Hah! Now random silly webzines will tell everyone what to enjoy and what not to? I enjoyed the film as it gave much needed importance to the original comic strip, the inclusion of web shooters, Gwen Stacy as Peter's first girlfriend, Curt Connors as Lizard, it's all how we know Stan Lee's original series began. Not with Mary Jane living next door and Green Goblin.

Well, they do make pretty good points about it failing as an enjoyable movie, one of them being a long-time Spiderman fan, and whoever told you enjoyment is a private, subjective matter? That's just silly!

The new Spider Man is ridiculously entertaining and I had an absolute blast watching it. There's just something about the characters, particularly Peter and Gwen, that is incredibly likable.

Also, it'll be interesting to see how the sequel uses Mary Jane. At least they got an actress who still looks like a teenager to play her.

1) Yes, the latest Spider-Man movie is great.

2) I can't wait to see how they'll depict the Green Goblin, yet I'm also very afraid of how they'll handle the whole Gwen Stacy..... Issue. Anyone who is familiar with the comics surely knows what I'm talking about. I just don't want to spoil it for everyone else.

This is who's playing Mary Jane in the next movie. Her name is Shailene Woodly. She's 21, but she very, VERY easily passes as only 16 or 17.

I have a rather difficult time picturing that girl as a redhead.

Here ya go.

She kind of looks like Bonnie Wright from the Harry Potter movies in that one.

Mmmmmm..... I don't know. If she manages to pull off the necessary attitude and the whole "hey, tiger" thing, then it should work. It's not like such a thing should be too challenging.

Not as cute as Kirsten Dunst.

Well she's a good enough actress from what I've seen, so that combined with Marc Webb's direction means that I'm expecting her to at least be good.

Also, Dane DeHaan from Chronicle is playing Harry Osborn. That is gonna be great, if only because DeHaan was very, very, VERY good in Chronicle.



You just liked her because her tits were somewhat showing in the first one.

Well, yeah, pretty much. But Kirsten is also rather dull Mary Jane is supposed to have some bite, for Pete's sake!

I really hated both of the leads in the old Spider Man trilogy. If this new chick is as good as Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield, it'll be easily better on all fronts. Man The Amazing Spider-Man is good. Watched it with friends over the weekend and it really does get better every time.

I think my favorite scene between Gwen and Peter is when they're on the rooftop and he reveals to her that he's Spider Man. Hell, that's probably one of my favorite scenes in the whole movie.

Maguire wasn't awful, but he was too much of a teary eyed pansy to do the character justice. Andrew is simply better in every aspect; the snarking, the expressions, the body language..... The dude's Peter Parker in the flesh.

Has anyone here watched Pontypool? Its an excellent thriller/ zombie movie. I watched it yesterday since my brother had been recommending it to me for a while. I must say that the second half of the movie is not as good as the first one, but that is just because the first 45 minutes of the movie is just flawless. After that it gets a little to "sloppy" with some of the thing that occur later in the movie. But still I recommend it, very good and original movie.

I remember when they first showed the clip of Peter fucking with the car thief online people on an old forum I used to frequent said Spider Man was a douchebag. Umm, that's kind of the point. He's a snarky bastard who screws around with criminals he faces. They also complained that he was skateboarding, because, as we know, no socially awkward science nerds have any interests outside of being a socially awkward science nerd.

I also actually quite liked that Peter didn't struggle to either get Gwen or keep her throughout the majority of the movie. If there's any one thing about the Hollywood nerd image that I'm not too big on, it's that they either all universally have severe problems talking to girls or when they somehow do end up with one they spend a large amount of time trying hard to keep her. Gwen and Peter in the movie didn't feel like that. It just felt like two people naturally made for each other naturally realizing that. It felt more like a real relationship, minus the whole costumed web slinging superhero thing.

No confirmation for Green Goblin yet although Chris Cooper will play Norman Osborn. So I think they'll save the 'Gwen issue' for the third outing or something might happen at the end you know.



