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Vigo:
I'm glad I'm not the only one.  :lol





nitz:
Watched the trailer...BLECH! :puke

As others have mentioned, the guy just doesn't seem like Peter Parker. And my wife and I both thought that he looks about 18 and MJ (Gwen?) looks about 30. They look awkward together...if the trailer can't make them look good together, then the movie will never pull it off.

I think I could have certainly accepted someone else playing the role if they hadn't done a damn origin story (seriously, considering we just had 2 good movies + one decent one that began with an origin story, this is just lame ::)) and if they didn't look like they were trying to be like every junk action movie out there. I get why hardcore Spidey fans will need to see it, but I'm happy enough with Spiderman 1-3 and frankly can't be bothered with this.


--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 07, 2012, 09:06:12 pm ---Tim Burton did a great job with the Batman films, but he pits batman against th joker in the very first film and kills him.  It can only be downhill from there.  

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I hesitate to call those great as I thought the tone and style were wrong, though the acting and production values somewhat made up for it. I do agree though that killing off the villain is bad...though in this case I doubt Jack Nicholson would have come back for a sequel anyway, or at least would have wanted a crapload of money (I think his salary for Batman was huge).

I actually thought the Batman reboot was ok, since I didn't think either Tim Burton movie felt quite right, and Batman Forever + Batman and Robin were garbage. But in the case of Spiderman, the first 2 movies were great, and the third was at least acceptable. A reboot just seems silly if not outright stupid, and just helps confirm for me that mainstream Hollywood movies are really going down the crapper.


--- Quote from: yotsuya on February 08, 2012, 12:27:22 pm ---I'm glad you guys are having fun with this. Last time I got excited about a superhero movie was 1980.  :cheers:



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That is my favorite superhero movie ever.  :cheers: It's a bit cheesy/corny in parts, but for that movie, it seems to work.

shmokes:
Yeah, that's Gwen Stacy, not MJ.

Honestly, the main problem isn't that they're doing an origin story. It's that Sam Raimi's origin story was particularly good. It's that fact that makes this movie entirely superfluous. It's like they think that since it's a new actor playing him we need to be reintroduced, which makes no sense since the whole conceit of acting is that we're supposed to be watching Peter Parker, not whatever-the-guy's-name-is who's playing him.

Don't get me wrong . . . there were minor problems with Sam Raimi's version--primarily that Peter didn't smash the spider after it bit him. It was obviously an aggressive spider and the fact that it's still running around means that it could create other spider-men. It was a stupid oversight. The biological web shooters, in my opinion, were far superior to the mechanical ones, accuracy be damned. Unless Spider-Man is taking place 100 years in the future those mechanical web shooters, with their web cartridges just strain the suspension of disbelief too much.

With that said, I admit that for total believability Spider-Man ought to be swinging around New York from web shot out of his ass.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: nitz on February 08, 2012, 10:43:37 pm ---I do agree though that killing off the villain is bad...though in this case I doubt Jack Nicholson would have come back for a sequel anyway, or at least would have wanted a crapload of money (I think his salary for Batman was huge).

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That wouldn't have been a problem. Jack Nicholson didn't die in Batman. Joker did.

And yeah, Jack Nicholson took a small payday for Batman (like $6 million) in favor of a backend percentage of everything. I read that he's made something like $100 million from ticket sales, DVD sales, merchandising, etc.  Same goes for Fonze in Happy Days. Henry Winkler took a small salary in exchange for a percentage of syndication profits. Happy Days turned out to be an incredibly popular show, and Henry Winkler turned out to be incredibly rich.

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: nitz on February 08, 2012, 10:43:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: yotsuya on February 08, 2012, 12:27:22 pm ---I'm glad you guys are having fun with this. Last time I got excited about a superhero movie was 1980.  :cheers:



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That is my favorite superhero movie ever.  :cheers: It's a bit cheesy/corny in parts, but for that movie, it seems to work.

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Fortunately, it didn't take itself seriously, nor did the audience, and a fun time was had by all.

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