What a turn up for the books. A few days ago I was bemoaning my lack of interest in watching First Steps, given that I was a total junkie for the Infinity Saga. I'm having a rest day today, and a bit of mental candyfloss seemed about my speed, so I finally put First Steps on, and I loved it. What a return to form.

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Watched #FantasticFour again, because we're in Stockholm and we want to watch something in the huge cinema at Mall of Scandinavia.

Still a great movie!

I read and watched a lot of the criticisms after the first time around, and I had them at the back of my head when I watched again. Was the Sue - Moleman chemistry underdeveloped? Was Johnny's linguistics project too out of the blue and its effect too sudden? Was the pacing uneven? Was Julia Garner underutilized? Was Galactus's "clever bugs" comment to silly for its moment?

Nope. Nope. Nope. Well, yeah, but it's a Fantastic Four movie, not a Silver Surfer movie. Nope.

The story might be a bit too linear and rose-tinted for some people, the resolution might be too easy, and swaying the world public from utilitarian ethics to care ethics and virtue ethics with a rousing speech waay to easy. That's a matter of taste. But the craft of the delivery? Storytelling, sound design, visual design, acting ... you can't be fair and call it anything other than rock solid.

The score, my stars, the score. So good and so well used.

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