Trent B 354 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 Well the official title for the Spider-Man reboot is The Amazing Spider-Man.A high res picture of the new Spider-Man suit.http://www.deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Spiderman2012_0911.jpgI still think it looks ugly compared to the Maguire version.
Jay 46,244 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 At least he has artificial web shooters this time
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 I like it better. For a start, it doesn't have the annoying raised webbing, I dig the artificial webshooters as well. Also, great title.
Romão 2,473 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 At least he has artificial web shooters this timeI always thought it made much more sense for the web shooters to be organic. I mean, he's a spider mutant, why wouldn't he also inherit the ability to organically produce webs? The artificial web shooters always were one of the most stupidest things in the comics, IMHO
Brónach 1,330 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 At least he has artificial web shooters this timeI always thought it made much more sense for the web shooters to be organic. I mean, he's a spider mutant, why wouldn't he also inherit the ability to organically produce webs? The artificial web shooters always were one of the most stupidest things in the comics, IMHOI guess, unless you actually build a storyline about their existence. I don't read Spider-Man so I don't know.
Trent B 354 Posted February 14, 2011 Author Posted February 14, 2011 I don't mind both ideas about the artificial and organic web shooters but I'm with Merkel that the organic ones always made a lot more sense than the artificial ones. Parker was really no genius so I couldn't see a high school kid like him building artificial web shooters.
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 They're to help illustrate that he's a genius. And to provide tension (running out of web cartridges etc).
Brónach 1,330 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 They're to help illustrate that he's a genius.Mm, I don't like that. And to provide tension (running out of web cartridges etc).Mm, I like that.
Koray Savas 2,260 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 Great title, great suit, great director, great actor... composer?
Matt C 605 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 Great title, great suit, great director, great actor... composer?I have to disagree on those two. The suit just looks... off. And the title, while a mainstay in the comic books, just sounds silly.
Docteur Qui 1,581 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 I liked the organic webshooters in the context that Raimi was creating a metaphor for sexual awakening. But seeing as this will be a different interpretation, the original mechanical slingers are fine.
Jay 46,244 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 I liked the organic webshooters in the context that Raimi was creating a metaphor for sexual awakening.
Andy 7,730 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 I like the narrower look to the eyes. More like the classic Ditko or Romita issues. The rest of the suit... ehhh.
Docteur Qui 1,581 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 I liked the organic webshooters in the context that Raimi was creating a metaphor for sexual awakening. Seriously? The first Spider-Man film is littered with parallels to puberty. Peter Parker notices the lovely Mary-Jane and is taking her photo... when a GM Spider bites him. He wakes the next morning to find new muscle growth, hair in places that didn't have hair before, and secretes a sticky white substance which he has trouble controlling. It's hardly subtle.
indy4 160 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 Wait...so do the artificial web producers mean Parker doesn't have any superpowers (except maybe increased strength)?
Docteur Qui 1,581 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 He'll likely have increased strength, the ability to scale walls/buildings and of course Spidey-Sense,
Andy 7,730 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 Having artificial web shooters as a plot device means he can legitimately run out of webbing instead of just losing his mojo like in the Raimi film.
Quintus 6,496 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 Having artificial web shooters as a plot device means he can legitimately run out of webbing instead of just losing his mojo like in the Raimi film.All of a sudden I'm mildly interested in this film.
Wojo 2,458 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 At least he has artificial web shooters this timeI always thought it made much more sense for the web shooters to be organic. I mean, he's a spider mutant, why wouldn't he also inherit the ability to organically produce webs? The artificial web shooters always were one of the most stupidest things in the comics, IMHOThe spinnerets -- silk-producing organs -- of most* spiders are located on the underside of a spider's abdomen, to the rear.That is counterproductive to the method of fast-moving forward locomotion that Spider-Man uses in the comic books.Personally, I'm glad that Peter Parker didn't inherit the compound eyes, eight legs, need to liquefy insects to eat them, and desire to mate with and be eaten by a large female that other spiders get. Gotta draw the line at "spider mutant" somewhere. Save that craziness for Seth Brundle.I don't know about you, but if Peter Parker produces a pile of silk in his underpants, I don't want to know about it.Maybe he does, and he had to build the web spinners as compensation. Raimi's Peter Parker is never really developed as a science whiz.* One spider, the zebra tarantula (Aphonopelma seemanni), has silk-producing organs on its feet.
