Rise of the Silver Surfer THING/Michael Chiklis DISCUSSION

[tzarinna]

Very good, he was good in the first one too.
But he was much more lovable in this, I guess accepting his fate a lot of more helps with that.

 

[Warhammer]

I liked Thing.
He was more or less the same way from the first. Since the movie version accepts the way he is, I can't complain. Chiklis was great.

 

[Agent 194]

Anybody have a link to where Chiklis demonstrates how he alters his voice to sound like the Thing? Someone mentioned it earlier and I can't seem to find the right combination of words to access it on YouTube. I love to hear actors do impressions or manipulate their voice. Would love to hear it.

 

[Agent 194]

note that the above Thing concept STILL has no brow!

Another reason I don't like it.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Am I the only one who likes The Thing's costume? It was a nice touch than from having everything cg.

 

[NQ-B]

Am I the only one who likes The Thing's costume? It was a nice touch than from having everything cg.

Yeah the thing comes across more human, it's nice I think you can feel for the character more, if that makes any sense

 

[C. Lee]

Anybody have a link to where Chiklis demonstrates how he alters his voice to sound like the Thing? Someone mentioned it earlier and I can't seem to find the right combination of words to access it on YouTube. I love to hear actors do impressions or manipulate their voice. Would love to hear it.

I saw him do it on the FOX news channel the Friday morning the movie opened....maybe that'll help.

 

[Agent 194]

Ah,....danka shoen. I shall search anew.

 

[NQ-B]

Ah,....danka shoen. I shall search anew.

If you find it could you post the link on this thread please?

 

[Agent 194]

I'm looking

 

[Still A ThorFan]

He should have been CGI. He looked like a giant rice crispies treat.

 

[Prognosticator]

I don't have a problem with Michael Chiklis part perse. His jokes fall flat, but I think that's in line with the comic b/c I NEVER laugh at Ben Grimm's lines on paper.

But I'd maybe add a little bulk to him. I mean, he's supposed to be able to throw down with the Hulk, but he's shorter than Mole Man

 

[November Rain]

That's the biggest area where they just piss all over the comics/character.

To anyone who grew up reading about the Thing, watching Reed struggle his ass off for DECADES to help Ben return to human form....watching DECADES worth of angst and misery over his disfigurement.......his whole thing was that his only wish was to be able to touch Alicia with normal hands someday, and then, when all the measures failed, trying to get as comfortable as he can with his imposed life as a rocky-hided creature.

To see him just turn back to human in a happy-go-lucky way, for a sec, and have ZERO prob with losing his humanity again?!

It's preposterous....it's the whole deal with Ben.....it's like having a Batman movie where his parents weren't killed in front of him when he was a little kid.
So, so, so lame.

Well it's kinda clear that The thing in this film is pretty happy with his look and has come to accept it.

although when ben and johnny were talking about ben's last moments on earth and how he wanted to spend them, i thought that he would swap powers with ben for a while and allow him to spend some time with alicia or something.

maybe this comes down to the fact that he was cured pretty much straight away in the first film and a possible cure is still there as long as there is sufficient power to work it and it is now a waiting game to obtain this power more than anything else.

This factor does change the dynamic of the thing and the way he interracts withthe rest of his world. Besides he openly chose to revert back to this form in the first film to help out the rest of the team.

Maybe it's not comic book but with reasoning and evidence from the first film, it's certainly more consistent.

 

[November Rain]

He should have been CGI. He looked like a giant rice crispies treat.

Based on the cgi used for mr fantastic's dancing, you really wanted to see a Thing made up with those kinda graphics all the way through the film?

 

[Prognosticator]

Based on the cgi used for mr fantastic's dancing, you really wanted to see a Thing made up with those kinda graphics all the way through the film?

Ouch! My toes were curling with embarrassment!!



The whole theater was like,

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

I wish they'd make Ben resemble the way he was in the second season of the 90's FF cartoon. Just give him a little bit of an edge.

 

[November Rain]

you know, i actually think he looks better in the modern day cartoon except for his spray painted chest that is.

i was rewatching that cartoon recently and he is pretty much the same size as the rest of the team in it as well...he actually looks kinda fat in it.



note at the end of this scene, we see he is actually shorter than reed in this rendition of him as well...

i never would have guessed it.

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

Well I don't mean visually, because yeah he is pretty chubby in that cartoon. I meant more his personality. He's still the same old Thing, but he's still bitter over being turned into this monster.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I thought The Thing was a combination of seriousness and humor in this film.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Since when could "Thing" pick up 3.7 MILLION POUNDS over his head??? (the London Ferris wheel)

According to Wikipedia: The total weight of steel in the Eye is 1,700 tonnes

Thats a little over the top.

 

[Morg]

steriods?

 

[Carp Man]

steriods?

The Thing juiced up ? t:

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

thats crazzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyy!

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Since when could "Thing" pick up 3.7 MILLION POUNDS over his head??? (the London Ferris wheel)

According to Wikipedia: The total weight of steel in the Eye is 1,700 tonnes

Thats a little over the top.

It is VERY OTT, In the comics i thought The Things limit was 100 tons, and in the first movie this Thing wasnt even near the level of the CB Thing.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Based on the cgi used for mr fantastic's dancing, you really wanted to see a Thing made up with those kinda graphics all the way through the film?

Here's this madness again where people act like it's an either/or choice between a rubber Halloween costume, or atrocious, crappy CGI.

How about, they get a BRILLIANT director, with a VISUAL FLAIR, and have an AMAZINGLY LIFE-LIKE CGI character, with a bodily proportion so non-human that a man on a suit would be impossible, like Gollum in the LOTR movies?