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I guess lots of photos are getting released to start ye olde hype machine, and links to those will follow, undoubtedly, but I'd just like to post this little pearl of wisdom from a former FF writer / artist re: the photo of Jessica Alba as the Invisible Wogirl and step away from the impact zone:

"Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or 'cute' they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades. Like I said -- personal prejudice."

Heidi McDonald's THE BEAT! has the photo (here). See? Link!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, I stole that quote from Fanboy Rampage!

I think Jessica stole Mr. Fantastic's arched eyebrow, which Mr. Spock should've copyrighted stardates ago.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

no matter how clean or 'cute' they are.

Why is "cute" in quotes but not "clean"?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Inscrutable!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

God, Mr Former FF Artist was just made for the internet (or college classrooms). The "personal prejudice" gambit! He would be really handy in a debate about the proper word soda/pop/tonic, pronunciation, and foods that are icky that other people eat.

I can't believe they have photos already, didn't they just cast this a couple weeks ago? The summer went by FAST.

Anyway, so far this definitely looks better than the Corman version. I'm less concerned about how Sue looks than how the Thing and the Torch will look in motion. Now that the wheels are in motion, I can't say "Well, if they can't do it right, they won't do it" anymore.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There are pics of the Thing floating around, too - word has it he looks more like the lumpy Thing than the segmented scaly Thing, which works for me.

FYI - a recent episode of _The Venture Brothers_ (a kewl Adult Swim homage to Johnny Quest & related chicanery) recently featured some FF-like folks as antagonists. Look alive, true believers!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as he doesn't look like Ang Lee's Hulk, it's all good. That was really one of those movies that would've benefited from another five years of special effects development. (As might the FF be, is my worry. Can they make the Torch look flamey while still being recognizably person-ish? Even some comics artists can't do it!)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read a script review on Ain't It Cool, and it doesn't sound great. Apparently Doom goes into space with them, and the cosmic rays give him living armour. No no no.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear.

I'm not worried about script reviews, though -- especially with a movie like this, where the script rapidly becomes a suggestion. My copy of the Batman script has Knox comically clonking the Joker out cold with a baseball bat.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

HOOVES!

It's how much of the 'old college nemesis' Doom Origin they can get away with in a 2hr movie. Just establishing him as an evil scientist whose face gets accidentally burnt off by Reed would do it.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

See, the best idea for Doom -- and it's too late for this -- would be to introduce him briefly in one scene, this guy Victor who Reed knows, and don't have him show up again until the sequel.

That's probably one of the fundamental challenges of lots of superhero movies, though -- making room for both the superhero origin and the villain origin while still having time for a story.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If Doom was in the sequal, who would be the villian in the first one? Namor's too morally ambiguous for a first film, and Galactus needs to be saved so they can up the ante with later sequals. Who else, then, but...THE MOLE MAN?

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/encyclopedie.univers.marvel/Rubriques/Etat%20civil/The%20Mole%20Man_1.gif

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Mole Man is all I can come up with, too, and that's not a good way to make sure there's a sequel, I guess. Hrm.

You know, if money were no object or special effects could do more than I think they can, or ... something ... I'd say Galactus. What if the cosmic rays were "exhaust radiation" from his ship as he enters Earth's solar system? That seems like a pretty harmless way of introducing heroes and villain at the same time, although a lot of mystery would remain about who and what Galactus actually is.

(It would make for a very science fictiony superhero movie, but that's bound to be the case anyway, right?)

Still, Galactus is a pretty hard act to follow, sequel-wise.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think ever since X-Men turned out to be good when I thought it would be the worst comic book movie ever ("the Usual Suspects guy? how's he going to handle fight scenes and special effects? is Professor X secretly Wolverine?"), I've become a determined optimist about these movies.

(Except for The Hulk.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, what was wrong w/ The Hulk?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wary of it from the start because Ang Lee tends to make movies that I think have a lot of good moments in them but never come together, or just sort of ramble around, stuff that feels like middles or first chapters. So the optimism just wasn't there for that.

