Man, I think some folk are overly rough on the FF movies. Sure, they got a few things wrong, mostly in casting - Jessica Alba as Sue and Julian McMahon as Doom were pretty terrible and The Thing should *always* have been CG in my mind... and obviously, there's a giant gas cloud in the room that nobody wants to talk about. But it got some things right - the rest of the FF were terrifically cast , and overall I thought the tone of the movie was spot on; it was light, fun, family-friendly. If they'd have let them leave Earth and have some 'Fantastic' adventures, it might have really captured a bit more Stan n' Jack magic.
In comparison, MOS got nearly everything right *except* the tone. Well, there was some sloppy film-making and poor plot points here and there, but the main thing that came across for me was that Nolan is a a firm believer that the only thing to make superheroes seem real is to make them grim, gritty and tortured. And - to me at least - that ain't Superman. I remember watching it the first time and thinking "This is a Superman film by name only,"...and then realising that it's not even called Superman and he never even gets called that in the film. To me It's more a Nolanverse/Snyder experiment on the idea of *a* Superman than it is an actual depiction of *the* Superman. There's merit in that, sure, but it just didn't gel with me. "To each their own," and all that though ^_^
Log in to comment