Re: The new Spiderman
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:57 am
Unreal....I'm looking forward to the Green Hornet now. That's how bad it's gotten.
Sir Jig-A-Lot wrote:Spider-Man's first several years had no girlfriend. Holding hands with Betty Brant doesn't count. He never hit anything until he got to college when MJ & Gwen came into the picture. I think the main problem I had with the previous films was they focused too much on "Saving The Love Interest". All 3 damn movies. What was the final battle in all of 'em: Spidey saving MJ from <insert villain> who kidnapped her. Fail. This reboot promises to focus even more intently on girl drama as it is modeled after Brian Bendis' emo Ultimate Spider-Man. A series that took 6 issues just to crank out the origin story, which was done so masterfully by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko in 12 short pages. I'll not be seeing this @ the multiplex.
See if you can hunt the early Stan Lee Spidey stories. Either in trade paperback, online scanned versions or even in the oversized deluxe Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. They're all about Spidey fighting the bad guys & dealing with other problems. Lee himself admits that the only reason he started writing the MJ/Pete/Gwen triangle later on was he was hoping to capture a bigger slice of female readers by aping the Betty/Archie/Veronica formula.-84 wrote:All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle.
They can always bring the love interest in during sequels. Spider-Man won't get any kinda justice cinematically until they do a decent origin movie and hit the ground running after that.To me its doesn't seem contrived to have Gwen in there. Honestly thats all I want for the movies to justice to Pete.
I don't think Peter lived in Smallville. I guess they coulda called the show Queens but then it mighta gotten the wrong audience entirely. Tee hee...-84 wrote:All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle. Even in the ultimate version there was drama. I've said this years ago on another board but the show Smallville should have been about Peter Parker. As in they cast the wrong hero that live action drama. .
I'm not debating your fandom of Peter Parker or saying you wrong.Sir Jig-A-Lot wrote:See if you can hunt the early Stan Lee Spidey stories. Either in trade paperback, online scanned versions or even in the oversized deluxe Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. They're all about Spidey fighting the bad guys & dealing with other problems. Lee himself admits that the only reason he started writing the MJ/Pete/Gwen triangle later on was he was hoping to capture a bigger slice of female readers by aping the Betty/Archie/Veronica formula.-84 wrote:All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle.
They can always bring the love interest in during sequels. Spider-Man won't get any kinda justice cinematically until they do a decent origin movie and hit the ground running after that.To me its doesn't seem contrived to have Gwen in there. Honestly thats all I want for the movies to justice to Pete.
darklighter1 wrote:I don't think Peter lived in Smallville. I guess they coulda called the show Queens but then it mighta gotten the wrong audience entirely. Tee hee...-84 wrote:All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle. Even in the ultimate version there was drama. I've said this years ago on another board but the show Smallville should have been about Peter Parker. As in they cast the wrong hero that live action drama. .