Tastes great, less filling!
Posted on 12/15/2014 7:25:09 AM PST by C19fan
Actor Andrew Garfield may be booted from the Spider-Man movie series, according to the latest revelation from hacked emails at Sony. The correspondence reveals that Sony - which was reportedly already not happy with Garfield - might give up the franchise to comic book giant Marvel. It is believed that Marvel would prefer to start the series from scratch, putting Garfield's role as Peter Parker, which he has played in two movies, in jeopardy.
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Garfield was not the problem. In the last movie, bad editing and a loose storyline killed the franchise.
Go figure.
ASM 1 was not bad. ASM 2 was really bad. Garfield was not a good Peter Parker. I understand Marvel Movies and Sony are working on a collaboration to introduce Spidey into the Marvel Movie Universe possibly as soon as Captain America 3: Civil War
ASM 1 was not bad. ASM 2 was really bad. Garfield was not a good Peter Parker. I understand Marvel Movies and Sony are working on a collaboration to introduce Spidey into the Marvel Movie Universe possibly as soon as Captain America 3: Civil War
To me, the Spiderman series, and most superhero franchises, are played out. Given the narrow confines inherent to the genre there’s just no place for them to go that you haven’t essentially already seen many times before. There has to be a super villian. Somehow the super villian threatens the world, country, town, etc. etc. Super hero is the only hope to save the day. By the halfway mark in the movie the villian has somehow gotten the upper hand and things look bleak. Somehow, though, superhero overcomes the obstacles and in the last 20 minutes of the film hero arrives in the nick of time to win the 15 minute final boss battle scene. Hooray. Every move is some variation of that and I’ve just gotten bored with them. Granted they still do big box office and will continue to be made as long as they do. More power to the studios in that respect - long live capitalism and the people it employs. And if you like them I’m certainly not criticising you - nobody has to account to anyone for the movies they enjoy. Long live freedom. But for me personally the superhero movie just got to be a bore.
I’d add the short duration reboot between it and the previous series.
I think Spiderman is overdone, at this point. I don’t see much of a need to try to shoehorn him into the MCU, it’s doing just fine without him and would suffer from the addition of an angst-ridden, wise-cracking teenager. If they really want a smart-a** it would be better to try to pry Deadpool away from whoever has him (Universal?)
The stupid reboot with this guy was stupid out of the gate, it was a a reboot for the sake of the studio, not for the sake of anything else.
Wasn’t needed, and turning Parker into a punk skateboarder instead of the nerdy guy the character always was was another stupid move... just like making Superman all full of angst over his birthright.
Just stupid.... Best thing that could happen to Spiderman would be for him to take a decade or two off from the big screen.
Give it back to Marvel. I heard Marvel would make two changes:
#1 - No more repeating Spidey’s origin story (everyone in the world already knows it anyway)
#2 - No more teenage romance movies
Sounds good to me. We’ve had five Spider-man movies recently. It’s about time he grew up and had some adult problems already.
A pair of reboots for Christmas?
What you say could also be said of the comic book series themselves. Except the story arcs are not as formula of Disney-Marvel’s movies (who delight in telling boring origin stories, no one gave damn James Bond or each of his villains came to be).
Rather than significantly adapting one of the highlighted stories in the character franchises, they stick to a basic melodrama. The first film of the first Spider-Man franchise did leverage heavily off of several recurring plot lines and specific (although altered) storylines.
Getting bored/tired of seeing these giant flying fortresses threatening a city in Avengers, Capt. America, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc.
And the whole mutants=homosexuals (justice for all) plotlines of the X-Men series are a bit tiresome (gay director with an agenda). X-Men came to be a “big” title in the 80s because of other plotlines (including Dark Phoenix, not even a player in this franchise). The discrimination subplot was present in Lee’s original series (which began when segregation was still a thing; it’s been altered into “But mom, I was born this way!”).
There are other villains for Batman to fight than Joker as well.
First thing they seemed to do in the Spider-Man films was ditch his “nerdy” glasses. That was a bit of the character’s background. I guess it wasn’t poster-cool enough for today’s kids.
And for much of the character’s history, he wasn’t a “team” member in any of their series. He would team-up/cameo/crossover but wasn’t a joiner.
The writing was the problem with the last two movies.
In the Ramos trilogy Peter Parker is written as the picked on high school nerd that he was in the comics.
The slightly bad boy “just an average guy” makeover didn’t fit the character. It would have been a good fit for a Nova movie though, and Garfield actually looks the part for Richard Rider.
Hey, you gave away the ending of virtually every movie ever made.
Garfield is not the problem with the franchise, and I’m really not up for a third spidey in seven years. No more reboots! Just pretend ASM2 didn’t happen. Personally, I just want spiderman to be able to be used in the marvel cinematic universe, Garfield is good enough for that. Hopefully this ongoing debacle will push Sony to be desperate enough to work something out with Disney/Marvel.
lol
reboots that are made from old boots but thin on substance
if they really plan to make the Civil War mini-series into a movie or set of movies then they will need to get SM into the mix. I’d be surprised if they don’t also try to deal on X-men since they play a big part in the storyline as well.
Civil War is way too big of a story to be crammed into one movie. And Marvel’s moving steadily towards the two part Infinity Wars conclusion to Phase 3.
So I’m guessing in the Cap Civil War movie they stick to the concept from the comics and condense it down considerably so it doesn’t require Spidey.
At the same time the targets of the “Registration Act” can be the Inhumans, which were just introduced in Agents of SHIELD and may play a role (Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver possibly being Inhumans) in Age of Ultron.
I could see that being done with the inhumans. I figured it would be a multi-movie set later down the line.
I was personally hoping they would get there if for no other reason than to see Thor wipe the smirk off Starks face - that was a bad ass scene that I’ve reread with enjoyment multiple times. It would translate to a movie scene so well too.
Tastes great, less filling!
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