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Now available to watch here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fantasticfourriseofthesilversurfer/hd/)

Watched this a few times at my theater now.  I don't really expect it to be a great movie, but it should at least be better than the first one.  The Surfer is going to be a hard character to do right, especially if they try to get any emotion out of him later.

Well, you know I'm a Surfer fanboy...

I thought the FF movie sucked, but I'll have to see this. At least the trailer gets one thing right: He's first seen as a villain.

Almost seems like they're trying to merge the Sub-Mariner story arc with the Surfer's though (of course, that trailer isn't much to go on).

Would have preferred his entry into cinema be a animated film though.

What ?

Eh ?

When did this get the go ahead ?

That looked pretty damn cool. I liked the first one, though it could have been better... mostly with the villain. I didn't like their version of Dr. Doom. Surfer looks fantastic in this one. I'm going to bet that if they have the actors signed to a third movie, this one will be the build up to the Coming of Galactus for the 3rd movie, meaning this one will end in a cliffhanger like Pirates 2.

I loved the little homage to Jack Kirby with the Surfer's posing and hands on the board though I'm not sure I'm so keen on his new "phasing" ability (is that something they've added to him in the last decade or so in the comics?). But really what inquiring minds want to know is: is Jessica Alba going to strip down to her skivves again? :-D

Direct Link to 1080p version (http://images.apple.com/movies/fox/fantastic_4-silver_surfer/fantastic4silversurfer-tlr1_h1080p.mov)

He has the Power Cosmic! Which pretty much means anything goes. He could rip the gamma ray effects straight out of the Hulk or turn Superman's suit into kryptonite if he wants. There's basically nothing that can stop the Silver Surfer other than his own gullibility and naivete.

Awesome, so the Surfer is a gigantic Munchkin character?  You're the same guy who likes Venom aren't you?


Yes, I'm feeling pissy this morn.

No. I'm the one who likes Venom.

Or, rather, defends Venom.  He isn't exactly my favorite character, but I don't think he's a blight on comics.

I'm not exactly sure what a munchkin is, but if Merusk means overpowered, then yeah, the Surfer is overpowered.

On the other hand, his opponents are of the overpowered variety too. His own creator Galactus. The rest of Galactus' heralds. Mephisto. Olympians. Titans, deities, and demi-gods in general. So it's not overpowered so much as he's just in a different class. A lot of Surfer comics don't even take place on earth. Usually, if you're looking to give him an equal fight, you pit him against other otherworldly and/or intergalactic characters. Barring characters like the Phoenix or Dr. Strange maybe, there isn't much anyone is going to do against him on earth.

If it makes you feel better, he can get tired ;).

Unless you're Zombie Hulk and friends, at least. 

Argh, another childhood hero resurrected for the corporate machine rapezor, I'll pass... I'll take solace in hoping this leads to more kids reading the originals and appreciating the greatness of Jack Kirby.

There seems to be many nods throughout films to the Surfer and Jack Kirby, that I suspect the creative writing part of Hollywood has been in love with them for a long time. Perhaps there are good intentions behind this flick. I say give it a chance.

Trailer is up:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fantasticfourriseofthesilversurfer/

Direct links:

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The new trailer looks teh hot.

So it shows lots of Alba?

That would make it the SUPAR SMOKING HAWTNESS.

It's still cool, but with only a modicum of Albaness.

Looks better than the previous film did from its trailers, and the previous film turned out about as well as I expected it would.  So that bodes well for this one.  I am pleased.

Okay, I'm definitely on the "Alba is smoking hot" bus, but am I the only one who thinks she looks ridiculous in this trailer?  For just under a second, I didn't even realize it was her.  Too much makeup, unnatural hair color, just weird.  Somebody fix, please.

Yeah, she does look weird. The contacts especially.


I hope the movie does reasonably well (even if the first one sucked). I need a Surfer spinoff.


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Oh yeah. did you know that Galactus is a CLOUD in this movie? Not a giant humanoid.


Somehow, I don't mind. He's iconic as far as comics go, but I could see that being very ridiculous in a live action film.

Galactus looked pretty ridiculous even in the comics.

