The Amazing Spider-Man The Offical "SPIDER-MAN QUIPS!" Thread

[DACMAN]

Because he does. This thread is dedicated to all the fans that thought if there was one thing Raimi didn't do right, it was the exclusion of Spidey's trademark humor. Spider-Man is funny. He quips. He does it to keep his mind off the fact his life is in danger. He also does it because it keeps the villains off balance. It is a big part of the character. If there is one thing they must do in this reboot, it's get Spidey's humor right this time.


Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed Raimi's trilogy. The action is the best you'll find in almost any movie, and they had alot of heart. But he really dropped the ball when it came to Spidey's personality.

So post your favorite quips, or post quips you'd like to see in the movie. Or just click on the youtube link in my sig and enjoy Spidey the way he was meant to be enjoyed...

 

[myerset09]

Well he should call JJ "Chuckles" at least once IMO. I honestly think Raimi did a lot of things well, and it's hard to get everything perfect especially with Sony Pictures breathing down ones neck every minute. The humor could have been better that's for sure-(side note)I just think he was under so much pressure-I don't think he could have thought straight throughout the entire process. In spiderman 2 it seemed like we had Raimi actually doing his thing (the Doc Ock hospital scene) It actually seemed like he cut loose for a minute and created a moment that was above and beyond what he typically did in these movies. I thought he would have really cut loose even more with venom-and it could have been really cool-but it was like he was restrained.
The point is, I never felt like the script or the movies were really what they needed to be, or what Raimi could have really done, but more safe, and tamed down for Sony. And the biggest thing is having these guys-scriptwriters that don't have a clue about Spiderman or who really get the character writing the scripts (even though I know Raimi had input/worked on parts of the script) David Lindsey Abaire? James Vanderbilt? I don't know if we're going to get much better, and I sure as-don't know what a "gritty, contemporary take on spiderman" will look like, but hopefully this time it will be better. The problem is I think these big movie studios are only thinking money, and don't ever quite realize how important it is to get things right as long as it makes a ton of dough. Just some thoughts to go with your morning wheatcakes!

 

[Jack O Lantern]

He did quip in the Raimi movies. He just didn't do it a lot because, 1] it's impossible to talk while doing a bunch of flips and 2] who wants to hear a bunch of talking over a fight scene? 3] It can ruin the atmostphere

 

[DACMAN]

The atmosphere of a comic book movie fight...

And you don't think Spider-Man can flip and talk. I take it you've never read the comics.

 

[NinjaCarm]

I always thought "Do you see me wearing a cape?" comment to someone he rescues would be funny.

 

[Ajendo]

See, if John McClane can quipit should be a walk in the park for spidey.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

The atmostpher of a comic book movie fight...

And you don't think Spider-Man can flip and talk. I take it you've never read the comics.

The talking and fighting that is so prevalent in the comics does not translate well to cinema.

 

[DACMAN]

The talking and fighting that is so prevalent in the comics does not translate well to cinema.

Wow dude. You just got Pwned by this guy!

See, if John McClane can quipit should be a walk in the park for spidey.

Right on. People that say it couldn't work have limited vision. Raimi, I think was just ignorant of the character. But then again he did have a painting of Spider-Man on his wall as a kid.

 

[ModestMr.Green]

Spider-Man quipped in the first film, at least. Maybe not as often as he does in the comic books, but enough that you can't really say it was completely absent. Perhaps a few quips could have been squeezed into a Goblin faceoff, but those fights had relatively high stakes. (Excluding the burning house, where he did mouth off a little.)

 

[Sky Captain]

The talking and fighting that is so prevalent in the comics does not translate well to cinema.

Neither should a dude in red tights swinging around New York on nasty webs. But I digress...

I'm pretty sure Spidey can spare a few demeaning words in between flips and punches. I mean, he's pretty fast. He should be with his words too.

 

[DACMAN]

Great points. I remember back in the day people used to say all the time they'd have to change Spider-Man's costume because it wouldn't work on screen. They said that because they had limited vision. Because obviously it was made to work onscreen.

 

[spider-neil]

the should be three main fights

fight 1
the introduction fight

fight 2
the middle fight

fight 3
the at the climax of the movie

fight 1, spidey should run off at the mouth with a constant stream of quips.
fight 2, spidey should still quip but there should be less quips at the fight is more intense
fight 3, there should be no quips at all as this is the climax of the movie and it should be a serious life and death struggle.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Where is the logic of Spider-Man quipping to a giant mindless Lizard? Thats just gonna look REALLY silly.

Lizard's never been a favourite of mine.

I dont find the appeal of Spidey chasing down a velociraptor in over a 2 hour movie.

 

[DACMAN]

A guy running around in clown makeup doesn't sound appealing either. It all depends on how it's handled.

 

[Sentinel X]

Where is the logic of Spider-Man quipping to a giant mindless Lizard? Thats just gonna look REALLY silly.

