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Very Very Cool SPIDER-MAN 2 Photo From New EW!
Hey folks, Harry here with an image I've longed to see... Next... I want to see an image of Doc Ock with Spidey held up in the air trying to tangle Doc's tentacles up with his webbing! But seeing webhead's eggshell ready to be cracked... heheheheheeee... Makes me happy. Thanks goes out to TheJake...
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Ouch.
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After first viewing the website in either late 1997 or 1998, I had thought I finally stumbled on the chance to be the "first" one to respond to an article. It stung so much, I put down "Ouch" instead. ;)
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It will be nice to have a villain that can actually display emotion on his face this time. Alfred Molina is the shit and I think he will be a exelent Doc Oc. But the first one didn't do it for me so I hope this one does.
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I can't wait for this one. Nuff said.
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Kinky bastard.
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"I originally defeated Doc Ock with a special web fluid that I put in my web-shooters. Now that Sam Raimi took away my web-shooters and my high IQ, I'm fucked." (See Above Picture)
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Back to formula.....
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Me thinks I like the robotic tentacles. God I hope this one doesn't have a HORRIBLE "Graveyard" scene. The last 10 minutes totally blew the last one for me..."It's you Peter Parker, it's always been you." BARF
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Nothing exciting there.
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Sci Fi Network on Canada.. They showed a scene with Parker and Red Haired Jiggle Tits in a cafe or something. They're about to suck face and all of a sudden a CAR is thrown (not drives, THROWN) through the window. Parker's spidey sense tingles just a moment before so of couse he and RHJT duck just in time. Actually, it looked quite cool. I've never seen a stunt quite like that before.
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Low budget casting. Saturday morning cartoon CGI hero...again. Obvious and cliched plot (hero loses powers, hero's secret identity revealed, blah, blah, blah). Thanks for ruining an icon, Sony. Assholes.
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Looks interesting but not that exciting. Hell, after seeing the most amazing battle in Lord of the Rings : Return of the King, Neo in the Matrix Trilogy and the Hulk pound the fuck out some Abrams tanks this shot pales in comparison. This movie which was once a heavyweight is now a lightweight. Sam Raimi waited too long.
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Jan 17, 2004 3:50:11 AM CST
Picture looks damn cool...can't wait to see the full-trailer...t
by kaws
Bet the fucking farm. You know this to be true.
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20 years later, after thinking I was the only one who cared about these weird characters that they'd be 'hot news' in Entertainment magazines..folks, if you could 've showed me this picture back then, I would'nt have believed it.
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Yeah, the sequel will have no problem making money but that still doesn;t change how unimpressive it looks next to The Hulk, Return of the King and Reloaded and Revolutions. A lightweight, like I said and easily forgotten.
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Raimi fucked up and waited to long. He should of taken a hint from The Wachowskis and Peter Jackson about how quickly to do a sequel. Strike fast while its the in the minds of the fans I say.
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jcFIG it took 4 years for a sequel to the matrix one. so that's 2 sequels in 4 years. spidy has a sequel out in 2 years from the first one's release and will probably have another sequel in 2 years after that. so so much for your point
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Looks great!
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That's all I'm sayin'.
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But seriously, we're all chuffed about this, right? Has anyone ever seen that trading card shot of Dr. Octopus? The 1 where he's standing in the background lighting a cigarette while Spidey is fighting with the tentacles in the foreground? If Raimi can pull off a shot like that, it's on. It's on + popping! Out.
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I would've run out into the street screaming... and thats kinda how I felt when I was waiting for the 1st Spiderman flick... but this? I dunno... I know I'll end up going and I'm not here to bitch at Raimi for fucking my childhood in the ass while it was asleep (or whatever the fuck else you sad cunts throw up every time) but I'm just not as excited about this film as I was the first. I hope I'm made to look a fool come the summer....
