Having watched last year's Fant4stic for myself (along with my folks because my dad randomly put it on there one night), I can now officially say that its the worst comic book movie adaption to come along since the days of Catwoman and Elektra. In the New Tens, there is just NO EXCUSE for making a comic book movie this painfully bad when you have the Marvel Cinematic Universe and some of FOX's better X-Men movies as a rule of thumb for making a good comic book movie that pleases both fans and casual audiences.
Even another Fantastic Four movie of the vein of the Tim Story duology (i.e lots of uninspired immature comedy) would've been better than what FOX and director Josh Trank shat out last August. In addition to the Christopher Nolan super serious vibe that just plain doesn't work with a comic book that's always been light-hearted, I have the same issues that everybody else has had with this movie. The cast phoning their performances in (and I don't blame them given how much of a tool Trank was on set), the film spending too much setting up a world that's probably not going to happen what with rumors floating about that the Four may go back to Marvel Studios soon, CGI that either looks obvious or looks like 90's CGI (i.e not good), and a bastardization of Doctor Doom that makes Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine look like Picasso in comparison.
My mother, who isn't as big on comic book adaptations as my father and I are, could tell that Fant4stic was awful just from catching glimpses of it while playing on her iPad.
And while I'm at it, having seen Spider-Man 3 for the first time in years, I can also say for myself that its the low point of the Sam Raimi trilogy. There are parts I like such as Bruce Campbell's cameo and J.K Simmon's excellent pitch perfect performance as J. Jonah Jameson. I also like Sandman even though I don't like how he was shoe horned in as Uncle Ben's actual killer and the action sequences are still fun to watch. Everything else though I either hated or felt didn't hold up as well as I remembered. I rolled my eyes at the childish drama between Peter and Mary Jane with MJ being jealous of Peter (though not without reason) and how MJ decides to make things worse by fooling around with Harry after her and Peter take a break in their relationship.
Speaking of Harry Osborn, I loathe how they wasted his character and his arc after building him up to be the next threat in the previous movie in favor of having a multitude of plot threads that nobody asked for. At first it seems he will be the primary villain of the movie before getting easy plot amnesia then when he remembers what he is supposed to be doing, he gets seemingly killed by Peter while the latter is wearing the black suit only to be revealed to be alive then have the truth told about what happened to his father at the last minute before decided to help Peter out because power of friendship reason.
He should've been the main villain as it would've brought the trilogy full circle, not take a back seat to an awkwardly shoe horned in two bit criminal with sand powers and an annoying version of Eddie Brock as Venom also awkwardly shoe horned in.
The black suit idea wasn't bad in theory, but I really hated aside from having Venom shoe-horned in at the last minute how much of a tool Peter became while wearing it. Particularly how they play that cringey montage where hes finger banging ladies on the street before waltzing into a clothing store and then assaulting everybody's eyes with his spider pelvis while wearing a nice suit (which leads into the equally cringey jazz scene that follows).
Lastly, when I first saw this in theaters back in 2007, my 11 year old mind thought it was cool when Peter and Harry team up against Sandman and Venom, but with the rise of the MCU and with my scorn for Harry being wasted as a villain in this movie, that scene didn't hold up upon my recent re-watching of Spider Man 3.