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‘The fantastic 4 is the most disappointing superheroes saga in the history of cinema. And the first criticisms are not optimistic

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‘The fantastic four: first steps’ is more than An essential film for Marvel: After some box office failures and a doubtful future, the company is at a point where the success or failure of this new installment of its superhero adventures can mark many future decisions. The previous trajectory of Marvel’s first family in cinemas does not give much hope, so this summer will be for Disney as essential as It is being for Warner. A delicate moment. Why do we say that Marvel is at a key point? They have had a 2024 of Impasse: They just released a movie, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’that although it was a Great box office successdoes not easily fit into the continuity of the house, that is, it does not “guarantee” future successes, as the “you will continue” of the first phases did. In 2025, Marvel has stumbled upon two films that have worked halfway at the box office, ‘Captain America: Brave New World‘ and ‘Thunderbolts‘And, in part, they frustrate the future of the house (its most emblematic hero, new avengers …) At this point, the success of’ The Fantastic 4 is vital for the company. What comes next. The fantastic four supposes many things, and we do not speak only of a welcome and healthy turn in the aesthetics and the tone that the MCUy asked from the moment it premiered ‘Endey me‘. It also opens doors to the future, to the next Avengers and, of course, to the hopeful ‘Doomsday‘with which The Russo return to Disney. It has already been leaked that ‘the fantastic 4’ includes direct references to that future in which Marvel is putting all his wait, so he will also serve to test the real interest of the public, beyond Soponcios in the Comic-Con. What came before. The fact is that the previous history of the fantastic 4 in cinema feeds, in part, the expectation. As much as they are the groups of key heroes of the House of Ideas (well above the Avengers), they have not had luck in the past, for both reasons. Roger Corman produced An absolutely disastrous version that it was not released in cinemas and whose intrahistory is much more interesting than the film itself. At the beginning of the century two films arrived (one of them also adapting the arrival of Galactus to Earth) that were not bad but were something generic and forgettable, and whose only legacy seems to have been the chance of Qiue Chris Evans, future captain America, gave life to human torch. Finally, in 2015 we had another version, also with very interesting details, also with fateful results and that has again A more stimulating intrahistory than the film itself. And what is looking like. The film reaches the screens today, but we can access the first impressions of the press: it has a very positive 89% in Rotten Tomatoes and a somewhat more discreet 65 in Metacritic. They are, to begin with, scores much higher than those of the previous films of the characters, which suspended in all cases on both platforms (some of them as abysmal as the 2015 version, which has 9% in Rotten Tomatoes, being the Marvel film with the lowest score in history). Thus, In Variety They say that the film says it is “just what is needed to recover the public that suffers superhero exhaustion.” In Screen Rant They claim that Marvel Vuyelve “to the basics: a solid superhero film, with a lot of heart, but with little spectacular.” And Empirethat “with an exemplary cast and a brilliant new alternative universe to enjoy, this is the best movie of the fantastic four so far. And if that standard seems too low, then it is also the best Marvel movie in years.” With nuances. There are, however, some clouds on the horizon. ‘Thunderbolts’, despite its disappointing box office, has a comparable score in Rotten Tomatoes (89%), and surpasses it in Metacritic with a 68. In fact, ‘the fantastic 4’ does not even enter into The best valued Marvel Top 10 In Rotten Tomatoes, which only includes films above 90%. Data that, without a doubt, have nothing to do with their performance at the box office, but they give away what can be the Marvel Achilles heel: we may not be facing an infallible film. For example, Our Espinof companions They claimed that “throughout the second act the film becomes a Space Opera Moral that slows down the thrilling rhythm of the beginning “and put the character of Estela Silver, which” has a tiny character arc and a sudden evolution that cuts the film dry. “Despite everything, the general impression on the film was positive and” reminds us why we fell in love with Marvel. “The only way to dissipate these doubts will be attending the rooms. Header | Disney In Xataka | Marvel chronological order. The definitive guide to see all the UCM films and series

JK Rowling has become something toxic to Harry Potter fans. So they are expanding the saga on their own

