The Blockbusters: Week #7 - FANTASTIC FOUR: ROTSS (rate-review-discuss)

[bartleby]

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

Release Date: June 15, 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Tim Story
Screenwriter: Don Payne
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Gonzalo Menendez, Laurence Fishburne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG (for sequences of action violence, some mild language and innuendo)
Official Website: FantasticFourmovie.com | http://MySpace.com/RiseoftheSilverSurfer
Rotten Tomatoes reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fant...silver_surfer/
IMDb listing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486576/




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Other polls
Week #1: SPIDER-MAN 3 (May 4)
Week #2: 28 WEEKS LATER (May 11)
Week #3: SHREK THE THIRD (May 18)
Week #4: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (May 25)

Week #5: KNOCKED UP (June 1)
Week #6: OCEAN'S 13 (June 8)
Week #7: FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER (June 15)
Week #8: EVAN ALMIGHTY (June 22)
Week #9: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (June 27)
Week #9: RATATOUILLE (June 29)

Week #10: TRANSFORMERS (July 4)
Week #11: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (July 13)
Week #12: I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY (July 20)
Week #13: THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (July 27)

Week #14: THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (August 3)
Week #15: RUSH HOUR 3 (August 10)
Week #16: THE INVASION (August 17)

[Corwin: Bear Fighter]

It sucked. Really, the only thing they managed to get right was the Surfer. Every scene with him was wonderful. Everything else was piss-poor.
Julian McMahon's Doom is a pathetic second-rate Green Goblin. Dr. Doom was the inspration for Darth Vader. He should act it. McMahon was practically playing his character from Nip/Tuck in this movie (just as he did in the last). There is nothing menacing or threatening about Dr. Doom in this film. Nothing. While he looked the part, he simply didn't act it.
And Jessica Alba had some of the worst wigs I've seen since the first X-Men flick.

[FredC]

How was Galactus?

[saymama]

just walked in there for like 10 mins. Jessica Alba is a horrible actress!

[chazbot]

this won't end well...

[Corwin: Bear Fighter]

How was Galactus?

Spoilers:

HORRIBLE. He really was a tornado! Well, actually, you get an outline of what looks like his horned head hiding behind debris and energy, but that's it. Horrible, horrible cop-out. And saying a big guy in a purple helmet would be too unbelievable is ludicrous in a movie starring Michael Chiklis in the cheapest-looking rubber suit money can buy.

[Albert]

It sucked. Really, the only thing they managed to get right was the Surfer. Every scene with him was wonderful. Everything else was piss-poor.
Julian McMahon's Doom is a pathetic second-rate Green Goblin. Dr. Doom was the inspration for Darth Vader. He should act it. McMahon was practically playing his character from Nip/Tuck in this movie (just as he did in the last). There is nothing menacing or threatening about Dr. Doom in this film. Nothing. While he looked the part, he simply didn't act it.
And Jessica Alba had some of the worst wigs I've seen since the first X-Men flick.

His character in Nip/Tuck is awesome though! Dr. Christian Troy should be in every movie.

[Blandy vs Terrorism]

Let's try this again.....sticky, to prevent a glut of threads?

[Jerome Gibbons]

It's so freaky to hear Lawrence Fishburne's voice coming from that CG model with slightly jerky movements.

[Petey Parker]

I saw it tonight. I liked it alot. It was much better than the first film (which I also enjoyed) I'm glad to see that my fears of the PG rating and short run time were unwarranted. I suppose it could have been a tad bit longer though in order to have some more stuff with Doom since that seemed a bit rushed. It also had the best Stan Lee cameo ever.