Stan Lee Wielded The Power Cosmic to Make the Latest Fantastic Four Movie Not Suck!
I saw Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer today, and, overall, I was pretty impressed. It wasn't a great movie or anything, but it was a vast improvement over the original, and far better than I was expecting, especially given its PG status. SPOILER ALERT (obviously)
On the plus side:
+ We get to actually see Michael Chicklis, the best actor in that movie. He plays Vic on The Shield, and I think that's all I really need to say to support my immediately previous assertion. So, being able to see his face so that he could actually emote was a goodness.
+ The interaction between the members of the Fantastic Four seemed less awkward, and I was happy to see the relationship between Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm evolve a little beyond the prequel's 2-d rivalry.
+Continuing in that vein: Johnny Storm overall seemed a little more human this time around
+ And the relationship between Reed Richards and Sue Storm was remotely believable, as opposed to the previous movie's phoned in mannequin job.
+Susan Storm's reasonable handling of Richards' bachelor's party. It is all to common in movies for women to be ridiculously jealous, irrational, shrews, whose only goal seems to be misconstruing everything their man does, painting it in the wrong light, forcing him to abandon his own hobbies, friends, etc., and just becoming an illogical, nightmarish, harridan at the drop of a hat. So it was nice to see that while she may have had an immediate, visceral, jealous reaction, she, given a minute or two, calmed down as this was, in fact, a bachelor party.
+SILVER SURFER! You just cannot go wrong. He is a man called Norann Radd who calls his omnipotence The Power Cosmic!
... Maybe I only like him because I am from California.
On the minus side:
- Whoever plays Dr. Doom still sucks. When was it decided that villians must be ridiculously effete?
- Also, his lines were painfully trite ("I never was good at sharing," etc.)
- Galactus was a dust storm. Where was my cheesy giant in urple samurai armor?
*weird complaint I know, but it's a Fantastic Four movie, I know it is ridiculous going in, and I am a canon nazi.
-Ben Grimm's role moving further into comic relief: especially the bodily humor.
One final thing: I'm not well versed on Fantastic Four or Silver Surfer comics, but didn't Radd make the surfboard with the Power Cosmic? Therefore, doesn't the Power Cosmic reside within him, rather than the board? Why did Doom gain - admittedly to a seemingly lesser extent - the Power Cosmic? I didn't think that the Power Cosmic was an equipable magic item in the form of a silver surfboard.
Now that I have proven myself to be the biggest dork this side of the Star Wars convention, I'll sign off. Maybe I'll talk about the new Pirates movie later...
On the plus side:
+ We get to actually see Michael Chicklis, the best actor in that movie. He plays Vic on The Shield, and I think that's all I really need to say to support my immediately previous assertion. So, being able to see his face so that he could actually emote was a goodness.
+ The interaction between the members of the Fantastic Four seemed less awkward, and I was happy to see the relationship between Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm evolve a little beyond the prequel's 2-d rivalry.
+Continuing in that vein: Johnny Storm overall seemed a little more human this time around
+ And the relationship between Reed Richards and Sue Storm was remotely believable, as opposed to the previous movie's phoned in mannequin job.
+Susan Storm's reasonable handling of Richards' bachelor's party. It is all to common in movies for women to be ridiculously jealous, irrational, shrews, whose only goal seems to be misconstruing everything their man does, painting it in the wrong light, forcing him to abandon his own hobbies, friends, etc., and just becoming an illogical, nightmarish, harridan at the drop of a hat. So it was nice to see that while she may have had an immediate, visceral, jealous reaction, she, given a minute or two, calmed down as this was, in fact, a bachelor party.
+SILVER SURFER! You just cannot go wrong. He is a man called Norann Radd who calls his omnipotence The Power Cosmic!
... Maybe I only like him because I am from California.
On the minus side:
- Whoever plays Dr. Doom still sucks. When was it decided that villians must be ridiculously effete?
- Also, his lines were painfully trite ("I never was good at sharing," etc.)
- Galactus was a dust storm. Where was my cheesy giant in urple samurai armor?
*weird complaint I know, but it's a Fantastic Four movie, I know it is ridiculous going in, and I am a canon nazi.
-Ben Grimm's role moving further into comic relief: especially the bodily humor.
One final thing: I'm not well versed on Fantastic Four or Silver Surfer comics, but didn't Radd make the surfboard with the Power Cosmic? Therefore, doesn't the Power Cosmic reside within him, rather than the board? Why did Doom gain - admittedly to a seemingly lesser extent - the Power Cosmic? I didn't think that the Power Cosmic was an equipable magic item in the form of a silver surfboard.
Now that I have proven myself to be the biggest dork this side of the Star Wars convention, I'll sign off. Maybe I'll talk about the new Pirates movie later...