As far as the final product ... some good stuff (especially if you decide to see it as a remake of the TV show instead of the comic), some odd stuff, but the special effects and the essential personality-lessness (personalityless-ness? personal Les Nesman?) of the Hulk himself tanked it for me. The special effects I can forgive -- I mean, what're you gonna do, there's always an element of luck there -- but I really need a Banner/Hulk situation where you've got warring personalities, like (but preferably not perfectly mapped to) Jekyl/Hyde -- not a conflict between a personality and a null, which is what we get in the movie and (maybe slightly less so) the Bixby show.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

stuff that feels like middles or first chapters

(Very tangentially: Shyamalan's post-Sense movies have hit me the same way. Unbreakable is a solid first act. Signs is like the first few chapters of a Larry Niven novel. The Village -- I actually have fewer structural issues with The Village than the other two, and it's still recent enough that I don't like to spoil it. But it often feels like he's structuring novels, and then when he gets to the point where he's going to run out of film, he just stops. It's especially weird since Sixth Sense is almost flawlessly structured.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The problem with Doom is that he really needs a movie all to himself. The way movies are structured these days (especially with 4 protagonists), you're going to burn so much time doing character, that there's going to be precious little left over for story and plot. Tying Doom into the FF's origin reduces the time needed to explain him, but golly will that ever gut the character.

Living armor? I hope I read that wrong.

And yes, Fanboy Rampage is good for hours of amusement on a daily basis.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I read all their pissy comments about Grant Morrison's 'schizophrenia' quote and they sank in my estimation like a brick. When did comics fans get so unbearably thin-skinned and self-righteous?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tempted to say it isn't comics fans, it's internet message board posters, but I suppose water's got no business spitting.

I forgot all about the uproar over Morrison's comment. Jesus, that was inane.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right - I shouldn't judge everyone by the message boards. Apart from JOHN BYRNE that is.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The funny thing is, lots of the folks who post over at FBR (myself included, though not as much recently) generally know better. But yeah, there's a big 'ol streak of intolerance and entitlement running through the mainstream of comics fandom right about now.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Byrne is another example to bolster my firm belief that writers shouldn't talk about their work or anything directly related to it except in private, in diaries for posthumous discovery, and on DVD commentary tracks. It doesn't always make the writer look bad, but when it's in an unstructured place like a newsgroup or message board, I'm not sure it's ever made anyone look good.

(xpost; entitlement is a good word for it, I'm guilty of that myself)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I might be wrong: Priest might be an exception, since I usually liked what he had to say about Black Panther and Deadpool. But it's possible I was a Priest fanboy at the time.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually don't have a problem with creators discussing their work online, so long as they're open to the possibility that not everyone is going to read their works in the way that they were necessarily intended to be read. Grant Morrison may or may not be guilty of this wrt Seaguy and the cool response to it by online critics/commentators.*

* - However, it's possible that I'm a Grant Morrison fanboy...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Doom goes into space with them, and the cosmic rays give him living armour.

This appears to be what happens in Ultimate Fantastic Four, by the way (except they haven't gone into space but some other-dimensional thingie).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hopefully Alba will be Invisible for the whole movie.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This is meant to be a still from the movie, but it looks more like a model of The Thing to me...

ihttp://superherohype.com/gallery/Fantastic_Four/The_Movie/Movie_Stills/thing.jpg

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

More photos of The Thing. (Looks a bit like Hellboy to me... I think he should be rockier...)

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I keep finding more stuff. Looks like Mr. Fantastic and The Human Torch were cast in each other's roles, don't you think?

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeeze, this crew looks better:

http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/f41.jpg

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh... I realize that I'm being wicked negative here. I'm sure the movie's going to rock and Alba will do a great job.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What was Morrison's schizophrenia comment?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's listed here. From an issue of Arthur, the cover of which is currently making sweet love to my eyes.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking about this, and I reckon an FF film would be best done as a period piece set in 1961. Reed smoking a pipe! Sue with a beehive hairdo! Johnny hanging out in soda bars! Lots of gratuitous commie-bashing!

