Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

[Dolemite]

Saw it last night. It was fine- about on par with the original. It was cheesy but fun.

Comments:

They have the team's personalities and the whole family dynamic down pat. Good job there.

Silver Surfer was okay. Everyone's going on and on about how amazing he looked and moved and how Doug Jones is a physical wonder and all that, but I just saw the T-1000 on a surfboard. And his personality was actually kinda bland.

Oh, and the Surfer's tummy is a movie screen? wtf.

Wow, Doctor Doom sucked even more than he did in the last movie. He was such a stupid, annoying fag. But gee, it was so nice that the Surfer's powers magically healed him all the time.

Galactus...well, I don't know. Yeah, he was a big cloud, BUT...if you'll notice the scene at the end when the Surfer confronted him, there's a flash behind the cound, and you see a purple silhouette shaped exactly like the Kirby Galactus. Maybe the real Galactus was there after all. Of course, it would have been a 1000x better if he walked out of the stupid cloud and started stomping building and shit...

Speaking of the Surfer confronting Galactus, wasn't it nice that Galactus gave the Surfer the power to destroy him? And if he could have done that all along, why did he wait until now? And if the Surfer was that powerful, why wasn't Galactus working for him instead? So stupid. Having Reed threaten him with the Ultimate Nullifier thing would have made more sense.

That asshole General was annoying. Glad he died.

Best Stan Lee cameo ever. That was hilarious.

[kingoffighters]

Dolemite reaffirms my belief that I should never watch this movie. Thank you.

[Dolemite]

It's funny, because most of my comments above are negatives, but taken as a whole the movie was pretty decent. I mean, it's loyal to the comic- if you hate the movie, then you either hate the comic or have weird nostalgic memories about it being better than it really was. Or you really like Doctor Doom and are pissed at what a limp-wristed homo they turned him into.

[Bacon McShig]

Speaking of the Surfer confronting Galactus, wasn't it nice that Galactus gave the Surfer the power to destroy him? And if he could have done that all along, why did he wait until now? And if the Surfer was that powerful, why wasn't Galactus working for him instead? So stupid.

Galactus isn't really the type to even consider a betrayal. He gave SS the power that would most facilitate his planet-finding, and expected him to hold true to his promise of fealty.

[Dolemite]

Galactus isn't really the type to even consider a betrayal. He gave SS the power that would most facilitate his planet-finding, and expected him to hold true to his promise of fealty.

Yeah, but he's fucking Galactus. In the comics SS was his bitch. In the movie he appears to have killed him, but walks (surfs?) away without a scratch.

[voltz]

Remember this is Hollywood, they do whatever they want to whichever franchises they get their hands on.

[Dolemite]

Yeah, but he fucked up Galactus in this movie. If they do that spin-off Surfer movie they're talking about, he'll have to fight Jesus or somebody else bad-ass enough to give him a real fight.

[Bacon McShig]

Yeah, but he's fucking Galactus. In the comics SS was his bitch. In the movie he appears to have killed him, but walks (surfs?) away without a scratch.

Eh, in the comics you gotta give those open-ended conclusions because they gotta do 12+ issues a year into perpetuity, they can't just nix a memorable villain. But for movies, they're only going to do 1 or 2 more FF flicks and probably won't use Galactus again in them. There's no reason to end with a nebulous victory.

That Ultimate Nullifier crap would have made for a horrible ending, anyway. Head-on self-sacrifice to eliminate a threat > showing the threat a deus ex machina device that makes them go "o shi- sorry guys I'll go eat some other planet lol".

Yeah, but he fucked up Galactus in this movie. If they do that spin-off Surfer movie they're talking about, he'll have to fight Jesus or somebody else bad-ass enough to give him a real fight.

Surfer is an obvious Jesus allegory himself (made painfully obvious in the movie by his crucifiction pose as he sacrificed himself). To further beat you over the head with this, his first main nemesis in his solo comic series was Mephisto.

[Dolemite]

Surfer is an obvious Jesus allegory himself (made painfully obvious in the movie by his crucifiction pose as he sacrificed himself). To further beat you over the head with this, his first main nemesis in his solo comic series was Mephisto.

So everyone who spread their arms in a movie is Jesus? They said that shit about Superman Returns too.

I thought Adam Warlock was Marvel's main Jesus allegory, not the Surfer.

[Bacon McShig]

Your mom's a Jesus allegory.

because of the beard and all