Last Friday afternoon while kicking around, Scott and I decided to take in a movie. Unfortunately for us we chose “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.” Scott has some more detailed thoughts about this dreadful piece of crap movie … but I want to talk solely about (you guessed it) Chris Evans. He’s pretty much the only reason to see the film. Michael Chiklis doesn’t really have anything to do and Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba are really terrible actors. And I mean REALLY terrible … as in laughably bad. But Chris Evans has got great spunk and personality on screen. Sad thing is that the shirtless scene he does is totally gratuitous and not necessary especially where it is just stuck into the cookie cutter plot. My advice: If you want to see Mr. Evans shirtless, watch “Cellular” which is a much better piece of popcorn entertainment. You can save your money on “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” by looking at the picture below.
Really? I liked it. I was brainless and fun, unlike bloated Spidey 3, with a seriously overrated bad actor (Tobey really sucks. I just watched THE GOOD GERMAN, and he sucks big time. That 12 year old with the “I can barely hold back the prepubescent goofry grin” thing is past getting old).
FF2 was not Ibsen or Shakespeare. And who would have assumed it was going to be going in?
And compared to the barely floating turd that was XMen 3, I’ll take FF 1 or 2 any day of the week.
I think I would lump FF2 and X3 in the same boat as far as “badness” is concerned. I haven’t seen Spidey 3 ’cause EVERYONE I know has hated it.
I cut the FF films some slack since they don’t try to be epic or overblown like X3 or Spidey3 (or any of the Spidermans, which I really have thought look nice, but don’t like them all that much). At least FF is staying true to its less dark comic self, and pretty much giving 90 minutes of comic book pages slapped on the screen. That I don’t mind. Be what you’re meant to be and don’t try to exceed that. Which is what FF does.
I saw Fantastic Four and when he walked out in that towel, i first thought of you Charles, then I thought how good he looked, and then I suffered for the rest of this piece of crap movie! I’m glad that we went to the Funk-O-Rama and didnt’ have to pay high prices!
I’m having a flashback to Lloyd’s justification of liking “George of the Jungle”…
Not that I’m in a position to criticize, I once rented “Wild Wild West” just to see Salma Hayek’s ass. Crappy movie, great ass….
Well … I am definitely not justifying liking FF2.
I just lust … er, like Chris Evans.
“But Chris Evans has got great spunk” — Um, Charles? Something you want to tell us?
Jeff–I didn’t expect Shakespeare or Ibsen, and knowing that the first FF was a piece of shit, I didn’t expect a *great* movie here, but what I did expect was an ATTEMPT to adapt the Silver Surfer/Galactus story — one of the seminal comic book stories of the last 40 years — to film.
That story is a 60s-style meditation on the true nature of evil. Galactus *is*, yes, coming to eat the Earth. (Tee-hee.) But not because he’s malicious. (In fact, it turns out he’s kind of an OK guy, once you get to know him.) He’s doing so because he’s hungry, and has to eat Earth-like planets filled with organic sentient life (i.e., us) to survive. Which is not evil–It’s just how nature made him.
And the FF have to deny him that meal, even if it means he will die, again not because they’re evil–but because they must do so to survive.
That story is nowhere to be found in FF2, a bad sitcom about how our erstwhile Capital-H Heroes discover that what they do DOES matter–and the world needs them. In other words, a two-dimensional, Bushian worldview that is 100% at odds with the thoughtful, nuanced morality play it purports to be adapting.
And, yes, Chris Evans is sexy/cocky/funny, but I met someone last Saturday night who shot him for a Men’s Health cover (Chas, if you think about it, you know who I’m talking about), and that person said Mssr. Evans is a blank as a fart.
*There’s* a shock.