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skantman writes "Potentially sad news for Spiderfans. Tobey Maguire has back problems and may have to pull out of the Spider-Man sequel." Since the film was apparently slated to pay him 11M GBP, sucks to be him just as much as us if he doesn't play the part. CT Updated, thats 11M pounds, not USD.
Sounds like a winning lifestyle endorsement to me...
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Not dollars.
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That is actually £11 million. Sucks for him if he's not up to it.
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The article states "Last month, Maguire's agents renegotiated a record £11 million deal for the sequel."
What's that come to, $22M?
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what stunt doubles are for?
Like Batman with multiple stars, we now get a chance at Spiderman. For the love of any god out there man, I hope his back heals soon.
That figure is wrong.....If he makes the film, he'll be making $17 million not $11 million
The linked article says Jake Gyllenhaal has been lined-up as a possible replacement. While he was previously typecast into creepy character roles (Donnie Darko and The Good Girl), he proved in Moonlight Mile that he is a thousand times the actor of Tobey Maguire. Not that I wish any suffering on Maguire, but I do believe the sequel would be better off without him.
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Its all CGI, anyway.
Yes, he may want to do some of the stuntsm on principle, but the real action in the movie (the fights) never had a real huuman in it.
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This part confused me:
"Tobey has experienced mild discomfort in his back, which is in the final stages of healing"
So, what's the problem? I know his back needs to be fully healed, but if it's in the final stages of healing, why not delay production until it's healed? All too often sequels have alternate actors playing the main characters, and I refuse to see such movies. If Tobey's not in the sequel, I probably won't see it.
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I have back problems too so I suppose I'm out of the running for his slot.
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That does, in fact, suck. I didn't really like the first Spidey movie, but I thought he was pretty good in it. I really hope this doesn't turn into a Batman type situation where the actor changes every movie.
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Almost all of the cool Spidey stuff in the first movie was CGI anyway, so what is it exactly that Mr. Macguire can't do? Pose?
Do you really need that much back muscle to kiss a dripping wet Kirsten Dunst?
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Since the film was apparently slated to pay him 11M, sucks to be him just as much as us if he doesn't play the part.
:P
Yeah, I'm sure he's *completely* broke after the first Spider-Man...I don't recall it doing hrribly well or anything
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Note that the article states Toby might not be up to performing "difficult" stunts - which is just fine. We're not going to be able to tell if that's Toby or someone else under that suite with the mask on. Realistically, his back problems, which by the way are in "in the final stages of healing" according to the article, should not pose such a threat as to completely disabling him from acting altogether. If you want to make a bet, Toby is going to be in the sequel.
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The guy they've got up to replace him is Kirsten Dunst's current boyfriend. You might know him as the star of that movie Bubble Boy.
How about, sucks to be him not because he's going to lose $11 million in potential earnings, but because he has back problems, and loses an opportunity to do what he likes best? He already got paid a shitload of money for the first movie. Spider-Man 2 or not, he's still one of the richest people in the country. And as soon as his back heals, he'll be right back on the silver screen, doing stunts and earning money galore.
God. I feel bad for him because as an actor, he undoubtedly loves his work, and it's unfair that he loses such a great opportunity to use his talent. I don't feel bad for him because he's only a multi-millionaire instead of a multi-multi-millionaire.
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The article says Maguire is experiencing a mild discomfort in his back after doing two physically intensive movies. Really - if I were him, mild discomfort wouldn't stop me from doing the movie. :)
From my memory of the first one, he wasn't wearing the suit for all of the stunts. I don't know what they consider to be 'difficult', but it's entirely possible that there might be parts of the movie in which the character Peter Parker would have to use his abilities when he's not wearing the disguise.
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According to Variety.com, The Good Girl star Jake Gyllenhaal has been lined-up as a possible reserve.
So I figurred I'm already there I might as well click the link see if I recognize the replacement actor. Behold my suprise whent the page loaded and I saw George Bush staring back at me!
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I quite like it when they change the actor in series of movies - it adds a bit of variety. It doesn't detract from the movie itself (if the actors chosen are up to the challenge of course).
Take James Bond - does it really matter that Sean Connery doesn't play the lead in all of them? Some of the 'James Bonds' have been better than others, but still fun nonetheless.
Having said that though, I wouldn't want to lose £11 million either...
"Tobey Maguire may pull out of Spider-Man" - Thats the title of the linked article. Am I the only one who thinks that sounds funny?
