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Comment by Eiffel Roaming on February 9, 2013 at 3:54am

I'd rather not have Gwen die in the sequel...that would make Peter an unlikable character for not following through with his promise; not to mention, it seems like he'll get over Gwen pretty quickly with Mary-Jane. 

Comment by nerdilicouse?! on February 8, 2013 at 11:38am

Jon Riddle- or Transformers 2 and transformers 3. Great Point

Comment by Jon Riddle on February 8, 2013 at 11:23am

I hope the lack of info involving Paul Giamatti as the Rhino means that there will be no Rhino in this movie. I am so fucking tired of sequels to superhero movies adding multiple villains that I could puke blood. Apparently, nobody learned anything from the 90's Batman sequels, or Spider-Man 3 for that matter. Adding characters does not make your story better. It usually just gums up the works so that NOBODY has room for character development.

Comment by WheatBread85 on February 8, 2013 at 1:43am

....Why?....

Comment by Optimus Bum on February 8, 2013 at 1:03am

i'm not doubting any of the decisions with the cast, it's the story and pretrial of these characters that i'm worried about. we all know jaime foxx can act as well as half of the cast listed about. i'm just worried that marc webb and the writing team are just gonna miss the mark like they did in the first one. that wasn't the peter i knew. i enjoyed the first one, i didn't love it and that's cuz i am a huge spider-man fan. i haven't lost my faith in these movies yet

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on February 8, 2013 at 12:07am

@Todd A. Don't you read your own posts?  Go back to your first reply to my comment. You wrote "They didn't show Spider-Man in high school at all in the Raimi version." I copied and pasted that quote directly from your comment.

Again, Peter wrestled under the name "The Amazing Spider-Man" and went after Uncle Ben's killer while he was still in high school before graduation. This means that Peter was Spider-man during high school and his entire high school period wasn't skipped over in the original trilogy.

I'll be nice and make it a little easier for you by summarizing my previous post.

Not all of the most memorable parts of Spider-man's mythos took place in high school. After all, Peter met Gwen, MJ, Harry, and Captain Stacy when he was in college. Also, Spider-Man didn't fight his most famous villain Venom until after high school.

Peter doesn’t have to live with Aunt May for her to be concerned about him. The Raimi films showed many times that Aunt May was worried about his injuries and financial trouble. The films even showed how upset Aunt was with Peter when he told her he was partially to blame for Uncle Ben’s death. And Peter also struggled to keep his secret identity from Aunt May.

In the Raimi films Peter struggles to keep his job and keep his grades up in collage while being Spider-man. These are the same struggles that he would have if he was in high school. So why does it matter if he is in high school or if he is in collage?

  

   

Comment by pinkyapple on February 7, 2013 at 11:48pm

Jamie Foxx as Electro... Huh. I hope it works out.

Comment by Todd A. on February 7, 2013 at 10:45pm

@Toe Knee Ears

If you are going to bother going through the trouble of quoting me, at least do it right. I said "They didn't show Spider-Man in high school". I then go on to say "Peter got his powers while in high school but only became Spider-Man after his graduation.......which means that entire high school period was essentially skipped over in the original trilogy."


I wrote a whole whopping two sentences for that post. If you can't even be bothered to read that much, what makes you think I'm going to read that text book you just posted.

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on February 7, 2013 at 7:56pm

@Todd A. You said "They didn't show Spider-Man in high school at all in the Raimi version." That's a false statement.  Actually, Peter was bitten by the spider on a HIGH SCHOOL fieldtrip. He wrestled under the name "The Amazing Spider-Man".  And he caught Uncle Ben's killer ALL before graduation.  So YES he was Spider-man while in high school. How much time does the film have to show him be Spider-Man in high school? Is there some kind of set rule that they have to show him in High school for an X amount of time? 

The most memorable parts of his mythos is debatable.  After all, he met Gwen, MJ, and Harry in collage. And he fought his most famous villain Venom after high school.

BTW Where was the Daily Bugle and it's staff in Webb's movie? Peter had a job at the Daily Bugle when he went to high school. He also had a crush on Betty Brant long before he even met Gwen Stacy. If you’re going to hold Raimi to such a high standard of what Peter did in High School then you have to hold Webb to the same standard. Therefore, by your standard Peter should have already had a job at the Daily Bugle, not have met Gwen until collage, Gwen should not have known Peter was Spider-Man, The Chameleon was Spider-Man's first supervillain not the Lizard, and Lizard's family should have been shown. As well as all these there are several other inaccuracies in Webb’s film.   

I agree that the fact that Spider-man was a teenage superhero was unique for a superhero comic at that time. And it’s very important to his origin. And Raimi did show this. It might have not been enough for you but, Peter was Spider-Man during high school in the Raimi film.

How is college a completely different territory? How many other superheroes were in collage the time Spider-Man was created? Peter was still was a teenager in collage. People are still 18 and 19 in collage. So what’s the difference?  

Again, Aunt May was always concerned for Peter in all of the Raimi films whether she lived with Peter or not. She cooked his Thanksgiving dinner. She was worried about his cut on his arm as well as his other injuries. She was worried about his money situation. She had his birthday party at her house. And Peter was very concerned about her as well. He was always checking up on her. Peter was especially concerned about Aunt May's money situation. In Raimi's films Peter also struggled to keep his secret identity from Aunt May.

We see him go from high school to college to trying to hold a job and we see his life evolve and him as a character evolve and mature in the Raimi films. Did you miss these parts of the Raimi films ? Do you have selective memory and can only remember the parts of the Raimi films that you hate ?

In the comics Spider-Man has not been in high school for decades. Is he somehow less appealing now that he is no longer in high school? I'm going to guess that you still like him. Therefore, it doesn’t matter if he is in high school or not. 

    

 

 

 

Comment by Todd A. on February 7, 2013 at 6:24pm

@Toe Knee Bee Ears

I didn't say we didn't see PETER in high school. I said he was never SPIDER-MAN while in high school. Watch the film again. He only becomes Spider-Man after his graduation. 

And yes.....I did want to see that part of his life. In fact his high school years are some of the most memorable parts of his mythos and was initially what separated him from the run of the mill heroes when he first came out. College is a completely different territory. 

As a result Webb showed more of Peter living with his aunt. You saw her concern for him and even at times her anger. You saw Peter for the first time struggling to balance his secret life with his responsibilities at home. In the comics Aunt May was always worried about Peter and terrified when he came up all beat up. Raimi's Aunt May kind of just sat on the sideline and dished out advice (with exception to Spider-Man 2). 

"Pre-school, grade school, junior high, high school, collage, it doesn’t matter. Spider-man is Spider-man no matter what age or school he is in."

This just isn't true. The appeal of Spider-Man (at least for me) is as a coming of age story. Most heroes do not age within the comics. Spider-Man is an exception and we see him go from high school to college to graduate college to internship, to trying to hold a job. We see his life evolve and him as a character evolve and mature. 

  

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