*salutes* Thank you, general. May you live for a thousand years.
I'm just saying man, I've talked to PEOPLE, not guys hiding behind a keyboard, but had actual conversations with people who seem really enthused about this thing. I love hip hop and go to hip hop message boards and those cats are excited for this movie. There are plenty of people who are so why can't we just focus on that? With any movie, tv show, comic, book, whatever, there will be people with differences of opinions. That's life. I've gone to school with people and work with people that I disagree with, we discuss stuff in a civil manner and either agree to disagree or we find a way to make it work, so I will never let something like that get me down. Everyone on here loves the character. Everyone who comments on trailers and pictures on other sites love the character; we're all spider-man fans and all have our own interpretation of what he means, what he's about and what are his defining characteristics.
I listened to a podcast this morning during my workout and all three guys said they're excited for the movie and are excited that the character of Peter Parker seems to be handled better this time than the last three times. I'm pretty sure there are dozens of people on this site or other sites who feel that Sam and Tobey got the character right, there are others who don't, but you know what? They're ALL going to see this damn movie. At this point, it's complaining and moaning for the sake of complaining and moaning. People complained and moans when batman begins came out or when x-men first class came out..still went to see it. You know what put the dark knight over the top? hate to say it, but the specter of Heath Ledger and his famed last performance. We are a morbid people, sucks but its the truth. I worked at a radio station when it came out and the host of a show was talking about it and she said she wanted to see it because she kept hearing how great his performance was before the movie came out. It wasn't that she wanted to see batman or Nolan's flick, it was Heath's performance, and even with that, fanboys complained and moaned because it was Heath Ledger. "No way could he pull off the joker" "Oh great, the Joker is a homosexual now" blah blah blah.
If ANY of us on here aren't smart enough to ignore the crap on the internet by now, I don't know what else to say. X-Men First Class got a bad rep initially because of the studio behind it and the marketing material and just fanboy bias. Turns out, it's an extremely dope flick and you know why it didn't make MORE money than it did? No wolverine. That's the only reason why. Had Hugh Jackman been in that flick, we'd be talking about possibly the highest grossing X-Men flick to date because of the great reviews, great word of mouth and the star power of the most popular X-Man. This will not be like First Class because Spider-Man IS the most popular marvel character, point blank period. He makes money, lots of it and each and every one of us will be there in the theaters throwing more money at him this summer, whether we like it or not
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