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Woweeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!! Live action Spidey Vs Doc Ock. I hope they've taken the Ditko artwork of the sixtes as an inspiration for their storyboards. (There was never a better Spider-Man artist in my humble opinion.) Oh, oh...and next time, can we have Electro (In the proper yellow & green costume with the lightning bolt mask) as a villain. Damn, I have fond memories of his first appearance. I always thought he was the second best dressed Spider-Man villain, Mysterio's costume was minimally cooler. (My wife would confirm that I'm not actually known for my fashion sense !!!)
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Couldn't resist trying out the new catchphrase - bwaaahahahahahaha !!
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For Kraven.
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For Scorpion.
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How the hell could I have forgotten the Vulture ?? Spidey clinging on to a web that's wrapped around the Vulture's feet while he's being whiplashed around N.Y. skyscrapers in LIVE ACTION. Damn that's cool. That's even cooler than dodging Electro's lightning bolts.
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Ive seen this pic and I love it. Love everything ive seen so far from both films. Now I know were gona get a 3rd movie an all. A return of the goblin is setup as is the lizard and The Manwolf and sadly I wouldn't be surprised if they find some wrong way to throw venom in. Thats all fine and good but what I really want to see is just a few shots of spidy going toe to toe with some of his lesser known rogue gallery .. im not asking for much just a flashback or a montage Hell at this point id settle for photos in a daily bugle sitting on a desk in the background. Theres too many cool character.. Electro, the Vulture, Kraven, Mysterio even the Shocker.ect it would be a damn shame to never see these character done on screen and done as well as Rami and crew have done. It would ruin the series if anyone else were to take it over. and damn it while im up on my Marvel Movie Soap box how about some continuity between the Marvel Movies .. let everyone know there all in the same universe it only takes two seconds to mention the HULK, mutants or Daredevil in a Spiderman movie heaven forbid a cameo - THIS FAN HAS SPOKEN
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Jan 17, 2004 11:23:00 AM CST
what do the VANDERSEXXXX ads tell me about this site`s visitors?
by drjones
i mean is it realy necessary to advertise for this "fuck"?
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Jan 17, 2004 11:51:21 AM CST
Let me take this opportunity to do more bitching about the movie
by pardon_my_zinger
First of all, the picture IS very cool. It's from the current issue of "Entertainment Weekly," (as are the Catwoman pix) which I got yesterday. Now on to the business at hand... I've already posted in the past how disappointed I was that they decided to dump the much cooler title "Amazing Spider-Man" in favor of the obviously far more generic "Spider-Man 2." Now I don't doubt that the movie will be great no matter what the hell they call it. And I'm not concerned so much for the fate of this film as for the future of the franchise. Any fan of the Spider-Man comics will tell you that there are more than enough great villians, secondary characters and plot twists to support a Spider-Man film franchise for ten films, easy. Yet you know already that no critic is going to wait to actually see the movie before dismissing anything called "Spider-Man 7." And anyway, it would have been one thing if they had called it "Spider-Man 2" to begin with, but the fact that they changed the title I find a bit insulting. There sometimes seems to be a general mentality in Hollywood that audiences are - let's not mince words here - STUPID; and will not accept anything that's not spoon-fed to them. That is, no one would've been able to figure out that "Amazing Spider-Man" was the sequel to the zillion-dollar-grossing original, so we'd better spell it out for them by calling it "Spider-Man 2." Possibly the best example of this from the past fifteen years, I think, arguablly lies with what they did to the title of the "Arthur" sequel. The original title was to have been "Arthur on the Rocks." GREAT title - terrific double-means referring to both the title character's drinking, and the fact that he loses all his money in this one. But as they got closer to the release date, they decided that the general audience was too brain-dead to appreciate all that, so they changed it to the bland, generic, Googleplex-out-on-Rt.-23-friendly title "Arthur 2: On the Rocks." When Dudley Moore promoted the movie on the David Letterman Show, it was obvious that he was unhappy with the title change. I don't blame him one bit (and let's bear in mind: the original "Arthur" was a slightly more upscale, Oscar-nominated movie, so why should THAT sequel especially, be dumbed-down, even if it IS just in title?) Well, I guess if "Die Hard" could dump the numbers in the title by the third film, I guess "Spider-Man" could do the same. Here's hoping.
