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The FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER spots on HEROES tonight!
Hey folks, Harry here... Are you getting a little scared of FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER? It looks like it could be very very cool, but is that possible? Check out the Surfer flying through Space shot in the new NBC spots they have up over on their HEROES site. It's crazy cool. And the goofy FANTASTIC FOUR power change thing... that's very old school FF. I notice they're hiding Dr Doom and the big GALACTUS cloud, but damn if this isn't looking cool. Though I refuse to believe that, until I see it and it doesn't suck. Could Fox have made a cool film? Let's hope.
Click Here To See 4 TV spots strung together!!!
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Still no real shots of action I'm sure Mr. Fantastic will get ripped off again by having him do almost nothing. Dr. Doom better have a big part, but still so far these ads have created some hope. I'll see it opening day.
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Maybe?
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...the cgi looks horrible, and Fishburne's voice doesn't even match up to Surfer's mouth. There's good IDEAS in the scenes, but, it doesn't pan out. Stop making excuses for these films! Just because you're geeks and these are comic book adaptations, does NOT mean you have an obligation to make excuses for them. And to the contributors to the site: we know you're going to give a positive review. Its going to be another one of your "well, its not GREAT and I have some problems with it, BUT, I (and/or my nephew, neice, second-cousin etc.) had a great time, and they did respect the source material, kinda."
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What exactly is your process for choosing what films you are excited about Harry??
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and I can't wait for the glowing Transformers review which he probably already has written.
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good. If only they hadn't goofed Doom so badly.
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and we might strike a deal, Mr. Story....
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screening reviews you "heard" about but never bothered posting or following up on? One might think that you could possibly be full of shit. I'm not predicting that this will be great, just that your Fox/Rothman jihad would normally compel you to post any shitty review you ran across out of spite. On a related note I have read on another forum that they are trying to rectify the "cloud" issue.
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At least make it purple. Right guys? Right?
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That spot they had tonight during Heros was pretty cool. The surfer just breaking Storm psy bubble and talking to her was awesome. I think the character of the Silver Surfer is going to surprise a lot of people.
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Please...... Nip Tuck rocks though,.
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Mr. Sort-of-Interesting and the Fiery Wiseacre battle a brand-new bad guy who really isn't, only to find that another bad guy is really a big cloud.The Lady With the Invisible Ta-Tas and the Bad-CGI Guy face off against a leftover bad guy from the last film.Who cares?
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Doom must possess the mighty surf maguffin!
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as the stuff they have on their site. The Silver Surfer can absorb missles into his board?
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Could they even do that so close to the release date?
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..in Team America! Only the puppet emoted better.
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effects look improved but every time anybody talks you can't help but realize how bad this is going to be.
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A BIG BALL OF COSMIC GAS FROM THE ASS LORD BLACK BOLT!
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I find it funny that the Galactus Cloud is bullshit to these guys (and it is bullshit) but all the major changes to the Transformers characters is cool (which it is not) I just find selective rage over how close something sticks to source material to be a bit suspect.
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I loved the first film. That is one big dumb comic book film - superheroically stupid. What the hell is wrong with that?I can't wait for this sequel. The trailer looked funny, it has a naked silver man on a flying surfboard - nothing can go wrong with this film.
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This movie looks like a turkey! all this switching powers. its like that episode of gilligan's island where their minds switched. its the gooftastic four.
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more than spiderman 3.
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...and Shrek3...and POTC3...and 28 Weeks Later. Gee, this and the Transformers are going to have to save the summer.
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But I have seen FF#1, so I'm not. With all the time, effort and talent at the movie's disposal, too bad they screwed up so many elementary things. Like "Spider-man 3" I predict that this movie will disappoint old-time fans. But that's OK, 'cos the kiddies are gonna LOVE IT!
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Nuff said.
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You know what? The first film was so-so (mainly due to miscasting of Mr Fantastic, Invisible Girl and Doom), but really not that bad. And the trailers for this film *are* cool. The power-switching thing is the kind of fun-with-superpowers thing that's a perfect match to the FF- and you certainly won't get that kind of fun in any other superhero flick. The brief trailer snippet of Johnny Storm apparently wielding all four powers is classic-Kirby-style stuff. Please please let the final film not suck.
