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Hal Jordan or John Stewart?
Anyone remember that 'Wormhole' guy from the IMDb days?
If I could make a change to just ONE scene...
This movie really needs a better title...
So... Betty Brant made no sense
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Here's my ranking. I'm aware it's full of very unpopular opinions:
1) Spider-Man (2002) - For the first Spider-Man movie ever made, it got nearly everything about the character and his world perfect. The swinging, the fight scenes, the costume, the characters... it felt like Spider-Man had just jumped right out of one of his Stan Lee/Steve Ditko-era stories.
2) Amazing Spider-Man - Could have been better and had some weird choices made to the new origin story (Peter gets Uncle Ben killed because he couldn't pay for a fucking YooHoo??), but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Had some great performances and some of the best action of any Spider-Man movie. One more rewrite of the script might have made it #1.
3) Spider-Man 2 - Builds off of the first one, has an amazing villain, and sets the ground for future stories all while just being a fun movie with great action and decent affects. A few cringy/nonsensical moments is all that keeps me from ranking this higher.
4) Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Just a little bit better than Spider-Man 3 because of three things. The music, the fight scenes, and the performances of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Other than that, this movie is kind of a mess. Harry Goblin is awful.
5) Spider-Man 3 - Sam Raimi did not want to do Venom. Sony said he had to. So, he slapped together this half-hearted, trainwreck of a film. He proved what he was trying to tell Sony from the beginning: he did not *get* the appeal of Venom, nor did he care about the "black suit arc" of the Spider-Man comics. Silver lining though, this movie does have some badass scenes, and the goofy scenes are at least entertaining. I have fun watching this one despite how flawed it is.
6) Spider-Man Homecoming - Ignored and/or omitted important elements of Spider-Man's mythos. Refused to tackle any of the serious drama that has surrounded the character's identity for years. Lacked any impressive fight/swinging scenes. Why is this the "perfect Spider-Man movie" again?
I think character deaths can often lead to thematic depth. But all these people saying that multiple characters will die in this movie and THEN stay dead... Yeah, no. No. That's a terrible idea. I'm fine with one or two BIG character deaths if they're satisfying but I'm not down with watching half the cast killed off.
Nah. I'm calling it now... Tony is gonna be the one to die.
Yeah. Lots a trolls. Hopefully they don't find this site.
Which sucks because this is the same audience who are like "I already KNOW the origin don't do it again!!!!"
It really bothered me, honestly. The only time I think they should change a character for an adaptation is if they come up with something as good or even better than what was originally established. For example, I thought that this movie's Vulture was just as, if not more, interesting as the Adrian Toomes from the comics. Everyone else though, Shocker, Aunt May, "MJ"... I really don't think they added anything special or interesting with the changes.
He's not. He yells at Peter for trying to fight the Vulture and takes his suit. Then, Peter does the exact same thing (only this time he doesn't cause collateral damage) and Tony is like, "Good job, kid! Here's your suit back! Way to fight the Vulture even though I took your suit in the first place because you fought the Vulture."
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