not that fantastic

ive seen fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer twice! the first was on june 13, 10:15am (if i remember correctly). it was the second day of classes, i thought i had a 1pm class so i made sure i got there by 10am. so the moment the movie was done, i rushed to the jeepney terminal so i would be just in time for the 1pm class. i think the movie ended around 12. well, i found out that my class was really 5pm! i should have checked my form5! that sucked. anyway, im digressing. i watched the movie again on saturday because my brother wanted to see it. so the question is, was it a good movie? like i said it wasnt fantastic. i think its better than the first movie. i would give it a 7 out of 10. the good thing and unfortunately also the bad thing about the movie is that they really portrayed the comic book team correctly (or at least that's how i remembered fantastic four when i was still a comic book collector 10 years ago). fantastic four is really a bunch of nice guys, a family friendly, very wholesome team of superheroes (unlike the xmen which is composed of a more diverse set of individuals, ranging from rebellious mutants, to average joes with powers, to those who are just plain weird). this is why i liked the x-men more than the fantastic four. for me, the fantastic four is just too nice for my taste, too noble, too heroic. at least the x-men are composed of individuals who starts out as having no direction in life, still adjusting to who they are. well, fantastic four also did some adjusting to their acquired powers but they dealt with it with maturity. that's it, fantastic four is composed of mature individuals who are thrust into greatness because they use their powers for good. they felt it was an obligation they had to take, done with, well, mature deliberation.

anyway, about the movie. for me, its much better than the xmen movies, all of the xmen movies. although the xmen characters are cooler, they just werent able to bring that to the big screen. fantastic four on the other hand did, to a certain extent. what made the sequel better, i think, is due to the fact that silver surfer is in it. im not a fan of the character, but the guy looks so cool in the movie. the CGI was great. sound effects? good enough. another reason is that you get to see jessica alba! isnt that a good reason to see the movie? ok, maybe not very much (almost but not in all instances...yeah right, even if the movie is about jessica alba talking to a cardboard box for two hours, i would still go see it...on video, hehehe), but its a marvel film, so i cant be that bad, right? well, as long as its not like the daredevil movie. anyway, the reason its only a 7 is because of the ending. where the fuck is galactus! the cloud! that sucked! what's the point of saying the destroyer is here, i.e., galactus when they will just show a planet-size cloud formation! the beginning of the movie was ok, the middle part was ok, then the ending just ruined everything. having galactus as a cloud is not a good teaser for a 3rd movie. if they will not do galactus correctly, then leave galactus out of it. namedropping galactus would have been better. worse part? the surfer confronting galactus! ok, that was just lame. but i saw the movie twice, right? well, like i said, i love marvel, so i do have a bias in favor of marvel movies (except daredevil). up to now, i havent watched the superman movie. the only DC character i like it batman.