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Harry Potter Keep taking holders, but not thanks to the Next adaptation in charge of HBO but by the Continuous controversies that stars in its own author, JK Rowlingevery time you have a keyboard nearby. It is not usual for the creator to become the greatest enemy of his own franchise. His opinions about the transgender community have not been the result of a Punctual factor del enemy of anyone who does something wrong on the Internet, the “get out of context”: The author does not hide her nature at all Terfcontinuously forcing their millions of followers to face the debate on the separation between work and author. Not only is the public discontent with Rowling. The original casting of Harry Potter’s films (Daniel RadcliffeRupert Grint or Emma Watson), Bridgerton’s star Nicola Coughlan or the one who is perhaps the most beloved (and multiple) actor in recent years, Pedro PascalThey show their complete opposition to the opinions expressed by the author. As we see, when a work has such a massive character the reactions of the community are usually visceral. The fandom has a constant need to interact with the content, either with the authors, actors, the compulsive purchase of merchandising or immerse yourself in the world Reddit. But there is an even more creative way and that has the advantage of not needing the original creator: Fanfics. Yes, those stories based on existing works created by and for fans. It is not something new and we have already talked about how movies like Star Wars They have set foot to fanfics and subsequently to works published in a traditional way that have become sales successes. It is not surprising that another member of the Olympus of the franchises such as Harry Potter generates content everywhere and is one of the greatest sources of inspiration in the community of the fan stories. ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Marvel’ drag an endless number of followers, but the Fanfic redoubt, the DIY OF THE NARRATIVEit is a haven of peace and love where there are not so many controversies or fights so you think of the end of one of your favorite series. Creativity flows on platforms such as AO3 (Archive of Our Own, one of the most popular fans works repositories) or Wattpadwhich has more than 90 million users per month and served as an exit box of authors as popular as Ariana Godoy (Brothers Hidalgo trilogy) or Mercedes Ron. I encourage you to try the limits of these platforms, since it is very difficult for a book, series or film to have its own fanfic, especially in AO3. If we do a quick “Star Wars” search, it provides us with 244,349 results, “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” 40,654, “Detal” 6,713 and “Harry Potter” nothing more and nothing less than 528,283 results. Recall that they are not searches, or references, they are complete stories: people who sat down to write for a good time, and even days, weeks or months, and that uploaded its creation to the platform. Harry Potter, but without Harry Potter So yes, entering the world fanfic is something unabarcable, but if you are a romantic reader and navigate #Booktok possibly the algorithm has already made you know about novels and fanfics inspired by Harry Potter. The most interesting point in this case is that the focus would not be in Harry and in possible variants or added to its canonical history. Which further Interest creators and readers are two other characters: HermioneDraco, and in particular how his love story develops. Yes, do not be scared in case you have missed a chapter or a scene of the movies, because this is born in the community itself. This is how the so -called “drarom” fanfics are born in the most “Reylo” style (word used to designate the romance between the characters of Star Wars, King and Kylo Ren), and as we already anticipated when we talked about Romantasy or the current phenomenon of romantic literature, the true romantic readers are not formed with a rum/Hermione, the trend is falling rendered to a good Enemies to lovers And that’s why the Gryffindor-Slytherin conjunction of Hermione and Draco is perfect to fill this box. We find hundreds of fanfics or novels that are inspired by these characters that inhabit the magical world, but if you need help to know what to start, it is not what to worry about. The truth is that within this amalgam there are two aspects: stories that would enter the category of Dark fantasy Where Voldemort would have won the war and, on the other side, the land ROM comrecounting the encounter of Draco and Hermione years after the events of the book. As the number of stories in this regard is huge, the reading community itself exercises as a sieve and provides lists and tops about the dramas that you cannot miss. Without a doubt, the most famous fanfic and that revolutionizes Booktok is ‘Manacled‘of Senlinyu. With this Dramione We are located after Harry has lost the war and Hermione is captured by the deadly. If this premise catches your attention and you want to go to read it right now, there is a problem, already It is not available In AO3 since February of this year. The author, due to an editorial contract, withdrew ‘Manacled’ and now becomes called ‘ALCHEMISED‘, dating its publication for September 23, 2025. This is not something new and happens increasingly regularly. In the world Fanfic La Libertad is absolute but when making a publication to use, names and locations have to be different from those of the work on which it is based. Thus in ‘Alchemized’ we will find the same essence and the same trope but with names, locations and magic systems away from the world of Hogwarts. The base is the same, but the shadow of doubt is always constant: is the reason for being of the fanfic to enter the traditional … Read more

