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.

Comments

Nothing other than Spidey after ROTK?

[Viking5150]

It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.

Yes, because there won't be any other good films coming out between ROTK and Spiderman 2.

Only thing to look forward to...

[MosesJones]

Now that Saddam Hussein has had to pull out of "Santa Claus and the Weapons of Mass Destruction".

Crazy beard... crazy guy.

Re:Screw .swf

[stubear]

"Or less propietary formats. avi/asf is pretty widely supported, helix (from realnetworks) is open. Quicktime depends too much on apple players that are not available for all plataforms, even when mplayer can cope with it i'm not sure how much will be left out.

While I don't mind AVI/ASF because I use Windows (and I like it thank you very much), I wouldn't call it open or less proprietary that QT in SWF. Oddly enough the Flash file format is open but SWF is tightly controlled by Macromedia. Helix is only the player. The real codec is still proprietary and it's still crap.

"After all, the company that makes the movie and the trailer want that us buy their product, or speak about it, or reccomend it to friends. The whole idea of the trailer is that the people have a hint on how it will be. Putting things in a way that make difficult to see for a lot of people is against the objetive of making a trailer."

Huh?!? Last I checked somewhere on the order of 98% of all connected desktop users can view SWF content. I'd say that would make it VERY easy for anyone to see. Perhaps you don't like being classified as a nobody by companies like Macromedia? That's a completely different beef though, and even then Macromedia makes a Linux compatible SWF plug-in.

Re:Something to look forward to!

[moby]

The Matrix Trilogy [in real life]...

[1]- Steal the idea from an actually creative person who unfortunately doesn't have enough money to fight corporate lawyers
[2]- Find somebody who can act like it was their idea. Oooh oooh, I know, let's find a brother duo since that is all the rage lately.
[3]- Make one actual movie [the first one] and then just splice extra footage into another 2^n [pr/s]equal movies.
[4]- Pray that in a couple of days, something actually newsworthy will happen elsewhere thus enabling everyone to forget.
[6]- Rinse. Repeat.

Hmmm, me thinks the Matrix 4 - Retributions would be a real crowd pleaser.

one word

[mooface]

SWEET!

Wow

[bluesnowmonkey]

They are going to sell the SHIT out of this movie.

I am an heretic

[Scrameustache]

I didn't like the Spider Man movie.

It wasn't bad, it was a "good" movie, but as a geek, it disapointed me on many levels.

• I liked the original spider-sense better than the bullet-time spider sense. It used to be a subconcious thing, a feeling, an urge, a reflex. Now its just his conciousness speeding up, I find that less interresting and much more mundane.
  
• The gratuitous "he takes off his shirt and shows off his muscles" scene. Sure, the ladies loved it, but come ON, that was, as I said, gratuitous. I don't mind taking off the shirt to show off the muscles to the ladies if its got a motivation (like in the movie the Transporter, where it does it twice, and he's got a good reason to do it both time, like he fell in water and he takes it off to dry it, etc).
  
• Ditto the wet t-shirt scene, though its a teenager flick, so you NEED a wet t-shirt scene, its like a law or something.
  
• The organic web-shooters. Takes so much away from the character, and its stolen from a different Marvel character (Spider Man 2099, diff character, really, honest, I know they are named the same, but really...). Now Peter is no longer a genius, he can no longer mix special batches of his web fluid, and his web fluid is no longer a drain on his budget.
  
• Where did he get that fancy suit? They spent a good 5 minutes showing us that he CANNOT make a good suit. He draws it (why can everybody in movies draw like that?), tries to make it, and fails. Then, he looks at the drawing again, and he magically has the suit. What, there's a suit-tree in his backyard? The spiderbite gave him the power to excrete suits? What? Sigh...
  

And the number one thing that bugged me the entire time:

The wrestling promoter did not claim the 10 million dollar reward that was offered by the Daily Bugle.

When Peter registers for the fight, they ask for his name, home adress, and insurance information.
He then pissses off the promoter who is clearly driven by the pursuit of money first and foremost.

Then there's a reward offered very publicly and the guy who 1)Hates Spider Man, 2)Know his real name, home adress, and has his insurance information, and 3) loves money DOESN'T claim the prize?
What the HELL?

Ruined the whole movie for me. They should have either not have shown us that he gives him all this info or not have the reward. Having the 2 and not following up on that is bad storytelling.

/rant

You've got to be kidding?!

[Snaller]

Something to look forward to after ROTK? Oh yeah right, more Hollywood simplistic badly written brain dead action crap with gratuitous semi-nude scenes. Yeah right, something to really look forward to, along with taxes, death and the end of the world.

Re:Release date

[Snaller]

Well it suits the cheapo husband ;)

Re:Something to look forward to?

[Snaller]

Spider-Man sucks since it's now popular and enjoyed by those non-geeks.


No, it just sucks because its crap.