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Post by geneweigel on Dec 9, 2016 21:46:53 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzXIaTt99UThat looks like the Shocker I think from the cross patterns on his sweatshirt. PS: This is surreal for me. They show a clip of a high school that most people that I know went to in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn. Plus I've been at that ATM several times.
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 10, 2016 8:16:12 GMT -5
I can see they are going with more racial diversity which, honestly, has nothing to do with whether the movie will be good or not.
I'm not crazy about the "normal friend who finds out Peter's a superhero" idea.
Just looking at the designs, I'd say there's little doubt we're getting the Shocker and the Vulture as villains. And it looks like the Vulture maybe ends up with the Shocker's shock wave tech to make him more powerful at the end?
Spider-Man using his web to hold the ship together looks maybe too derivative of stopping the train in Spider-Man 2, which was a great scene, but I don't want to see it redone.
Casting Keaton as the Vulture at this point seems like a very meta, in-joke, since he's been Batman and Birdman (and I think we can expect some references to this in the script or Keaton's dialogue), but aside from that he's a great actor who can easily pull this off and have fun doing it.
Is this a Spider-man movie? Or "MARVEL TEAM-UP featuring Spider-man and Iron Man"?
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 11, 2016 19:37:33 GMT -5
Watching this trailer was surreal for me, too, but for a different reason: I can't believe we're living in a world where we are getting these movies.
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Post by geneweigel on Dec 11, 2016 21:01:14 GMT -5
Yeah, the Spidey is alive feel used to be stronger. The comic to reality was easier to imagine in the 70's, its like they can't ever use Forest Hills (Spiderman's traditional home) because the homier parts were demolished for apartment buildings and the nearby neighborhoods that have the middle income houses were converted for lower income so that Spidey Aunt May feel is still in existence in pockets in Queens but just not in Forest Hills.
Some people think the Queens mall was always there but it was an amusement park surrounded by houses with huge backyards in the 70's. Now its a megamall surrounded by soulcrushing 30 floor brick apartments. I looked at one in the 90's. Not good.
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 12, 2016 9:29:00 GMT -5
I can only imagine. I know they used to use a lot of real world locations to set the comic books in, which additionally distinguished Marvel from DC. Back in the 70's there was a Spider-Man artist named Ross Andru who paid a lot of attention in his backgrounds to be places in and around New York City Like in this issue with the Mindworm, Spidey took a cab out to Rockaway Beach, that sort of thing. Very detailed. In retrospect, I'll be he used a lot of photo references for his layouts. If I had been a kid living in NYC in the 70's I would have been that way too, every time crossing the George Washington Bridge thinking "This is where Spidey fought the Green Goblin and where Gwen Stacy died." Marvel Comics superimposes this fantasy world over Manhattan and the surrounding area that is just so much more interesting than the real world. And yeah, for those who have been envisioning it for 30 or 40 years, I'm sure it is surreal to see it in the movies.
Zero superheroes in Pittsburgh, but even so, when I would go downtown I would sometimes envision superhero fights among the skyscrapers and between the buildings, and alien invasions and stuff. I still do.
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Post by geneweigel on Dec 12, 2016 10:20:37 GMT -5
Even the entire path to Rockaway Beach is different than it used to be! Of course, there is more of a low life feel to many quarters than there used to be because of all these private beach parking and fees discourage people demanding common decency at the more public beaches. Its pure chaos with no regard for beach towels laid out. Its better off just paying for parking at another beach.
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 12, 2016 12:19:09 GMT -5
Anyway, we've come a long way from Spidey's appearances on The Electric Company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Hs9DkmOoNarrated by Morgan Freeman! The episode I remember most clearly from that time is one with the Bookworm. |
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Post by geneweigel on Jul 8, 2017 18:51:19 GMT -5
I just saw it earlier and it was 15% Iron Man movie 85% Spiderman so it definitely had a MARVEL TEAM UP feel.
The Spiderman feel oozes as well with the real deal Spider villains being sleazy and down to Earth just like the comic Vulture and Shocker.
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Post by Scott on Jul 8, 2017 19:27:57 GMT -5
I saw it earlier today. I thought they did a good job capturing the feel of the early villains. Also liked the young Peter Parker, and the humor that was lacking in the previous flicks.
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