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11 Things About Spider-Man
An Anonymous Coward writes: "This has got to be the most inane, greedy thing I have heard of yet! The owners of the billboards on Times Square are suing Sony and those involved with the production of Spider-Man 'for digitally superimposing advertisements for other companies over their billboard space in the film.' Their argument: '[the ads] do not depict the area accurately.' Oh, and a guy in spider costume swinging from the buildings does? Give me a break!" That's one thing; read below for the other 10, if you can handle some movie spoilage. Update: 04/14 21:04 GMT by T : Oh, and a 12th thing: as reader marcsiry points out, that's "Spider-Man," not "Spiderman."
CheeseburgerBlue writes with his space-saving, 10-thought mini-review.
- "Worst opening titles sequence ever. Probably recycled out of un-used material from 'The Last Starfighter.' Truly IntelliVision-level graphics here.
- Peter hacks himself an awesome wannabe costume at first. This is good, because nobody is so well-rounded as to be ass-kickingly fierce, unswerving moral, academically gifted *and* a knock-down seamtress to boot. (It's unheard of, aside from that mama's boy show-off Clark Kent.)
- There is actually some credible character development. (Smacks own agape jaw in disbelief.) So much for the frickin' Batman franchise.
- We are treated to several exciting shots of M.J.'s heaving bosom through clinging wet fabric, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
- J. Jonas Jamieson: beautiful! This character absolutely could not have been done better. It's like a really angry Perry White mixed with Lou Grant, drunk.
- Nice casting. Not only is Peter's pal Harry the spitting image of his screen father (Dafoe), but he also makes a passable Anakin Skywalker. (I can't wait to see what kind of a Darth sombitch Harry turns into in the sequels.)
- Many agree that the animated Spidey flying around looks like crap in the TV spots. Luckily, in context, it works. I found that what the C.G. webslinger lacks in verisimilitude is made up for in choreography -- the sequences of Spidey swinging through Manhattan and thrilling and fun.
- I've always counted on Spiderman to deliver some quality wise-cracks, in stark contrast to Superman's squarejawed mumbling about truth and justice. I also expect Peter Parker to have a dark side that is less cheese-gothic than Batman's silhouetted form baying at the moon. This movie delivers -- Spidey's character is perfectly true to form.
- Great pacing. It's more than half-way through the movie before Peter really becomes Spiderman. His gradual transition to superherohood is convincing, and helps sell Peter as a real guy along the way.
- Despite the fact the Green Goblin essentially kicks his own ass in this movie, he does duke it out pretty cool with Spidey a few times first. (The best part is when the angry New Yorkers pelt him with trash for messin' with their friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.)"
"M.J." "clingy" "wet" "shirts"
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Anyone else have a sudden renewed interest in seeing this film now
The Digital Billboard Copyright Act?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I hope Sony gets fees when this gets dismissed
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"Wolverine, a Canadian in the comics, was rendered with an Australian accent (with the whole G'Day, Mate! bit and all)-- there are no wolverines in Australia, they are a cold-weather creature."
have to admit, it was pretty prescient given that Hugh Jackman's antipodeian.
"Irving J. Spiderman" (pronounced "SPIdermin")
Jack Valenti and the MPAA are to technology as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
If I create a digital version of Times Square in a modeler, am I required to include the billboards?
Thanks for pointing this out.
I've been thinking "Spiderman" for the past 24 years -- it's as if you suddenly told me that yogurt had a "3."
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
A former editor? How fortunate I've found you. I'm afraid my website may have spelling and grammatical errors. Could you please review it and send me an e-mail detailing every single one?
(Nice work, moderators. +5? Not all 'information' is '+1 Informative'.)CP = Counsel for the Plaintiff
CD = Counsel for the Defendant
CP: The accused has distorted the billboard area without my client's permission.
CD: My client has agreed to re-edit the film to remove all shots of the Times Square Billboard area, thus resolving the plantiff's grievance. Does my Learned Friend concur?
CP: What? Well...errr....oh bugger.
Political Correctness is doubleplusungood.
Sounds like you're a candidate for a /. No-Prize!
Excelsior!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Paraphrased from The Official Ninja Homepage
How do they deal with his... er, package in said skin-tight suit? Tape? CG? Or do they just let it hang?
Cynical? Me?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
"the best of" episodes of She's the Sherriff starring Suzanne Sommers.
There are best of episodes of that show?
To portray one aspect and not another is changing the reality.
Changing the reality? This is Spider-Man, not some deadly serious documentary.
In my reality, people don't develop the ability to spin webs after being caught inside a nuclear experiment with a spider (or whatever the original reason was).
deus does not exist but if he does
Hmmm...
If webbing is produced naturally by Spidey's body, what happens when he has an ejaculation? "Sorry, honey, I'll go get a knife and cut you down from the ceiling"?!!!
Food for thought...
Are you sure you don't mean Spider-Person? Or perhaps Spider-American or Arachno-American. Then of course there are those who believe it should be GNU/Spider.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?