Day: June 20, 2007

IDW’s Premiere edition of “Fallen Angel.”

I just got a copy and it is absolutely beautiful.

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So Kath and I went to see the latest FF movie the other day.

I liked it. Liked it a lot. Liked it beyond the whole “It’s a lot better than the first effort” vibe. The plot hung together, the actors were far more comfortable inhabiting the skins of their characters, the entire family vibe was pitch perfect. Bottom line, THIS incarnation of Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny actually seemed to like each other…even love each other. In getting that right, it provided a foundation for a quality film that simply wasn’t present in the first go around.

On top of that, we have the Silver Surfer. Understand, I remember when a Surfer movie was being discussed decades ago, back when such an endeavor would have required an actor painted in silver and standing on a board…a less than impressive prospect. No more. Now we have a Surfer who is a combined effort of special effects wizards, Doug Jones, and Laurence Fishburne, and the results are spectacular.

And ultimately? It feels and “reads” like a 1960s Stan and Jack effort.

How many Marvel films can you really say that about? That they feel THAT old school, that you can bring your kids to it with relative impunity? It’s not dark, foreboding, terrifying…it’s the Lee/Kirby FF, right down to such story developments as Doc Doom endeavoring to steal the power of the Silver Surfer.

And yeah, yeah, yeah, Galactus is a cloud. But you know what? Galactus was always presented as a force of nature anyway, so hëll, why not take that to its logical extreme? Personally, I think “Ghostbusters” has forever ruined the concept of some big terrifying entity stomping about New York City anyway.

Definitely worth your time and money.

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