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Fantastic Four 2: Rise of The Surfer

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0bsessions:

--- Quote from: rasufelle on 28 Jun 2007, 20:51 ---And what's the saddest?  I STILL found it better than Spider Man 3.  Why?  Because no matter how he is done, the Silver Surfer will always be the coolest, most intensely overpowered superhero in the universe by design as opposed to the way that Sandman was invincible due to overplaying his abilities.  Not only that, but even turning the Devourer of Worlds himself into a cloud still doesn't mess things up as much as their butchery of Venom in Spider Man 3. 

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This isn't quite the topic for this, so I'll make it brief:

Sandman's always been damn near invincible in the comics and they gave pretty much the perfect portrayel of him in that film.

Venom, while inconsistent to an extent, was overall pretty spot-on. Venom's just not a very interesting character on his own.

That said, it was still utter garbage.

wraithzero:

--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 29 Jun 2007, 04:50 ---Sandman's always been damn near invincible in the comics and they gave pretty much the perfect portrayel of him in that film.
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Except for that time he was sucked up by a vacuum cleaner...

Fact is, just about all comics have had their serious periods, and their not-so-serious periods, and their downright-ridiculous periods.
Sometimes the Hulk is an unstoppable force of destructive rage, impossible to stop or reason with.  Others, he just talks a little slow, and only hulk smashes people who hurt hulk friends.
Superman has fought quite a lot of silly people, mainly because there's a limit on villains who'd stand a chance against him, so they've got to make it a bit stupid.
Sometimes the FF are battling Doctor Doom (who has alternated between attaining incredible powers, and being defeated by a horde of squirrels), sometimes they're dealing with a giant alien bulldog. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockjaw_%28comics%29)
And let's not get started on some of the crazy stuff the various X-Men get involved in.

The problem is a lot of the films recently are moving away from the more serious interpretations of the character (with the honourable exception of Batman).  With luck, they'll spot the pattern, realise that the more realistic the better, and things will pick up again.

0bsessions:
That incident with the vaccuum was later written off as him having intended to do that as an expedited route out of the school he was hiding out in. All-told, just lazy writing. A guy made out of sand who can alter his density at will SHOULD be damn near invincible.

Jimmy the Squid:
I saw FF2 the other day. I found it to be enjoyable though I didn't have high expectations. I've never really been able to take the Fantastic Four seriously as a superhero team anyway so I really only went to see it because I was guranteed some explosions. And I love explosions. The best part in the entire film was Stan Lee's appearance, for the first time as himself in a Marvel film.

dont eat that hallway stu:

--- Quote from: ForteBass on 24 Jun 2007, 10:07 ---I went to a drive-in last night with my friends. This was playing. Now, I hated on Spider-man 3 something fierce. I would much rather watch that than have had the experience of Rise of the Silver Surfer. Now, I can let silly plots slide in super hero movies. They're usually just a conduit for the action. However, when even the action sequences are sub-standard (Read: suck out loud) we have a problem. My other two major problems with this flick (I will not dare call this a film) are character development and acting. As for the former, I just could not be assed to care about these characters. They weren't special outside of having super powers. If anything, I usually hated them because most of the time all they did was bicker. Meanwhile the world is coming down around them. I saw a bunch of shallow characters  on the screen, each one incredibly self obsessed. And then there was acting. It's not that they were camp and cheesy, because they just plain weren't. Another reason I didn't care is that the actors gave me nothing to work with. The gamut of emotions came across as mere apathy. So that's my two cents. I'm pretty much burnt out on super-hero movies at this point.

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this guy has a good point, nad what he says is fairly true, but it fills in time better than pretty much all the tv shows on at the moment, so is worth going to see if you've got nothing better to do. lets face it, you're either going to like it or have something to complain about on forums.

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