I know that you will more than likely dismiss everything I say, but I would appreciate if you would at least read it like I took the time to read yours.
All right, here we go (bout damn time). Sorry it took so long, I am just getting ready for finals, and the end of this semester has been wicked nuts. Let me just say before I start that I totally agree with most of what Mr. Parker is saying. I think it would have been awesome if they had stuck directly with the comics, but I realize that they couldn’t. And now my rebuttal:
“He was a good Peter,just a bad spiderman.He did not talk the way you would expect spidey to sound. the only actor I really thought was weak was a JAMES FRANCO AS HARRY OSBORN. ”
I disagree with you entirely here. Toby was awesome, not only as Peter but also as Spider-Man. You have to think back that Peter didn’t start as heroic badass. It took him time to come into his superhero attitude. He started out as a scared kid who had just been given a great gift, and this movie was the origins of Spidey. I would expect that in the next movie they will buff his personality up a little and make him into more of hero. And I agree with James Franco, but in the beginning Harry was a pretty weak character too, he never had a lot going for min story wise (and he had by far the worst dialogue in the movie).
“Kirsten dunst was very pretty as MJ”
She was cute, in my opinion nowhere near ‘MJ’ quality hotness. I posted on another board that MJ was always smoking. She was an actress and then a model. They needed someone way hotter. I suggested Nikki Cox, it helps that she already has the red hair.
“and those hairy claws,whats up with that?”
I agree that the hairs were a little weird, but if you think about it, they never really explained how he was able to climb on walls in the comics. He just could, and they couldn’t do that in the movie. I personally like that they shed a little light on that and explained how he was able to climb the walls.
“can you say organics? man what a moron idea to begin with, that was so stupid to give him organics and turn him inot a manspider monster with those idiotic organics.hollywood only wanted to make their own liitle version is why they gave him organics.they just wanted to do something new and different with him by raping to death this great character.the thing that is so stupid about the organics,is if he got the powers of a spider,the webbing would shoot out of his ass for god sakes,no way would they be able to shoot out of hiswrists for great long distances of all things.thats just not logical.Apider spins its webbing in the back end of its body.”
We’ve done this talk in a previous thing, and I have a feeling that no matter what I say, you’re not going to accept it. The organics were necessary. They couldn’t have him just producing those devices from his room in Queens. Also, the webbing in this made more sense than the web in the comic. He says in the comic that he thinks the spider that bit him somehow passed on the formula for the webbing to him. I like the fact that the webbing is more based on something than things being passed from spider to human telepathically.
“You also have to deal with the fact that a spiders webbing doesnt dissolve for weeks at times,guess the whole city of new york is going to be polluted now.”
In the comic his webbing dissolves in like an hour or so. I would assume that that is how it would work in the movie. It is tough for film makers to express all the things that comics can because they don’t have the same amount of time and area that a comic does.
“then the even bigger sin-THE GREEN GOBLIN COSTUME.that costume was so laughable looking and dumb it looked more like an alien from space than a damn goblin.that was insulting that we saw only his real mouth move when he talked,and his goblin mouth never moved,man what a joke.”
It would have been IMPOSSIBLE for them to make a mask like the one in the comic. He has some kind of weird latex on the books that forms to his face. They can’t do that in the movies. Look at Wolverine or Batman, their masks are different too. What they did was the closest thing possible. First, the mask was formed from Defoe’s face that they then twisted and warped. Secondly, when he raised the eyes you could still see his mouth and his eyes came through the holes, so that was as close to original as possible. The suit was a little queer though, looked like a Power Ranger. It would have been cool to have the boots and the satchel, but then that would not have gone with the mask. Also, the thing that should have bugged you was the lack of pumpkin bombs, or bombs of any kind.
“MJ is suppose to be an airhead and stuck up,instead they made her into the nice,kind,sweet girl GWEN STACY is Just like the 90's cartoon did. where was the party girl from the comics? except hearing her say HEY TIGER! I felt like I was looking at gwen stacy on the screen.”