Also, the soundtrack should have theremins in it.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If only Roger Corman made his version in the '60s...

Also, some trumpet fanfares are U&K in this PopArt FF flick.

The Red Ghost would be an AWFUL villain for a movie, though. Which, of course, would make him perfect for this project.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite peice of commie-bashing in the early FF is in the issue when they meet the Red Ghost for the first time. Sue sees his Super Apes locked up in some kind of forcefield cage and sayd something like "It's not their fault they do bad things. They're slaves to their evil master...Just like the Soviet people!"

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI - a recent episode of _The Venture Brothers_ (a kewl Adult Swim homage to Johnny Quest & related chicanery) recently featured some FF-like folks as antagonists. Look alive, true believers!

That episode of The Venture Brothers was hilarious -- the movie probably won't even be half as good.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

BOUNDLESS ENTHUSIASM DAMBIT!

I kinda wish Patrick Warburton was the Thing, now that I think about it. Or Mr. Fantastic! OR DOOM!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

OR WILLY LUMPKIN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I have that issue of Arthur on the floor of my car actually. I should really read it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to see Patrick Warburton play Bruce Campbell.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Patrick Warburton playing Bruce Campbell playing Cary Grant?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw a photo of Alba as Sue Storm, and, uh, John Byrne is a dick. She's very hot. Hottyhothothot. Hotabulous. Hotzapoppin. Hot like the surface of the sun. Hot like gravy. Hotastic.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, she looks very good. VA VA VOOM!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(i am a sad and lonely man)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, she's Hot... if by "Hot" you mean skanky.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ummm, yes.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Inspired by this thread, I've been re-reading my old FF Marvel Masterworks. Great stuff, despite Baxter Building-sized plot holes. I'd forgotten how trippy some issues were. Sue gets kidnapped in pretty much every story, and does quite a lot of cleaning.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Marvel comic I remember reading was Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and the Invisible Girl, in which not Sue but FRANKLIN gets kidnapped! And it's Spidey who helps get him back instead of, um, Reed or Johnny or someone. They were really breaking the mold on that one.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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I dare say, sir, that everyone was spot-on, even McMahon's slightly-mad Marco-Poloing Dr. Doom - not exactly adhereing to the dictatorial funny-book model, but whatever. The Thing / Torch dynamic was most definitely boffo.

And I have to apologize to Baffleck and Daredevil - if you chop off that overlong origin sequence (and mmmmmmmaybe the park-bench sparring scene), it's a servicable flick.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I'll agree that Daredevil was worse because fun/stupid >>>>> portentous/stupid. But I thought McMahon was terrible. (As s1ocki said on some other read, when you put mask on, don't keep same old effete voice).

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

(I speak as a fan of Nip/Tuck (when I remember it's on.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you folks and your preconceived notions of masked supervillains! I thought the combo of the Doom mask and the "old" voice was effectively jarring, esp. since this was a Doom slowly going power-mad and making it up on the fly, and not someone that really thought the masked persona out (cf. Bats or Scarecrow).

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't going to see this but I have been feeling down this weekend so I decided to go out and see this last night as a bit of escapism. It was...okay. I didn't love it, but it was nowhere near as terrible as I imagined it would be. As long as you didn't take anything in the movie seriously and ignored some glaring plotholes it was okay.

