Putting aside all the political reasons to not support Disney or Marvel, and my personal distaste for Pedro Pascal, the issue they have—and why I think this is doing poorly with general audiences—is that even if this film is great, (and I’m not convinced it is, people are also slobbering over Thunderbolts, and I did see that one, and it was mediocre at best) is that it’s placed among a sea of crap, and the project is structured such that they all reference each other and you can’t just avoid the crap. If you go see Fantastic Four, you know in the back of your mind that you’re not really watching a standalone movie—you’re signing up to watch “the set up film to a hastily constructed event movie featuring characters I don’t care about.”