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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2394034" data-attributes="member: 4779">Just got back.  Gave it a 7.A little background: My only exposure to the FF is the Ultimates line. Yeah, I know their original story a bit and am basically familiar with the characters. I can't say the same for the stories, however. That said...I liked the movie. I would have probably liked it a bit more if EVERY cool scene wasn't already shown in the trailers. I mean seriously, every single durn FX shot and cool action/powers shot I'd already seen. But put all together it wasn't bad.Taken as a singular film and ignoring what I know from the comics I was entertained. Not a great film by any stretch, I enjoyed it about as much as the first Spider-man and the first X-men (neither were great films). I probably liked both of those a little more than FF simply because their was more there to like (and both films had superior directors).Again, I'll echo what was said above about this movie being a good set-up for the sequels. The characters could have been given a little more depth and the style could have been, um, better I guess. The movie seemed pretty cookie-cutter for this kind of story. It followed the origin formula pretty much to the letter and tried to taylor it to the heroes. I can say that I didn't like that Grimm was able to be turned human and then back to The Thing again but that was really the only thing that openly annoyed me. It's not that it didn't make sense it just didn't seem right for the movie.Overall, I feel that with the low expectations I had that they were exceeded. As for grading it with the current crop of Marvel films I'd put it a step above DD and a step below Spider-man (all movies that I would give 7's).</blockquote>

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