I thought Chiklis was going to suck, but he actually turned out to be pretty good. Chris Evans was good too, but the rest of the cast was kind of meh. I like Julian McMahon in Nip/Tuck, but he was a little disapointing as Dr. Doom.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 11 July 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Leon OTM. The main reason I didn't hate it was because I was expecting it to be worse. If they were going to spend that much time dicking around in Reed's lab, they should have at least established the FF as characters whom you actually want to watch dicking around in a lab as opposed to, say, stopping the Devourer of Worlds (if only to stop the Reed-Sue anti-chemistry; if you put them and Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the same film space-time as we know it would cease to exist).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

(The core personalities of the FF were great, though.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Ha - I was totally engrossed in the dicking around! And I was feeling the chemistry, too (tho I might've been feeling something else) (ewwwwwww). I'm guessing a lot of the bad press this flick's garnered is simply due to superfolk overload - there have been a slew of good-to-great superhero flicks, and good-to-great team superhero flicks, and the fact that this one was light-weight and popcorny (in light of what the X-flicks and The Incredibles did) irked folks that probably don't want another superhero flick that isn't more substantial. The fact that this pulled in $56M this weekend, tho, says the fannies are A-OK with this not-so-serious type of stuff.

It's also kinda funny that so many folks are pissing on this movie (according to the Rotten Tomatoes meter - 29% and rising?) in light of other Marvel franchises, as the FF was the one that started it all - in a sense, it was the first one out of the box, and They Who Created It probably learned from their mistakes going forward. The fact that the origin story of the FF needs to be severely rejiggered to seem more plausable to an modern-day audience, while Spidey's origin can be moved from the book to the screen w/ very little changed, says a lot.

Also, to some extent, the FF were often cyphers in their own stories, serving as a quaint blue backdrop so KirbyCo could go buckwild w/ ideas like Galactus & the Inhumans & the Negative Zone, so that probably has something to do w/ the airyness of this flick as well.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

My favorite scene of the movie was when Johnny was giving the press their impromptu codenames and the indignant reactions from Sue and Ben.

I think the thing that irritated me so much about Reed's character is that I knew so many people like that from college, most of whom deserved shaking.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah - Reed's totally shake-worthy. Oblivious super-smart pipe-smoking (he was smoking a pipe IN HIS MIND) twerps need a good shake (or Jessica Alba) now and then.

I was partial to the shaving cream montage, tho I will admit that the first scene w/ the Thing (meeting his wife / fiancee in the shadows) choked me up a bit. Even that oh-come-on-now part on the bridge got me. (These damn superhero flix make me all emo.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

I was too busy wondering "Who runs out into a city street in a little nightie?!?!?" to be choked up.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Answer: the type of woman that cuts bait on her man because of a minor skin problem!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Chiklis was AWESOME.

One of my friends said that Jessica Alba should have gotten acting powers rather than invisibility powers. It was a little unfair but kind of true. Still, SHE WAS AWESOME esp. when flustered/angry.

I was too busy wondering "Who runs out into a city street in a little nightie?!?!?" to be choked up.

OTM!!! That scene caused supermegaROFFLES for us.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, cool as it is to see the FF onscreen (as a comics geek), we deserve a whole lot better (as movie geeks).

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

the fact that this one was light-weight and popcorny (in light of what the X-flicks and The Incredibles did) irked folks that probably don't want another superhero flick that isn't more substantial

I think if they'd done exactly the same movie as a 2-D cartoon, it would've rocked.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

This movie was way more like Diet Pepsi than it was like Diet Dr. Pepper. If you know what I mean.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoyed the movie. I liked all ths sitting around and bickering, and the Invisible Girl. It was better than the X-Men movies. I was a little disappointed by Doctor Doom, he didn't spend enough time planning and delivering monologues, and he'd never describe something as fun.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Interestingly, the Guardian have given it by far the most postive review I've read:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,4267,1533423,00.html

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Sunday, 24 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Saw it tonight and it wasn't bad, exactly... Chris Evans was spot on and WelshReed was perfectly bearable. It didn't have the depth you expect of the Fantastic Four, though. Which is saying something considering Stan and Jack's FF had a depth of a micron, although perhaps it was a micron THE FF WERE EXPLORING IN A SUBATOMIC ROCKET so its depth was actually infinite. Hum.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I know we are discussing the Fantasitc Four here, but I still SHALL NOT BROOK any discussion of the infinite like it is an actual thing. Idiots. One day you shall all kneel under the jackboot of Doom.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 28 July 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

The macro-infinite is definitely a thing, though.

