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So after Schumacher killed Batman what was keeping the genre alive?

Marvel Studios didn't release a film until 2008...

If you're trying to say Marvel films saved the genre... well, I'm not sure I'd even consider it a genre until the flood of Marvel characters in the 21st century. There was just the Batman and Superman franchises, plus random one-offs.
 
There's clearly a scene in a room full of spiders where he's going to get bit.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of Uncle Ben though.


I don't know why but I can't quote your post. Are we talking about Marvel Studios began producing their own movies or Marvel Studios simply developing films?
 
Using this reasoning is even DUMBER. Yes, we get it, in SOME runs he has a snout in some he doesn't. Doesn't change the fact that in the most recent ones he has a snout and that it looks better. Going by your logic, you'd even justify a movie batmobile simply being a black car with bat fins because it was in comics at one point in time...

If you actually bothered to read what I wrote and the post I was adding to, you'd understand I was saying that the people who are complaining for the movie straying from the comic books are simply wrong.
 
I honestly don't get the hate, though. I think they're quality movies. Iron Man 2 was mediocre, but Thor wasn't bad, Hulk was excellent, Iron Man 1 was great and Captain America was great.

A lot of people hate on Incredible Hulk which I really liked. I've enjoyed all the Marvel movies.
 
If you actually bothered to read what I wrote and the post I was adding to, you'd understand I was saying that the people who are complaining for the movie straying from the comic books are simply wrong.

I got what you were saying, but people are talking about the recent comics not the older ones. Yes, using the broadest definition of "the comics" the movie Lizard DOES look like he did in the comics, at some point in time, but it makes no sense to revert to a super old design, which was the point of my response.

Reverting to a dated design might as well be as bad as the movie staff taking liberties and coming up with a wholly new design and ignoring the ones present in the modern comics. It's harder for fans to relate to and for newbies into the Spiderman world, it'll be jarring if they ever decided to read the comics (assuming they don't start way way back)
 
Let's lay this to rest. As much as it may surprise a lot of you, Lizard didn't really have a snout in the comics until much later.

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Say what you will about how the movie is filmed or what you think of the story and dialogue, but it's actually quite faithful to the comic books.

Apart from the gravity-defying labcoat....
 
I don't know why but I can't quote your post. Are we talking about Marvel Studios began producing their own movies or Marvel Studios simply developing films?

I don't think anyone uses Marvel Studios to refer to anything but what they've produced themselves.
 
re: the snout

They probably used the original design because it's humanoid, that way they can incorporate the actor's motion-capture into the face. It makes even more sense if the Lizard ever talks. Easier to do all of that with a humanoid face rather than trying to figure out how to do all of that with a crocodile head.
 
re: the snout

They probably used the original design because it's humanoid, that way they can incorporate the actor's motion-capture into the face. It makes even more sense if the Lizard ever talks. Easier to do all of that with a humanoid face rather than trying to figure out how to do all of that with a crocodile head.

Snout or no snout, they could've gone with a design that does not resemble a Goomba with down syndrome.
 
I honestly don't get the hate, though. I think they're quality movies. Iron Man 2 was mediocre, but Thor wasn't bad, Hulk was excellent, Iron Man 1 was great and Captain America was great.

The only good thing about Thor was Natalie Portman being hot. Otherwise it was at best average. Iron Man 2 was awful and Captain America was not very good either, the only good movie that Marvel Studios have made is Iron Man. Granted that is already better than Fox, who have the X-Men, Dare Devil and Fantastic Four franchises, but no Marvel film has hit the heights of Spider-Man 2 (orTDK from the DC side). ASM is the first Marvel superhero film that looks close to getting Marvel back to that level.

Really, Marvel have got two characters/franchises on the same level as Batman/Superman, one is Spider-Man and the other is X-Men/Wolverine. Fox have completely ruined the latter but thankfully after the atrocious third SM movie SPE had a rethink and made the decision to reboot, which is hopefully going to pay off. By the looks of the trailers, AMS looks awesome.
 
My theory about the lizard design: Connors takes his serum, regrows his amputated arm and from there becomes progressively more lizard like as the movie progresses while still retaining some of his humanity all the while becoming more reclusive and going into hiding. By the climax of the film, he will be a full lizard, snout and all, unable to communicate verbally anymore, but able to be distracted from his lizard impulses by the small bit of humanity left in him that is culled out by seeing his wife/daughter. Peter will be responsible for helping develop something that will reverse the effects of the lizard serum and he will become Curt Connors again, once again an amputee.
 
I liked every Marvel Studios movie, because they're all quality superhero movies, imo.

Come at me

I'll only come at you to stand beside you. I'm in the same camp, I've found them all to be very entertaining. I typically have a smile on my face after watching them, like being a kid again.

Plus, I was always more of a Marvel guy than DC (aside from Batman).
 
But Marvel Studios did save the genre with Blade and X-Men. Its the same company than started internally producing films in 2008.

