A Tale of Two Reviews
A Tale of Two Reviews
Jun 10My full and unhinged enjoyment of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer hinges on one totally unreasonable question: Will they give us Kirby Galactus, or something exponentially less cool?
Jack Kirby’s design of Galactus embodies everything that is great and fun and strange about the Marvel Comics of the 1960’s: He’s a gigantic dude in a purple outfit with horns on his helmet who devours planets, but feels kinda bad about it.
The idea that we would see even a quarter-assed version of this character on the big screen sends me into fits of geekish delirium.
However, in a slightly odd twist of events, even the fanboys/plants over at Ain’t It Cool can’t seem to agree, serving up two very different reviews of the film. And they’re not just different in the “cool as balls” versus “suxorz” sense; one claims we see a full-frontal Galactus several times in a Kirby design; the other claims Galactus is some kind of boring, formless tornado thing.
As cool as the trailers have been, I find it almost impossible to give Fox and director Tim Story enough credit to actually bring Kirby’s Galactus to the screen. Still, a guy can dream, can’t he?
What I want to know is how a studio meeting managed to agree that mainstream audiences would be ok with a Silver dude on a surfboard, but a giant guy in a skirt that eats planets… nuh-uh. They won’t go for it.
Let’s face facts – Galactus is THE coolest character in all of Marvel. “This guy is a mutant with claws that heals.” “Mmm, that’s cool.” “This guy stands on the moon and watches everyone.” “Uh, ok.” “This guy isn’t a guy, but the anthropomorphic representation of the universe.” “Yeah, ok I guess.”
“This guy is the last survivor of the LAST universe, who transcended the big bang and now has to eat the life energy of planets to live.”
FUCK YEAH!