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LesterGroans posted:Also an Iron Man movie was a much bigger risk than a new Spider-Man, because before 2008 who gave a poo poo about Iron Man? Ghostface Killah 
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sambafish posted:Well, rumor has it that the budget, which was intially reported to be a very modest $80 million, has ballooned to over $200 million. This is just a might be part of the reason why Sony is worried about whether it will be profitable for them. For comparison, the Raimi trilogy had a combined budget of $597 million and grossed almost 2.5 billion worldwide. Didn't something similar happen to X-Men: First Class?
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LesterGroans posted:Also an Iron Man movie was a much bigger risk than a new Spider-Man, because before 2008 who gave a poo poo about Iron Man? Also, Robert Downey Jr. was still considered a 'risk'.
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May 18, 2012 18:35
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gmq posted:Also, Robert Downey Jr. was still considered a 'risk'. Not really, RDJ was well into his comeback. Zodiac was the previous year, for example.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not really, RDJ was well into his comeback. Zodiac was the previous year, for example. Even then he wasn't "hero" material and they lampshade this in Iron Man's script. Up to 2007there really hadn't been a successful straight-faced superhero film starring a wisecracking douchebag. The closest you ever had was angst-grizzle Hugh Jackman, and even then that's the adonis Hugh Jackman. RDJ is relatively short and ugly compared to the "typical" superhero build and visibly flawed both in character and in his personal history, thus he was considered a huge risk.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not really, RDJ was well into his comeback. Zodiac was the previous year, for example. Favreau had to beg to get Downey into the film. He'd made a few films but everyone still thought he was going to show up to the set naked.
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RDjr basically took his role from Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (which you all need to loving see RIGHT NOW if you haven't already) and made it PG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkSDJmSgqo
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Vintersorg posted:RDjr basically took his role from Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (which you all need to loving see RIGHT NOW if you haven't already) and made it PG. "Doesn't that suck I just hit you for no reason." And people wonder why I've been verbally fellating RDJ for the last 20 years.
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Rhyno posted:"Doesn't that suck I just hit you for no reason." "I put in one bullet, didn't I? There's like, an 8% chance!"  I will continue to long for RDJ and Andrew Garfield having a smartass-off until I get it.
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mind the walrus posted:RDJ is relatively short and ugly I will fight you, RDJ is dreamy  Recently finally watched Sherlock Holmes 2 and kind of surprised at how polarizing it seems to be. I can see the flaws people assign to it, but I think for the most part they're greatly exaggerated and it still holds up as a good flick, even if it doesn't have the pure concentrated level of awesome the first one did. Really wish he'd do the third one of that before Iron Man 3, but eh. And speaking of X-Men:First Class, watched that earlier today and was very pleasantly surprised. But then again I had somehow not realized Vauhgn had done Stardust, which is easily one of my favorite movies ever. And back to Iron Man, are Jeff Bridges and Gwynyth Paltrow really that cheap?
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precision posted:I will fight you, RDJ is dreamy Compared to Christian Bale, Brandon Routh, Hugh Jackman, and even Toby-goddamn-Maguire, RDJ isn't a square-jawed 6'+ hunk of muscle and thus not what "most people" think of when they think of a superhero.
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Australian trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32nyLBiAU1w New footage here, including what seems to be a reference to the comic book bridge scene. Also, good lord is Parker strong.
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The MSJ posted:Australian trailer. Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood.
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New clip of Spidey being chased. http://movies.yahoo.com/video/ymovies-6393699/the-amazing-spider-man-clip-police-chase-29575359.html
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pleasantlyplump posted:New clip of Spidey being chased. I'll be honest, I had a pretty big smile on my face watching that.
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Nice 'Midnight Cowboy' shout out. "Wathcout! I'm swingin' here!!"
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Deadpool posted:I'll be honest, I had a pretty big smile on my face watching that. That was pretty great. The score really adds to it.
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pleasantlyplump posted:New clip of Spidey being chased. poo poo... I can't play this at work. Anyone got a youtube version of it?
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Deadpool posted:Yeah, I thought the score there was pretty good too. I am really looking forward to this movie. There seems to be creative display of his powers, how the movie is shot, the thought and effort that seems to have went into this seems really in depth. It looks really beautiful too.
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BiggerBoat posted:Nice 'Midnight Cowboy' shout out. "Wathcout! I'm swingin' here!!" I have been told that this less Midnight Cowboy and more Peter being a New York native.
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pleasantlyplump posted:New clip of Spidey being chased. Looking for this video on youtube showed me this clip. It's a featurette on the Lizard from the Avengers Alliance facebook game and you can hear him speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UMxq49sTw
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i like tacos posted:Looking for this video on youtube showed me this clip. It's a featurette on the Lizard from the Avengers Alliance facebook game and you can hear him speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UMxq49sTw hot drat this movie just gets better and better  still not sure about the face though. It's like Gollum but on a xenomorph's body or something, really weird and it will probably be loving creepy as poo poo when we see it on screen, I hope
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Here a new clip of Peter owning some jocks at basketball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEmFLN65_Cs
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Well that was surprisingly enjoyable. Garfield is completely selling me on his Peter Parker. Still not liking that Flash Thompson keeps on getting relegated to the "random jock Parker fucks with when he's still getting used to his power" slot instead of being a character in his own right, but whatever films have to be ultra-economic about that sort-of thing and Flash is pretty superfluous to most Spider-man plots.
