Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 27th, 2006, 15:08

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fanta ... surfer/hd/

How fucking fantastic does this trailer look? I'm not a comic book nutter or anything, but Fantastic Four & The Silver Surfer together in a film excites me lots

I thought the first film was good, all be it a bit slow in the beginning when explaining everything, allthough I found this the case with Hulk, X-Men, Spider Man and so on...

All the sequels of the films mentioned above were brilliant, so I have high hope for this one.

Post by **Roman Totale** » December 27th, 2006, 16:30

I personally thought the first film was terrible, but the trailer for this one has made me go weak at the knees...

Post by **FatherJack** » December 27th, 2006, 23:50

I only watched the cartoons, so I'm not really sure who this guy is, but I thought he was a goodie. Maybe I'm mixing him up with the ice bloke, who I also (incorrectly) thought was in the fantastic four.

I'm remembering from Saturday morning during the 80s, so that's why I'm a bit confused.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » December 28th, 2006, 2:53

To geeky up this thread a bit, the silver surfer is the herald of some planet killing dude killed Galatcus (Am I spelling that right?

). It's his job to choose a planet for said baddie to consume (as he needs mindboggling amount of energy to live), then prepare it for consumption. Because of this, he's harder than the proverbal nail.

Only read one comic arc with him in, but it took 3 time travel attempts for earths heroes to stop him, so this could be entertaining.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » December 28th, 2006, 5:16

The Surfer starts out (we are talking the 1960's here) as a baddie but ends up being one of those good baddies who realise what they are doing and attempts to make amends.

God knows how they are going to squeeze it into a two hour movie.

Post by **Joose** » December 28th, 2006, 8:13

Im not certain, as my knowledge of Silver Surfer is a bit mixed up between the new and old versions, but I *think* he was given the job of Herald (ie, food scout, like hehulk says) in exchange for Galactus not chowing down on his homeworld. So he's a kind of jaded, doing-bad-stuff-because-he-doesnt-have-a-choice fella. I think.

Like Sherrif says, gawd knows how they are going to squeeze all of that into one film. I hope they dont just dumb it down into "omfg hes a surfing alien attacking the world lol".

eRabbit · Post by **eRabbit** » December 28th, 2006, 13:16

Joose wrote:Im not certain, as my knowledge of Silver Surfer is a bit mixed up between the new and old versions, but I *think* he was given the job of Herald (ie, food scout, like hehulk says) in exchange for Galactus not chowing down on his homeworld. So he's a kind of jaded, doing-bad-stuff-because-he-doesnt-have-a-choice fella. I think.

Yea, in return for Galactus not destroying his homeworld he became the Silver Surfer, and at some point in his life turned on Galactus and became a good guy, if I remember correctly.

Post by **Roman Totale** » December 28th, 2006, 15:28

eRabbit wrote:
Yea, in return for Galactus not destroying his homeworld he became the Silver Surfer, and at some point in his life turned on Galactus and became a good guy, if I remember correctly.

All of the aboves

Even after becoming Galactus' Herald, The Surfer was still pretty much a good guy. At first he only picked planets that were devoid of life for the Big G's chow time. Galactus discovered what was going on and did something to The Surfer to subdue his "humanity" (except he's not human but you know what I mean).

From memory some blind girl managed to free his inner good guy.

The Incredible... · Post by **The Incredible...** » January 5th, 2007, 17:38

HE'S ON FUCKING FIRE!!

Post by **ProfHawking** » January 5th, 2007, 19:10

I have no idea what the hell you lot are talking about, but the trailer still looked ok.
The thing im worried about is that they probably used the best chase scene right there, and thats all.
Doesn't fill me full of confidence really,

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » January 5th, 2007, 20:36

The first film was abysmal so I don't hold out much hope for this, the Spiderman films were nearly as bad, Hulk made me want to eat my own eyes, Daredevil, Electra.. oh dear I feel sick.

X-Men 1 and 2 are the only decent comic book films and they ruined them with X-Men 3

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » January 5th, 2007, 20:57

mrbobbins wrote:The first film was abysmal so I don't hold out much hope for this, the Spiderman films were nearly as bad, Hulk made me want to eat my own eyes, Daredevil, Electra.. oh dear I feel sick.

