and hope the rest of the movie overcomes my observations. Cheers!

I agree that Pedro just isn’t Mr. Fantastic, and can’t see how Downey is supposed to be Doom. I would no more cast him in that role than I would have Pacino or Eastwood (in their prime) play, say for example, Dr. Strange. Acting ability and range aside, some actors are just not the right fit for some characters. This isn’t some slam against them or a sideswipe at Pascal.

Not sure why they had to change the Baxter Building so much but it does look good. Nevertheless I thought it was odd that we get to see the others use their powers, but not Reed. Of course, this is just a quick clip; I’m sure there will be more of him later just as I can just as we may see more of the Thing.

Lol, I dig this man! LOVE the retro vibe! I didn’t even really notice the mustache on Pedro, lol. I was foccused more on Ben and especially Sue; Vanessa Kirby seems to have nailed it, and I’d previously thought her casting was off. Very on point portrayal! Yeah, again I’m really digging the retro and retro futurism look to this. If someone can do this for the 70s, my head will literally explode.

I have mixed feelings. I’m an old school FF fan. The movie appears polished with a nice retro vibe but the casting has me thrown a bit. Pedro Pascal is great in his many roles, but for me, he is not, nor looks like Reed Richards. Perhaps the mustache is visually getting in the way of selling his portrayal for me? Sue Storm seems nicely cast. There wasn’t enough of Johnny Storm in the trailer for me to see but he seems to at least look the part. I hope there is more to him than that. The look of Ben Grimm as the Thing is great but: 1) While I know he is not the Hulk, he appears a bit too small; 2) his Rocky body seems to always be covered up; and 3) his voice doesn’t evoke the rough and tumble Yancy Street New Yorker personality that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created him to be. Notwithstanding, I look forward to it and hope the rest of the movie overcomes my observations. Cheers!

I would think the Negative Zone would be a good MacGuffin to get them out of this reality and into “ours”.

I am thoroughly impressed I must say. It looks fantastic. Pun intended. All the characters look awesome. But we all know you can put a pretty coat of paint on a hunk of junk. As we all know it’s going to come down to story and development. And most importantly dialogue. And that is the part that concerns me most. Even though this movie is going to be set in the past I somehow think Disney is going to find it very very very hard to not do the Disney thing and interject modern hot points into script. You know basically all the stuff that pretty much they said they were’t going to do for Brave New World but still did. We’ll see. I love the look at this thing. And if the story is as half as good as it looks and they’re able to keep the actors from attacking the fans we might have a winne here. Also I hope they don’t just stay in the past. I for one hate the whole concept of time travel. It’s basically an excuse to more or less undo everything that was done in previous points in a story and it’s basically just a cheap cop out but I do hope these guys get to exist in the modern world among the X-Men and whatever silly version of the New Avengers their going to conjour up. Maybe through some posts credit scenes after this movie. Preferably some kind of cryogenic freezing. Though I think that might not be on the table since they used it in Captain America. Still they used the whole quantum time slip in Endgame as well.

I like it,it’s about what I expected. It has that Marvel Studios glow-up. Feeling optimistic

I feel like I was very wrong about the Sue casting. She seems great from these clips at least.

Seeing Galactus’ Helmet was pretty goose bump inducing! And seeing Malcovich pretty much seals that he’s Red Ghost.

Overall pretty awesome trailer. Maybe the MCU is gonna “restore the feeling!” This year!….hopefully.