Spider sense is one that's quite hard to show without relying on Snyder style slow mo. Though sometimes the comics play it as more passive yet permanently "on" for example how he always manages to snag webs perfectly without even aiming.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Imo, the movie all the way up to the end of the first Electro battle is great. The opening scene, imo, is the best, most quintessential "Spider-Man in action" scene ever set to film, Electro's origin hits all the notes it intends to, and Peter's something of a creeper where Gwen in concerned but the romantic arc isn't too bad.
Then right after Electro is defeated, that's when everything starts to fall apart and the movie squanders what it built up.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 5th 2018 at 7:40:08 AM
I found Electro's origin to be the kind of ridiculous slapstick writing commonly seen in Silver Age comics and pre-MCU superhero films.
Dude's doing some work in a SCIENCE LAB when he pratfalls and accidentally falls into a SCIENCE TANK with terrible safety features, where an army of SCIENCE EELS murder him into having superpowers. Like. There is no way to take any of that scene seriously.
It manages to stand out as the worst safety failure in a company where one man injected himself with lizard DNA and another guy walked blindly into the Spinning Room of Magic Super-Spiders.
But I was willing to give the cheesiness of Electro's origin a pass right up until he met Dr. Nazi, the Evil German Torture King.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's sad when an attempt to do a more 'plausible' style ultimate origin is ultimately more ludicrous
Forever liveblogging the Avengers... was it meant to be plausible? It's so over-the-top that honestly I think it's supposed to be played-for-laughs.
Like, say, Sandman in SMIII just seemed ridiculous to me because it was nonsensical, but seemed to try to handwave it ("There's something there!" "Probably a bird, it'll fly away.") whereas this was "FUCK IT. EELS."
I don't think you're going to get an origin for Electro that grounded in any sense.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.The most grounded origin for Electro I could see is giving him the "struck by lightning while working on a telephone wire" origin, but also say that the two different sources and types of electricity activated his dormant mutant or Inhuman gene. And that's only grounded as far as the rules of the setting say it is.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Oct 5th 2018 at 8:11:16 AM
Anyway, I don't want to discuss TAS spiderman movies in detail because it doesn't really matter for the MCU except this one aspect: Those movies did an amazing (no pun intended) in portraying Peter's powers. You always knew when he reached the limits of his abilities, the way his swinging around was shot was engaging (frankly, I wish the MCU would be a little bit closer to that) and I can't praise the time square scene enough. It is just really clever how the movie slows down just to show the audience "okay, this is all the stuff Peter is able to notice in this split second" just to speed up again immediately. It's slowmo used right.
The MCU does well showing Peter's limits, too, but sometimes I feel his movements aso could be a little bit more, well, spectacular.
I believe in (once again) The Spectacular Spider-Man, Electro got his powers while fixing a Electric Eel Tank for Curt Conners.
The latter had been doing some experiments, and when the tank malfunctioned while Max was working on it, he got the eels all over him and that changed him. It was the combination of the Eels being genetically altered and their electricity that did it.
I don't think I'm doing it justice though: it sounds as silly as Tobias made TAS II Electro sounds (and it does sound pretty silly).
One Strip! One Strip!I feel like it's hard to get a superpower origin right. If you try to go 'realistic' that rules out most powers. Going down the sci fi route seems to be 'pick a phlebotinum', especially things that exist but don't work like that (radiation, genetic modification, etc) while using magic immediately turns it into fantasy. I guess it's a matter of getting the willing suspension of disbelief right.
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That's accurate.
This is one of many areas where live-action is trickier than animated mediums. You have more leeway in a cartoon or comic for suspension of disbelief because the nature of the medium is fundamentally less "real". Once you put live actors on a screen, the brain has a higher standard for "realness".
Many a live-action adaptation has failed because the producers thought you could just do the same thing you would do in a cartoon, but with live actors. However, when executed well, that higher standard of realness can produce a result that's so much cooler than anything animation can provide because it feels like something that could literally happen.
Even though we all know it's not, it feels like it is. That's something animation can't really offer.
So it's always a gamble. Done poorly, you have Howard the Duck. Done well, you have Rocket Raccoon.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 6th 2018 at 9:55:20 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I admit, live action superhero stuff has come a long way.
Though as a whole while there's been stuff like the previous Flash Series and the Dean Cain Superman series, Japan has had the West beat on that front since at least the 70's, what with both Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.
Then again, they also have a much simpler and more kid friendly view of Superheroes as well.
One Strip! One Strip!

Tobias: well, the spider sense is that...a sense, of Venom bound with Peter then it means he register as him rather than a enemy.
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