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Spider-Man 2 Preview Online
Several folks noted that you can now see the first
trailers for Spider-man 2, provided you have some broadband action going on. It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.
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Arrgh. Well, that explains why I can't see it. swf files don't play on my IE - every time I try the installer, it goes off to the Macromedia site, and comes back with an error. Nothing informative about it, no option to just download the whole thing, so I'm stuffed.
Well done, Macromedia.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
like the MPAA today. We'll hate them tomorrow when there is some P2P story.
Pop culture is often serial. Comic books never end, why should movies based on them end? The comic books usualy reinvent themselves from time to time, to let new blood come in, and introduce new plot-lines.
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Why was this modded up? Spiderman was an EXCELLENT movie and a great comic book to film adapatation on par with X-Men and clearly superior to recent Batman films, Daredevil and The Incredible Hulk.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Well I don't know about anybody else but I've never read a comic in my life and I loved the first film.
Sure I knew most of the story from watching the cartoons and the old tv shows, but comics just never appealled to me as a kid - ditto for the X-Men.
Maybe I'm the perfect target audience, maybe I'm not qualified to comment at all, either way I loved the first one and will be seeing this when it comes out.
Right now I'm just waiting to see the RoTK (I did read those books as a child and never imagined I'd see an adaptation, let alone a good one! :)
Fantastic Four
new Superman
new Batman
A post-Matrix film from the Watchowskis
some other epic fantasy movie.
Even if just the movies, there's always something coming down the pipe worth living for.
I'll wait for the quicktime version so I can actually watch it. I have yet to have streaming video work well, even at postage stamp size and a high speed connection. This one is no exception. Let me download something with decent quality in non-realtime, ThankYouVeryMuch...
A psychologist friend explained to me that people zero in on a particular feature of the face to remember what you look like. With most people, it's the eyes and/or the nose. When you have glasses, it's the glasses and/or the nose and the eyes are pretty much ignored. Since that major feature is no longer in common with their previous mental image of you, their brains classify it as a "new" person until corrected by the observer gathering more information or being told.
If you don't believe me, get some stage glasses (no prescription) and go see some folks you haven't seen in a while at a bar or somewhere else that's crowded and public. Now see how long it takes for one of those friends to recognize you.
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
...There's also a QuickTime trailer out for the upcoming Hellboy movie.
I'm still trying, but it looks like they got smart.
.SWF file. The flash file itself is only 61.8 KB
A ctive.attributes.appName;
a) The video is not contained within the
b) They did more then just load a video file on the same server, it appears to be coming from a streaming server of sorts, here is a piece from the flash code that someone brighter then me might be able to figure out:
StreamEngine.prototype.doConnect = function () {
this.standard_nc = new NetConnection();
this.tunnel_nc = new NetConnection();
this.standard_nc.cType = standard;
this.tunnel_nc.cType = tunnel;
this.standard_nc.connected = this.tunnel_nc.connected = false;
this.standard_nc.owner = this.tunnel_nc.owner = this;
this.standard_nc.onStatus = this.tunnel_nc.onStatus = function (info) {
};
fcServer = "flv1.broadcast.vip.dal.yahoo.com";
appName = this.playList.firstChild.childNodes.this.playList
var connectString = "rtmp://" + fcServer + "/" + appName;
this.standard_nc.connect(connectString);
trace (connectString);
this.tunnelLoad = setInterval(this,"tunnelConnect",1500);
It should be noted that the first great work of western literature was the Iliad, by Homer. The second great work of western literature was the Odyssey, a sequel (and better than the original, IMNSHO). What did you expect?
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
It is rumored that Aragorn will play as Ra's Al Ghul http://filmforce.ign.com/batman/articles/445/44558 8p1.html
I can't even believe I'm arguing this point, but the crucial difference is that (at least at first) Lois wants nothing to do whatsoever with Clark, she only has eyes for Superman.
I thought in the comic that MJ knew Spiderman's secret identity all along -- IIRC, she flirted with both of them, knowing full well they were the same guy, but Peter of course had no clue. She also flirted with Flash, Henry and so on.
On the other hand, Spiderman flirted with Black Cat and a host of other women as well. The whole comic was all about the college promiscuity. I'm actually a little surprised that the movies don't capture that aspect about Peter, that once he goes to college his love life gets extremely complicated. I guess Hollywood always has to go for the "one true love" aspect. On the other hand they did a great job of portraying MJ as somebody who doesn't know what she really wants and dates a lot of different people.
Wow, a lucrative publishing contract! I don't have to be evil anymore. --Meteor