Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

This is flat out, hands down, the best pure comic book movie ever made.

Comic books are not art. I don’t care how pretty you make them, how much you infuse them with meaning and how technically proficient the creators are. Comics are entertaining stories for boys.

So, you can make a movie like Sin City or 300 and make a comic book on the screen, precise in every detail, with the same colors, same action scenes, same episodic nature but while they’re spectacular comic book movies they’re not entirely faithful to the root of the medium.

Fantastic Four is. From the stilted witty banter to the sugary life lessons learned. From the bizarre action to the utter disregard for property damage (speaking of which, when will they make a Damage Control movie? You could tie all the franchises together.) FF is the ultimate example of what a movie about a comic book should be.

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