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Doesn't Spider-Man wear a MASK? A stunt double doesn't even need to look like him! What's the problem here?
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which leaves wide-open the possibility of new spidermen since not only did the spider run away... but they also know how to make the same spider again
other than that, i agree... it was pretty true to the cominc, relatively speaking of course (cartoon example: He-Man... uuughh!)
I wonder if this is actual "news" or simply a poorly-disguised press release. If it is the latter, then I think that they succeded at generating a "buzz" around the upcoming Spiderman movie.
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If you haven't seen his films, I recommend seeing October Sky - any geek would love this film. It is about rocks, not a love story :)
Donnie Darko is also good SiFi.
I didn't understand that change myself. It killed his geek factor. The fact that he built his own webshooter in the comics showed he was smart and creative instead of just nerdily unpopular.
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So the webbing can't double as an Ace bandage, huh? It'd be handy if he could just web himself up if he sprained something.
Donnie Darko is a great film. Worthy of watching multiple times.
I also suggest October Sky he did an awesome job in this film. Also a great geek story about making it in high school.
Actually, I wonder why they don't just slap his digitized face onto some CGI character. Most of the action scenes in the movie were CGI, and could use some tweeking, at that, as they looked toy-like.
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Batman Forever and Batman & Robin didn't just change the actor--they changed the whole style of the movie from dark comic-like to cheesy TV-like.
First off, it's $17M. ;-) And there's updated info and clarification at Yahoo/Reuters, AICN, and Yahoo/Hollywood Reporter. Don't panic or freak out. This looks like a rumor that got out of control, and is now being actively denied by the powers-that-be.
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The movie may have conveyed (to you) the tone of the comic, but it was far from faithful.
The biggest variance from established continuity is the organic web shooters. Peter Parker was a science whiz and created mechanical web shooters in the comic. I read that Sam Raimi (the director) didn't think that the movie viewers would buy the fact that Parker could be smart enough to make mechanical web shooters. Nevermind the fact that the movie viewers were expected to buy the fact that an irradiated spider could bite you and give you spider powers. Oh, and shouldn't the bite have resulted in Parker shooting webs from his ass? Spiders don't even have arms.
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11,000,000.00 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds
= 17,172,207.58 USD
United States Dollars
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Now that I looked at the right place, the USD value of 11m GBP is $17,406,247.58.
His negotiated salary is probably about $17.5m when it was signed.
Now it REALLY sucks to be him if his back goes out.
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Translation from Hollywood-ese: "We know we just stuck it to you for $11 large, but our client has his $10,000 a day Fabrege Egg habit to support, so we thought we'd try and up the price by another $3 million. OK?"
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I mean, come on - any half-decent supervillian is going to know they are friends and kidnap her anyway. So he might as well be banging her four times (once per set of legs) to Sunday. You know, keep your friends close and your beautiful supermodel nemesis even closer.
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Reeve doesn't get publicity for being handi-capable. He gets publicity for doing something, instead of sitting in the corner whinging.
And that he does have a choice in.
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I have back problems. I injured my back about a year ago carrying something heavy. It hurts a lot.
But if you think I'd let that come between me and Kirsten Dunst, you're an idiot.
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A major point of the movie was Peter discovering his powers.
I don't think I really want to see Tobey discover he can shoot webs out his ass.
What is he going to do? Wake up with his underwear sticky?
Not to be too picky but the reason I didn't love Spiderman like so many others was due to the differences in the story from the comics.
Genetically engineered spider vs radioactive one. This is just jumping on the genetic bandwagon (admittedly like everything prior to the nineties was blamed on radioactivity) and just opens the door to the someone creating hundred of "spidermen" instead of only having the original because the situation that created him is easily duplicated.
Organic web shooters vs man-made. Come on! That was the whole reason Peter Parker was such a great hero. While he had special powers, he also had the scientific know how to make up different webbing formulas to fight specific foes. This Peter Parker has it all handed to him.
Of course the Toby internal monologues also had some affect on me not loving the movie, but thats a discussion for another post.
You can blame all my prior rantings on this damn flu I've had for the past week and the fact I'm just trying to kill time at work.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
And now there's no reason for the "low on web fluid" plots.
All he has to do now is massage his spidey-prostate and he's good to go.
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Aside from a 2 second mention of "how good Peter is at science," with no followup or demonstration of how, I don't think they played up his intellect at all.
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With all the digital stunt doubles used in Spider-man and Daredevil -- just what exactly will Tobey being doing in the movies??
