They really nailed the Gwen Stacy death; visually, emotionally, it was perfect. I actually like a lot of things about ASM2—I like the glut of villains and plot points. It's something that's very true to the characters in the comics—all these horrible, stressful situations in his life building up and culminating in…

"Scott Pilgrim is weak"
…whaaa?

It needs to be at least…3 times this big!

The Ant from U.N.C.L.E.

Given the work Wright did on Scott Pilgrim, it's positively depressing that Marvel wouldn't concede to Wright's vision and let him do what he wanted (I'm guessing that was the problem). He would have been perfect. The best Marvel movies have been good films with strong directorial voices first, and Marvel movies…

Juan Jamon!

Yeah…that scene is kind of hard to take. It's fun, but having Venom turn Parker into a hot topic douche instead of actually evil didn't work…mostly because they follow-up that intentionally ridiculous dance scene with him slapping Mary Jane. That should be a huge, dramatic moment, but it just comes across as part of…

I want them to do what the Spider-Man 2 videogame did, which gave him this really epic, intimidating introduction, makes you think a huge boss fight is about to happen…and then you punch him one time and he's done.

He's divisive, but most people liked him, or more specifically the chemistry he had with Emma Stone.
I agree with the general consensus that Garfield was a good Spider-Man, and MacGuire was a good Peter Parker.

I loved how he made the same Godzilla joke twice in one scene.

Garfield?

This is putting a hat on a hat. Those headlines are already funny on their own.
Also, I should mention that I'm only 65% sure that I know what "putting a hat on a hat" means.

Do you happen to have a link to that blog? Because I'd be super interested to read it.
I also just realized that the Official Podcast is no longer on the iTunes podcast thing. That's a bummer. I'm a big podcast fan and thought it would be interesting to listen to those along with my rewatch.

I think throwing you in an arcade fire is a worthy punishment of being so cruelly dismissive of Animal Collective.

Arcade Fire are so strange. They do all these "big arena rock-band" things (i.e. releasing a theatrical concert film) that I would normally hate, but they have yet to make a bad album. Usually these kinds of moves correlate to a kind of desperation—a band trying to cling to relevance. But I don't think that's the case…

This is a strange opinion.

That would explain why the action scenes in TASM 1&2 were so incredible while the rest of the films were so flat.

The hospital scene from Spiderman 3 is still burned into my brain, for the opposite reason.
(There's a lot to like about Spidey 3, but taking the entire conflict brewing in the first two movies—Harry finding out that Pete is Spidey—and then immediately giving Harry amnesia is infuriating)
The way they handled venom is…

I'm an Amazing Spider-Man 2 apologist but…that sounds like just about the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

He also has several bits about the ridiculousness of Christian holidays, which is surprising.
His thing on Easter is the best.
"What do eggs have to do with Jesus?"
"Fine, we'll hide 'em!"