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Oh, and I think I share THUNDERSTRIKE's disdain for the Amazing Spider-Man movie as well.
No worries... I think he gets kicked off the team around issue #6...
Oh, and I think I share THUNDERSTRIKE's disdain for the Amazing Spider-Man movie as well.
Thankfully I think TASM2 will be a lot closer to TSSM than the first movie was.I would say The Spectacular Spider-Man was to Spider-Man what Batman The Animated Series was to Batman. I think they were on par. To me, Spectacular was better than the Raimi trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man movie from last year.
you've got a good memory for my hatreds there, son...
I must've really made a memorable impression with my orneriness...
and you know, you're the first person that's ever referred me as being that...
you make me sound like Gran Torino Clint Eastwood...
I LIKE it... t:
though I DO prefer "that old bastard"... LOL...
Thankfully I think TASM2 will be a lot closer to TSSM than the first movie was.
I figured you would...
Yes, you are one of the posters that I remember, mainly because you're one of the few that are actually older than me and have been a Spidey fan longer than me (I started around '72/'73). And we don't seem to agree on many things (you stated a disdain for Andru that had me and TMOB like ). So, I do notice on those rare times when we agree.
I think you also said you liked Spectacular, which is another thing we would agree on...
TASM just left a bad taste in my mouth, I'd just wish Marvel could get a hold of the property and get a movie on par with the current Marvel movie universe and eventually have Spidey in Avengers 3.
I will probably end up seeing TASM2, but I'm not looking forward to it...
I don't think it would be any better at Marvel. It might be worst. Sony has already proven they can make good Spider-Man films, SM3 and TASM were just unavoidable hiccups. TASM2 should be great.TASM just left a bad taste in my mouth, I'd just wish Marvel could get a hold of the property and get a movie on par with the current Marvel movie universe and eventually have Spidey in Avengers 3.
I will probably end up seeing TASM2, but I'm not looking forward to it...
yeah, I can take Ross at certain times back in the day... you gotta remember that I grew up on Ditko and Romita... never liked Kane's stuff when he came on and then Romita returned... so when Andru came on, I was like aw HELL,
because I remembered that MSH #14 issue with his art, so I always had that ish in my memory banks...
but I grew to accept him in a fashion... though I was happy when Pollard, JRJR and then Frenz followed...
yeah, I despise the first ASM movie... that's in no way Peter Parker or Spidey that we know...
as for the titles themselves, I really can't get into a lot of today's artists... I just find some of them... messy and ugly, to be honest... and storywise, Slott to ME, is not the be-all and end-all of Spidey writers... he's pretty much a roller coaster scribe in MY book... he can be good and then he falters...
in the case of the Superior title, I have NO idea WHAT to make of it all... it has SOME good points and then I'll find I don't like some of it... I'm really on the fence...
so that's what I'M allabout when it comes to being a Spidey fan since '64... opinionated as hell, but trying to ride thru the good and the bad and sometimes the ugly, LOL...
I don't think it would be any better at Marvel. It might be worst. Sony has already proven they can make good Spider-Man films, SM3 and TASM were just unavoidable hiccups. TASM2 should be great.
you know what just pissed the hell out of me about the ASM movie?... from Day One, I just DID NOT like the look of the costume and the way it was tampered with...
there's just so many other points about the movie that pissed me off, as well, but the movie is history now and I never look back...
You know Sony made Spectacular right?Yes, I enjoyed Spidey 1 & 2, but I want something more in line of Spectacular, and I want it integrated with the rest of the movie universe.
I hated the movie costume.
I hated that Peter Parker made a promise to Captain Stacy only to say "F%$#k it!" five minutes later (yes... I know it might have been a week or two in the movie), but that's a *****e bag manoeuvre, not a Peter Parker manoeuvre. If they had waited until the mid-way point of the second movie where his raging hormones would have kicked in, I might have bought it.
