Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer | List Price: $19.98
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Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
Binding: DVD
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer [Posted on 2008-07-18]
I enjoyed this movie very much and think that it should have rated a 5.0
Blu Surfer [Posted on 2008-08-12]
Saw this movie in the big screen but loved and enjoyed it even more in blu ray. Great blu ray transfer, both video & audio. Loved the chase scene between torch and the silver surfer, and of course, Ms. Alba. Worth paying extra for BD!
MAN, is this film a botch job! [Posted on 2008-08-27]
Let me say just one thing...I [[LOVE]] the FF! I've loved it since the first issue with the Mole Man. But this film, and the woebegone first one are so badly cast and underwhelming, it's awful! Whose bright idea was it to cast Jessica Alba, who looks like she's fourteen, as Sue Storm? Or Ioan Gruiffudd as Reed Richards? NEITHER of these people work in their roles! Reed should be solidly middle aged, about 45-50, with premature grey hair at the temples and a movie star handsome face and an intelligent, fatherly air. Gruiffudd is neither upper-middle aged, professorly or fatherly and is too thin and flutey for the usually huskily drawn Richards. The sad thing is, anybody who COULD have played him is either too old or dead: Keith Andes, John Forsythe, Dean Jones, Richard Denning, (who Reed was probably based on to begin with,) or Russell Johnson are either retired, WAY too old, (like 70 or 80,) or, sadly, in the grave. They STILL could have done better than Gruiffudd, though! Actually, I could see him and Julian McMahon switching roles. And Dr. Doom isn't supposed to have an American accent anyway!
And Alba....Come ON!! She hardly looks PUBESCENT, much less old enough to marry a scientist near retirement age! They should have saved her for Frankie Raye, one of Johnny's many girlfriends, and someone who would eventually supplant the Silver Surfer as a herald of Galactus. And Johnny should be BLOND, not brunette with a crew cut!! J. Storm never had a crew cut in his LIFE in the book!! Heck, I've always had my reservations about the Human Torch as a comic book character to begin with!
However, as usual, they NEVER get Ben Grimm wrong! What's to get wrong, anyway?? All you've got to do is get a burly, middle aged actor who can talk like a New York cab driver and you're home free!
Now, as to the Silver Surfer, though pretentious as ****, he's always been one of my favorite superhero comic supporting players. I like the fact that one of my favorite black actors, Laurence Fishburne, is doing the voice of ol' Norrin! The character, alas, suffers from the USUAL Marvel superhero film "obvious CGI effect" problem. What IS it with cheezy Marvel?? Can't they do ANYTHING first class?! This outfit has [always] been tacky as the blazes in their endeavors, since day one. I guess even hitting the big time with the X-Men movies and the first Hulk film can't alleviate their affection for that "sleaze aspect". (And when are they going to stop making those "Punisher" movies??)
I [[had]] to get this film due to my love for the Surfer, but I can tell you right now, if I had anything to do with its production, either casting, directing or writing, things would be done differently! Ta-ta, Alba and Gruiffudd, bleach Johnny's hair, make Galactus solid instead of gaseous, and rework the origin where they actually had Doom aboard their near-space probe, acquiring powers, something that never happened in the source material! I HATE it when my favorite superheroes have their origin stories altered significantly in movies or TV...it happened in BOTH first "Batman" movies, (Joe Chill killed Bruce's parents, NOT Jack Napier/The Joker, and Ra's Al Ghul came LONG after Bruce Wayne became Batman! He did NOT train him!) The Flash TV show, (Barry Allen was blond, again, not dark-haired like John Wesley Shipp; did NOT live with his parents and had no brother. Iris West was in practically every issue of his magazine, but was only in the pilot episode of the show, (as a punk rocker, yet!) replaced by Tina McGee, a new character...there was no Julio in the book..AND HE NEVER VIBRATED THROUGH WALLS on the show!! [My favorite trick of his!]) The X-Men were originally: Cyclops, The Beast, The Angel, Marvel Girl/Jean Grey, Professor X and Iceman, THEN there was the reboot with Cyclops, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Wolverine. Rogue was a Johnny-come-lately, taken in from an organization that actually was formed to FIGHT the X-Men! She was also much more mature than Anna Pacquin in age and bearing. Their legend from about 1985 on has been too confusing to go into here, but the above is the basic truth. The second animated show and the movies screwed that ALL up, with Iceman being one of the junior students at Xavier's school, Angel a completem stranger, Nightcrawler a latecomer and Kitty and Piotr (Shadowcat and Colossus) VERY peripheral players! I could go on....Superman and the Kryptonian criminals lifting things with their eyes in the original Salkind "Superman" movies, Mary Jane living right next door to Peter Parker in "Spiderman", Sandman being a sympathetic character with a dying daughter in Spidey 3, Peter acquiring the black, alien suit while still being on Earth, etc., etc....Suffice it to say that "Daredevil: The Director's Cut" is about the ONLY decent, faithful transfer of a superhero to the screen I've ever seen!
Somebody get Paul Levitz and Jim Shooter to supervise this stuff, huh?
A GENEROUS ONE STAR [Posted on 2008-08-29]
No Plot, terrible dialogue, awful characters... Might appeal to a 3-4 year old child, just because of the bright colors and loud noises. This was even worse than the first Fantastic Four.
Movie: 2.25/5 Picture Quality: 4~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 2.75/5 [Posted on 2008-09-04]
Version : U.S.A / Region-A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50
Running time: 1:31:50
Movie size: 25,538,820,096 bytes
Disc size: 42,450,704,194 bytes
Average Total Bit Rate : 37.07 Mbps
Average Video Bit Rate : 29.14 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 24-bit
DD AC3 5.1 448Kbps English / French / Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish / Korean / Cantonese
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