Rise of the Silver Surfer THING/Michael Chiklis DISCUSSION

[Antonello Blueberry]

I honestly would've even preferred something like:

, Just so he looked more like the inhuman-looking monster that he's supposed to resemble.

Something like the rejected proposal?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I think that looks a lot better than what we got. I would have loved to see that on the screen, it would look superb.

 

[Mr.Wednesday]

I dont know if these pics were shown here already but on a brazilian website about comics and Movies they showed 4 pics of the Thing onset...

I guess you can see some bigger brows there but it could be nothing...

heres a link to the website... In portuguese... BUt theres nothing special in it... Heres the translation:

"The movie Fantastic Four 2 is still being shot in Vancouver, Canada and heres the first pics that are showing up on the net. You can see Michael Chiklis as The Thing onset."

The rest is just yadda-yadda telling the story, Silver Surfer, Galactus, Doctor Doom and how the F4 have to figure out why Silver Surfer is here and blablabla...

http://www.omelete.com.br/cinema/news/base_para_news.asp?artigo=19681

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Yes we have seen them on another thread in here, but thanks for the info anyway.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Ok, let's collect them here:

 

[Spoarz™]

^ I haven't seen that one before.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

my god


and the weird thing is, Chiklis insists he's a huge Thing fan since childhood...why doesn't he....stop them in mid-application and yell "DUDES!!!! This make-up looks like pure unadulterated S***!!!!" ?



I...I don't,....I don't understand what's happening here.

 

[maxwell's demon]

i'd care more if i thought the movie wasn't going to totally suck.

 

[bweurk]

every time i see a fanboy whining over a little detail... it brings joy to my heart.... if i was a director, the thing wouldn't have a brow and would be grey, venom would be played by doug jones ou michael reid mackey, Hulk would be 100ft tall, Superman would have 4 kids.... I love when fanboys are unhappy....

 

[maxwell's demon]

you're awesome.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

every time i see a fanboy whining over a little detail... it brings joy to my heart.... if i was a director, the thing wouldn't have a brow and would be grey, venom would be played by doug jones ou michael reid mackey, Hulk would be 100ft tall, Superman would have 4 kids.... I love when fanboys are unhappy....

Also, get Cedric the Entertainer to play Green Arrow.

 

[wobbly]

every time i see a fanboy whining over a little detail... it brings joy to my heart.... if i was a director, the thing wouldn't have a brow and would be grey, venom would be played by doug jones ou michael reid mackey, Hulk would be 100ft tall, Superman would have 4 kids.... I love when fanboys are unhappy....

Depends on what you regard as a little detail as to how amusing fanboy whingeing can be. For me, moaning about the size of Bens fingers, or the amount of gray in Reeds hair would be 'whining over a little detail' and I'd find that funny myself too, but not being happy with the fact that the current rubber Thing suit looks very underwhelming is a valid complaint (it's more than just the smaller brow, it's the overall look of the rubber suit that fails to deliver for many fans).

Seriously, with all todays technology and techniques at their disposal this tame TV level effort we are being given is more than a little annoying, especially when you know full well they could have done it so much better.

 

[wobbly]

my god


and the weird thing is, Chiklis insists he's a huge Thing fan since childhood...why doesn't he....stop them in mid-application and yell "DUDES!!!! This make-up looks like pure unadulterated S***!!!!" ?



I...I don't,....I don't understand what's happening here.

If he was allowed input then I'd hope he at least told them what a tame effort it was, but I seriously doubt if Chiklis would have much say in the design of the costume in the end: his job is to play the role, not design the way it looks.

 

[Orko Is King]

Ok, let's collect them here:

Does anyone have a profile pic of the Thing from the 1st flick to compare the makeup?

 

[Mr. Credible]

Something like the rejected proposal?

that looks almost perfect... maybe make 'em a bit oranger, but other than that, i wish that what we got. i don't care if micheal chiklis was 'born to play the thing' i didn't care too much for his portrayal, his thing voice was irritating, and he didn't look anywhere near as good as that pic you posted.

 

[Mr. Credible]

why does the thing look so fat? he just looks like a big fat lump of ****.

 

[bweurk]

Also, get Cedric the Entertainer to play Green Arrow.

good idea... and why not jack black as green lantern?

 

[Spider - Man]

every time i see a fanboy whining over a little detail... it brings joy to my heart.... if i was a director, the thing wouldn't have a brow and would be grey, venom would be played by doug jones ou michael reid mackey, Hulk would be 100ft tall, Superman would have 4 kids.... I love when fanboys are unhappy....

Hmm, you wouldn't care if they screwed up movies about icons of the comic world yet you have over 1000 posts on a comic book hero movie forum. Why are you here, again? Ah yes, the eternal quest to find a whining fanboy. That hobby of yours popular with the ladies?

 

[TripleF]

Bumping

 

[gerbstat]

From the wedding scenes, I think the new look of the Thing is just fine. It is a substantial improvement over the first movie. He's much more orange, too.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

From the wedding scenes, I think the new look of the Thing is just fine. It is a substantial improvement over the first movie. He's much more orange, too.

I agree. Not perfect, but the improvements are good.

 

[TripleF]

Ya know, its probably because I'm blind, lol but I just don't see that much of a change. I'm not complaining about that at all, I was fine with his look in the first movie. I just don't see much change for the second.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

Ya know, its probably because I'm blind, lol but I just don't see that much of a change. I'm not complaining about that at all, I was fine with his look in the first movie. I just don't see much change for the second.

Consider it this way: The Thing has been drawn with his large brow for over 40 years. It's changed shape and size over the years, but it's always clearly been there. And whenever I, and a number of other fans, picture the Thing in our minds, we always picture him with the brow.

To put it in perspective, imagine you see a statue of a face that has no nose. It would look very strange, wouldn't it? But a nose is such a small thing. The statue can have a large nose or a small nose and it will look fine, but if the nose is just missing, it will always look wrong.

When I first saw this photo:

The complete lack of a brow just looked . . . wrong to me, much the same as a face without a nose would look wrong.

He doesn't need a huge brow, but he does need something, and at least we are getting something now.

 

[TripleF]

I understand why people were upset with the first movie's look. Have no problem with that. As a moviegoer not knowing much about Ben, I didn't have a problem with it. The picture you have there shows a difference, but then I turn around and watch the movie, and honestly I see no difference in the movie and what I see in pics today on set.

 

[kedrell]

good idea... and why not jack black as green lantern?

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