Comic Film Tourney '08 Round 1 - X-men vs Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

[nihilance]

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What happens when a toad gets struck by lightning vs Doom on a surfboard. Vote for the best comic film!

[Cactusakic]

Didn't hate FF2, but don't think it's as good as X-Men (which wasn't too great either IMO).

[modungo]

X-Men is maybe the only comic movie ever to improve the comics it was based on. The positive influence of that movie gave us better X comics than we had seen in almost a decade. It gets my vote for that reason alone.

[danlomb]

Only saw FF II once. X-Men stands out more for me.

[Joe Kalicki]

This is tough. I really think the X-Men movie is mostly crap, while the FF movie is mostly good. . . BUT, the good of X-Men is better than the good of FF, and the crap of FF is worse than the crap of X-Men.

[Horizon Drive]

Let's see, X-Men is similar to Batman (89) in the respect that it was great at the time and elevated the whole genre, but hasn't aged well.

FF 2 - is very claustrophobic and grounded movie for such a potentially expansive and epic story. The Silver Surfer parts are very cool.

Ultimately I have to give it to X-Men.

[NickT]

I like both, but I give it to F42.

[Hoggie]

FF2 wasn't even in the same ballpark as XMEN. Besides the few Surfer scences FF2 is a total loss.

[Amedeo]

Eh, I don't think either of them are that good. But as an experience, I think I enjoyed FF2 just a little more than X-Men.

[NeverWanderer]

Yeah.

Too bad about Silver Surfer, but X-Men was just a better movie. Didn't have the action, but it had the writing, the performances, and the spirit.