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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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The video is embedded in a swf file....ack!
:P Also the car dodging shot...wow. :)
Anyone able to extract it?
BTW, Doc Oc rox.
Nice FX
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Clearly Dr. Octopus is the nemesis, but I read the Lizard will be in this movie as well. Maybe he will appear in a future trailer?
Get it up on Quicktime/Apple like all other trailers, you bastards.
Why was it so tiny? i could barely see anything.
MABASPLOOM!
Right on my Wedding Anniversy...cheapo present :)
Rus
Cheap UK and US VPS
like the MPAA today. We'll hate them tomorrow when there is some P2P story.
"When will this trailer be in theatres? What movies will it be playing before?"
Both rumour and plain logic says Rings on Wednesday - certainly, there is little else that you'd want to attach it to this week.
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Yahoo has more bandwidth than God, man. They're advertising this on their front page, so I imagine they're ready for some serious hits.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.
Umm.. there's something called Real Life.. It's a hoot, I suggest you disconnect for a while and try it out.
Trolling is a art,
At the local independant theater house. Check it out sometime, you'll be suprised at what you find.
The anguish between his powers/ reponsibilities and love life looks to play a bigger part in this movie. DocOct looks great without a cheezy mask to hide behind.. and it looks like they're working in the revenge angle for Harry Osborne. Looking good here!
Next up, Spiderman 3.. Introducing Venom!
on the web monkey who coded up that streaming client.
I know it's getting hammered, but you can't even pause the damned thing to let it catch up, and if you restart it, you get 2 simultaneous audio streams at different time points.
Where is the origionality at?
ORIGINALITY went the way of spellchecker.
gone forever never to return again
Yes it would be nice to have it in QT and downloadable.. Yes it has an awesome catch scene at the beginning of the trailer with the still poignant "Peter can't let himself fall for MJ".. Bottom line, its gonna be a summer blockbuster and we all will pay our 8$+$5 for our X-treme 128oz Turbo Chug and Popcorn flavored butter. ;)
"It had zero redeeming features."
:-)
I can think of, well, one: awesome camera-on-a-rope shots.
Damn those pesky terrorists
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.
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If you're ever on the run in a comic, just put on some glasses.
"You've got the wrong man, officer. That guy wasn't wearing glasses."
Works every time.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
but is ANOTHER sequel to a bad movie something to look forward to?
What sequel to a bad movie are you referring to ? This story is about the Spider-Man sequel, you know, the great characterisation, the innovative twist on an old story, the great acting and The Macho Man Randy Savage as BONESAW!
Oh... right... it's trendy now to bash movies because they're mainstream. Ok, i'm sorry, Bad Mainstream Media for stealing our geek icons!! Bad bad! Spider-Man sucks since it's now popular and enjoyed by those non-geeks.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
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! :)
how about a spoiler warning, eh?
you ruined the trailer for me!
=)
-- derby
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.
That alone makes me positive of next summer's number one B.O. hit though.
;-)
Yep, all those sweaty, overexcited, unwashed nerds in one place at one time... you'll get quite a BO hit off that alright!
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...
"It had zero redeeming features."
Did you step out for a Coke when Kirsten Dunst was getting rained on? That's two redeeming features right there.
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How can you say that?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
There have been what? 4 or 5 sequels out this year? Where is the origionality at?
So you're saying that years in which there are fewer sequels feature more original movies? You must be joking. Every year Hollywood puts out films that are copies of previous films. They change the names, of course, but most films follow the same tired old formula.
If anything, sequels provide the opportunity (I'm not saying they always succeed) to do something different from the first film for the simple fact that a lot of the character development has already been completed. Not to mention there is a built-in audience so they could (again I'm not saying they always do) try something a little more radical. The Empire Strikes Back was very little like Star Wars. Even The Matrix Reloaded wasn't very similar to the original Matrix, although some would argue that the sequel was a step in the wrong direction.
Bottom line: if you want to see something original, then look for movies by new directors or new countries (check out some of the movies coming out of India if you want something radically different). Complaining about Hollywood showing too many sequels is rediculous. Even if there is ever a summer with NO sequels, I doubt the films will be any more original than any other year.
GMD
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Four or five sequels? You wish!
2003 Sequels:
Lord Of The Rings 3
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Terminator 3
Bad Boys 2
Charlie's Angels 2
Final Destination 2
Hypercube: Cube 2
2 Fast 2 Furious
Dumb & Dumberer
Rugrats 2: Rugrats Go Wild!