The highest grossing science fiction film without being a saga

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It makes sense that the name of Christopher Nolan comes up when we talk about one of the few films that approach the one billion collection and that are not part of a saga, because in this case Nolan himself is the franchise. We approach his films looking for the author’s brand he guarantees, and that is another way to franchise his works. In any case, this’Origin‘(What can you see in Netflix, Movistar Plus+ and Max) It is a box office milestone. It is not, yes, the highest grossing film in history that does not belong to a franchise, because that honor must be attributed before her to ‘Titanic’, ‘Barbie‘(which should be discussed whether part of a franchise or not),’ Bohemian Rhapsody ‘U’Oppenheimer‘, of Nolan himself. But ‘origin’ is The only one of them that can be considered to belong to the science fiction genre in its purest form. In it we will meet an expert in “steal”, during sleep, secrets of the subconscious of others. Because of this occupation he has had to give up a normal life: but he has a plan for this to change. Through a process known as “inception”, it will implement an idea in someone’s subconscious instead of subtracting it. The plan is complicated when within its labyrinthine plan someone appears who is able to predict all its movements. ‘Origin’ is one of Nolan’s most notorious films, among other things because it is not part of a previous work, as with the much more popular trilogy of the dark gentleman. Your way of visualizing dreams, Although not entirely original, it has been very influential And it is practically impossible to portray in the cinema the dream world without paying the thematic and visual (and sound, very important in the film) that Nolan settled. A classic moden that is worth reviewing … and not only for its extraordinary box office. Header | Warner In Xataka | Christopher Nolan explained to us the end of ‘origin’ with a purpose: prepare for the ‘Oppenheimer’

After 24 years of saga, it seemed impossible to reinvent the wheel. ‘Civilization VII’ has achieved it