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Boy, I could only hope it's half as good as that movie.
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And I soooo don't want to have hopes for this one. I didn't even bother to go see the first one, but I ended up seeing it on rental. So glad I stayed away. Anyway, the more I see of this one, the more I wanna see it. Dang...there go my low expectations, not they have to deliver a good movie. Nah, I'll still keep the expectations low, but I have to go see the surfer on the big screen. Dang it, I am so conflicted!!!
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Thats what im guessing everybodys gonna say about this after seeing it next month.Galactus is gonna be so bad and Doom will still be handled wrongly,plus making ALba look like a white girl is starting to look creepy,like white chicks creepy.
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...in which flying things hit skyscrapers (even if they just fly through it without causing damage). How many people yelled TOO SOON in theatres, while watching the trailer? :)
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...I mean Jessica Alba is hot as hell, but the eyes are a little bit weird. I'm also not digging the switching powers thing, seems like another attempt to use comic relief as a device to cover up a bad storyline.
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My expectations for the first one were set so low I acutally enjoyed it. I was watching it at a cinema where you could drink wine, though.
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and so joins Empire, Godfather II and Spiderman 2 in that select club......wait a minute.... that can't be right?
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this is looking better than spiderman 3
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The first film looked cool until I realised they showed all the FX in the trailer, I wonder if the same thing may happen here too?, least they have realised Ioan Grufford is as lame as hell and not even worthy of his own promo spot, wise move, he is cinematic drying paint, Also Evans has shaved his chest, I hate that, its like a fit woman dressing like a dog or being uncool.
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Superman Returns is so better cinema, saying you like the FF better is like saying you think quite enjoyable now and then junk food is better than Fillet Minion, its just not true and you end up looking uncultured!
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Hiring a comedian best known for acting high or retarded to protray the minister just seems like they are determined to go in the wrong direction.
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The quality of the shots looked pretty cheap to me. You'd think they'd pick a scene with better dialog than the 'you always have a choice!' drivel... Unless the rest of the movie is actually worse....
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You will all kneel before the perfect colossal stupidity of FANTASTIC FOUR: CHECK OUT THE NAKED SILVER BLOKE! It will fill up your joy sacks with pure, unfiltered inanity! It will pee glistening, golden arcs of idiocy into your unworthy hair! This new film in which pretty people fight crime with their absurd superpowers will stand astride the puny planet earth and crush you all betwixt its moronic buttocks!So, yes, I'm excited about this one.
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...when the 'Saturn-like' planet was being devoured, they was a shadow over it shaped like Galactus' head.
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Yes I did read a lot of the Kirby comics and a lot of FF comics after that as well. Yeah they did stick to the source material somewhat, but that doesn't mean that the script didn't suck. It was just a bunch of hacky shit strung together hoping that comic relief & hammy jokes could fill in the gaps of non-acting and/or weak story (pun intended). I've never seen such obvious product placement & so many stupid one liners in a movie. It was painful, and no I'm not a regular hater.
Besides, I remember the skrulls adopting all the powers at once,
but not the FF. I may be wrong about this...but I don't remember the FF ever swapping powers after they had contact w/the surfer. If I'm right is that sticking to the source material? Or is it just something they saw while leafing through old comics and said "Hey, let's do this to em! It'll fill out a good hour of the movie and all the kids will think it's hilarious! Can you picture Johnny's reaction when he sees himself lookin like The Thing?
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Silver surfer's got much higher recognition going than you'd expect, and as Harry said they've captured the old school FF circa first 2-3 years of the comic. Looks like they may have got a piece of the feel of the mid 60s FF when Kirby transformed into a four-color sci-fi opera. The only way to nail that completely would be in a grander lord of the rings style trilogy with cliffhaners and intervweaving & disjoined plots. But most if the audience out there isn't ready for that, so they may have found something close to the right balance here. This could end up being the one that everybody talks about as really exceeding expecations.
