Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer

[Benjamin Grimm]

The first movie didn't do much for me, but this trailer gave me goosebumps:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fantasticfourriseofthesilversurfer/large.html

[Edgy MD]

Falling twice, huh?

Ghost Rider looks slick, but then I hear the cliched "Oooh! Ahhh!" soundtrack and see Nicholas Cage and I think "Maybe not."

[Vic Sage]

At last!

The ballad of Norrin Radd shall be writ large upon the hearts and minds of man... and his song will make the heavens weep.

Tis a telling long awaited.

Forsooth.

nuff said.

excelsior.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Falling twice, huh?

Actually, I never got to the goosebumps stage with the original Fantastic Four movie. Rereading the thread that CF bumped this afternoon confirmed that I went in to that movie fearing the worst.

That trailer for Rise of the Surfer got my spine-tingling in a way that no part of the first movie did, so we're already ahead of the game. At this point I'm eagerly awaiting the second FF movie. As more information becomes available I may start feeling differently, but right now I'm fired up.

Spider-Man 3 on May 4. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer on June 15. Pencil me in for opening night for both pictures.

[Edgy MD]

Where are you opening night of Ghost Rider?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't know. Probably not at a movie theater. (When does it open, by the way?)

Taking two kids to the movies on a Friday night requires more incentive than Ghost Rider offers. It may turn out to be a good movie (or not; I have no idea) but it offers zero goosebump potential. The Ghost Rider character never meant anything to me.

I'm looking forward to Iron Man in 2008, though. Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly going to play Tony Stark, which should be interesting. I'm glad they didn't cast a 23-year-old, which would have been a bad sign.

[Edgy MD]

Amazin'.

I didn't grow up on Marvel.

But if I did... a freak like that... amazin'.

[Vic Sage]

I'm still waiting for those Ghost Rider comics, Edgy!

[Edgy MD]

Whoah, wait. Now that there's a movie coming out, increasing the exposure and increasing the demand... ebay, baby!

[soupcan]

Saw the Silver Surfer trailer the other night (took the kids to 'Night at The Museum').

Agree wholheartedly with Yancy. The trailer consisted solely of the Torch chasing the Surfer. It was awesome. Can't wait.

[Centerfield]

The "Rise" posters around town are cool looking.

I didn't realize the Silver Surfer was a bad guy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Only at the very beginning. He led Galactus to Earth so that he could feed on the planet's life energies. But when he met the lovely albeit blind sculptress Alicia Masters, he realized that the human race was worth saving, and he turned on Galactus.

He's been one of the good guys ever since.

[Elster88]

I like the trailer.

[nymr83]

that trailer was awesome and i can't wait for the movie (along with spiderman 3.) marvel has really tapped into a goldmine these last few years.

[nymr83]

i just re-watched the first one, alot of inconsistencies with the comic (or things i had forgotten over the years):
-susan storm involved with victor von doom?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, that was made up, as was the entire origin of both the FF and Doom.

[stevejrogers]

Major news about Galactus' apperance in the film

By comparision, here is what the Devourer of Worlds looks like in comic form, to scale with the other characters

[Benjamin Grimm]

Boy, I hope that report is wrong.

[stevejrogers]

I hope so too, but then again the same guys cheated a bit when they finally got a Sentinel in X3. Basically a Danger Room exercise and all you saw were lights and smoke and a giant head crashing down with Wolverine trimphantly on top.

Then again weren't there rumors that Johnny Storm wouldn't be on fire, but be able to shoot flames from his hands or something?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I didn't hear that.

It's pretty much how they handled Iceman, though.

[nymr83]

I hated how they did Iceman (there are plenty of X-men and you ruined it already my making him a kid instead of the same approximate age as Cyclops, Jean Grey, and The Beast) they should have just used another character (Gambit?) if their special effects people couldn't handle iceman correctly.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think the special effects could have handled Iceman. My guess is that they didn't want him to look like Frosty the Snowman.

He would have been much cooler (no pun intended) if he was covered with frost and riding on that ice slide.

It didn't ruin the X-Men movies for me, but I feel less of a connection the the X-Men than I do to the FF, Spidey and Hulk.

[nymr83]

It didn't ruin the movies but I didn't like it.
Daredevil was ruined by the casting, Kingpin is supposed to be a big fat white guy, i know you gotta be PC and put a token black character or two in every movie but it shouldn't have been him. create a character if you have to.

[Guest sharpie]

You can get fired for not liking this movie.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/14/film.projectionist.reut/index.html

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jack Matthews in The Daily News today gave the new FF movie three stars and said that it's a lot better than the first movie.

That's encouraging. I watched the first movie again last night on DVD; it was only the second time I had seen it and the first since the night it opened in theaters two years ago. I again had to gnash my teeth at how badly they handled the character of Doctor Doom. But there were parts that I enjoyed.

The whole "Galactus is a giant cloud" thing has really dampened my enthusiasm for FF/Surfer, but seeing a good review in the paper this morning has me feeling a little more optimistic.

I'll be seeing it tomorrow. Good or bad, there's no way I want to miss seeing a Fantastic Four movie on the day it opens.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Time to make this thread a poll.

I've read a few more reviews, and none are as positive as the one with three stars from Jack Matthews of the Daily News.

The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the first movie, but still not all that good.

We'll be going to the 7:25 p.m showing tonight. I'll miss Mets vs. Yankees, but I'm afraid that's probably a good thing. (Maybe I'll watch it on TiVo-delay, but I can't stay up too late because I have an early flight tomorrow morning.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I can't be objective. It got me. By the end of the movie I was a field of goosebump.

Four stars.

I don't expect the casual viewer to react like I did, but for someone who knows and loves the characters as much as anybody, they did something right. (A lot wrong, but enough right for the goosebumps and the four thumbs up.)

MUCH better than the first movie.

And now... Mets 2, Yankees 0 in the 7th. LET'S GO METS!

[nymr83]

I liked it alot. Silver Surfer was well-handled. 4.5 stars, could have had 5 if Galactus wasn't a lame storm-cloud.

[soupcan]

Fantasticar by Dodge? Of course it's a Hemi?

Puh-lease.

Surfer was awesome though.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is it possible that Vic Sage didn't see this movie?