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Jan 17, 2004 11:58:03 AM CST
Yes, this is more like it. I think Raimi has definitely found hi
by silver_joo
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Jan 17, 2004 12:00:11 PM CST
You can show me all the damn shots of Spidey you want, but if hi
by terry_1978
Part one was understandable in that he wasn't a clown because of all the darkness happening around him, but in this sequel he'll have been the webslinger for a good year or so, and the trademark wisecracks should be present. Hell, I'd even be happy if Joss Whedon wrote a couple of his lines this time around. If I can get at least one clever line from Spidey commenting to Doc Ock about his wearing shades during the day, I'll be happy.
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FAP FAP FAP
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I was really excited by the trailor with the car through the window, even though some of the brief clips of fighting looked like they might look as bad as the first one. This picture just looks wrong...but I will still give it a chance. It is Spider-Man after all.
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I know Spider-Man is smaller than the average superhero, but c'mon. He just looks puny in this shot. I don't understand why they even use Tobey when the character is in full costume. I think a stunt double that was a little more beefed up would look much better. Overall, kinda blase about this one. Even for a sequel it seems to have a been-there, done-that feel to it.
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Damn it, the whole post has lost its credibility.
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Raimi was hired on for TWO sequels, people! There's going to be a part 3. How lame will it be if Parker doesn't have his powers? What, does he go back to the science lab to get bitten again? How fucked up would that be?
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...Richard Dean Anderson, all the way. But I agree with a Cromwell Vulture. Jewel Staite for the Black Cat.
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You guys realize thats just a cropped promo pick of Michelle Trachtenberg for Road Trip right?
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Jan 17, 2004 1:11:55 PM CST
I assume they're just rehashing the same plot device used in Sup
by gere's assgerbil
Hero somehow loses powers. Bad guy starts trouble and hero is helpless. Hero regains powers and saves day. Roll credits. Two hours of unoriginal, uninspired, predicatble suckage.
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Hulk was relatively cool, but didn't hold a candle to Spidey...Hulk's action was blurred way way too much (dog scene) and some of the CG was unreal in how good it was (low light and ice forming on him as he 'flew') but at the expense of some terrible looking shots....spidey looked like he was supposed to look...webswinging, the whole deal...spidey 2 will be incredible and hopefully blow us all away the way x2 did for that series
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Am i the only person who thought that Spiderman while not been awful was not that great. I do not understand how Spiderman can gross $114 Million in 3 days and X-Men 2 can only do $88 when X-Men is so much better. This film looks another bore with Sam Raimi doing another "oh im going to substitute lots and lots of set pieces with some more shit dialogue from MJ and some more dumbfounded shots of PP so i can get some critical praise" Please we want Spidy to be Jumping, flying kicking ass all the time cos they are the bits in the first 1 that were great. Yes ill see this but i can hold my breath and i think a lot of people can and we'll see that opening weekend.
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I joke. I don't expect this movie to be any better than the first, mainly because I'm sure all involved don't feel it NEEDS to be any better to generate the revenue the first made.
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I saw Jake Gyllenhaal at the local supermarket recently and couldn't help but look at him and think ,"My God, this guy sees and feels a naked Kirsten Dunst whenever he wants!" I almost walked into traffic.
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Yes. Yes it does. It's just one of those things that you're probably gonna have to get past in order to invest your attention in the rest of the movie. Odds are, if and when the Lizard gets his silver screen debut, a similar origin will be concocted. I think the lesson to be learned is that scientific innovations are only good when they're made by accident.
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Why, exactly, must his trademark wisecracking be present in any of the sequels to 'Spider-Man?' It's not like you'd really make jokes in the middle of a fight; I'd say the wisecracks in the first one were frequent enough. But then he wouldn't be a smarmy champion of the oppressed.....
