Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Please use spoiler-tags

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

You want to see someone do better? How about I name ONE episode of the 1990's series second season that does better under budget?

"Beyond A Distant Star"

I despised the first movie, it was a commercilised satire on comic heroes,

and all these other Marvel and DC based movies aren't? they're all there to make money no matter how good or bad they are, they'll make a buck.

sadly the one thing Hollywood never seem to think about is the real core of the team. There a family, but in Hollywood and mindless popcorn audiences, "family"=comedy. Yes, The Thing and The Torch have fights, yes Reed and Sue have "married life" arguments, but there's also the social drama they have in the comics, the raising of a child, two now, the day to day operations of being a public, and the only PUBLIC, supehero team in New York affecting their lives on a daily basis, it's not all pomp and circumstance.

The original 1990s series made the same mistake, the first season tried looking at the FF as public superheroes, it was petty, unreallistic, and groan-inducing lines and fighting a LANDLORD over their property. The second season decided to ignore the public aspect and focused on the internal family problems, the adolescense of Johnny Storm, the frustration a domesticated Sue had, The Thing and Alicia Masters relationship deepening etc. Heck, watch the Silver Surfer series or the Galactus episodes of the 90's series second season to see how a REAL FF movie could be handled

FF 2 had no story, FF 2 felt like the first half of a longer movie that never left the middle act, and based half of it's plot on a storyline that the 1990's series had to reuse TWICE to get right. Is it better than the first? Yes, but it still spits on the legacy of the Fantastic Four with dull acting, abysmal dialouge, and commercial products, and the continuous beleif the team should be played for laughs due to the "family" dynamic.

Wow the 1990s series was so popular i didn't even know it existed.