Who woulda thunk it?
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is kind of almost in the same zip code as halfway decent. An improvement, for sure, over the first. All the same problems are present: moments of incapacitating hokum; ridiculously bad casting; special effects that at times are just weirdly shoddy.
It seems certain to me this was branded as Marvel's bargain bin franchise, an attempt at finding what level mediocrity will still make money. The guy playing Reed Richards is just there, virtuoso of bland. Jessica Alba still seems odd as Susan Storm, The Invisible Woman. The franchise does have a good thing going between Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm. A movie about them would be funnier. And the actress playing The Thing's blind girlfriend is just plain bad: you expect her to wear a t-shirt which reads, HEY, I AM SO TOTALLY BLIND. In some scenes, she can hear or smell who enters a room. Yet, when talking to her, she stares to one side or the other so conspicuously it's retarded. Because now her t-shirt reads, I'M BLIND SO I REALLY CAN'T TELL IF YOU'RE RIGHT HERE OR OVER THERE, LET ME CHECK DOWNSTAIRS.
Still, it's a bit better. Higher stakes. Less physical agony. For viewers.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
5 comments:
I completely agree! It was okay, which really IS an improvement over the first one. The first one was awful.
Actually, I totally think YOU should write a poem with the Invisible Woman in it. Consider that a very big request from one of your fans.
Request received!
You SHOULD write a poem in which the Invisible Woman is conspicuously absent from.
Genius! Right? It hardly justifies the use of words, really.
Hmm....
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