It’s here – the classic first series of The Fantastic Four arrives on DVD. This spectacular 2 disc set, features all 13 episodes of Season One of the heralded 1990s animated series. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Season One contains a faithful re-telling of their original comic book stories. Learn the origin of The Fantastic Four, and be there as Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing save the world from the dastardly Doctor Doom and his legion of villains. Perfect for kids and adult collectors alike you can relive every action-packed episode, complete with exclusive introductions by co-creator Stan Lee. It’s a fantastic DVD collection you’ll want to experience over and over again! Episodes: The Origin of The Fantastic Four (Part 1), The Origin of The Fantastic Four (Part 2), Incursion of the Skrulls, Now Comes the Sub-Mariner, The Silver Surfer & the Coming of Galactacus (Parts 1 & 2), Superskrull, The Mask of Doom (Parts 1, 2 & 3), The Silver Surfer & The Return of Galactacus, Mole Man, Behold the Negative Zone.

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SHE may have shot to fame alongside Ioan Gruffudd as a Hollywood superhero but Jessica Alba’s latest movie experience was far less glamorous.

For horror movie The Eye, not only did she have to play a top-class concert violinist, but also a woman who has been blind since childhood.

So intense was the filming experience that Alba endured “a lot of sleeplessness” during the shoot.

In preparation, Alba spent six months learning to play the violin, as well as visiting blind orientation centres and mixing with blind people.

It’s all a far cry from the glitzy, glamorous image conveyed by the glossy Hollywood movies that have made her famous – the two Fantastic Four movies (which saw her pucker up to Cardiff-born Gruffudd), Sin City and Into The Blue.

But then, despite huge success as one of the industry’s hottest young female stars, Alba is, in her own words, something of a perfectionist when it comes to the day job – and also a realist.

“First and foremost, I’m an actress, so if I’m playing a violinist no-one’s saying I have to be absolutely note-perfect all day long while we’re filming,” explains Alba, who will be 27 on Monday .

“Obviously you’re not going to pick up an instrument that complex in so short an amount of time. But I wanted to get it right. I couldn’t have the audience think that I wasn’t playing. I practised so much. And we were shooting nights, so my days ended when everyone else’s started. It’s kind of impossible to sleep at seven in the morning with the sun spilling into your room!”

Alba is expecting a child in May with her film-producer fiancé, 28-year-old Cash Warren, whom she met while making Fantastic Four. Other heavily pregnant starlets might not have turned up to promote their latest movie, but you quickly get the impression that The Eye is a fairly substantial project in the Alba canon – and indeed very different from her usual, more mainstream fare.

“It was the most interesting female role I’ve ever read,” says Alba. “And it’s certainly not your average, typical horror movie. It’s more about a young woman who is faced with things that she really cannot explain, and who fears that she is losing her mind and her grip on sanity.”

The film is, in fact, a remake of a cult 2002 Chinese supernatural horror movie. Alba’s character, Sydney Wells is an acclaimed violinist, blind since a tragic childhood accident, who decides to undergo a double corneal transplant, in the hope of regaining her sight.

The operation is successful, and Sydney can see for the first time in 20 years. But her happiness is short-lived as she starts to be haunted by inexplicable shady visions and frightening images alien to her own life and circumstances. “Are you seeing dead people?” asks her doctor in a knowing reference to The Sixth Sense. Of course she can – and this is what has made the film such a hit at the US box office.

California-born Alba has turned down more than a few “slasher” movies before now, but she considers The Eye to be several notches above that cynical, money-grabbing genre.

“A lot of horror movies have girls running away from a guy who is torturing them or kidnapping them,” she explains. “There’s always much more a victim stance when it comes to the female character and it usually involves crying and screaming.

“I found The Eye a far more fascinating and complex scenario. It’s not about gore, it’s about suspense and psychological tension. When I read it, I realised it didn’t need to have people’s body parts being ripped apart, it didn’t need cursing and it didn’t need sex. I thought it was a complete, terrifying experience without those things that would make it an 18-rated movie.”

Alba does, however, claim to be an avid fan of more traditional Hollywood horror. “One of the first movies I ever remember watching was Nightmare On Elm Street – I think I was about four and a half,” she confesses with a laugh. “It gave me nightmares until I was 13. My parents didn’t know, nor did they approve, obviously. I was a sneaky child, I hid behind the couch and watched the whole thing. Later that night, I insisted on sleeping in bed with them; if I was going to be sucked into the bed into some netherworld, I was going to be with them!

“Later on, I loved movies like Psycho, The Birds, It, Poltergeist, Rosemary’s Baby, The Ring – those kind of movies are more my speed than people getting mutilated and chopped into bits.” Alba started taking her violin lessons for The Eye while she was shooting the second Fantastic Four movie. “I had to train for months just to learn how to hold the bow and instrument properly and that’s only half the battle,” she grimaces. “I’m playing complicated classical pieces in the film, so I had to learn how to play the actual notes.”

Equally challenging, of course, was playing a woman who is blind. Alba spent time living at the New Mexico Commission for the Blind, where she learned basic Braille reading, and received training under the guidance of a certified orientation mobility instructor.

“I also spent time with a woman around my age who’s a musician herself and who’s been blind since she was three,” reveals Alba. “She travels all around the world on her own, and she doesn’t have a guide or a dog. Just observing her and spending time with her, she was pretty much my inspiration for my character.”

After Alba’s extensive musical preparation for the role, might a back-up career as a violinist beckon? “Never in a million years,” she laughs. “It’s the most difficult instrument on the planet. I did six months of extensive training with three different violin teachers, and these are women who’ve been playing since they were three years old, all of them. They are all in orchestras, and they still practise eight hours a day. I just simply don’t have that amount of dedication, to be honest.”

The Eye is in cinemas now!!!

As I was saying, let’s just remeber the past, let’s just remeber 2005. The year when F4 came to the Cinema.

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So, Let’s see the true origin of the movie

It all started with a rushed test flight of an experimental spacecraft. Years before, while a student at Empire State University, Reed Richards began working on plans for one of the first vehicles capable interstellar travel. His roommate and best friend, Benjamin Grimm, jokingly promised to pilot the craft. But Reed, after studying to be an aeronautical engineer, finally realized his lifelong dream. Exhausting the majority of his vast inheritance, he funded the construction and launch of such a starship. Other financers, particularly the U.S. government, however, were losing interest and they threatened to cut him off from their funding of the project. Reed embarked on an immediate test flight, taking Ben Grimm with him who had become a successful Air Force pilot. Reed’s longtime sweetheart and fiancée, Susan Storm, and her brother, Johnny, also joined them. Ben opposed the idea, warning that the ship’s shielding might prove inadequate against intense forms of cosmic radiation.

Nevertheless, Reed persuaded them all to accompany him, stealing into the launch facility, boarding the starship, and blasting off in pursuit of scientific glory. They intended to travel to another star system and back, but a solar flare temporarily boosted the intensity of the ionizing radiation in Earth’s Van Allen belt.

The spaceship encountered a bombardment of cosmic radiation, causing both the mission to be aborted and the craft to crash. Emerging from the ruins of the spaceship, they discovered the radiation had mutated their bodies. Reed gained the ability to stretch his body and limbs, Johnny was able to fly and become engulfed in flame, and Sue was able to bend light around her body and become invisible. Ben, on the other hand, gained incredible strength and durability at the cost of being severely disfigured. All four decided to use their powers to better humanity and founded the Fantastic Four.

From this, lots and losts of episodes were made, such as happens with Super-Man, Spider Man!