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Flash is a bit of a tightrope walk if you want him around for any length of time. In the beginning him and Peter were enemies in that 'oh, boys will be boys' kind of way but nowadays he (and his cronies/the other students) would be understood as capital-B bullying and lots of work would need to be put in to mend that relationship and have them be friends in some sequel. On the other hand, you could have Flash lay off and be more of a Stiffler character but then if Flash represents the worst of high school then Peter really shouldn't be an ostracized loner. So unless you leave him out or have him be a one-and-done petty adversary early on (like both movies have seemingly done) I'd say Flash is better suited to being someone who's brought in later, like a friend of Harry's, with the two of them only being friends begrudgingly and constantly sniping and one-upping each other.
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Well there's some bad news today. A person who works for Marvel Russia in marketing (I believe), REALLY dislikes the movie. He had been pretty excited to see it and now he's really saying that he disliked it (pretty much). I've got some choice quotes. quote:My full review will be available on the 29th of June (that's when embargo will be lifted). Today I left the screening with the feeling, like someone took my favorite Spider-Man toy and broke it into pieces, if that makes any sense. This guy has been a member of SuperHeroHype since 2009 and has been responsible for showing new marketing stuff and images from The Amazing Spider-Man and the other Marvel movies for quite some time. He's legitimate. He REALLY hates this movie and I know he was excited to see it originally.
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If you go back to the early issues of the comic, Peter wasn't that much of a loner nor was he really picked on much. He had friends and got dates, people were just dismissive of him because he was bookish.
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DeathChill posted:Well there's some bad news today. Not to totally discount any of the reviewers but this origin is going to be different and that's going to really upset fans or set them off no matter how good the movie is. It's not going to be the mostly-verbatim origin of the Raimi movies. From everything I've seen so far be ready for a much different take.
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DeathChill posted:Well there's some bad news today. Well, poo poo. I don't know. This movie looks fantastic, and I never saw any footage from Green Lantern prior to its release that looked anywhere near as good as this does. Unless they used everything good for the trailers and the previews, I can't see how we're looking at something as awful as Green Lantern.
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This is what confuses me. Every clip and trailer I've seen just looks amazing so I'm having a really hard time figuring out where it goes wrong (apparently). He also would not elaborate on what his issue with it is, so I've got no idea if his issue is with the origin. All I know is that he was very excited to see it and after he was extremely disappointed. I mean, he compared it to Green Lantern. I figured the fight scenes alone would elevate it above Green Lantern!
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Am I crazy that the more I hear about studio execs and marketing types hating it, the more I'm predisposed to liking it? The footage looks great and I bet they all just don't think it's dumbed down enough to have broad appeal.
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The only way it could be that bad is if it's an hour and a half of normal Peter angsty school kid teen movie with twenty minutes of actual Spider-man at the end. But then, it'd just be another Raimi flick.
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TOOT BOOT posted:If you go back to the early issues of the comic, Peter wasn't that much of a loner nor was he really picked on much. He had friends and got dates, people were just dismissive of him because he was bookish. Yes and no. In Spectacular (the animated series) they make good use of the college stories from the original comics to put Peter into his own circle of friends. Geeky, but a circle of friends all the same. In the original comics though he was all by himself until college when the cast expanded with Harry, Gwen, and MJ, and that's when we got the group of friends and Coffee Bean hangout time that ushered in the new Romita-era popularity of the character. And that's a great approach, but in a movie you have to know what you want. If you want Flash to be a hokey adversary like Reggie Mantle is to Archie Andrews, then sure, but that means going for an overall lighter approach where Flash is just part of the gang, like the Stiffler example. That's not what they're going for in the movies though, or in Ultimate Spider-Man, which means there's not much room for Flash outside of being a total dick who will be forgotten about early on.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Am I crazy that the more I hear about studio execs and marketing types hating it, the more I'm predisposed to liking it? The footage looks great and I bet they all just don't think it's dumbed down enough to have broad appeal. Not sure, the guy seems to be a real comic-book movie fan but his distaste for the movie came out of left field. I asked a critic on Twitter who has seen it his opinion on what the guy said and the critic said he's insane and he actually plans on buying a ticket to see it again. EDIT: The critic on Twitter also just said this: quote:I thought GL was terrible, and I thought TASM was the best Spidey movie so far. I have no idea what that guy was thinking. DeathChill fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jun 15, 2012 |
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sambafish posted:Well, rumor has it that the budget, which was intially reported to be a very modest $80 million, has ballooned to over $200 million. This is just a might be part of the reason why Sony is worried about whether it will be profitable for them. For comparison, the Raimi trilogy had a combined budget of $597 million and grossed almost 2.5 billion worldwide. Dude, I can guarantee you that this movie was never greenlit with a budget of $80 million. That's the CGI budget alone you are talking about.
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