I find it difficult if not stupid to give Marvel credit for what a half dozen movie studios did with the characters they licensed from Marvel. It's like giving the Saul Zaentz Company and Tolkien Enterprises credit for the Lord of the Rings films.
 
But Marvel Studios did save the genre with Blade and X-Men. Its the same company than started internally producing films in 2008.

I took it out because we were talking about different things. I'm pretty sure Marvel sold X-Men and Blade because they were out of money at the time. It saved the company but I doubt they cared about the quality.
 
I honestly don't get the hate, though. I think they're quality movies. Iron Man 2 was mediocre, but Thor wasn't bad, Hulk was excellent, Iron Man 1 was great and Captain America was great.
Captain America was the worst film I watched in theaters in 2011. It was nothing but filler until the Avenger movie. The second half of the movie is one big montage. There is never any tension built up...
 
I find it difficult if not stupid to give Marvel credit for what a half dozen movie studios did with the characters they licensed from Marvel. It's like giving the Saul Zaentz Company and Tolkien Enterprises credit for the Lord of the Rings films.

Marvel Inc. setting up their own movie production studios is a great thing for the health of their IPs.

They are not under any contractual obligations to shit out a movie every 2 to 3 years like Fox and Sony are and all the people on GAF who applaud the licensing rights belonging to Sony and Fox will be singing a different tune when we have reboots after reboots of franchises/ mediocre productions for all the wrong reasons for years to come.

Hell look at Ghost rider this year. Done on the cheap and with a has been just to keep rights and by all accounts seems to be a gigantic turd.
 
Marvel Inc. setting up their own movie production studios is a great thing for the health of their IPs.

They are not under any contractual obligations to shit out a movie every 2 to 3 years like Fox and Sony are and all the people on GAF who applaud the licensing rights belonging to Sony and Fox will be singing a different tune when we have reboots after reboots of franchises/ mediocre productions for all the wrong reasons for years to come.

Hell look at Ghost rider this year. Done on the cheap and with a has been just to keep rights and by all accounts seems to be a gigantic turd.
It's not as if the first Ghost Rider was anything to write home about.
 
That's the silliest opinion I've read on GAF in years. Bendis ruined the Avengers.

That's wrong on the OMG Rite level.

Kree-Skrull War, Korvac Saga, and on and on shit on anything Bendis has done.

Have you ever gone back and tried to read that stuff lately? The writing is incredibly dated and the art hohum. Besides, i was mainly refering to the 100 issues prior to Bendis taking over. From what i've looked at that stuff sucked and Bendis took a franchise that was doing poorly and turned it into the biggest franchise this side of X-Men. It's bigger than Justice League now. Give credit where credit is due.
 
a snout debate? for reals?

i think the liz looks good as is personally. a snout would be more difficult cgi wise anyway and then gaf would biyatch about that
 
Marvel Inc. setting up their own movie production studios is a great thing for the health of their IPs.

They are not under any contractual obligations to shit out a movie every 2 to 3 years like Fox and Sony are and all the people on GAF who applaud the licensing rights belonging to Sony and Fox will be singing a different tune when we have reboots after reboots of franchises/ mediocre productions for all the wrong reasons for years to come.

Hell look at Ghost rider this year. Done on the cheap and with a has been just to keep rights and by all accounts seems to be a gigantic turd.

I'm not sure what any of that has to do with what I was talking about. I'm not personally impressed by what Marvel has done on its own either. They make bland, relatively inoffensive blockbusters.
 
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with what I was talking about. I'm not personally impressed by what Marvel has done on its own either. They make bland, relatively inoffensive blockbusters.

I enjoyed the Iron Man films because of RDJ but I agree that Marvel Studios suck. Captain America was the biggest waste of my time in 2011.
 
Marvel Inc. setting up their own movie production studios is a great thing for the health of their IPs.

They are not under any contractual obligations to shit out a movie every 2 to 3 years like Fox and Sony are and all the people on GAF who applaud the licensing rights belonging to Sony and Fox will be singing a different tune when we have reboots after reboots of franchises/ mediocre productions for all the wrong reasons for years to come.

Hell look at Ghost rider this year. Done on the cheap and with a has been just to keep rights and by all accounts seems to be a gigantic turd.
And yet it looks like it has more personality than anything Marvel has shit out these past two years.
 
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with what I was talking about. I'm not personally impressed by what Marvel has done on its own either. They make bland, relatively inoffensive blockbusters.

Well it wasn't aimed at you specifically. Everyone has their opinion on the movies and that's fine. But I don't see how anyone in their right mind can tout that the Sony/ Fox deals are great ideas.
 
Trailer was astronomically better than the 1st. Was going to see this either way, but now I feel much better about it's prospects.

Are people really bailing on this film because of a snout? Wow.
 
