Efan said:

KoolEaze said:

Judging by the pic above, they seem to have gone back to the "traditional" spider web shooting out of a selfmade webshooter from the wrist rather than those "supernatural" spider webs in Sam Raimi´s films. That was one of the few things were I thought Sam Raimi and his crew had taken too many liberties instead of just staying true to the original comic book webshooters which were built by Peter Parker and made much more sense than the web shooting out of Toby Maguire´s skin.

Yeah, I read somewhere that they were going back to the webshooters. I hope they make a "Thwip!" sound effect for them.

The spider webs that shot out of Peter Parker in the other movies always grossed me out.

A "Thwip!" sound effect.

KoolEaze said:

Judging by the pic above, they seem to have gone back to the "traditional" spider web shooting out of a selfmade webshooter from the wrist rather than those "supernatural" spider webs in Sam Raimi´s films. That was one of the few things were I thought Sam Raimi and his crew had taken too many liberties instead of just staying true to the original comic book webshooters which were built by Peter Parker and made much more sense than the web shooting out of Toby Maguire´s skin.

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Yeah, baby! Producers have confirmed that Spidey will use the traditional mechanical web-shooters in the reboot.

Looking forward to it, but if they were gonna change the Peter Parker actor at least they could've got one that was a bit more Rugged and manly one. And not another scrawny geeky looking one..

ThrillUorKillU said:

Looking forward to it, but if they were gonna change the Peter Parker actor at least they could've got one that was a bit more Rugged and manly one. And not another scrawny geeky looking one..

Peter Parker isn't rugged and manly.

sextonseven said:

ThrillUorKillU said:

Looking forward to it, but if they were gonna change the Peter Parker actor at least they could've got one that was a bit more Rugged and manly one. And not another scrawny geeky looking one..

Peter Parker isn't rugged and manly.

I know .But you know how hollywood changes shit all the time.

They need to just stop making these movies. Trying to make Spiderman seem spineless. Spiderman actually has more pride in him than the movie version does. Trying hard to get that Best Actor nod is what got them in the end.

I'm glad they're rebooting this. The original franchise of Spider-Man was just...WRONG!

Tobey totally sucked as Spider-Man. I mean: he sucked HARD. Peter Parker is supposed to be a random college guy with superpowers, but not a friggin' NERD who doesn't even want to be a hero ... Part 1 was a very BLAND and commercial film, and part 2 was singlehandely ruined by Tobey, really, he looks like a mix of Rowan Atkinson and Forrest Gump ... and Kirsten Dunst... "do you love me, or not??"" give me a break! and part III? ...one of the worst scripts e-v-e-r !

I'm glad they're rebooting this, as I've said.

But I don't know if this new film will be a hit. The original franchise is still recent and I don't think that the mainstream masses are ready for another Spider-Man trilogy, specially with unknown/new actors. And of course, the fans of the evil Tobey/Raimi combo will likely try to boicot the film

sorry for the rant

KoolEaze said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

the idea for organic webs came from the comics. (well sort of: when spiderman got his black suite (secret wars 11 or 12??) they made their own webs. Later the suite would take on a life of its own)

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I know, I´m very familiar with the Secret Wars series but at least that idea made some sense, considering that the black costume was an alien. But it made absolutely no sense when Peter Parker all of a sudden started shooting webs from his wrist without that alien symbiont costume.

Long before the movies, I thought it actually made no sense for him to have to make web fluid (which would conveniently run out at the most inopportune times to add some forced suspense). The dude got every other ability of a spider: wall-crawling, super-strength, spidey sense...but no webs? I mean, why not? It's a comic book character. It's not exactly shattering any sense of realism to do so.

I do get the idea of sticking to the source material though, which the movie probably should have done.

FauxReal said:

KoolEaze said:

I know, I´m very familiar with the Secret Wars series but at least that idea made some sense, considering that the black costume was an alien. But it made absolutely no sense when Peter Parker all of a sudden started shooting webs from his wrist without that alien symbiont costume.

Long before the movies, I thought it actually made no sense for him to have to make web fluid (which would conveniently run out at the most inopportune times to add some forced suspense). The dude got every other ability of a spider: wall-crawling, super-strength, spidey sense...but no webs? I mean, why not? It's a comic book character. It's not exactly shattering any sense of realism to do so.

I do get the idea of sticking to the source material though, which the movie probably should have done.

Good points but......were is he supposed to shoot his web from, if not from a webshooter? From his wrists? That´s just plain wrong because there are no orifices on a man´s wrist. And where else could he shoot it from?

Spidey shooting web fluid from his dick would have caused world wide protests.

JoeTyler said:

Peter Parker is supposed to be a random college guy with superpowers, but not a friggin' NERD who doesn't even want to be a hero

In the early Lee/Ditko stories, he was a science nerd.

Hershe said:

Part of Peter becoming a human spider should have been, simply, having the ability to secrete spider web from his wrists. Like, something grew there - right where he needed it most or whatever. Thoses cuffs of silly string are not spidery/icky enough.

KoolEaze said:

Spidey shooting web fluid from his dick would have caused world wide protests.

uPtoWnNY said:

JoeTyler said:

Peter Parker is supposed to be a random college guy with superpowers, but not a friggin' NERD who doesn't even want to be a hero

In the early Lee/Ditko stories, he was a science nerd.

you mean the very early stories, right? by the time he met Mary Jane, he already looked like a normal & intelligent college guy, not a weak nerd... :

Peter PALMER was the nerd, not Parker:

^^^ John Romita's Peter Parker was more the leading man type. From what I've read, Stan Lee wasn't exactly thrilled - he thought Romita's version was too handsome.

uPtoWnNY said:

^^^ John Romita's Peter Parker was more the leading man type. From what I've read, Stan Lee wasn't exactly thrilled - he thought Romita's version was too handsome.

then I guess I have to agree with Romita I don't like nerdy superheroes, lol

JoeTyler said:

uPtoWnNY said:

^^^ John Romita's Peter Parker was more the leading man type. From what I've read, Stan Lee wasn't exactly thrilled - he thought Romita's version was too handsome.

then I guess I have to agree with Romita I don't like nerdy superheroes, lol

As comics-art historian Daniel Herman assessed of Romita's Spider-Man work,

Romita's transformation of the character redefined the character's look and took the strip in a different direction. It also made him a star artist in the comic book world. The trouble was, Romita took Spidey away from his roots and firmly planted him in the mainstream.... Marvel staffers would joke that Romita "took Spider-Man uptown". Romita reinvented the character and made it possible for [Spider-Man] to appeal to a wider audience, even if he removed the qualities that had made the strip a surreal standout.

uPtoWnNY said:

JoeTyler said:

As comics-art historian Daniel Herman assessed of Romita's Spider-Man work,

Romita's transformation of the character redefined the character's look and took the strip in a different direction. It also made him a star artist in the comic book world. The trouble was, Romita took Spidey away from his roots and firmly planted him in the mainstream.... Marvel staffers would joke that Romita "took Spider-Man uptown". Romita reinvented the character and made it possible for [Spider-Man] to appeal to a wider audience, even if he removed the qualities that had made the strip a surreal standout.

Daniel Herman, it sounds like a nerd's name to me :lol