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

I've just come back from seeing it, and, um... I've seen worse films. The leads were pretty likeable, and the Johnny/Ben relationship was fairly well done. It was all very nothingy though - the action sequences were bland, Doom was totally wasted and there was never a sense that anything was at stake.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

That's pretty much the feeling I got. The Four were good, and I bought their relationships, But the script made Doom a total non-threat. I guess that Raiders of the Lost Ark ripoff at the end is supposed to be a setup for the next movie where he's actually Dr. Doom, but I never got any sense of science fictiony wonder from the show, which is one of the main things about the comic.

Also, I kept thinking if they'd moved Latveria to Africa and cast Daniel Dumile, not only would the indie rap geek in me be happy, but it might have made for a better flick.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

They should have Galctus in the next movie, if they want Doom to be Doom, he shouldn't show up until halfway through the 3rd or 4th fim.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I think it should be Submariner in FF2 and Galactus in FF3, although the Reed/Sue/Namor love triangle will be somewhat diluted by the completely superfluous Sue/Von Doom thing in the first film.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

they should also do that story where doom steals the surfer's board!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

There's probably a panelof executives now saying "Nonononono. Surfing has not been 'hep' for some years. Instead he shall be named Silva X-TREEEM and ride a snowboard."

― Vic Fluro, Saturday, 30 July 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

Also, silver's nothing special these days. How about the Bling Bling Surfer?

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I liked it!

Some comicsy stuff:

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2005_07_01_wedge_archive.html#112281494765100611

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Man, I just realised:

Silver Surfer - Norrin Radd

Rad! Dude! D'oh!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The New York Post (login required) is reporting that actress Jessica Alba is mulling over not returning for a sequel, instead joining Jimmy Fallon in an "I Dream of Jeannie" remake. Alba declined to comment for the story.

I hope they don't address this at all and just have Sue be invisible for the duration of the second film. Like maybe have animating bra & panties. Oh yeah.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh god that'd be a GREAT move for JA to make.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Replace Sue with She-Hulk!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

!!!!!!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

A WINNER IS JEL

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1533672/06052006/story.jhtml

in which Alba reveals that there will be a love triangle btwn Sue, Reed and the Silver Surfer, so this'll be a Galactus movie.

but…it should be btwn Namor, Sue and Reed. If SS is in a triangle, it should be between him, Thing and Alicia.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

There should be a love triangle between Lockjaw, H.E.R.B.I.E., and the Ultimate Nullifier.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

The inclusion of Galactus is about the only thing that could get me even slightly excited about this film.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i could make the ff/galactus movie :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Me too - I've got the pre-credit sequence figured out and everything (It's The Silver Surfer flying past the Skrull battle cruiser).

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

but i called it!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I keep reading this thread as Fantastic Four: The Musical

Wha-a-a-a-a-a-t a revoltin' development!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Slocki - you can be second unit director if you like. Or the key grip.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

ok i'll do a thing spin-off movie focusing on his jewish roots then

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

it'll be about his trip back to eastern europe to visit the shtetl from whence his family came... only it's in latveria!!

and it'll be called "Every Thing Is Illuminated"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

wokka wokka

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Woody Allen IS Ben Grimm.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

YOU SHOULD FILM IT IN ALL LATVERIAN, MEL GIBS1OCKI.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Saw this last weekend, it was fun! Biggest surprise was that I expected the jokes to be groany, but I loffled at almost all of them.

Also: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:24 PM (2 years ago)
Jesus.

― Leee, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the Silver Surfer's facemask! Complete with motion capture dots and all that. Some homeless guy I work with was wearing a few months ago! I told him it looked more like Dr. Doom and he said "what the fuck is that?" I still don't remember how much money we got, but I know we spent it fast.

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

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