Herr Logan
Critical Bastard
Originally posted by Zephonim
No sequal ever does as well as the first, common knowledge.
This is untrue. I can think of one film that was actually better than the original: Terminator 2. In terms of sales, I'm sure there are many sequels that surpassed the original. It is true that generally speaking, sequels aren't as good in quality.
Mr Parker, I may have mentioned this elsewhere, but it wasn't Sony's idea to mutate Spider-Man's wrists. Also, if you call him a monster simply for that mutation, then you're just as bad as the anti-mutant bigots in X-Men. 😉
I disagree that the movie isn't anything like the comic. It stayed true to the spirit of the comic, with some major logical flaws. The character of Peter was basically the same guy down at the core, except he wasn't nearly as funny when he put on the mask and he spoke a lot of cheesy drivel when faced with a pretty girl. People hated Spider-Man even though he tried to do good. This is a constant in Spider-Man books. The movie ended with Peter brooding over the happiness that eludes him, and if you read the early issues of Spider-Man, that's what he's doing most of the time. That was the one thing I liked about the end scene in the graveyard-- it was too heavy-handed and deviated from the characters' behavior patterns, but it was true to the spirit of Spider-Man.
Now, as for you people like Astro12345 who keep saying " they can't make the movie exactly like the comic book", it's time to grow out of that. I realize this is just a movie-- a consumer product-- and it has no real bearing on our geeky little lives, but the attitude from which such statements come, it's a bad one to have. You're using an extremely flimsy excuse to defend people who could have done better. As a general way of thinking, people should not settle for inferior performance (in whatever) when it could have easily been done better. The mistakes I pointed out earlier in the thread, almost all of those should not require much more effort or money easily to fix. Seriously, a few script changes, diverting filming equipment more here and less there... it's not brain surgery to fix these little failures that add up to a large deduction of respect from what could be a greater amount. They are pandering to a shallow audience that will settle for less, but what I don't understand is the lack of logic in some of these mistakes. Couldn't they have survived if Toby had to cover up his face in one more scene (in the wrestling office)? Couldn't they have just had one super-spider on display and made sure it died? This is not difficult. I can tolerate the organic web-shooters if they don't pay close attention to them and make it gross (the way their creator, James Cameron would have) and if they give me a movie chock full of Spidey goodness. That goodness is depleted when the wisecracks come in drips and drabs, instead of like a faucet, as in the video game. There it is, Toby Maguire, crackin' wise as Spider-Man all the way through. It's corny, yes, but funny enough, and also true to the corny nature of Spider-Man.
Stop using flimsy words, and don't use the word "can't" when it's not true. It's settling for less than could be, and if you act that way in important, real life situations, you could be making a big mistake.