Lizard's never been a favourite of mine.

I dont find the appeal of Spidey chasing down a velociraptor in over a 2 hour movie.

The Lizard is going to be very stupid if they use him in the first movie. The audience should get to know Dr.Connors first or else why would they care if mutates to a giant mindless monster? Without Dr.Connors the lizard is a boring angry monster.

I think quips is a MUST. Its one of the things that can differentiate this film from raimi's films.

 

[Spider-Vader]

This was easily the worst part of the Rami movies. I want a funny Spidey this time, one who isn't Snake Eyes in a bright costume.

 

[ModestMr.Green]

The Lizard is going to be very stupid if they use him in the first movie. The audience should get to know Dr.Connors first or else why would they care if mutates to a giant mindless monster? Without Dr.Connors the lizard is a boring angry monster.

On the other hand, the Lizard is such an uninteresting villain that he's the perfect choice for the first film in a new franchise. With the Lizard, the film could focus on establishing our new Spider-Man and his supporting cast, as opposed to a huge villain arc.

 

[Rodrigo90]

A guy running around in clown makeup doesn't sound appealing either. It all depends on how it's handled.

DACMAN,shame on you for comparing a dinosaur to a psychopath.

Blowing up hospitals and dancing to Prince is awesome.

Joker has personality and character. Other great villains of Spidey have it too.

The Lizard is nothing but a mindless beast. He has no motive,no interesting features. When I posted a while ago about the possibility of him talking,it got shot down as "camp". If he retains a sound mind and has some ability to talk,then maybe I'll be a bit more lenient.

What I hope they do,is do things in The Fly style. How Seth was mutating worse and worse untill he became the monstrous Fly?

Something like that was done in the original comics I believe. Where Connors still retained his human mind and he had his human shape,but had green scales all over him and claws. Then in further issues he became the Lizard of today.

 

[DACMAN]

I think you hit it on the head with "The Fly" reference. It can be done in a dark, creepy, serious manner. Mix in some Spidey quips to offset the serious, dark tone and we'd have a winner.

 

[DACMAN]

Why did I bump this? BECAUSE HE QUIPS!

 

[spider-neil]

The atmosphere of a comic book movie fight...

And you don't think Spider-Man can flip and talk. I take it you've never read the comics.

comics and movies. night and day.
one is a sequential medium where the reader can choose which speed to read each panel, the other is a moving picture medium where everything is in constant motion. I've watched the train sequence about 100 times and I think there are about TWO SCENES (if that) where spidey could have quiped and it not slow the break neck pace of that action sequence.

 

[david icke]

fight 3, there should be no quips at all as this is the climax of the movie and it should be a serious life and death struggle.

In the final battle though, you could have Spidey taking a real pummeling from the villan, on the ropes, and then he defiantely says a killer line that throws the villan off his game, gets him angry and causes him to slip up, or makes him want to prolong spidey's angony as opposed to killing him outright...then Spidey uses that moment to get the upper hand back.
It would be good if he could use something personal to get back at the villan, something that would really wind him up, along the lines of the one in Spider-man3, 'Aw, look at little Goblin junior, you gonna cry?', which really got to Harry as it brought up his father's death by association of the name calling and made a mockery of his whole revenge schtick.

The thingh is, they were concious of Spider-man's quipping personality, but they cut some quips out as they were not too good, like in the 1st Goblin fight there was a line originally filmed: GG: 'What do you want?'
SM: 'World Peace, but I'd rather have a piece of you!'
Now, that is lame quippage, and i would rather have no quips than lame quips.
With the comics, they come out every month, we read tons of quips from Spidey, and tend to only recall the best ones, but with a movie there is only a couple of moments in the whole piece where there is room for a quip, and the writer just might not be bale to come up with one that is good enough to be immortilised on screen. So, they leave them out, or stick with little improvised sarky asides like the sherriff line to Sandman.

 

[Original Spawn]

Spider-man´s quip is difficult to do, raimi actually made it but it was not like in the comics, a quip that i found very funny in the comics and could be cool in the film was when spidey is hanging in the vulture´s back while he flies and singing "I can fly"

 

[terry78]

He should definitely talk more this time around. I do want to see what Garfield sounds like in uneasy deadpan snark mode. I think they should play his humor like a self-deprecating comedian. He KNOWS the stuff he's saying is stupid, and he comments on that. It could get grating if they do it wrong, but Webb should be able to find the right beats.

 

[Ajendo]

I think the trick is to establish spidey as an enthusiastic character. He needs to enjoy what he does and to express his confidence in a flamboyant way by his body language and by that I mean the swagger he has when swinging through the city, the wall crawling and the acrobatics, almost like he's subconsciously showing off. Bearing that in mind, his vocal expression should be entertaining. Spidey doesn't just need to make quips he also needs entertaining dialogue.

The film makers need to bear in mind that, at times no one really wants to be Peter but most of the time we all want to be spider-man.