(http://www.thetick.ws/images/omnipotus.jpg)

Then they are taking the Ultimate approach to Galactus, where he wasn't even so much a sentient entity as a hive mind of little planet-eating fuckers. That'll likely play a little better, but I did want to see the giant purple motherfucker.

Seen some reviews of the novelization.  I'm less optimistic about this movie now.

She doesn't look quite so hot when's she in costume with her "flat" hairstyle (click for larger image):

(http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-03_400.jpg) (http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-03.jpg)


though she doesn't look too bad when she's wearing normal clothes:

(http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-01_400.jpg) (http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-01.jpg)


Here she looks much better with her hair up:

(http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-05_400.jpg) (http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-05.jpg)


and she's especially hot when she's wearing glasses :-D:

(http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-06_400.jpg) (http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-06.jpg)


And yes the blue contacts don't look good on her:

(http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-02_400.jpg) (http://pandadesigns.com/f13/ff2/jessica-alba-ff2-02.jpg)

I so would.

I don't think that hair color goes with her skin tone....

I... uh... god damn. She must be a parking ticket, cause she has "Fine" written all over her.

Those lips offer a lot of surface area.

I don't know. That look just isn't very flattering. They would have been better off not trying to pass her off as a white girl -- and just saying she's a white girl. She kind of looks like Data now.

The rest of the pictures she looks screwed up.  The one I quoted.... god damn.  But I'm a big fan of sexy girls wearing sexy glasses.

Making you, errr, wait ... Male ?

Not at all.

The only two she looked decent in were the wedding dress with her hair up and playing geek.

Yeah, you're totally right, I'd kick her outta bed because of that. :|

I wouldn't kick her out of my bed so much as say "This isn't exactly the version of Jessica that I wanted in my bed, but she'll do anyways..."

Do you know any women ?

That's a bed-emptying line right there.

"Hold on honey, I'm just trying to picture someone else."  Cue my first divorce.

You certainly don't announce it.

But you imagine the glasses.

Or, you could say "here, try these on."

"But you CAN'T eat the Earth.  Its where I keep all my Stuff!"

Giggly-cute Jessica Alba as the demure, shy, and intelligent Sue Storm is a horrible casting decision. Her lips look jacked full of collagen in that eyglasses shot, still hot but the stupidity is a turn off.


What? (http://members.cox.net/sirfodder/images/2007_05150001c.jpg) Not  (http://www.immortalthor.net/thor-162.jpg) my  (http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticgallery/Galactus.jpeg) Galactus (http://www.geocities.com/marvel_villain/galactus/ff049.jpg), newbies (http://www.geocities.com/marvel_villain/galactus/galactus_feeds.jpg).

Galactus as hive swarm? What?!? Why don't those fuckers just make up their own damn IPs to whore their corporate-crass wares.

Dude's got wings twice the size of his head flaring off of his helmet.  I mark that down as 'goofy as fuck' at the very least.   What do they do, help him steer in the vacuum of space?

Oww, I thought the wings were kool  :cry: , but but.. he's huge! Really big and scary!

Man, I like Galactus just as much as any fan (and my favorite comic was the Surfer, as I've pointed out plenty of times), but this is one of those cases where I don't mind the liberty they've taken with it. I mean, comic books transferred to live action is already a goofy idea to begin with. Having an accurate representation of Galactus would tip these movies over into Power Rangers level of goofiness. Best to try what you can to prevent that.

I see it in the same light as I when they gave the movie versions of the X-Men black leather and other believable apparel, instead of colored tights.

Sigh.

Just to put things in perspective.

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8428/jessica20alba20gqky7.jpg)

In what way ?

In a way that illustrates that one can still be picky, even with Jessica Alba.

Not sure I agree.  She's younger there and it's a bad picture, but she still closely resembles a filthy wee tart that'd do the business.

I see no change in my stance forthcoming.

Fair enough. As for me, I think she's rockin' with her normal hair and eyes. Can't say quite the same otherwise. Hollywood needs to leave her alone.

Indeed.  She can, however, take shelter in my bed.

I'm kind that way.