Meh, the girl from The Descendants and she's as much dull as Kirsten Dunst. More like Sleepy Jane Watson. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the ideal person for playing Mary Jane Watson. She has got that bite you're talking about.

There's also Jamie Foxx as Electro. I don't even really care what character he's playing; after seeing him in Django, I will watch any movie he's got a big role in.

Foxx as Electro? That's..... Surprising. Guess we won't see him intepreted as a petty, cackling maniac then.

Okay..... You might have a point. A great point, in fact.

Here's the ideal MJW for silver screen, not some lethargic fairy princess.

It's quite a thing nowadays, from Nick Fury to Electro all getting a black twist.

At least he can't look any dumber than Electro in the 2003 Spider Man animated show looked.



Seriously, he looks like the ice titan from Hercules.

Yeah, but Nick Fury's change was to be expected, considering that his Ultimate version deliberately looks like Samuel L. Jackson. The decision to cast Foxx as Electro is just odd. Not that I'm complaining though, as he's a great actor.

I have my fingers crossed for the inevitable black Batman.

But who would play him?

Fred Williamson, of course.

Blaxploitation The Dark Knight Returns?

Someone green light that NOW.

Can we get Ken Foree in on this ?

Iron Sky: This movie was fucking awesome. I loved it. Literally NONE of the jokes fell flat for me. It looks fucking good too, and the acting is tremendously entertaining to watch, with some surprisingly clever dialogue for a movie about fucking NAZIS IN SPACE (how fucking awesome is that premise anyways? worth watching for that alone) sweet music. I laughed out loud many times. A million times better than I expected.

Nazis is game to you ?

Timo Vuorensola is such an awful director it completely blows my mind. Exactly what jokes even were there, outside of a completely forced Downfall parody and some generic potshots at American exceptionalism?

Just watch Uwe Boll's Postal instead. Now that's broad satire done RIGHT (or at least less abysmally.) Just make sure it's the original German director's cut and not the gutted American rated/unrated cut.

There were so many funny things dude. Pretty much everything involving the black guy, the main chick thinking Great Dictator was a pro Nazi movie, North Korea trying to take credit for the attack, Finland being the only country to not have a secret weapon etc
Also if you don't think reverse blackface is funny and you then suggest a Uwe Boll movie...

There wasn't much I found funny in Iron Sky. Pretty much every joke was either 'Americans are dumb' or 'look how over the top these Nazis act.' That reverse blackface thing was horrific to look at, too. The characters were boring and mostly I just thought it was disposable. Nobody will really think it's funny a few years from now.

Sam Jack as Fury is so .. um .. someone help me here. Awful? Mis-cast? um .. "bad"? bad will do until a proper replacement is found.

The reverse blackface was supposed to look shitty. That's why it was funny. Holding up is a big problem with topical humour. I truly don't get the hate, as I found it immensely enjoyable and it was a good stupid comedy without ever going full retard.

Don't take this personal, but it seems to me that just like Rubber the movie's humor just went over your head. Satire is usually a bit more complex than just making fun of stereotypical characters, even if ridiculous stereotypes are featured prominently. The fact that they are ridiculous and cartoonish should be a hint to most people. If you think the movie wants to tell us that Americans are dumb, you didn't pay enough attention.

Alright, well if you want to tell me it went over my head, explain exactly what it was that I missed. I'm honestly curious to hear your answer, because I am familiar with what satire is, and neither Rubber nor Iron Sky is a good example of such a genre. Believe you me, I didn't miss any of the jokes or references that Iron Sky was going for, I just didn't think any of them were funny or clever at all. But really...if you found something else in the movie, I'd love to hear it, cause I sure couldn't be further away from you in contrasting opinions here.

This just in: people can have different senses of humor. More at 11.

Just finished The Loved Ones. It's an Australian horror film from a few years ago. I really enjoyed the movie. When the movie wants to be funny, it's quite funny, and when the movie wants to be dark, it is DARK. Highly recommend it.