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 Spidey's scientist side is just like Batman's detective side, it occasionally comes out in drips and drabs to remind us he's a detective, then disappears just as easily.
crocodile 9,724 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 I'd like to see some detective work in a Batman movie. The first four discarded the idea wrom a get-go. It's better in the new films, but still this is not it.Karol
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 I'd like to see some detective work in a Batman movie. The first four discarded the idea wrom a get-go. It's better in the new films, but what still this is not it.KarolWhich is another reason why the animated series kills all.
crocodile 9,724 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 This might be true, actually. I re-watched some episodes and this is still excellent. Of course, I mean the early episodes, with no Robin, Nightwing and newer storylines. The Man-Bat stuff, Clayface and such.Karol
Brónach 1,330 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 The "masked detective" angle usually fits the character way better than the superhero angle.It's the same with other characters. Take the Green Lanterns. They're way better in a Star Wars-like saga with a lot of weird stuff that being on Earth catching criminals by Earth's laws (boooring).
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 This might be true, actually. I re-watched some episodes and this is still excellent. Of course, I mean the early episodes, with no Robin, Nightwing and newer storylines. The Man-Bat stuff, Clayface and such.KarolSee, a lot of people have something against Robin, but he was pretty well done in the series. Check out 'Robin's Reckoning', or 'Growing Pains'.One of the best episodes also came at the end of the run, 'Mad Love', which looks at Harley Quinn's origin and is spectacularly good.
crocodile 9,724 Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 Yes, but this is not what I mean. Some of these are really good. But I generally like the more classic solo Batman adventures. They have this classic feel that makes them even better than most comic books. I remember being instantly hookes as a child. Which is surprising, for some of the stuff is pretty intense.Karol
crocodile 9,724 Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Amazing Spider-Man photos from EW. I don't like what I'm seeing here. For some reason I can't stand this guy who is playing the part.Karol
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386 Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 He doesn't look like Peter Parker. Toby McGuire did.
Red 75 Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Looks pretty good to me. I like the cast and the director, and I dig the different-looking suit. My biggest concern for the project as a whole is that they'll cater it to the Twilight, tween/teenage crowd, which would likely turn out badly.
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Remember the "Emo" scene from Spiderman 3? And then imagine that for 2 hours....
Henry B 51 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 The fact that the new Spidey film is titled "The Amazing Spider-man" is very encouraging, actually.
Quintus 6,496 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Can't see how it'll impact on the quality, myself.
Wojo 2,458 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Indeed. Why, I remember in early 1999, when the idea that a film with the words "star" and "wars" in the title would inspire quality, creativity, and enjoyability.
Trent B 354 Posted July 15, 2011 Author Posted July 15, 2011 It looks like the Toby Maguire Spider-Man suit took a major shit and the result is the reboot suit. The new suit looks god awful ugly.At least the Batman (Bale) and Superman Returns (Routhe) suits looked likable, this is just down right ugly. You also can't tell me that a high school student like Peter Parker built mechanical web shooters, no matter how smart he is.
Wojo 2,458 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 You also can't tell me that a high school student like Peter Parker built mechanical web shooters, no matter how smart he is.Sure you can! That is an aspect of the comics , which dates from the 1960s so it's grandfathered into the story. It's Raimi who took liberties by making the web shooters organic just for the puberty joke, but which removed the plot device of running out of web cartridges.I went to college with one guy who built tesla coils and another who built robots in high school. Web-shooters? Piss on 'em.The new suit looks like he sewed it from basketball material.
Demondm810 473 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 It looks like the Toby Maguire Spider-Man suit took a major shit and the result is the reboot suit. The new suit looks god awful ugly.At least the Batman (Bale) and Superman Returns (Routhe) suits looked likable, this is just down right ugly. You also can't tell me that a high school student like Peter Parker built mechanical web shooters, no matter how smart he is.Agreed. I am sad about what could have been Spider-Man 4 with Malkovich and Hathaway. My favorite quote from a critic so far about the reboot was something like "I don't like the idea of a mutant spider bite causing a boy to be able to make mechanical web shooters". Can't say I disagree.
Demondm810 473 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Never got into Spidey comics. But I will say I know plenty of people who do, and they are downright orgasmic over the web-shooters. I do know I am most likely in the minority.
JoeinAR 1,957 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 I think all the Maguire spiderman films were not very good. 3 was horrible, 2 was probably the least worst of the three, and one was boring. the advantage of the reboot is the effects might be somewhat more convincing, but I don't care for the character so I really don't get invested in the movies. Sam Raimi should have stuck to cheap horror.
crocodile 9,724 Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 I kind of hated Raimi's films, but then I realized his camp approach was exactly the point. He wasn't making a "take me seriosuly" superhero film. They are supposed to feel a bit tacky. Just like Independence Day.Karol
Koray Savas 2,260 Posted July 16, 2011 Posted July 16, 2011 There's tacky, and then there's this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqsdPUfnno
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