Pretty Good Four
The Fantastic Four is, without a doubt, my favorite comic book series. One of my first comic-book memories as a kid was a copy of FF #187. It featured Reed without his stretching powers, Klaw and the Molecule Man, and one whopper of a cliffhanger for an ending. It was years and years later before I finally found out the resolution to that cliffhanger.
To this day, the Thing remains my favorite comic book character, and I've really enjoyed Michael Chiklis in The Shield, so I was looking forward to that part of the movie. However, I'd read many reports and reviews about the movie that seemed to indicate it was going to suck, big-time.
Now having seen it myself, I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie. I thought they totally botched the entire character of Doom and made him a wealthy pretty-boy wuss with weird superpowers instead of an intelligent, ruthless, disfigured dictator. However, they caught the essence of the FF themselves perfectly. The interaction between Johnny and Ben was spot-on, and you got a pretty good sense of the brooding Ben Grimm. Stan Lee even had a nice cameo as Willie Lumpkin, the mailman for the FF.
Here's to hoping for a FF sequel, and to hoping that they make Doom into the super-villian he should be. If they want to rock-ify the Thing to his current form and size and make a solo Thing movie, that'd also be fine by me. :-)
Comments
I still don't buy Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. Easy on the eyes? Oh, dear God, yes. But for the role of Sue? Not really. She just seemed a little too young. But the only person I could think of that I think would fit in that role is Rebecca Romijn (happy dance, I spelled it right first try). She's got the looks. She's comes off as more mature. But she's already been in a Marvel movie or two... But I don't really recall the age differences between the characters in the old days.
Posted by: a2daj | July 14, 2005 10:42 AM