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i apparently am among the few that thought the first film was great...did its job perfectly, introducing the characters...the only miscast was ALBA... i think julian mcmahon is a perfect dr.doom....again the usual suspects in here, or should i say "experts" on who should be cast in what film, what works in a film, how good CG is, all from a bunch of dopes that sit in these talkbacks all day and constantly post as if they actually know anything about anything...when they dont...just because u think u sound intelligent and u post 4000 times a day, dont make u smart...ur another dweeb with too much time on their hands....shouldnt call u experts, ur just morons....this movie will be great....
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... A PURPLE cloud! Galactus be Jimmy Hendrix!!!
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... Where Doom DID steal the Surfer's board. And even with Kirby drawing it... Doom on that board STILL looked silly. This is gonna blow-ho-hoho-BLOW! Still, the Surfer looks kinda cool in a bad CGI cartoon of the SIlver Surfer sorta way. Still... gonna suck guys... Cloudlactus, remember? And what's up with Alba? She looks like a drag queen impersonating Jessica Alba in this. Who whacked her with the ugly-Planet Arboria between 2005 and now?
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I think for Stan Lee's Cameo in this, he should have been Galactus, or the guy running the fog machine that creates Galactus.
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You have no chance to survive make your time.
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but Alba still looks like she could be the third Wayan brother in "white chicks 2". oh well, as long as it doesn´t have emo haircuts, accidental bitchslapping, secret-holding butlers, or jazz dancing... I´m cool with it.
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... But lotsa short fat guy in rubbery Thing Halloween costume, Mr. Fantastic with all the personality and acting talent of a fence post, some drag queen from a nightclub called The Greased Pole doing an impersonation of Jessica Alba, a Reboot-era CGI Silver Surfer creating sharp-edged CGI holes in the Thames River, Dr. Doom in a cheerleader skirt... and a threatening purple cloud! Yeah... that's better!
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May 22, 2007 3:29:57 PM CDT
Yes, Cap'n Crack, changing the spelling of the name...
by vitiumconatusimbibespermaequinus
From "Galactus" to "Gah-Lak-Tus," but NOT the pronunciation, would make it "the worst movie ever." Riiiiiiight. Obviously, you've never seen Spidey 3.Still, I've seen the first FF and my hopes are NOT high for this one. I predict mediocre at best, but, like the man said, "as long as it doesn´t have emo haircuts, accidental bitchslapping, secret-holding butlers, or jazz dancing," it still might be MODERATELY decent.
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an extra from The Boys from Brazil
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Seems the NZ 48HOURS film comp brought machine guns and police to a set in Auckland thinking it was real. The actor was dressed a Gandhi in diaper and holding handgun. Now the diaper is be auctioned on the NZ ebay site TradeMe. Check it out! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Brows e/Listing.aspx?id=101088865&pe
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Cool trailer?...yawn. This will be like the first FF. Mildly entertaining, only due to the cool character interplay of Ben and Johnny. Alba is hot. Reed is insipid and a buffoon as well. The only reason the trailer gives hope is because what they are NOT showing us. Anyone who loves FF will cringe when the "cloud" appears. Weak. Wouldn't it be cool if it was all a case of bait and switch and there on the big screen emerges the most perfect, god-like representation of Galactus towering above the sky scrapers?
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So, will we get a little wind sound-effect every time Cloudactus is on-screen, or will it sound more like hard electric guitar riffs like V'Ger in STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE?
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That one shot in the trailer where we see what looks to be Saturn being devoured by Galactus? If you look closely, you will see the shadow of the big bastard's helmet. Just saying. I am going to remain cautiously optimistic about this flick. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
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the surfer looks phony as hell. when he talks its rofl awful.
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should not be given a voice. This will be bad..
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... If Laurence Fishburne, instead of using his Morpheus Voice, used his Cowboy Curtis Voice for Silver Surfer! "Ah reckon ah gotta tell yuh ah'm reeeal sorry 'bout ya'llses planet, Earth folk... but muh boss Mistuh Galactus is hungry sumthin' fierce! An' it looks like this here tasty li'l mudball is th' main course on his chuckwagon tonite!"
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This freaky friday stuff must stop at once. It's cliche and stupid. That said, the FF movies may just have the best grasp so far of what a comic book is.
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is not reallly poetic, with the ass fucking and all.
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But I'm not expecting anything more than a nifty action sequence or two. A de-pussified Doom would be nice, but I'm not crossing my fingers.
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