My theory about the lizard design: Connors takes his serum, regrows his amputated arm and from there becomes progressively more lizard like as the movie progresses while still retaining some of his humanity all the while becoming more reclusive and going into hiding. By the climax of the film, he will be a full lizard, snout and all, unable to communicate verbally anymore, but able to be distracted from his lizard impulses by the small bit of humanity left in him that is culled out by seeing his wife/daughter. Peter will be responsible for helping develop something that will reverse the effects of the lizard serum and he will become Curt Connors again, once again an amputee.

Would make sense if we didn't already have toy designs showing it's pretty much going to stay the way it was in the trailer...
 
It looks like fun and Garfield looks like he'll be a much better Parker/Spiderman than Maguire, but I can't help shake off the feeling of how silly it is that we're rebooting a film series that started only a decade ago. It even looks like the first half of the movie hits the same beats as the first Raimi Spiderman. (I know I know.... origin stories... but I'm getting tired of them.)
 
Well it wasn't aimed at you specifically. Everyone has their opinion on the movies and that's fine. But I don't see how anyone in their right mind can tout that the Sony/ Fox deals are great ideas.
Anything that keeps my beloved Spider-Man/X-Men away from the dirty hands of Marvel Studios is fine by me.
 
It's not as if the first Ghost Rider was anything to write home about.

Exactly, and it didn't make much money either even if it didn't lose any. This second one exists for all the long reasons and so will any future Daredevil or FF movie.

And yet it looks like it has more personality than anything Marvel has shit out these past two years.

Well you are entitled to your opinion but I disagree.

I am willing to bet that Ghost Rider is going to be a colossal failure critically and commercially. But that won't stop Sony from shitting out another one in 5 years time.
 
It looks like fun and Garfield looks like he'll be a much better Parker/Spiderman than Maguire, but I can't help shake off the feeling of how silly it is that we're rebooting a film series that started only a decade ago. It even looks like the first half of the movie hits the same beats as the first Raimi Spiderman. (I know I know.... origin stories... but I'm getting tired of them.)

It was the jazz club scene in Spiderman 3, it disturbed the balance of the Spiderman universe and so we needed to reboot the whole franchise. Now dig on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPoiTHMuzc

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Anything that keeps my beloved Spider-Man/X-Men away from the dirty hands of Marvel Studios is fine by me.

I am a big comic book (especially Marvel )and Spidey/ X-men fan. Endless reboots/ sequels is hardly great for either franchise. The nightmare scenario would be a direct to video type production done on the cheap and given limited release in theaters to meet contractual obligations.

At least the Sony deal is favorable, with Disney having licensing agreements with them for this Spidey movie. The Fox deals are just awful.
 
Hell look at Ghost rider this year. Done on the cheap and with a has been just to keep rights and by all accounts seems to be a gigantic turd.

Not a fan of Neveldine/Taylor? I agree that the non-Marvel rights holders will devalue the characters and run them into the ground. But on the way down, the characters sometimes end up in the hands of interesting creators that wouldn't have had a chance at them otherwise.
 
Not a fan of Neveldine/Taylor? I agree that the non-Marvel rights holders will devalue the characters and run them into the ground. But on the way down, the characters sometimes end up in the hands of interesting creators that wouldn't have had a chance at them otherwise.

Well early impressions make it sound to be terrible. And the trailers/ footage shown so far are not encouraging.

I will be happy if proven wrong.
 
My theory about the lizard design: Connors takes his serum, regrows his amputated arm and from there becomes progressively more lizard like as the movie progresses while still retaining some of his humanity all the while becoming more reclusive and going into hiding. By the climax of the film, he will be a full lizard, snout and all, unable to communicate verbally anymore, but able to be distracted from his lizard impulses by the small bit of humanity left in him that is culled out by seeing his wife/daughter. Peter will be responsible for helping develop something that will reverse the effects of the lizard serum and he will become Curt Connors again, once again an amputee.
Well, I don't think so. We've seen pretty much direct proof that he will be changing back and forth from the Lizard to Doctor Connors, so this progressive evolution kinda makes less and less sense.
 
It was the jazz club scene in Spiderman 3, it disturbed the balance of the Spiderman universe and so we needed to reboot the whole franchise. Now dig on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPoiTHMuzc

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Oh god. Only three more fucking posts until the new page, and i'll never have to see this shit again. I'll hate any of you forever if you quote this next page.

Just look into his eyes, I can see Tobey in there saying "what the fuck am I doing".

[quote="Rayven, post: 34928579"]What's the point of the reboot, swap the cast? Doesn't seem all that different.[/QUOTE]
A way to retain the rights. Also, have you not heard yet? THIS IS THE UNTOLD STORY.
 
Not a fan of Neveldine/Taylor? I agree that the non-Marvel rights holders will devalue the characters and run them into the ground. But on the way down, the characters sometimes end up in the hands of interesting creators that wouldn't have had a chance at them otherwise.

I think X-Men will end up that way, but Sony really only have Spider-Man (and now James Bond) as box office mega blockbusters they can count on so it is in their interest not to shit up the franchise.
 
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