Other versions?
As for what I am looking forward to seeing?
A well done Captain America (especially if it starts out like the begininng of the Ultimates mini series!)
I actually really enjoyed Elektra, but that may be because I’m only familiar with her as being somehow connected to Daredevil (who is another character I never read unless he was in a crossover with one of the characters I did read; at the time I was doing my heaviest comic collecting — 1987 - 1991 — I thought the art in Daredevil’s comic was so atrociously bad that I could hardly look at it, and what few storylines I actually read all seemed to revolve around Typhoid Mary fucking with DD’s emotions, instead of DD fighting crime). So I didn’t go into the Elektra movie with any expectations. Also, the young girl character looked almost exactly like a girl I know.
Daredevil’s failure stung because it meant we never got to see the sequel “Daredevil: Born Again.”
That is one of the greatest stories in comic history.
I like directors (Christopher Nolan and Bryan Singer stand out) who do not associate superheroes with campy.
Daredevil was so full of tongue in cheek, winking at the fanboys that it was difficult to take serious. Plus, the dialogue was dreadful.
I had no expectations either. Not only have I never read any Daredevil comics, but I hadn’t even seen the Daredevil movie. Elektra was just bad, from the poorly-drawn characters to the confusing leaps in logic to Elektra losing a fight with bedsheets.
I didn’t care at all for Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer. I wanted to, because SS is excellent. The CGI for Mr. Fantastic was pretty weak in my opinion. I was very creeped out by the blue contact lenses on Jessica Alba. They should’ve let her be dark haired and dark eyed. The flame effects were good. The surfer was decent, but you could tell when it was CGI versus the times they let him be a real person. The story was poor. The action sequences were ok, the best being FF versus Dr. Doom, the worst being London. All in all I’d give it a D+. If you are a fan, go see it; if you are on the fence, wait for DVD.
Yeah, Cap would be good…tough to do, but good. Be a real danger of getting political in there, a minefield.
The other versions I’m referring to are the new extended version of FF that was just recently released and the director’s cut of Daredevil. Both I liked much better than the original.
As for Bryan Singer…he may not be camp, but he does love exposition. The man can’t do a exciting comic book movie to save his life, IMHO.
But Yeeter, Sue Storm is a blue-eyed blonde. Surely you don’t want to disrupt such a critical piece of continuity? :eek:
I just got back from seeing it earlier this morning. It was neat because I saw the 11am show and there was a big group of kids there and they would cheer when Dr. Doom got knocked around so that made the experience cool, instead of annoying as it would be with most movies, because secretly I was cheering on the inside.
My over all thoughts were that I liked it. I’d give it an 9. It’s a comic book movie and it was good in that regard.
I was a FF comic reader so I had some mininal expectations that I wanted the movie to cover and they did.
I liked Dr. Doom, he was very Doomish, and I’d like to see him get his own movie and really explore the character.
He was awesome when he was on the board and I loved that he killed to get it.
Jessica Alba bugs me as Sue. She looks 16 and yet she is marrying Reed who is graying at the temples.
I liked the SS. Laurence Fishburne was perfect as the voice.
I was disappointed by the ending. I had worries about how they would handle the Galactus thing.
The surfer could not have seriously blowed up Galactus. That’s just dumb. It better have been something like Galactus agreed and then dispersed himself to go eat another planet. Though I am glad the SS lived. I would have yelled in the theater if they had killed of SS.
But I do realize the scope of Galactus and I know it’d be tough to handle it no matter how they went about it.
Saw it last night with my 10-year-old son. We’d both liked the first FF movie well enough, and felt the same about this. Some laughs, some stunts, some chills - it ain’t Tolstoy, though.
I agree that Alba’s blue contacts are distractingly vivid. She also looked like she’d been dipped in a vat of cocoa butter - waaaaaay too much makeup. Good to see that nerdy character actor Whatshisface as the priest at the wedding(s). SS emerging from his board, or dropping through and below it, was 'way cool. Johnny Storm was cocky and funny and full of himself, as always - my favorite character. Grabbed by the throat by SS, he gasps, “Can we talk?” Favorite moment: Thing stands there and says “Oh, crap” as the big chunk of rubble comes flying down the hallway at him… and Reed is smushed behind him. Heheheheh.
But the bachelor party with Reed stretching himself for the lovely ladies was cringeworthy. The Fantasticar was just silly - and Dodge made it? C’mon. And why would the U.S. military take a captive alien to a base in Russia? Andre Braugher was wasted as the hardass four-star Army general, I thought. And weren’t those Chinese cops awfully understanding at the end, after the running-dog capitalist FF have (or so it would appear to them) trashed downtown Shanghai?
Anyway, I’d give it maybe a B.
Forgot to mention: Dr. Doom’s helicopter, when it takes him to meet with the SS on the glacier, has the registry number LT666X on its tail. Nice attention to detail, that.
Jessica Alba just looks unnatural as Sue Storm to me. She’s gorgeous, don’t get me wrong, but she is not, ever, under any circumstances, a blue-eyed blonde. (I’d suggest Katherine Heigl, maybe, if she could pull it off…)
(Also, isn’t Johnny supposed to be blonde? He’s as dark-haired as Reed in the movie…)
I liked it. The bachelor party scene made me cringe, too, but the movie was good popcorn: fluffy, light, and fun. And of course,
Stan Lee’s cameo
was absolutely worth the price of admission.
Mmmmm… Jessica Alba dipped in cocoa butter…
<–me, offering to lick her clean.
Sorry, carry on.
I heard that Rachel McAdams really wanted the role, but lost it to Jessica. I think Rachel would have been great.
I, on the other hand, had been thinking that Scarlett Johanssen would have been great as Sue.
Could someone spoil the first few minutes for me? I was late coming to the theater. Just to part where the Fantastic Four where waiting for the plane.
I love Scarlett, but she’s too short.
Because Sue’s height is a major point in the comics?
Reese Witherspoon was born to play Sue Storm.
I wish they had gone with the “Down with Love” faux-60s style film that was talked about at one point.