I saw "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" last weekend and as I expected, I was disappointed. This did not come as a surprise of course, it has practically become a tradition with Marvel comics to allow Hollywood to pervert and stupid-ize the story lines of their best heroes. Honestly though, the movie story line remained vastly more faithful to the original comic-book story than did the most recent Spiderman flick. The main thing I didn't like about the Silver Surfer movie was the ease with which the Fantastic Four came up with a way to negate the Silver Surfer's power. The Silver Surfer is a near-god-like being, and while his powers have been neutralized on occasion, it has always taken much more extreme effort. With such power, the conflicts that were usually faced by the Silver Surfer were almost never physical but usually moral or philosophical, which is what made the Silver Surfer series so fucking rad. Of course, Hollywood just knows that America is too stupid to appreciate the subtleties of a good morality play, so instead they screw around with the story line so that it fits the same-old vapid action movie formula. I would have really rather they focused the movie on the moral lessons learned by the noble yet amoral Silver Surfer character. Instead it was mostly a slap-stick superhero movie with awkward moments of seriousness shoe-horned in.
That said though, the movie was leagues better than the committee-written story sleazed on to us in the form of Spiderman 3. Ugh, what a piece of trash.
Next up: Transformers.
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