“I also hated the fact that BETTY AND ROBBIE werent even introduced and only had avout 30 seconds of screentime.man what bullcrap.”
They didn’t have the time to add a whole new character. The comic had decades to cover dozens of different characters, the movie had two hours. With Betty and Robbie you had the same problem, not enough time to give all of them the screen time they deserved. The same goes for Eddie and Dr. Conners, they said their name, but no face to go with them (but I think they did that so they could cast them when they are bigger parts in later movies). They knew sequels were gonna be coming, and they wanted movie goers to begin to care about a character and if they had just killed Gwen at the end people would not have been as likely to care about a whole other character in the next movie. Plus, MJ is a much more well known character.
“I also hated the fact that we never heard peter think to himself.sorry narration and hearing thoughts are two totally different things.You cant have a spiderman movie without hearing his thoughts,with supes and bats,no problem,bus spidey is a different case.That was one thing I rreally liked about the 90's cartoon was how they brilliantly had peter think to himself in that show.I wanted to hear him say things like-SHOULD I AKS MJ OUT,WHAT IF SHE SAYS NO,I'LL LOOK STUPID,NO I BETTER NOT.”
Internal monoloque is really tough to do in movies, especially when the person doing most of the narrating is wearing mask. It was a great part of his character, but it would not have worked in the movie. People would have lost track of who was talking to who and what was being said out loud and what wasn’t.
“I ALSO hated the fact that he was never wisecracking like spidey is suppose to when hefights.man,spidey NEVER shuts up when he fights baddies!!!!!”
I agree 100%. This was my biggest complaint about the movie.
“to the end of WHO AM I,IM SPIDERMAN.then swinging off hanging on to the flagpole.dumb and corny.this isnt macgyver or magnum pi for crying out loud!!!!!!!!!!!”
The original ending called for a huge battle that took place between the twin towers, but, those were no more. The flag was a simple, quick tribute to September 11th. It was only added after the towers fell. And what the hell does “this isnt macgyver or magnum pi for crying out loud!!!!!!!!!!!” mean? “Macgyver or Magnum PI“?
“everybody saw him shoot out his webbing and drag the tray,then ho goes out and does all these spectacular backflips and punches flash thompson sending him flying over 100 feet through the air across the floor which is humanly impossible to do.Lets see,this occurs,then a guy displays the same uncanny abilites comes along a few months later,even a dork like flash thompson would easily put two and two together,geez waht moron came up with that part?
Nobody saw him shoot the web. If you watch the movie, nobody saw the webbing leave his wrist. They might have seen him drag the tray out, but they didn’t see what it was attached to. Also, he hit him like 10 feet, 100 would have definitely alerted people. The beauty of Parker was that he was such a nerd and such a nobody that people never gave him a second thought. They may have seen him punch him and fight all badass, but he was Peter Parker. He was a spaz you just got lucky once so people never thought twice about it.
“It was also stupid how during the ring fight how his spidey sense inexplicably failed to warn him that he was going to get hit with the chair at that time,he should EASLIY have dodged that.Not to mention that the chair should not have even hurt him since he has super strength now.”
In the movie we are never even sure if his spider sense warns him or not. It was the first time he had ever really used his powers and he was unsure of himself. He had just taken probably the biggest hit of his life and was stunned after being hit for the first time. The chair didn’t hurt him. He got hit by the chair and was then smashed into the cage but was right back up and kick “Bonesaw’s” ass (by the way, how can you be pissed about so many small things but let Bonesaw get by?)
“also take inot account,that the promoter later saw peter with his mask off after displaying spider abilities in the ring”
I agree with this, but the wrestling promoter never got his name or any relevant information about him. Also, how many people are in New York? Maybe if he ran into Parker again he might have said something, but he never did.
Finally, you contradict yourself. You say how you loved how they made him so strong, but are pissed at how hard he hit’s Flash. Make up you mind.
Again, I know that you will more than likely dismiss everything I say, but I would appreciate if you would at least read it like I took the time to read yours.