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Timby posted:I don't think you're going to find very many people who like the second more than the first. I worded that poorly. I meant I liked both ASM movies.
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Timby posted:Very little, presumably. According to leaks, Stark's only in the movie for about 15 - 20 minutes (though Happy's in it quite a bit more). Potentially unfortunate, but maybe for the best. RDJ's Stark has been the star of the Marvel movies so far for me, and I'd have liked to see more of him growing as a character.
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I loved ASM and saw it in theaters 5 times, and a few more after buying the bluray, but after I saw ASM2 in theaters opening night I haven't watched either since. I'm worried that if I watch ASM again it will just look worse but I might bite the bullet tonight just to see if 1 has gotten worse or 2 has gotten better.
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Timby posted:Very little, presumably. According to leaks, Stark's only in the movie for about 15 - 20 minutes (though Happy's in it quite a bit more). Do the leaks say if J.J. is in it and if he's still played by J.K. Simmons?
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Jun 14, 2017 04:02
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RatHat posted:Do the leaks say if J.J. is in it and if he's still played by J.K. Simmons? he's too busy being buff jim gordon
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Jun 14, 2017 04:07
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Oh I remember now, the biggest problem with the Amazing Spider-Man movies is wasting a really great cast on daddy issues that would make Batman say "woah dude take it easy"
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Jun 14, 2017 04:24
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BiggerBoat posted:I enjoyed both of them. ASM1 more than 2 but I'm way way in the minority on that opinion. Man we disagree on some things but we are spot on with this, I enjoy both of the ASM's immensely and think 2 got unfairly maligned. Except I disagree on that last part about ASM1 being a favorite, mine is still S-M2, although AS-M1 might be the second spot. Have the same reasons for liking 2 as well (perfect costume, good action, Stone, Garfield being funnier and more Spidey-like than Toby, romance wasn't too bad, etc)
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y'know, sony has a new spider-man game coming here in the next year or so, and a vr device they'd probably love to advertise, I want to see them put the first person footage of swinging around they filmed for Amazing Spider-Man on there.
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DC Murderverse posted:y'know, sony has a new spider-man game coming here in the next year or so, and a vr device they'd probably love to advertise, I want to see them put the first person footage of swinging around they filmed for Amazing Spider-Man on there. Yeah, then you can vomit from motion sickness while seeing the world the way Spider-Man does.
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Jun 14, 2017 05:15
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 is loving garbage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEz_zs67hwY
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Jun 14, 2017 07:16
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Pops Mgee posted:Amazing Spider-Man 2 is loving garbage. I've seen that movie, I watched the entirety of the clip, and I have no loving idea what it was meant to communicate
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Jun 14, 2017 07:29
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Snowman_McK posted:I've seen that movie, I watched the entirety of the clip, and I have no loving idea what it was meant to communicate What is Roosevelt?
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Jun 14, 2017 07:51
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Pops Mgee posted:What is Roosevelt? A clue to what happened to his dad (specifically the location of his secret lab).
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Jun 14, 2017 07:54
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 has some high highs and some extremely low lows.
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Jun 14, 2017 08:45
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Snowman_McK posted:I've seen that movie, I watched the entirety of the clip, and I have no loving idea what it was meant to communicate Neither did Marc Webb. Marc Webb just plucked the structure of that sequence out from 500 Days of Summer (a film he also directed) and converted it to suit Spider-Man's needs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=angNn9Pmk0s Guess he needed to pad the runtime maybe? teagone fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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Reginald Hudlin, director of Boomerang and House Party and a writer of Black Panther comics, is directing the Shadowman movie. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he..._source=twitter
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The MSJ posted:Reginald Hudlin, director of Boomerang and House Party and a bad writer of Black Panther comics, is directing the Shadowman movie.
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I finally saw the new Power Rangers movie and I thought it was okay overall. A little bland, if that makes sense - it wasn't boring or anything. I really wanted to like it more than I did, but it certainly was nice seeing the power rangers' armor on the big screen again. It looked pretty dope and I liked the modern updates - the textures and the cool looking miniature universe in a chest piece thing. I couldn't help but compare this movie with Chronicle, which was a far superior movie - it devoted more time to the actual characters experimenting and trying to come to terms with implications of their new abilities. The kids in Power Rangers were all right and had their own characterization but everything else - the power ranger parts - just felt loose and a little rushed. I'll have to think on it a little more and figure out why it didn't click, but I'm not sure there's much else to think on about with the movie.
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Guy A. Person posted:Eh I don't blame you, it's the second reboot in 5 years and they're again going for the "Peter is an awkward kid in high school just trying to figure things out" angle again. I am looking forward to some of the other elements aside from that (new MJ, Keaton, Ganke, integration into the greater MCU hopefully) but there is so much to the Spider-Man story that they just refuse to really utilize. She's not playing MJ.
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thrawn527 posted:She's not playing MJ. Or Gwen, for that matter. She's apparently playing an original character.
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Pops Mgee posted:What is Roosevelt? Roosevelt Island, where Ben Parker's Batcave was.
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Cythereal posted:Or Gwen, for that matter. She's apparently playing an original character. Not entirely original. She was in the comics under a different name, and Sam Raimi wanted to use her in Spider-Man 4.
