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>You're never going to have a serious leader that audiences look up to when his power is fucking stretching.
This is true, mainly because Reed is always depicted as a fairly smart, socially awkward guy, who can reach for a book from across the room. Reed in the comics is presented as having an intellect that can also stretch further than normal human genius and also kind of a dick. If Reed were characterised more like House in the movies audiences would respond more.
Don't get me wrong, on paper F4 are super lame, but it really doesn't help that hey have yet to get a film that is willing to at least try and do something more interesting with them. The 2005 F4 movie at least had a great cast and had the characters play off each other well (especially Ben and Johnny), the just bitched out on Doom.