Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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I wasn't able to view the trailer either, but I'll get around to doing so later. So is Dr. Doom not going to be returning? When it comes to movies based upon superheroes, you almost have to give the movie a running time of atleast 2 hours in order to give the film atleast enough space to develop atleast a decent storyline. ESPECIALLY when it comes to doing the FIRST film in a series, the movie needs enough time to show the future heroes getting their powers, learning how to use and handle them, coming to terms with the big changes that are about to occur in their life, introduce the villain, give the villain enough time to come up with a (hopefully unique) plan for world/city conquest and begin to put that plan in action to some degree, have atleast one confrontation between the hero/s and the villain/s followed by some more time devoted to storyline/character development (atleast a good 30 min. or so), followed by a final showdown at some point. Maybe that's not the perfect formula for a successful superhero movie storyline, but it's certainly a lot more developed than the first "Fantastic 4" film. It wasn't necessarily a bad movie (for what it was) but it was far from being great, or even just GOOD, I'd say it was just OK at best. One should recognize one mistake with the movie even before watching it, and that is noticing that it only has a running time of just over 1 hour and 40 min., and after subtracting time for credits you're left with only about 90 min. to squeeze the story into (granted this is also true for the first and third X-Men movies, but with the second film having a significantly longer running time it helps give enough storyline to kind of bridge the first 2 movies together). The much bigger problem with "Fantastic 4" was that it spent over 3/4 of that approx. 90 min. span showing how everyone gets their powers and then adjusting to live with them, while rushing Dr. Doom into the storyline with only about 15 min. left to go, having him relatively easily beaten by the heros without ever having really posed much of a threat to them let alone the rest of the world. They could've easily made the movie last atleast another half hour and improved it vastly. Oh well, it was still better than "Hulk" (the perfect example of trying to stuff TOO MUCH storyline into a superhero movie!). That's enough rambling for now.

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This movie is probably going to suck... but the Silver Surfer just looks so cool!

And he's played by Doug Jones (Abe Sapien and Pan from Pan's Labyrinth)!

The thing about the first film that occured to me while watching it was that The Thing, Johnny, and Reed Richards were actually pretty well cast, and whould be perfectly allright in a good movie.

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