And his face is totally covered with the Spidey costume... get a real human double for other action scenes.
Wheel out Tobey for the Peter Parker scene and all will be fine.
sucks to be him just as much as us if he doesn't play the part.
Yeah, it's not like he doesn't have 10+ million in the bank right now...oh, wait, he does. Never mind.
For 11 million pounds (or even dollars) I would stuff myself with painkillers, keep my mouth shut about the pain and pocket the money ! What's the big deal ? =)
i guess we can star calling this the spiderman curse.
I think they were trying to move away from the "this is completely unplausible" factor. I mean the movie already requires a gigantic suspension of disbelief, now we have to believe that this kid is going to whip up a neat little gadget the military would just pop a fucking boner over so high-pressure that it would detonate in their metaphorical pants. And he does this what, in a week or two in his bedroom? My asssssss. That seemed goofy to me even when I was a kid.
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So why pull out? Anyone would be doing the hard moves in the mask, he would be acting the easy part without the mas.
more horror movies, less spider-man?
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Maybe Spider Man is getting more out of Mary Jane than the movie let on ;)
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Firstly: For 17 Million bucks, he can suck it up and take one for the team...
Secondly: Good thing spiderman wears a mask... Hey Tobey, if you read Slashdot... they're called "stunt doubles"
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Exactly. I interpret "mild back discomfort" as: "Now that I'm a bigshot I'd prefer to make serious movies, so if you want me you'll have to pay through the nose."
I believe that Stan Lee originally wanted to give spiderman organic web shooters in the comic but that idea was rejected because it was "unbelievable". I believe that Stan Lee wanted to correct that point in the movie, I recall an interview somewhere but it escapes me.
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Sounds like CGI time to me. That is, where a regular stuntman won't serve the same purpose.
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Afer all the complaining about how evil the MPAA is (and they are) -- why are you worrying about this anyway? Screw Spiderman. Boycott the MPAA.
No one turns down 11 million bucks due to "mild discomfort in his back"!!! He probably wants more money or wants it delayed. But I seriously doubt he wants out.
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According to CNN it's 17 million dollars. The posted link is in England so that's 11 million pounds.
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The article said 11 million pounds not dollars. That comes out to over 20 million dollars i think.
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An actor who can pull off being a nerd as well as Toby... Hmm. Rick Morrannis? (sp.) Or maybe this is high time Bill Gates got his career in film started before he starts running for public office.
Ok, you better not tell me that Batman has cancer or anything...
It seems all of the childhood superheroes are starting to show that they are mortal...how sad for young kids today....back to the comic books I guess (at least there the only way they get back problems is if the writers or animators go on strike or something)~
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For $11 million, not only would I shoot the movie in spite of back problems, I'd let the producer whack me in the spine with a baseball bat whenever he felt like it!
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Stan Lee (Spiderman Creator) was interviewed last year on NPR's Fresh Air.
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I don't remember the details, but Terri Gross asked him about changes in the movie, and this was one he brought up. I think in the end, he decided it didn't bother him very much. He figured that it would take up too much screen-time to go through the whole process of him inventing his web-shooters.
The interview can be heard at:
http://freshair.npr.org/guest_info_fa.jhtml?name=
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Then they come out with The Hulk. True, the web shooters were dropped because they weren't plausible during this time and age. But the parent/parent was talking about "true to comics" in which Peter made the shooters.
They chose to steer away from the shooters not thinking about anotomy (spider's that is). They should have made him shoot webs from his ass... then he would have been stuck wearing those red ass-flap long johns.
1)this is an article for variety, not /.
2)You can't use CGI for close ups.
3)In the first movie he was upside down for some shots. try that with back pain.
4)some shots can take hours. Imagine walking into the same room, over and over again, all day long. Now add sharp back pains. now you have back spasms.
5)Would you really want to put more strain on your back then you haad to if it meant you may not be able to do what you love doing for the rest of your life?
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I've been saying for that last couple of years that if you can't get Toby McGuire then you should hire Bubble Boy. I was just joking, but now it's true.
How about, sucks to be him not because he's going to lose $11 million in potential earnings, but because he has back problems, and loses an opportunity to do what he likes best?
Whats wrong in stressing on the 11 million?
He might have a lot of opportunity in the future to do what he likes best - That would be acting, if anything. If you are talking of the chance to be the spiderman,i would say that he has already done that with his first movie.