I hated that he walks into a room with tens of thousands of spiders where ONE of them gives him powers... what? nobody else ever get bitten? I know they're trying to set up the fact that Peter was probably genetically "altered" by his father, but that wasn't clear to me, and I can't imagine what the casual movie goer thought...
I hated that after he shows up at Gwen's practically torn to shreds, they then go swinging merrily through the city, nary a scratch on his costume.
I hated the basketball scene... I hated the football goalpost scene... which btw, would have destroyed the ball before actually bending a steel post.
I hated the scene where Peter shows up almost beaten to death, and Aunt May just hugs him... no questions asked...
I hated that his spider-sense didn't work in the sewers...
I hated that after we get all this tension with that Osborn right-hand man, he disappears after the bridge scene... never to be heard of again.
I hated that he got shot in the leg... again, Spider-Sense?
I hated how he gets to sneak into Osborn without any security knowing? Seriously?
I hated that he didn't "invent" his webbing... he buys it from Osborn off the internet. Fack!
I hated how the whole story didn't flow at all... it was too choppy and poorly edited...
And finally, I hated how I could have gave two ****s about his parents' even though they're supposed to be pivotal to the story.
There's more stuff... but that's a fair summary.
I was also not a big fan of Kane's arta AT THE TIME... every panel seemed to show a guy's face looking up his nose... with that weird hatching... I can appreciate the storytelling aspects of it now, but it was weird to me as a kid.
And Gnomie... tell me it ain't so that you didn't like Pollard's art... I personally LOVED it, really made Wolfman's story come to life... but I really have a tremendous rose-coloured love affair with ASM #185 to 200.
Geez.....some of that sounds really awful. Buying webbing off the internet....seriously?
As much as I hate Ramos' art.... at least he isn't as bad as the guy doing the Alpha mini. Holy ****. I can't believe something that horrible could even be printed.
You know Sony made Spectacular right?
I hated the movie costume.
I hated that Peter Parker made a promise to Captain Stacy only to say "F%$#k it!" five minutes later (yes... I know it might have been a week or two in the movie), but that's a *****e bag manoeuvre, not a Peter Parker manoeuvre. If they had waited until the mid-way point of the second movie where his raging hormones would have kicked in, I might have bought it.
I hated that he walks into a room with tens of thousands of spiders where ONE of them gives him powers... what? nobody else ever get bitten? I know they're trying to set up the fact that Peter was probably genetically "altered" by his father, but that wasn't clear to me, and I can't imagine what the casual movie goer thought...
I hated that after he shows up at Gwen's practically torn to shreds, they then go swinging merrily through the city, nary a scratch on his costume.
I hated the basketball scene... I hated the football goalpost scene... which btw, would have destroyed the ball before actually bending a steel post.
I hated the scene where Peter shows up almost beaten to death, and Aunt May just hugs him... no questions asked...
I hated that his spider-sense didn't work in the sewers...
I hated that after we get all this tension with that Osborn right-hand man, he disappears after the bridge scene... never to be heard of again.
I hated that he got shot in the leg... again, Spider-Sense?
I hated how he gets to sneak into Osborn without any security knowing? Seriously?
I hated that he didn't "invent" his webbing... he buys it from Osborn off the internet. Fack!
I hated how the whole story didn't flow at all... it was too choppy and poorly edited...
And finally, I hated how I could have gave two ****s about his parents' even though they're supposed to be pivotal to the story.
There's more stuff... but that's a fair summary.
I was also not a big fan of Kane's arta AT THE TIME... every panel seemed to show a guy's face looking up his nose... with that weird hatching... I can appreciate the storytelling aspects of it now, but it was weird to me as a kid.
And Gnomie... tell me it ain't so that you didn't like Pollard's art... I personally LOVED it, really made Wolfman's story come to life... but I really have a tremendous rose-coloured love affair with ASM #185 to 200.
Geez.....some of that sounds really awful. Buying webbing off the internet....seriously?
oh, and one more glaring omission in your post... the look of the Lizard absolutely sucked in this first ASM movie as much as the look of the Goblin sucked in the first SM movie...
And he didn't use Google... he uses Bing...