Kinda greedy isn't it? I mean how can you get out of his kingdom after he take over the world, start investing in rocket?
I liked the bit at the end. "w-what happened?" "You tested your swamp fever serum on yourself and became a giant lizard." If I was a super hero, It'd tell people all kinds of bullshit after they woke up from being knocked out.
I was explaining why Gwen Stacy is so important as a character development point to the GF, and why the Raimi films, for all their fun web swinging, failed in so many other ways.
unfortunatly no my dad was stationed in Japan and England during most of the 90's so I grew up with more japanese and british cartoons than American ones. Also one of the reason my grammer skills suck.
Was that Dennis Leary? He looks about a decade younger and 50% healthier/fitter than the last time I saw him doing anything.
Yes, it is Denis Leary. I recall hearing he quit smoking (and maybe drinking), maybe that has soemthing to do with it? Or it could just be makeup/lighting.
Not really. Spiders who actually shoot webs do so from glands in their mouths. This isn't really any more implausible than organic web-shooters doing the same thing. In some ways I'd say it's actually worse, because their functions can't simply be explained as another result of his spider-powers. Ah, but the problem there is that Parker actually is a doe-eyed photographer nerd guy. Making him a brilliant chemist/engineer capable of creating both synthetic spider-webs, and a practical (not to mention absurdly durable, given the kind of stress his antics would put on it) delivery system, among other things (spider-tracers, spider-light, spider-camera, spider-armour) just doesn't work.
I kind of agree with that. Having homemade mechanical web-shooters has been something he's been doing since he first showed up. It is an established part of his mythos, but still he's an (admittedly exceptionally bright) high school student; it stretches plausibility that he's able to not only formulate an adhesive capable of supporting his own weight, but also a delivery system which allows him to project durable strings of said adhesive without fail as he swings from rooftop to rooftop, all on the budget of a broke highschool student. Granted "bit by a radioactive spider so that he has the proportional strength, speed, and agility of a spider" also streches plausibility, so really, it depends on what you're willing to suspend your belief or not over.
Well yes, but organic web-shooters come out ahead, I think, because the central premise is "bit by a radioactive spider so that he has the proportional strength, speed, and agility of a spider", and making web-shooting a by-product of that does away with any need for further explanation/elaboration. Elegant simplicity.
Yet his are on his wrists. And actually sort of obvious, which makes me wonder how no one noticed... Only to a certain point. I don't think you could argue he could get exactly the same level of dynamic control, even if it is part of his own body. Plus, he can't put any additives in the formula, or improve it in general over time. It's stuck at the exact same thing all the time. It's pretty clear Peter's supposed to be an out-and-out genius. He just didn't have a good way of leveraging his genius early on. Later, he would have been reluctant to jsut roll out those inventions. Don't want to connect the dots too easily. As for the webbing itself, several iterations have the formula being based on his father's work, as I recall. But I saw a recent excerpt on scansdaily, where 616 Parker's been rolling out several inventions to the general market through a job with...Stark-whaver? Some company. Anyways, they're all getting used in places that are visibly making a difference. And Peter's thinking about how he's got oodles more little inventions he's made over the years that might have good applications. For all its other failings recently, this is one spot 616 did good, I think. Peter may not be quite Reed Richard or Tony Stark, but he's likely able to at least get somewhat close to their level.
And entirely irrelevant to my point. Only for the first few days, I suspect. I think exactly the opposite more likely to be true. Oh, I'm sure a clever writer could find a way around that. "Early on" here meaning the vast majority of his existence as a published character. Which brings up the aforementioned problem of "connecting the dots", not that the mechanical web-shooters themselves wouldn't otherwise; sooner or later someone should notice that this seemingly near-penniless photographer is purchasing vast amounts of chemicals for no apparent reason. Meh, it's a superfluous additive to the character, a hold-over from the "Golden Age" when the wealthy-but-bored man-about-town could go out and fight crime with an arsenal of wonder-gadgets he just happened to throw together in his garage over the course of an afternoon. It doesn't fit.
And yet another Spiderman trailer - quite a lot of new stuff in this one: So Peter Parker is the product of genetic experimentation, thus allowing a radioactive spider bite to make him even more superhuman? Hey, I know! Peter Parker was already superhuman, being the product of genetic experimentation by his father. The radioactive spider bite merely unleashed his latent/dormant powers - yeah, that's the ticket!
Oooh, I like where this is going even more. Peter having already his genetics messed around with makes more sense for a radioactive spider bite to turn him into Spiderman. And Connors having a bigger plan than just rampaging. "Oh no my weakness! Small knives!"
If anything I think it look nice, however it really looked like they messed the lizard up and used lines meant for the green goblins rather than the lizard
I think they should have cut Andrew Garfield's hair shorter, to make him look more Peter Parker-like. Not saying he'd have to go full-Toby, but just be a little bit more nerdy as opposed to boy-next-door.
I've always felt that thematically, a character who gains his powers from a spider and is so named should make his own webbing. It's simply an aesthetic choice.
OH COME ON! See this?: This is his origin. Not 'my parents experimented on me'. He gets bitten by a radioactive/genetically engineered/magic spider, his uncle dies due to him not stopping a criminal he could have, he fights crime. Great Power, Great Responsibility. This is just making things needlessly convoluted for the sake of cheap drama. You want Peter's father having an impact on the story? Adapt Ultimate Venom. I was feeling kind of guilty about wanting this movie to fail so Marvel could bring the rights back (and Spidey into the MCU), but this makes me feel better about that. Of course, it'll still make more money than God, which means they'll keep making sequels. Even if it does badly, they'll just reboot it...again.
I agree that I prefer the classical origin story, too. For some reason, they feel this isn't good enough, and want to put a new spin on things. It reminds me of how Banner is only supposed to have survived the gamma-bomb radiation exposure because he has some special 1-in-a-zillion gene that enables him to absorb the radiation. That too seems like another retcon/revision to me, and I prefer the classic origin where he's just a smart guy who gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not somebody with a special genome. This "you are the Chosen One" type of re-spinning makes people like Parker and Banner lose their everyman qualities, which is what helps the ordinary reader to connect with them more.
My only personal knowledge of the Spidey comics come from reading JMS' run on Amazing Spider-Man (pre-OMD; I may be a comic noob, but even I know enough to stay from that trash) and the Ultimate 'verse's take on Spidey's story, so I personally really like that they're adding more depth to Peter's backstory in this film, while keeping a lot from the classic comics to please older/harcore fans. Though everyone else is free to disagree with me, I think this is the right direction to take. And if anything, Garfield has certainly shown us in the trailer that he's got Pete's lovable wiseass personality down pat, which is a make or break deal with me; as soon as I heard Spidey snark at that car thief, I was sold on this movie. Toby was good with the dramatic moments in the original Raimi trilogy, but he had a serious lack of snark in the films, which is a key aspect of Spidey's charm. I think this movie will be good; the only thing I'm worried about is the pacing; with all that extra detail added to the classic comic origin story, the movie might become too slow or too rushed, let alone too complex.
