The trailer for the FF/Surfer flick. Looks pretty neat to me, but I am kind of hoping the chase is not in the movie. A) Like the arrow in Costner's Robin Hood and the ship going up the wave in the perfect storm movie, whatever it was called, we'll have seen the chase eight million times by the time the movie actually hits theaters, and B) I don't wanna a wedding yet, because I'm still holding out hope for Julian McMahon as Namor...
Posted by Mike Chary at December 26, 2006 11:54 PM
That trailer pretty well rocks.
I'm still holding out for a Dylan Walsh cameo where he gets incinerated by Doom.
Mind you, today's not a great day to be trying to get content out of apple.com, what with all those new iPod owners trying to download music and videos. :/
The first movie was vastly disappointing, and I don't have high hopes for this one. Even this trailer was not as suspenseful as it should have been. I got more goosebumps watching Henchmen 21 and 24 hum "Mars: the Bringer of War" in Venture Bros.
Hopefully, it will turn out better.
Why should a chase scene be suspenseful especially between the Human Torch and Silver Surfer; especially in a trailer?
The first movie didn't disappoint me, but mainly because I had no expectations of it.
Isn't that Brian Posehn playing the minister? Nice.
Isn't the value of a chase scene is that it's suspenseful? A chase scene that is boring misses the point.
It's not that there is anything particular bad about the chase, but it underwhelms. A trailer should invoke a feeling of "This is cool, I want to see this." This trailer did not.
Exciting, yes. But suspenseful is not the only mechanism for exciting. This probably degenerates into a semantic debate, but for me the greatest chase scenes of all times are "The French Connection," "Bullitt," "Diva," "Live and Let Die," The asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back" and the Little 500 in "Breaking Away." "Bullitt," "Diva" and "Live and Let Die" are exciting, but hardly suspenseful.
A trailer should invoke a feeling of "This is cool, I want to see this."
As someone who didn't care much for the first movie, I felt this trailer easily met that standard. Maybe I'm being an easy grader, since I loaded the new Harry Potter trailer at the same time. HP came off like a rapid-cut trailer on meth, akin to having Sam Kinison shout in my ear for a minute (sure, it was probably shorter... you get the point). This presented something resembling a scene - a pretty cool scene at that.
To me this was a less the frenetic chase - see "To Live and Die in L.A." or things Mike cited - and more a peek at what the Surfer can do. (And yes, what the filmmakers can do with CGI graphics)
The chase scene was cool, but my fanboy blood was stirred more by the sight of Ben wiping away tears and Johnny's exasperated, "I just bought this tux!"
Looks to be much better produced than the first (which was to me filled with unachieved potential). Hope it measures up to expectations.
I had incredibly low expectations for the first, so I was pleasantly surprised by it.
This outing may or may not suck, but I got the same geek fix from the bits Terence mentioned, and I thought the chase scene was very cool. That particularly moment or two was filled with the "hell yeah" coolness of super-powered superheroes in action. We'll see if they can fill most of an entire movie with that.
(BTW, I'm assuming that if we're getting the Surfer we'll be getting Mr. Purple Antler-Head as well?)
I want to see Paste-Pot Pete played by Pauly Shore.
I think the suspense comes from "Okay, how does Johnny get out of *that*?" as he starts falling, unconscious, from orbit.
The main suspense I want from seeing the Silver Surfer first appear is a hint that the end of the world is coming. Independence Day achieved that in its trailer even before they blew up the White House (and I would not want something so over the top.) If a non-comics fan sees this trailer, how is he to know what us comic fans know - that his appearance heralds the arrival of doomsday? That's where the excitement lies.
Some things the Surfer does - like phasing through the building and upending himself while remaining on the board - is sufficiently uncanny, but it needs more for a teaser.
Hopefully, the full trailer will be better.
I skipped the first movie because the preview seemed trite, and the effects seemed as forced as Phantom Menace. This preview might get me to the theater. The grace of the surfer versus the brash hurtling of the torch were a nice contrast. If there was a shot of the toll booth operator looking up with his eyebrows singed off, I'd be sold.