Reconsidering The "Guilty Pleasure" of FANTASTIC FOUR

"Why Are Movies So Bad? or, The Numbers" by Pauline Kael: "The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up. 'There's one God for all creation, but there must be a separate God for the movies,' a producer said. 'How else can you explain their survival?' "