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I would LOVE for the thrid movie to feature that! As for his wisecracks, they're what make Spidey unique; while someone is trying to blast him to smithereens, he makes some wisecrack to frustrate them. And the "its not realistic for him to wisecrack in the middle of a fight", its also not realistic to dress up in a costume, climb buildings or detect danger. But hey, I think Spidey can do those things too!
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Kraven-Oded Fehr(The Mummy)
Shocker-Stephen Baldwin(The Usual Suspects)
Electro-Guy Pierce(L.A. Confidential)
Venom-Clancy Brown(Highlander)
Mysterio-Kevin Spacey(Seven)
Rhino-Ron Perlman(Hellboy)
Hammerhead-The Rock(The Rundown)
Vulture-Terrance Stamp(The Limey)
Lizard-Dylan Baker(Spider-man 2)
Hobgoblin-James Franco(Spider-man 2)
Chameleon-Gabriel Byrne(The Usual Suspects)
Black Cat-Sarah Polley(Dawn of the Dead 2004)
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Scorpion-Vince Vaughn(Psycho 1998)
Sandman-Gary Sinise(Ransom)
Hydro-man, Molten-man, Carnage,Prowler,Silver Sable-?
Rocket Racer-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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...is he just doesn't translate well to the big screen. Take Doctor Octopus, for example. What makes him so special? New York cops could take him out in about 10 seconds. So he might be a little harder to shoot than an unarmed immigrant in a doorway, but you can't tell me that a bunch of cops or even a single sharpshooter couldn't just shoot him in the head. At least they gave Green Goblin some armor (however ridiculous looking) to add to threat factor. And I still have issues with the whole organic webshooter thing. I understand the reasons they did it, but it's doesn't make it any less stupid. And the cast isn't right. Tobey's too wimpy. Dunst is too haggard-looking. They should've switched to Scarlett Johannsen for MJ. And don't get me started on Alfred Molina. I love how after Molina was announced as Doc Ock, all these closet Molina fans came out of the woodwork to praise the decision. "Oh yeah. Molina is awesome. I knew after I saw 'Chocolat' that he would be perfect as Doctor Octopus." Whatever. Bottom line is this one is starting to get a funk and it ain't pretty.
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Saw that one coming. I suppose his character should have no continuity whatsoever then except to be cool and unique whenever the geeks of America need him to be?
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I know comic readers laugh and thrill to the antics of Spider-Man and his ability to "frustrate" those stuffy criminals with his inane, I-watch-too-much-TV ramblings, but it wouldn't play in the movies to make a Spider-Man/Scorpion fight look like a rendition of "The Three Stooges." "Woop woop woop woop!"
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Go watch "Sexy Beast" and "House of Sand & Fog" -- and then tell me you think someone else is right for this role. Kingsley is so ass-kickingly scary and menacing in "Sexy Beast", and with his bald dome and beak-like nose, he looks like Adriam Toomes. So far, the Spider-man & X franchises have gone after top flight ACTORS as villians (Ian McKellan, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Brian Cox), now it's Kingsley turn to rake in the big-studio-movie moola and chew scenery as the high-flying Vulture. BEN IS THE MAN!!!
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Move along now, move along... Nothing to see here... Let the authorities do their work and clear up the scene of the accident...
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Was a kick ass mofo. Y'all best recognize.
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This will go over huge in Japan. It might even prompt the Japanese to develop technology that can replace Spidy with underage girls.
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Thank you Sam Raimi. www.rockithardcore.com
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Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast) was my first choice, but I thought he would be too obvious. The Hulk was a failure. The cast doesn't even want to come back. Sometimes you shouldn't try to make more out of what's there. The cgi Hulk looked like shit. He looked like a giant, pouty, green child. LXG sucked but at least Mr. Hyde looked good.
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Ummm....what was the point of that little story of yours?
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You mean Tobey can't really climb walls and shit? Damn movies... what can you believe in nowadays?
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Dude, The Hulk was an excellent movie. Sorry if you didn't like it.