Legally Blonde 2
Tomb Raider 2
Spy Kids 3D
American Pie 3
Jeepers Creepers 2
Scary Movie 3
Barbershop 2
Freddy Vs Jason
X2
And in 2002:
Blade 2
Austin Powers 3
Star Wars Ep 2
Harry Potter 2
Lord Of The Rings 2
Die Another Day (James Bond 20)
Star Trek 10
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Desperado 2)
Men In Black 2
Stuart Little 2
Spy Kids 2
The Santa Clause 2
The Scorpion King (The Mummy 3)
American Psycho 2
Analyze That (Analyze This 2)
Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies
Jason X
The Sum Of All Fears (Jack Ryan 4)
...There's also a QuickTime trailer out for the upcoming Hellboy movie.
I figured after Return of the King, that was it for my life, and I was ready to commit suicide.
Dude, what are you thinking? At least wait for the DVD to come out next summer. Or if you want to really hang around, Peter Jackson has discussed the possibility of filming "The Hobbit" after he completes his King Kong remake.
Personally, I think they could keep the WETA Workshop busy by doing a TV series of various storylines from the Silmarillion & Book of Lost Tales...
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Seriously. Who hasn't had that dream where Kirsten Dunst insists on kissing you only to wake up in a big mess?
Isn't Doc Oc suppose to have a east european accent? I guess in today's politically correct world we can't portray ANY foreign person as the bad guy, in fiction anyway.
Technoli
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."
Mr. Furious: He takes them off when he transforms.
The Shoveller: That doesn't make any sense, he wouldn't be able to see.
Yeah, right.
Actually, that's not true. If you don't feeling like rewatching the original movie, just watch this trailer. The spider-sense is definately still there as a subconscious feeling/reflex. The fact that he also has the ability to think in "bullet-time" does not replace the vital, near-psychic spider-sense -- it's just something additional to it.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Unfortunately. When can we see a Spiderman movie that shots of swinging through the city that look as good as the 60's cartoon?
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"Not long ago, we were having a conversation about this subject and I was saying that Doc Oc needs to be the next Spiderman villian and that it would really be cool if a batman was done that featured Ra's Al Guhl"
Join the club. Ever since WB was toying with the "Batman Year One" storyline, I had been posting on AICN that that idea was a mistake and that they should pit Bats up with Al Ghul instead of retreading on past movies. I was estatic when the rumors started appearing that Al Ghul was indeed the main villain. I had hoped screenwriter David Goyer had included Al Ghul's daughter Talia as a character (to which I wanted Monica Bellucci to portray) but apparently the film is Talia-less and instead we'll have Katie Holmes as Bruce Wayne's girlfriend named "Rachel" instead.
As for Spidey meets Doc Ock, that had been the plan since the 80s when the "Spider-Man" film property was in the hands of the Cannon Group. Screenwriter Ted Newsom wrote several scripts for Spidey's origin film with Ock as the main villain. He is in fact suing Marvel and Sony over several of his script elements appearing in Spidey1 yet he did not receive a screenwriting credit...
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Should he be known as Dr. Quadrapus then?
And no, his real arms and legs don't count.
He went from a 4 limbed creature to an 8 limbed creature.
Why YOU don't count the first 4 is your problem.
You can't take the sky from me...
It is rumored that Aragorn will play as Ra's Al Ghul http://filmforce.ign.com/batman/articles/445/44558 8p1.html
/Stan Lee.
Let me see if I have this straight.
You don't like one of the most fun movies of the last year because:
1) The movie used a storytelling effect that differed from your interpretation of the comic book.
2) 4 seconds of seeing a guy's muscles made you uncomfortable, and you didn't like seeing Dunst in a wet shirt.
3) You disagree with the one thing that the movie did to really improve on the credibility of the story (web-shooters; what the hell, that was the stupidest part of the comic book, like a teenage kid is going to make those on his own), but your suspension of disbelief hinges on the credibility of the supposed actions or inactions of a bit character in an introductory subplot.
Not only does 1) make it clear that someone has funnelled the Saharah into your vagina, and not only does 2) make us question your sexuality -- but "Spider Man 2099!ONOZ!!" -- wtf.
I direct your attention to every episode of the Simpsons where Comic Book Guy is remotely involved.
Now, in classic Bart fashion, go and write on the blackboard 10 times "I WILL NOT EMULATE COMIC BOOK GUY".
Seriously, I'm sick of this trend. The trailer for the original Alien is still the best one I've ever seen; rather then show you the plot or good glimpses of the monster, all you got were quick shots that let you know that Alien was going to scare the hell out of you. Now we have trailers like the one for the Matrix Reloaded (they showed the best parts of the Hundred-Agent Fight) and this monstrosity for Spiderman 2. I think it would have been much cooler if we had seen Doc Oc's mechanical tentacles walking up... and nothing more. Leave well enough alone; let us know we're getting something cool, but don't show the best parts. Leave some surprises for the actual movie.
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