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One more shift and I leave it. When we talk about a shift strategy game, specifically one of the saga ‘civilization’that phrase is a cliché. That is why it is less true, and something that I have discovered in recent days with the analysis of ‘Civilization VII’ is to what extent I missed that feeling that I had for months with the fifth installment and that lost some magic With the sixth. It is always difficult to talk about a strategy game because what it offers is very different from what we can live in an adventure or action title, these being more linear and anchored experiences, in general, to which developers want you to live. In a ‘civilization’, the strategy has to do, but it doesn’t matter the plans you make because the artificial intelligence of the game is there to punch. And from the last game of the remarkable saga of Sid Meier I have two things to say. The first is that I thought I was tired of the franchise formulasince I have been with this experience for many years and, despite being the VI in the market, I kept playing every time to V (For me, the best). The second thing I have to say is that I was wrong. I didn’t know to what extent. Who wants historical fidelity Every time a game with historical dyes is launched, there is no lack of those who argue that any detail that comes out of what is considered ‘historical fidelity’ is something that ruins the experience. I read some comments of this style when it was learned that in this game we could have Isabel I of Castilla as the leader of the Han of Chinabut let’s be serious: we are in a saga in which it is goal to launch the atomic bomb with Gandhi. We cannot come now with historical fidelity. I admit that it is shocking for those who carry several deliveries of the saga, but choosing leader and civilization separately is something that changes everything. If the saga already allowed us, more or less, to do what we would like, Now freedom is total. Each of the leaders has some attributes and their own tree, but each civilization also has its characteristics. Taking advantage of that mechanics is what will help us to have a better or worse in the game (not in fun, but in terms of frustration) but I think, otherwise, it is pure ‘civilization’. This is: to found the capital of our empire, building buildings of production, fun, research, economy or military in the adjacent boxes; Found new cities and try to conquer the map. All this in shifts and while we make crumbs with some neighbors who, many times, are quite touches noses. I think the best thing I can do is tell you about my first game. I started with the Vietnamese Trung Trắc, who faced the Han dynasty. Well, my civilization, precisely, was that of Han. Attributes: militaristic and scientific. “It serves me,” I thought, so … to work. As I knew it was the game for the analysis, I wanted to give it pepper (I regretted immediately) and I started in medium difficulty, with huge map and founded my capital next to a volcano (they enter into the erupting destroying buildings from time to time). I started expanding and soon I founded two other cities: one mining company and one agricultural, all with the sea, so it could happen in the future. I continued advancing my city and creating only some units, Until I met Benjamin Franklin. All good at first. Also with Machiavelli, whom I met shortly after. And with José Rizal things also like silk. “I am a pacifist,” I thought, although Trung is doing the military. To Machiavelli, no water When I followed my ball expanding and strengthening my relationship with the three, Machiavelli and Benjamin went their heads and declared the war mutually, also Rizal. He supported whoever supported, two were going to be angry, so I did what any militarist shark mind would do: I supported Rizal, who lived much further, and went into war with Machiavelli and Benjamin. Both. I wanted to stay its cities, so it came from pearls. I started to fortify my cities and reinforce the borders. I created a siege ballist and destroyed one of the cities of Machaiavelo. It was the one hundred and peak turn and my enemy were no longer two dead as Italian and the American, but … the crisis. I knew that crises were a mechanics of the game, but I was so concentrated that I didn’t see him coming. And it arrived, as if it were Lehman Brothers in 2008. Aid The crisis reached my empire with social discontent and an economic hole due to the number of units it had to maintain. I did what a leader does: look for oil in a foreign nation And keep pressing my enemies without paying attention to my people when, suddenly, everything ended. Antiquity came to an end and the era of discoveries came. It was necessary to decide what civilization to make the leap and chose the Norman (total, put to burst historical fidelity …) and discovered something curious: the crisis had vanished. My units had made the leap to their most current versions of the new age, the buildings had changed design, some that no longer served were gone and all the wars had vanished (although the relationship with the enemy leaders did not improve). He had to start over a new era, one that rewards you with juicy resources if you are going to explore new continents, where there will also be other factions with which to decide how to relate. And there I was, with the crisis resolved as if by magic, with a city of Machiavelli in my possession, having demonstrated to Benjamin how the Chinese are spent controlled by a Vietnamese and with a new … Read more

I wanted to be one of the great science fiction sagas, but the box office failure took ahead to the book saga

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‘Twilight’ and ‘The hunger games’, like or not, marked an era. His aesthetics, his arguments and even his industrial logic (successfully female literary saga, and that adapts in a film with aspiration to open a saga) sowed A series of seeds that set in a good amount of sagas As the semi -infallid ‘divergent’, although few achieved the fame of the two most successful franchises. In fact, Stephanie Meyer herself, author of ‘Twilight’, launched to experiment with science fiction. The result was’The host‘, a new editorial success that was quickly adapted to the cinema. And the film, directed by Andrew Niccol (signatory of ‘Gattaca’ and screenwriter of ‘The Truman show’), was not bad at all. However, the failure was considerable, with only 63,3 million dollars collected around the world compared to 40 budget, insufficient for the saga to have continuity. The film tells how the earth has been invaded by beings that are housed in human bodies and control their minds. The creature that inhabits the body of a young land has to live fight against the memories of this, who strives to not losing the control. To do this, rConstantly recue the man who is in lovewhich makes the creature, Wanderer, also ends up in love with that human. Both will end up allying to reunite with him. As you can see, high doses of youth romanticism in a film that, despite its dishes with the teenage fashions of that time, has a good amount of powerful ideas: visually it is attractive, the cast (Saosear Ronan, Diane Kruger, Emily Browning) It is more interesting than usual and has good doses of violence that distance it from the white approach of ‘twilight’. A pity, since Meyers also abandoned the continuation of the literary series, and there is no way of knowing (for the moment) how the story ends. In Xataka | Between ‘Body snatchers’ and ‘are alive’: 11 films about ultra -corps and other silent extraterrestrial invasions

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