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Is it just me or does Sony really seem to be restraining Sam Raimi and his style? I mean, Dark Man is one of the most vibrant and stylish superhero movies of all time. Raimi moved the camera with a Tsui Hark-like kineticism. But in Spider-Man, he exhibited very little of his trademark flair. You can call this "growing up" or "maturing" as a director, but when I heard Raimi was doing Spider-Man, I was expecting very outlandish and kinetic direction much like the Evil Dead series and Dark Man. Oh well.
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I wonder if Doc Ock can give good hand-jobs too. Looks like Spidey's got his hands tied...
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Yeah, but you know that everyone would then go "dude, like, enough already!". And Fanboys would be split in two. A war would ensue, the two camps firmly entrenched in their views, and eventually the world would end. That wouldn't be cool.
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Like the general screaming ridiculously when the Green Goblin blows up that testing base. Or in the 'Spider-Man 2' trailer when the camera zooms closer and closer to Tobey with the cheesy music. Or shots from the ground up. Crazy zoom-ins on the Goblin mask. That sort of stuff. It's all good, baby.
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Sean Maher. He played Simon, the doctor, on Firefly. He's a good actor, maybe not in Maguire's league, but he looks the part so much more than Maguire ever could. Oh well. I guess were stuck with Tobey and His Amazing Receding Hairline. I've still got my fingers crossed that they'll color in Tobey's bald spots using CGI in post-production.
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Man, have we been spoiled.
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When Spidey and GG are fighting in the end, there is a lot of Raimi's style in there. The part where Spidey is kicked and flies backward, with the camera on him as he falls backward. That sort of cinematography is right out of Evil Dead, and one of the lesser known Raimi flicks, Crimewave. The movie Crimewave is still a guilty pleasure of mine, I wish it had found a larger audience.
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Tobey is a fine Peter Parker, Kirsten is a fine MJ. Sure, some people may wish that their first choice had the part, but this isn't a perfect world. The casting in the Spider-man movies is much better than in a lot of other movies, so we should all just be grateful that the first one turned out as good as it did and cross our fingers for the second one, which based on what I've seen of it, is shaping up to be even better.
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Maguire IS Parker. Jason S. could also have played it, but we'll never know now. Unless Spidey 2 sucks Fanboy crotch, and the natives becomes restless and pin the blame on him. Untill then, come up with some good shit to grovel about. Dandy boys...
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The picture is very cool. Just like a panel out of a comic book!
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Tons of posts... No wonder these movies brake even, whether crap or not (not that Spidey 1 is crap). Too much neuro-circuitry devoted to banalities. I wonder whom Spider-Man would vote for in the coming elections...
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Jan 17, 2004 7:37:04 PM CST
Is it me, or did Kirsten look abit haggard in the teaser trailer
by boris the blade
Maybe it was the bigass stadium screen, but I thought to myself "Maybe they rushed her through makeup that morning..."
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Actually, I don't think she's such a 'natural' beauty (according to current mainstream whims), but still quite delectable in my mind. Also, I think were Spidey to exist, he'd be battling Bush and his bunch of merry morons....
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I just can't believe some of you tremendous fucking morons. Stop bitching that shots from a comic book movie look "camp" or "silly", it's a dude in arachnid themed tights wrestling a geek with robotic arms. Of course it looks silly, of course it looks campy, these are things that don't exist and are by their very nature ludicrous. If you don't like camp then you just don't like comics or films based on them-superheroes aren't real and the closer to reality they get the less interesting they become. Fans of all this trendy Nu marvel/Ultimate U garbage fail to recall that all of this shit is based on the -
I did? Okay. Just checking.
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Whoever suggested that he should become Hobgoblin should be hit by a bus.
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Now that you all have mentioned it, I do seem to remember some of those more Raimi-esque moments in Spidey. Perhaps I just wanted them to be more overt and in your face. Like, when I heard that Raimi was directing and he was filming, like, the NYC skyline from a helicopter, I almost imagined he was going to do a "Spidey cam" - where'd we get a first person perspective of Spidey swinging between buildings at incredible speeds. Yeah, that might have been cheezy as hell but still...would have been fun. I mean, the scene where Dark Man hs hanging from a helicopter is campy but still such a rush to watch.