Think what you may, the money - 11 million pounds would be the biggest loss if he cant be there for the sequel and was rightly mentioned to be so.
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I am all in favor of organic webshooters. Hopefully this will do away with all the "I have run out of web cartridges, what do I do now?" plots.
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Apparently, Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool "reports" that the rumour is simply a rumour.
According to the article it's 11 million POUNDS, not dollars.
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Since the film was apparently slated to pay him $11M, sucks to be him just as much as us if he doesn't play the part.
I'd be happy to ever be in the position where a bad back was the only thing keeping me from starring in a $11M Hollywood blockbuster.
I think genetic DNA stuff is more spookey or whatever nowadays. Radioactiviy is not as horrific as it once was.
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Come on Tobey, suck it up dude!
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Look here for news debunking this rumor. Yahoo has it too. Wonder if Jake Gyllenhaal dating Kirstin Dunst has anything to do with these rumors.
They did do a "reboot" soo to speak of spider-man with the Ultimate line, but the movie is not based on these books. In these books, he still does not have organic web shooters. In the Ultimate books he completes work that his father was orginally doing before he died. Thus he's a smart kid to be able to figure out the piece of the puzzle his dad was already working on.
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the article states that it's 11M UK pounds... which is over $17M US!
I'll take his place for $5M. I know it's a sacrifice, but what a deal for the studio! *ahem* "With great power comes great responsibility"
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with his bad acting skills and stunning good looks, i'm most definatly a candidate!
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Since when did the rate of exchange for Pounds Sterling drop to one for one with (preseumably) US dollars? £11 million is worth more like $17 million (USD).
Did nobody here go through the special features on the DVD?
The organic web shooters are the only thing remaining from a 15-year old script that evolved into today's movie. The decision (and Stan Lee seems to agree) was made that it makes no sense for this 16 year-old kid to be able to invent a congealing adhesive that 3M couldn't.
In some variants of the "Peter invented the web" stories, he suspects that the spider passed on some genetic knowledge of the enzymes he uses. While not terribly plausable, neither is the whole "yellow sun" Superman theory we've all accepted. We, the audience, suspend disbelief when it's necessary to posit the story.
Personally, I like the homemade webshooters and Peter's other inventions (like Spidey-tracers), for the same reasons as operagost cites.
According to this, Tobey is fine and the sequel is a go. This was just a rumor going around. Why is Slashdot posting movie rumors? If we're gonna do that, at least keep up with the current Superman fiasco at Warner Bros....
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What has happened to all our "Super Heroes"?
First Superman gets paralyzed - now Spidey throws a disc!!!
Whats next - Wonder Woman gets Breast Cancer!?!?
Hey! We all know Al Gore invented the web... :-)
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Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger do Batman (whichever one he was in) VERY shortly after recovering from heart surgery? Minor back pain? Gimme a break. Either they're mincing on how badly hurt he was, or he's a wuss. Take your pick.
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Wouldn't he be a great Spidey? It would more than make up for being cut from Nemesis.
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That's his damn spider sense tingling!
Maguire was a wimpy Peter Parker, TOTALLY UNLIKE the original comic book guy.. he made Spidey look like a vacillating wimp without any of the snappy wit present in the comics. Anybody watch the cartoon show? The (voice) actors are better than the (live) actors in the movie. Oh, except for J. Jonah Jameson :D
I view this as a chance to redeem the franchise. Hope they cast somebody a little more lively, who doesn't look like he's half-asleep all the time.
I mean gee whiz, not even Spiderman should be carrying around 11 million pounds in cash!!!
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You're one of those people who said "for twenty-two-million, *I'd* get into the ring with Mike Tyson." The fact is, nobody would be willing to pay $22M to see you or me box with Mike Tyson, or even whatever greatly reduced sum his opponents are drawing these days.
Same goes for someone like Toby McGwire. I would be happy to do a movie for $11M pounds. I'd go through back pains, and possibly even severe risk to my future health, for that kind of money. But a big time actor knows what kind of money he or she can draw, and $11M for a movie (especially one that could knock McGwire out of three or four others) might not be the best use of his time.
I thought he did a terrific job in the first movie, and I hope he can swing the sequel. *ducks*
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My biggest beef with the genetically engineered spider situation was that it was "reproduceable". The cool thing about the story in the comics was that it was a one-in-a-trillion longshot that couldn't be duplicated if you tried (my second oldest son has a spider-man comic in which someone found out how Spidey got his powers and *did* try to duplicate it, but it ended up leading to tragic consequences). Also, of course, the irradiated spider died shortly after biting Peter on account of the radiation -- what's to stop this spider from biting someone else later?
