Spider-Man (2012) Reboot

[Mardroid]

Nonsense, the fact that the Lizard is the villain in the new film scuppers any continuity with Raimi's; Dr. Curt Connors didn't get a chance to become the Lizard.

Um... good point. I forgot about the main villain...

Mind you, my memory isn't great on names so I probably wouldn't have made the connection. Of course Connors might survive the events of the new film and change back to human form by the end. (I don't know if he's done that in the comics... but I remember him changing back and forth in the cartoon, anyway.) A bit of a stretch, I know, but that would lead the human version for the other Raimi films.

That actually reminds me of the new X-Men prequel too. They have a blue furry Beast, even though there is a quick 'non furry' cameo of McCoy on the telly in X-Men 2. It's only very small though so I wouldn't have made the connection if someone hadn't pointed him out in the documentaries!

[TordelBack]

They have a blue furry Beast, even though there is a quick 'non furry' cameo of McCoy on the telly in X-Men 2. It's only very small though so I wouldn't have made the connection if someone hadn't pointed him out in the documentaries!

Ah, but as with Doc Connors flipping back and forth between Lizard and one-armed scientist, the Beast has also shifted ceaselessly between furry, non-furry and positively feline over the years.  IIRC he was back to human-ish form in the original X-Factor.

[Spaceghost]

I suppose if you were really desperate to paper over the cracks and force the new film into some sort of continuity with the Raimi films you could, but I don't think it's a good fit.

Gwen Stacy is the love interest in the new film yet she apparently meets Peter Parker in college in Spider-Man 3.

That, the mechanical web shooters and Curt Connors getting his job back after being a rampaging, humanoid lizard monster all add up to scupper the anally retentive compulsion to make the pieces fit together.

[James Stacey]

A wizard did it

[Goaty]

New images scanned...

[Hoagy]

When a gamma radiated spider monkey bites mild mannered Peter Parker.   

[JOE SOAP]

[Proudhuff]

uuuugh! why not just call it Twilightspidy and be done with it

[JOE SOAP]

Twidey.

[IndigoPrime]

The mechanical shooters seem like a big step backwards. It was so tedious in Ultimate Spider-Man how piss-poor Peter kept banging on about how expensive the fluid was to create, and making that aspect part of the mutation seems eminently sensible. Oh well.

[Goaty]

The mechanical shooters seem like a big step backwards. It was so tedious in Ultimate Spider-Man how piss-poor Peter kept banging on about how expensive the fluid was to create, and making that aspect part of the mutation seems eminently sensible. Oh well.

There is other way... 

[I, Cosh]

When a gamma radiated spider monkey bites mild mannered Peter Parker.

When, oh when will the makers of the so-called Dredd film stop treating the fans like dirt on their shoes and release some official pictures of a big monkey wearing their costume??!!

[the shutdown man]

Spider-man trailer has leaked (seems like all the superhero trailers are doing that these days).

Check it out here while it's up:

http://home.comcast.net/~tankrizz0/Superhero%20Shows%20%20Watch%20the%20Leaked%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%20Trailer%20Now.mov

[strontium71]

The last bit of that trailer could almost be from Mirrors Edge on the 360.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I think I'll be giving this a miss as I can't be arsed watching a reboot of a very profitable series, that isn't even ten years old. I feel that watching the origins, AGAIN, will be a complete waste of my time and effort and probably won't even bother downloading it, when it's available. What is up with the movie industry these days. It's not as if the films we have just watched bombed, say 20 years ago and they are having another go to try and improve the whole thing!