Not-So-Fantastic Four

Hubby and I went to see the new Fantastic Four movie last night. I was less than impressed (in fact, I think I leaned over him and made a nice retching noise when it was over). It didn't help that behind us was sitting one of those annoying people who comment on what's happening in the movie the whole time. And he was loving this movie, too. There were a lot of "WOW" and "OH MY GOSH, THAT WAS COOL!" sorts of comments coming from the seat behind us. I felt sorry for whoever was with him, especially during the previews, when apparently he found something absolutely hilarious, and nobody else in the theater laughed. We just sat there with fixed little smiles on our faces and tried not to think about just how empty the theater was, and this guy had to sit right behind us.

There was one really memorable moment, that hubby and I will probably treasure for a long long time, though. The Fantastic Four is a Marvel comic book, so of course Stan Lee had a cameo. It's during the wedding scene, he's trying to get in, insisting that he's on the list of invitees, and ha, ha, he gets turned away. The genius behind us feels that he has to explain the joke to the person he's sitting with, perhaps they're not a big comic book buff.

"That's Stan Lee, he wrote the comic!!!!!"

Har har, har har, har dee har har. Thanks for letting us in on that, big guy.