I can see that there's a reasonable argument for having the spiders be genetically engineered, but the aspect of radioactivity throws a wild-card into the mix that science still cannot precisely duplicate (otherwise we could always *CURE* cancer with radiation therapy instead of sometimes killing them faster). It's not an issue of radioactivity not being "spookey" anymore, it simply comes down to the fact that radioactivity is still largely unpredictable, and that unpredictability, at least to me, carries more plausibility of creating a superhuman than anything that science could have deliberately designed.
I didn't care for the fact that he had organic webshooters either, but I can respect that they probably only changed it to keep the complexity of the movie down. At any rate it didn't bother me as much as the radioactive spider bite change did.
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Hopefully Spider-Man won't end up with the same curse as Superman
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Yes, yes it is. You aren't supposed to preview your posting.
Football players love what they do and play injured. Does that stop us from complaining about their millions of dollars.
The only argument you can put forth here is that "he already has millions, why get more."
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I understand what you're saying, but I think the organic web-shooters make a more 'realistic' story for modern audiences.
;-)
There is much noise made in the news lately about cloning, stem cell research, genetically-engineered food, etc. So this is a technology that scares people today (much as I'm sure cold war era children were scared of radiation)
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If you accept that a random shot of radiation causes the mutations required for spider-powers, then it seems to me MORE plausable that the genetically engineered spider would have this effect.
Also, mavel has a book (SpiderGirl, IIRC) that deals with Peter's Daughter (who also has spider-powers). In order for this to be believable, the original spder-bite would have had to cause a germ-level mutation in peter, otherwise his Spidey powers would not be a heritable trait. I think the sequence in the film showing the recombinant DNA strands makes this a bit more plausible (highly subjective, I know)
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I think it's like star trek, where if you suspend disbelief of something absurd (warp speed travel), then it makes another absurdity (lots of different races of aliens within close proximity of earth) more believable.
Without the aliens, the story would be lame, so we accept that Faster_than_light travel is possible in this world.
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Comic book aged kids today know better than to think a random mutation could cause spiderman, but they just might believe in genetics.
Of course, I'm almost 30, and I still read comic books, so nobody should put much stock in what I have to say
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Uh ? this guy was very bad, everytime I hear him saying "Okay" it reminds me of Abe's Odissey.
Oh well, now that he has this back problem, maybe he'll get an oscar for the best mudukon interpretation....
What? You were expecting Superman?
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my biggest question was "Where did he get the costume? Costumes R Us?"
His voice annoyed the hell out of me.
I almost broke my friends gamecube because he was playing the spiderman game and it kept repeating the same voice snippets over and over again.
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I'll be more likely to watch a sequel if he is replaced by an actor with a less annoying voice.
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For 11 million pounds he could buy a bionic back or an exoskeleton and be a real superhero!
Kirsten Dunst is really attractive, on film, and is probably pretty cute in the flesh as well. Movie sets, however, are most certainly not sexy places. You've got hot, bright lights blasting at you, a whopping great camera in your face, all manner of crew staring at you, both your partners happen to be visiting the set that day, it's getting late, it's the twentieth run-through of the same damn scene, the director's getting on everybody's nerves. Not to mention that for all we know, Ms. Dunst is just as likely to be a bitchy egomaniac or a complete dimwit as a pleasant person to be around.
I'd also imagine that Tobey McGuire has no shortage of gorgeous, intelligent, and interesting women who'd like to spend quality time with him anyway, so the relative drool factor for him is almost certainly lower than for the rest of us :/
However, if they're still scratching around to cast somebody, I'm happy to take some leave and give it a try :)
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I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
In the original (early to mid 60s) Spiderman comics there was a continuing subplot about his relationship with Mary Jane whatshername (typical teenage angst aggravated by having to put on the costume and go save the world instead of making time with her), so it's only unfaithful if the course of "true love" does run smooth.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
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"...Area - comparative: somewhat larger than the US..."
In fact, Canada is the second largest country in the world, with Russia being in first place.
Yeah, it really sucks that Canada is so reliant on the following natural resources:
iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower
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The only real problem Canada has right now is immigration, and revitalizing it's healthcare and education systems. Oh, of course, Quebec, but that's a whole other issue. ;)
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According to this on USA Today The rumours of Tobey's non appearance in the second Spidey film are greatly exaggerated.