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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah. As a comic reader, that is an accurate assessment of the character.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The "controversy" only affected a small number of people in the audience. Most people had never heard of the Mandarin prior to the movie. That's why all the comparisons to it being like if they made the Joker a fraud or comic relief character fell flat. People love the Joker and wouldn't like him depicted as such. But your average person doesn't give a shit about the Mandarin.
Ryan Coogler wanted Kraven to appear in the Black Panther movie
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See, the argument of Popularity Power makes me wonder if Spider-Man: Homecoming's box office (which was higher than any MCU film aside from the two Avengers, Iron Man 3, and Civil War) was more due to Iron Man or Spider-Man's presence in the film.
I really want them to establish that there's a knockoff Supaidaman in-universe in the MCU. Like, someone somewhere cashed in on his image without his permission for a major toyline with a giant robot, and being Peter "secret identities suck" Parker he is unable to see a dime.
edited 9th Feb '18 12:25:18 PM by KnownUnknown
Too bad Kingpin can't do that again, imo, that was a great moment in the comics.
edited 9th Feb '18 12:37:53 PM by Cross
I'd be more interested in either a Spider-Verse movie with Supaida-Man or Supaida-Man just exists in MCU Japan and his similarities to Spider-Man are either a complete coincidence or Yamato is a fanboy. Either way, Spider-Man and Supaida-Man team up and They Fight Crime!
According to the quoted post. They could be wrong tough, I just wanted to highlight how weird "international is the only place {x happens}" sounds. I mean, "international" just covers most of the world.
edited 9th Feb '18 1:06:28 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV![]()
There were a lot of people that viewed the Amazing reboot as unnecessary, and they'd been getting diminishing domestic returns for a while. The first movie back in 2002 did over 400 million domestically, while Amazing Spider-Man 2 only did 202 million over here. Homecoming was a pretty significant step up domestically, but still didn't do as well as any of the Raimi movies. Adding Iron Man and emphasizing the MCU connection was a smart move to at least differentiate itself from the 5 Spider-Man movies people had already gotten in the last 15 years.
I know Cheadle had discussed the idea of the film in the past, and his pitch sounded kinda interesting.
edited 9th Feb '18 1:37:15 PM by comicwriter
The fact alone that there are 6 Spider-Man movies is probably enough.
Garfield is a fine actor I'm sure, but the way his character was written in the Amazing movies was insufferable and made him impossible to care about, and when you add how undercooked/mediocre the rest of the movie was, ASM just falls flat for me. While I can understand people disliking Toby Macguire's portrayal and the Raimi films, I have always argued (and still would) that outside of a handful of positives, the ASM films were worse.
edited 9th Feb '18 2:22:48 PM by Draghinazzo
As someone who hasn't watched Homecoming but has watched all the other Spider Man films, the Raimi films dunk all over the "Amazing" duology.
Andrew Garfield is precisely the wrong person to play Peter Parker. When Tobey played Peter he could be a believable dork loser, while Garfield comes across more like a hipster who should be more popular than he actually is - as a result, I can't identify with him like I could with Tobey the nerd in the originals. Raimi's Spiderman also seems more like someone caught up with by a twist of luck while the Amazing duology seems to be trying to inject a Chosen One narrative into the story which is precisely the wrong fit.
I will say Amazing handles its romance partially better, at least from an acting standpoint. But everything else is just worse in some regard.
edited 9th Feb '18 2:19:55 PM by Sigilbreaker26
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"Thank you!!!! To me the Raimi movies were a giant let-down too (full disclosure: Never bothered to see the third one). Clearly inspired by the 1990s series (which I liked) but with less character development (and no movie should have less character development than a freaking cartoon show) The Amazing Spider-Man was flawed, but I actually enjoyed that take overall until they ruined it by brining all those Raimi-like elements into the sequel.
Homecoming finally works. Still think that they should have mentioned uncle ben in their aunt May/Peter talk, but overall, this finally feels like Spiderman.
High five!
I loved the 90s cartoon as a kid, and 9 year old me was hugely disappointed to see one of her snarky science heroes as some annoying kid who creeped on MJ.
Between that and my siblings only ever wanting to watch the not-great live action Batman films, I ended up irrationally hating superhero movies until Iron Man (I tried to watch Ghost Rider, thinking you couldn't go wrong with a flaming skeleton riding a motorcycle, but it turns out you could).

I mean, you’re not wrong.
Edit: Dammit!
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edited 9th Feb '18 8:56:49 AM by wisewillow