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Hello.
You know what I want to do? I want to save this entire talkback thread, so when the movie comes out and rocks everyone's world, we can see which whiny bitches changed their tune as soon as they could. They can try to claim they loved it all along, but we will all know better. Bunch of wannabes, pissed that they have no movie career or life. I am taking bets as we speak......
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I have a question: is there any movie I can buy/rent in which Hulk Hogan uses the word "brother" as a token phrase, or is this solely from his WWF act?
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That dude really nailed the character!
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Try "No Holds Barred" or any repeat episode of "Thunder in Paradise". He does the "brother" schtick to death on those, but don't blame me that I'm recommending a couple of real turkeys to you. "Suburban Commando" is one of the very few films he's made that are funny in a good way (unlike "No Holds Barred")
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Jan 18, 2004 10:10:46 AM CST
I agree with Terry_1978, but feel compelled to point one thing o
by pardon_my_zinger
Terry_1978, I agree that this movie (and future sequels) do need more of Spider-Man's trademark wisecracking. We got a little bit of that in the first film ("Beats taking the elevator," "It's you who's 'out,' Gobby - OUT OF YOUR MIND!") But you're right in the fact that some of the themes of the first film were darker, and wouldn't have lent itself to that as much. ALSO: in the first movie, Peter Parker had just become Spider-Man, and was still adapting to the persona (you'll notice in the comics that he does more wise-cracking as Spidey than as PP). So I hope we do get some more of that in the upcoming film. HOWEVER (here's what I wanted to point out)... There probably can't be as much of it as there is in the comics; since those - and I don't mean just Spider-Man, I mean in general - are a bit unrealistic in the sense that somehow, people are able to carry on conversations while they're brutally fighting with each other. My favorite parody of this (actually, it may be the ONLY parody I've seen... ) was in an issue of the "Simpsons" comic "Radioactive Man," which was a parody of early-to-mid 60's Lee/Kirby comics. In it, the superteam which Radioactive Man is a member of has a large object hurled at them. One of the members then utters: "No time to jump to safety! Only time to TALK about it!" (I thought that was great). So since movies do not have the luxury (or perhaps the liability) of having their action frozen panel-by-panel, there'll probably be less time for wisecracking while Spidey and Ock are trying to kick each other's butts. However, again, I do agree that overall there should be more of it in the movie. Here's hoping that too.
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I think Kevin Smith said that "The Electric Company" was where he discovered Spider-Man on that one documentery from the DVDset. Oh, and E!'s "Celeberties Uncensored" program is a complete waste of time, but then again, what do you expect from that sorry excuse for a network?
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Jan 18, 2004 1:54:03 PM CST
According MARVEL UNIVERSE, Spidey is supposed to be able to lift
by darth phallus
So why do they make him such a weak pussy in the films?
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Jan 18, 2004 1:55:08 PM CST
Antonio Banderas for Tarantula with the oh-so-stylish-Venom-tipp
by darth phallus
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Jan 18, 2004 3:37:47 PM CST
Don't get me wrong, don't make the Spidey/Doctor Octopus battles
by terry_1978
I didn't want it done to the extent of say, the Mummy franchise where it's a constant barrage of one liners, but a couple here and there that could be deemed hilarious. Ultimate Spider-Man has kinda made the mistake of making most of his jokes too pop-culture reference-y, and I definitely don't want it to turn into that.
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Weak Pussy? I guess that's why his weak ass was holding up the Roosevelt Tram by one arm.
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Jan 18, 2004 5:31:49 PM CST
spider15.5, I've an even better example of studios thinking audi
by raw_bean
'The Madness Of King George' should have been called 'King George III', as he was in fact King George the third, but they changed it because they thought everyone in the American market would think it was a second sequel. ------- Personally, I think this pic's cool and I can't wait to see the film.
