Fantastic Four on FX Jan. 22

[spearmint]

Missed this at the theater. Looking forward. FX is getting good movies. Now watching Batman Begins again. Forgot some of the stuff.

I am watching it strictly for the surfer.

[mikebw]

Surfer? There was no surfer in the first Fantastic Four movie, although I did enjoy it enough to buy it on DVD when that came out.

A lot of comic-book fans did not like the movie but I couldn't really care less about that, just enjoy it for what it is. If you want a comic-book then why are you watching a movie?

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote spearmint]I am watching it strictly for the surfer. You'll be watching a long time!

BGnR

[spearmint]

Okay so I have wait on the Surfer. Did not see either F4.

FX is getting Spiderman 3 also. Hope it stays a non-premium channel. They switched Sci-Fi and Bravo to semi-premium on me in the last few months.

See you later. Much later it looks like.

[jdc]

you will be sadly dissapointed, by either of the FFs

[spearmint]

The price is right and I have a remote.

[PizzaGod]

Gee....I thought the tone of both was pretty close to what Stan and Jack used to put out each month-and while the entire cast is older than what I remember from the comics (like Reed and Ben were depicted as being in their 40's, both WWII vets) Sue in her late 20's early 30's (and NOT a scientist) and Johnny late teens/early 20's----I thought they nailed it.

Sure there were deviations from the comics, but that's the nature of the beast. Superman giving up his powers and having sex with an earthwoman? (Superman II) .

None of the movies have ever been perfect when it comes to the comics. I think FF was a pretty good effort.

Watch for Stan as Willie Lumpkin.

[jesse]

I watched both Fantastic Four movies and thought they were good entertainment.

[Racer X]

My aproach was to watch them as stand-alone entertainment. Anyone going into a movie with preconcieved notions based on a book or graphic novel that spawned the movie will be in for a let-down most of the time. Every reader has a slightly different experience of the original work, and the director's interpretation may be close to yours, or it may be way off.

Let's face it. They are movies based on a comic book for Jeebus' sake.

Bottom line, if you enjoy them great. If you don't, what the heck were you expecting anyway?

A friend of mine and I got in a heated discussion of the Godzilla movie (the one with Mathew Broderick) with our company librarian while we were all carpooling. He was moaning and wailing about how aweful it was. Finally I got fed up and shouted at him "For $#&&%!! Sake, it's a F%$*&)(^%ing movie about a giant radioactive lizard atacking New York City! What the H#&*) were you expecting? Sir Ian McKellen doing Shakespere?"