I wont disagree that Amazing Spider-man had some pretty big flaws. Especially the plot points you mentioned. The Raimi flicks were more concise and focused storytelling, but I really don't like his directing style. Which was my biggest beef with the Raimi Spider-mans, too goddamn cheesy. There was an unnecessary…

cause it'll contrast so nice when we're on the red planet. They're thinking ahead.

Yeah. But for everything they did wrong they still did more right than the Raimi Spider-mans'. I can't say enough bad things about those movies.

Hey, so catch me up on what happened with the clone saga stuff, you seem you have more information than I was left with. I started reading Spider-man comics I think just after all that stuff ended, so a lot of the back issues I bought were here and there during that whole story arch and I never knew how it exactly…

I haven't read Spider-man comics in about a decade, so this is the first I'm hearing about this. It sounds super lame. If they did this back when I was buying 4 or 5 Spider-man books a month I could see being frustrated with the prospects of 1+ years of reading a format that's so fundamentally different than what I…

yeah, i don't think all black is the least bit interesting. They could have at least kept the color scheme and just updated the look. But if they stayed true to his comic book design that mask he wore would have looked ridiculous on film. And the bright yellow undies...

I do think he still could look cool using a more muted green and yellow color scheme though, without having to do the cop-out 'i'm a badass in black' routine.

There is no possible way I could take Electro seriously in a movie if he wore his traditional comic book garbs. You need to reformat a little to fit the medium or else it'll just feel like a Comic-Con. I did miss the Lizard's snout in the last movie though, didn't think that much re-design was necessary for him, but,…

I like when there's a sense of history without actually having to go to history class. Those characters get half of their credibility from you not knowing very much about them. If they did a whole SHIELD movie it'd be some after-the-fact money grab, like when they force a prequel to happen. It could be cool as a more…

Holy shit, Benedict Cumberbatch's voice is so intense in this. There has to be some processing done to that vocal track.

You're probably right that it's still an idealized future. I think that theme is handled almost instinctively with most sci-fi. Star Trek has been just as much about displaying an ideal future based on present-day perspectives as it is about expanding the present-day perspective to make room for the idealized future…

The ongoing Star Trek franchise is a brilliant example of the times influencing each series differently. Look at what was going on culturally when the original series was airing. Suffrage movements, the cold war, nuclear threats, the space race, the aftermath of WW2 . Star Trek represented an idealized view of…

The length of it didn't really bother me at all, but one thing I didn't care for as much, and this is due to the source material, was the episodic nature of everything. Every 40 minutes or so you could tell a chapter ended and a new one began. It made the narrative feel fractured, especially since, between Gandalf,…

Isn't the antagonist for this movie the Silver Samurai? So I imagine it's just a nod to that.

Hadn't heard that, thanks. I only heard about the autism thing through a friend, I never actually looked into it or took it as fact. I find that with a lot of these conspiracy theories all it takes is a vague believeability to sell it. The human condition is fascinating.

Well, it was a long time ago, maybe even the galaxies far far away hadn't had a suffrage movement yet.

The general thought behind not getting your kid vaccinated is related to some concern that the stuff they use to make vaccines leads to an increase in autism cases. So.. for a person who believes in that sort of thing, they'd consider that a greater risk than potentially getting sick.

It's satire, friend.

I'm really not at all excited about the Avatar sequels, but it would be interesting if they filmed all of the Pandora stuff in 48 and all the human/spaceship/off planet stuff in 24. It would give that 'hyper-real' quality to Pandora and make the human stuff feel more grounded to what people expect to see on film.

That's kind of what I started thinking. I'll bet the crew meets him under one name and there's some M Night Shyamalan twist to reveal he's someone the Trekies would know.