X-Men 1 and 2 are the only decent comic book films and they ruined them with X-Men 3

I wouldn't say they were abysmal, just extremely slow to get going due to having to explain to the non comic book fans what they are all about.

What about Hellboy, I thought that was really good as well

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » January 5th, 2007, 21:22

I think it's more that they're bad films rather than just bad comic book adaptations, didn't like Hellboy either,

Sin City was good, does that count!?

Post by **Roman Totale** » January 5th, 2007, 21:25

mrbobbins wrote:The first film was abysmal so I don't hold out much hope for this, the Spiderman films were nearly as bad, Hulk made me want to eat my own eyes, Daredevil, Electra.. oh dear I feel sick.

X-Men 1 and 2 are the only decent comic book films and they ruined them with X-Men 3

Quoted for pure truth

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » January 5th, 2007, 21:51

mrbobbins wrote:Sin City was good, does that count!?

Yeah, why not. Personally I prefer the darker, less spandexie type super hero films, like the recent Batman, Sin City and V for Vendetta. I'd say all the other ones, Xmen, Spider-man, FF, etc. are all about the same.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » January 5th, 2007, 23:43

Sin city is a great film, and i actually quite enjoyed spiderman 2. Xmen was terrible, im yet to see the 2nd but the 3rd one wasn't half bad in my opinion.

Still, this film looks like it might be watchable.

Duke of Ted · Post by **Duke of Ted** » January 6th, 2007, 5:51

pffft @ divided opinions

the only comic book films that really disappointed me were Xmen 3, Daredevil, Hulk and Fantastic Four. And Elektra and Catwoman were a load of wank but that was obvious from the trailers.

edit: i also thought the new Superman was shit.

Post by **Roman Totale** » January 6th, 2007, 10:25

Duke of Ted wrote: edit: i also thought the new Superman was shit.

Thank you! Everyone I speak to says it's great. Personally I thought it was a little dull and not very interesting.

The first Xmen film was good, second one was reasonable and the third was an abomination. Incidentally, the exact same thing is true of the Blade films. Fantastic 4 was poor, but I thought it redeemed itself slightly by not taking itself too seriously (plus I thought the Thing and Human Torch were played well).

I don't like the Spiderman films, but then I've never managed to watch them either from the start or all the way through. Never watched Daredevil, Hulk or Elektra as I could tell they'd be shite.

When I first saw Sin City at the cinema I was slightly underwhelmed, possibly due to the massive amounts of hype surrounding it. Saw it again on TV and thought it was fucking brilliant. I'm looking forward to seeing 300 come out as well.

Overall I think the best comic book of recent times has been Batman Begins - a truly top notch film. I can't wait for the next one, though it's with some trepidation as I just can't picture Heath Ledger playing the Joker.

Coming soon in 2007 - RO-BO the movie! Certificate 18

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » January 6th, 2007, 14:18

Roman Totale wrote:
Fantastic 4 was poor, but I thought it redeemed itself slightly by not taking itself too seriously (plus I thought the Thing and Human Torch were played well).

Their arguing made the film watching and it was well captured from the comics, made me think they may have actually read some before doing the film.

Post by **Joose** » January 7th, 2007, 22:56

Right, cant have a comic based conversation without my 2p:

Xmen: first one is one of my favourite comic book films, second one was pretty good, but not great. Third one made me want to cry. In a bad way.

Spiderman: Didnt like the first one, loved the second one. Doc Ock is a brilliant baddie.

Blade: Liked the first one, actually liked the second one slightly more. Again, the third one was godawfull shite.

Im with Roman and Duke of Ted, I really didnt like the new Superman. It was just...meh. Dull. Didn't care about the characters, not a lot happened, what did happen wasn't all that pretty to watch. Something about the style made it all *seem* monotone, even though it wasnt.

Loved Sin City, even if there was slightly to much crotch based uber-violence for my tastes.

Hulk was like a bloody arthouse film. The story seemed to start in the middle of nowhere, it then meandered around for a bit before not really ending. The effects made the Hulk look like he was made of green silly putty. Nothing was explained *at all*.

300 looks to be awesome.

Batman begins is, for me, the defining comic book film that all others should be measured against. It was a work of art.