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1)Blade )The Crow 3)Men In Black 4)Superman 5)Spider-man
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Michael Chabon.
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CATWOMAN
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I haven't talked to you in a dog's age. Hope you've been well. Yup, it's a double-edged sword with movies, as usual. Either the movie makers have us feel like cretins by dumbing things down for us, or they leave details unexplained and you have folks asking questions than only a few fanboys are gonna know. It's a conundrum. Before I came to this site, I never knew so many Spider- haters existed. I mean, damn, what's the problem? It's Spider-friggin'-Man, okay? The first one was solid, and if this one stays the course or (dare to dream) surpasses it, it should be outstanding. Would somebody please tell me what kind of petulant asshole hatefully dismisses a movie without knowing fuck-all about it? C'mon. Yeah, if you didn't like the first one, this one may not turn you around. I guess some folks just get a rush from being "mavericks", crapping all over something considered popular entertainment.
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Jan 18, 2004 9:00:59 PM CST
The problem with this movie is that other than the main characte
by serious black
I loved the first half of the first movie. I thought it was fun and they nailed Peter Parker perfectly (with the exception of the awful cage match). But then Cartoon-M-- I mean Spider-Man showed up and the movie went from fun to just plain silly. The Goblin was goofy when he should have been threatening. Spider-Man's few attempts at his trademark witty banter made me wince. Worst of all, the fight scenes just weren't that exciting. How can you make a Spider-Man movie with lackluster fights? Maybe I'm just spoiled in this post-Matrix age and I expect too much, but I don't think so. The fights should have had a certain cool-factor that just wasn't there. That more than anything made me lose confidence in Raimi. Again, I loved Maguire as Parker but I don't buy him as Spider-Man for a second. I was disappointed they didn't go with Gyllenhall when Maguire had his back problems. Dunst is annoying and not attractive enough to be Mary Jane. Hiring Molina just seems like the studio cheaped out and didn't want to spend the money on a big name for the bad guy. And finally they hired the overrated Chabon to write the script, but then eviscerated it during rewrites. Not sure whether that's good or bad. Overall, I'll still probably see this movie along with everyone else because, after all, it is Spider-Man. I've just set my expectations a little lower than I do for most sequels.
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...as two of the greatest comic book movies: "American Splendor" and "Ghost World?"
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They actually have No Holds Barred at my videostore to rent, for like a $1. I'll have to check it out. I bought the DVDs for "SHADOW WARRIORS" and "THE ULTIMATE WEAPON" for ultra cheap, in the hopes of seeing Hulk waste some baddies and use the phrase "brother". He never once used "brother", though, so I was left feeling rather empty. SHADOW WARRIORS is still decent, though, if only for the triple team of Hulk, Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed in all the Rocky movies), and Shannon Tweed taking out some Eurotrash (all the villains are either German, British, or Canadian).
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Ghost World was pretty good. Haven't seen American Splendor yet. They should make top 10 I would think along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, and Timecop. Yes I said Timecop. Even with Van Damme it was a good flick.
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X-men also in the top 10.
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Time Cop kicks ass. It's a guilty pleasure for sure, but it's a high concept, serious sci-fi flick with Van Damme (much like Replicant)! How can you go wrong? Even the sequel is cheezy fun.
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c'mon, who are u kidding, this film's gonna b great (but not if spidey loses his powers....and u knob-gobblers thought george lucas raped ur childhoods, i'd hate 2 c u if spidey became an average joe again) it's gonna do big bucks as was said b4, and all of u r gonna go c it, possibly 2wice. wat ppl were saying about cheap-casting isn't a bad thing, thats wat make so many films good, look at the original STAR WARS, tell me there was HUGE names in the main characters (apart from alec, cushing) and thats wat made it great, u didn't have a clue who these guys were (alright we know of molina etc) just stop ur whining and prepare 2 pull out ur wallets, the film only starts in like 5 months.
damn right about the HULK, it did rock, mayb us 5 ppl on the planet who liked it could form a vigilanty group that toss ppl who badmouth it in2 the river or somthing.
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