(What ?  This thread is about some film ?  Where's the fun in that ?)

So much better (and I'm not even in to her).

The platinum blonde hair makes her look a bit jaundiced.  It's like they told her, "stay out of the sun so you look caucasian."  That's really the only problem I've got with her.   Hell, if Reed Richards can be a stuffy English ship Captain, why can't Sue Storm (and her brother) be Hispanic?

I would have rather had them sticking with Alba's natural look, while getting someone to play Johnny to match her Sue.

Nothing wrong with Richards being a Brit. Dropping accents is easy and not so extreme.

I love this thread.

Have you people heard the Surfer talk?  This movie has suck balls written all over it.  I was watching The Punisher on TV waiting for Heroes last night and they did a preview where he talks to Alba then dodges missiles.

Alba needs to do more Sin City less FF, Surfer is such a lame character.  Also the Punisher movie is waay better then anyone seems to ever give it credit for.

No, the Punisher movie was fucking awful.  It deserves no credit.

"Dad, look, we got this T-shirt for you!  The native people said it protects against evil spirits!"

Seriously, you're gonna defend that?

What about the part where he gets shot and floats off to an island where a black guy, surprise, has non-conventional but shockingly effective means of mystical healing?

Awful, awful movie.  Cliched, poorly written crap.

And the Silver Surfer is a cool character.  We just don't know if he'll be pulled off as cool in the movie.  Now that I know they're going more along the Ultimate Galactus lines, I don't think so- he really didn't get any interesting development in the Ultimate universe.

The Punisher movie was crotch pus. It had about 10 seconds of good, followed by shittons of gay henchman and John Fucking Travolta, who plays the worst bad guys in history. Fucking awful.

I saw the Surfer stuff on Heroes, and I thought it was great. Alba did worse with her dialogue than the voice of the Surfer. I'm looking forward to it.

This sub-forum still amuses me with its whacked taste.

The Punisher movie was flawed all over but at least it had some good moments.  At least it had some good fight sequences, the fight w/ the giant Russian pirate guy was better then anything I saw in any of the other major Marvel films, note I never saw the 3rd Spiderman, 70's show guy as Venom = no thanks.  Now I'm not going to claim to have anything other then my own weird taste in entertainment.  But it is amusing how some of you speak like you have such authority on what's cool and what sucks.  Then turn around and  espouse how cool the Silver fucking Surfer is.  He's riding an intergalactic surf board.  You no longer have the right to call anything else corny ever again.

But rock on either way, different strokes for different folks.

And Batman is wearing a giant vampire costume. But he's still fucking cool when done right.

I've never been a huge Surfer fan, but I can get into the character, especially when the CGI for him looks as good as it does in the FF4 trailer.

Batman wears black, and drives a cool car.  Bats are cool.  Surf boards aren't fucking cool.  Perhaps in parts of the US where you've never actually met real "surfers" you can look past the board but goddamn he sucks balls.  Make a Warlock movie if you really want to do something like that.

I thought the fight with the Russian was one of the worst things about that movie.  He looked like the worlds gayest sailor in that shirt.

I'd agree with you insofar as I was skeptical about the board myself, and used to have a real problem with it.  But they address it reasonably well, and eventually you just look past it and forget that it's a "surf board".

I think that was actually an intentional part of the parity for the entire sequence....I thought the fight kicked ass, and was funny to boot.

The fight with The Russian was pretty decent, but the movie as a whole sucked. It was barely The Punisher at all, Travolta sucked, the plot sucked, Punisher as some sort of super sleuth trickster really really sucked.

Kind of off topic.  I was at the theatre this week to take my daughter to see Shrek 3.  I saw a display for the new FF movie in the lobby.  I am a huge SS fanboy from way back.  The display was a lifesize SS coming out of a cardboard backdrop.  I have no interest in seeing the movie, I didn't see the first one and frankly have only seen other "Marvel" movies out of coercion or NBTD (nothing better to do) syndrome.  When I saw the display I nearly creamed myself.  That's okay....cause he's an alien, right.... :nda:   

Seen that display myself.  Had some people who aren't even into comics suggest various methods to steal it.  It's pretty cool.