For ages, my friends and I have gone on and on and on: the best way to do a Fantastic Four movie is as a period piece. Mad Men with superheroes. The Incredibles, but live-action.

But they'd never do it, right?

Even with each piece of marketing -- the posters, the trailers, the Giacchino theme -- I thought, "yeah, but it's gonna turn into a generic superhero movie, eventually."

The first ten minutes is what my mind's eye and nerd brain had craved for ages. Holy fucking shit. That montage is absolutely unreal.

For the first time in years, it's a Marvel movie where you don't need the point of entry. Much like James Gunn's Superman, it's a movie bold enough to say, "you get superheroes now, yeah? Now watch THIS."

I cannot wait to watch this a billion more times. They fucking did it.