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Drifter posted:I finally saw the new Power Rangers movie and I thought it was okay overall. A little bland, if that makes sense - it wasn't boring or anything. I really wanted to like it more than I did, but it certainly was nice seeing the power rangers' armor on the big screen again. It looked pretty dope and I liked the modern updates - the textures and the cool looking miniature universe in a chest piece thing. You're pretty much there. It had a ton of character work for characters that never really did anything. Add an extra fight scene or two earlier than 3/4ths of the way through the movie, include more than just the Red Ranger fighting on the ground during the climax, and suddenly the whole thing opens up.
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RBA Starblade posted:I think I got killed by that in Bloodborne. Darkeater Midir from the last Dark Souls 3 DLC has an incredibly similar move where his flame breath (something pretty much every dragon enemy in the series has) will suddenly change into a laser beam of darkness and cause explosions everywhere. It's very unexpected the first time you encounter that.
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The bizarre idea that Peter Parker should have secret agent corporate espionage parents still baffles me. IIRC they brought back his parents in ASM 400 and it was for a weak sauce story that was quickly forgotten. There was no indication that anyone gave a poo poo about that idea, no great arc from the comics that was still discussed, nothing. They just invented a franchise element out of whole cloth and shoved it into the movie and IMO it was massively detrimental and you can feel the energy just drain out of the screen whenever it's happening.
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Jun 14, 2017 16:14
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Movies get too hung up on superhero origin stories sometimes. It's a big part of what killed all the Fantastic Four movies.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The bizarre idea that Peter Parker should have secret agent corporate espionage parents still baffles me. IIRC they brought back his parents in ASM 400 and it was for a weak sauce story that was quickly forgotten. There was no indication that anyone gave a poo poo about that idea, no great arc from the comics that was still discussed, nothing. They just invented a franchise element out of whole cloth and shoved it into the movie and IMO it was massively detrimental and you can feel the energy just drain out of the screen whenever it's happening. i vaguely recall it being a thing from ultimate spider-man
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dont even fink about it posted:Movies get too hung up on superhero origin stories sometimes. It's a big part of what killed all the Fantastic Four movies. Yeah, I wish more would handle them like the Ed Norton Hulk (however you feel about the rest of that movie). A montage over the opening credits of what we already know, and we're off for movie we actually want to tell.
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, I wish more would handle them like the Ed Norton Hulk (however you feel about the rest of that movie). A montage over the opening credits of what we already know, and we're off for movie we actually want to tell. I wish Hollywood would give us more movies that involve Edward Norton or Tom Cruise furiously running. Waiting two years for the next Mission Impossible movie doesn't cut it.
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Brother Entropy posted:i vaguely recall it being a thing from ultimate spider-man That's good info, thank you. I've never heard anyone utter a peep about it so I assume it was the same nothingburger of a story no matter what media they tried it in.
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I just gave away an issue from the late 80s/90s I think where Redskull reveals he knows the truth of Peters parents and their covert lives and even as a kid who got that issue as a hand me down I knew it was a trash idea that did not belong in spider-man.
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teagone posted:Neither did Marc Webb. Marc Webb just plucked the structure of that sequence out from 500 Days of Summer (a film he also directed) and converted it to suit Spider-Man's needs: "Character puts a bunch of random, seemingly unconnected stuff up on a wall and tries to figure out the connection" isn't exactly a sequence pioneered by (500) Days of Summer.
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Brother Entropy posted:i vaguely recall it being a thing from ultimate spider-man Ultimate Spider-Man wasn't the same thing. There were some similarities, though. In Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter's dad is a scientist who invents the symbiote suit to cure cancer and left documents behind about the webbing compound. He dies in a plane crash, but he isn't a secret agent. (They have an aged clone of Peter who pretends to be his Dad that is a secret agent.)
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I think the "parents being secret agents" angle could work if it was a fakeout. Have it be about Peter getting obsessed with legacy or something and believes since he doesn't know his parents or because they were boring, he sucks too. Then he find out they were secret agents and he gets kinda cocky from it. In the end he learns that they were just average people that died in a freak accident and that he can't rely on the past or legacy when looking toward the future.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The bizarre idea that Peter Parker should have secret agent corporate espionage parents still baffles me. IIRC they brought back his parents in ASM 400 and it was for a weak sauce story that was quickly forgotten. There was no indication that anyone gave a poo poo about that idea, no great arc from the comics that was still discussed, nothing. They just invented a franchise element out of whole cloth and shoved it into the movie and IMO it was massively detrimental and you can feel the energy just drain out of the screen whenever it's happening. It seems in bad taste to me, if only because "they're actually secret agents" is such a childlike rationalization for absentee parents. It sends such a strange message. There are a lot of children who's parents aren't around, but Peter Parker isn't like those people. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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It was a nice narrative tool but is there anything clone related in Spider-Man that isn't garbage? Carnage-Gwen doesn't count
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Aces High posted:It was a nice narrative tool but is there anything clone related in
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Aces High posted:It was a nice narrative tool but is there anything clone related in Spider-Man that isn't garbage? Carnage-Gwen doesn't count Kaine is a really great character now. Really.
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Schwarzwald posted:It seems in bad taste to me, if only because "they're actually secret agents" is such a childlike rationalization for absentee parents. Exactly why they should do a fakeout. At the end show that Peter Parker and those people are the same - children making up stories to cope with a loss. But in the end, he reconciles with the past and realizes the family he has in the present is all he needs.
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