Movie re-watch: Fantastic Four 2 (Silver Surfer)

1. I totally thought this was the movie that opened with a scene of a guy who was cheating on his wife in (Japan?) getting clobbered to death by hail. It was one of my least favorite things about the movie, in fact. Except that apparently it’s not that movie at all. Huh.

2. So dumb, and yet I’ve now seen it twice! The perfect movie to watch if you are feeling insecure about your creative talents. Someone paid $130million to make this movie! Compared to that, a bunch of hours banging away at the computer keyboard is cake. (And the end result has at least a 99% chance of being better than watching the Silver Surfer use his abs like a tele-tubby.)

3. Speaking of ab!tv… WHAT WAS THAT? Please tell me that was not a comics!canon Silver Surfer power, because that would just be… wow. Although I actually think that was one of my favorite Sue Storm facial expressions in the movie — I can’t even imagine what the direction was there, but her face is so perfectly ‘WTF you couldn’t have just used words?’

4. Speaking of the Storm family… No mention of female relatives at all in this one, after the intriguing tidbits in the first movie. (Instead we got “Dad would be proud.” According to wikipedia — and a sketchy matchup of timelines — ‘Dad’ was probably in jail at that time, so I’m not sure how much Sue would care about making him proud, but she seemed to appreciate the sentiment.)

5. Last but not least: so, aren’t there still like seven or eight giant HOLES in the planet? I’m not a geologist, or a seismologist, or anything like that, but I’m guessing giant holes are generally considered to be not good. Am I the only one who worried about this after the movie was over?

[Add-on Note: Apparently the F4 franchise will be rebooting in film in 2014?]

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.