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Dr Kain · 04-16-2014, 10:45 PM

Paladin, I Have to disagree with you on some of your things about TASM. Spider-Man acts like a dbag because he is supposed to be a smart ass. He is a kid when you come down to it. One of the biggest problems with the Raimi Spider-Man movies is that Spider-Man never actually talked down upon the criminals, and when he did, it felt forced or not all that funny. The first Raimi movie is probably the closes he ever did to talking smack while it was gone by the third.

Also, Gwen was a far superior character in that one movie compared to what MJ had in the trilogy. Gwen was developed and could hold her own compared to Zelda in the Raimi movies. Another thing I liked better was that Peter actually got bruised when he was hit. Now I will agree with the lack of development of Connors, but his design was closer to how Lizard first appeared in the comics, so I have no problem with that.

The plot was actually interesting and well done, and it out did the Raimi movies in one swoop (they have not aged well at all). I think the movie would have had a lot more positive reception had we not had one 10 years prior to tell the origin story. Nevertheless, the execution was amazing. Unfortunately, I am very worried about TASM2 due to all of the characters they have seemed to throw into the thing.

Moving on,

Looper: I remember not being the least bit interested in this movie when it first came out, but some friends said it was pretty good. After finally watching it, yeah, no, this movie was quite lackluster. It's biggest problem is that it was just flat out uninteresting. The characters were boring. The concept was a great idea but executed in such a bland manner that I just did not give a damn about the whole thing. In fact, I would have rathered seen the movie flesh out the 30 years before he went back in time over watching a terrible mother and son movie. The movie was predictable right from the get go whereas they should have actually done something to develop Sid's future instead of just throw it in there in the last 5 minutes. Overall, I give this thing a 4/10 because there was some cool things in it.

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Dr Kain Banned Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Englewood CO Posts: 10,893	Paladin, I Have to disagree with you on some of your things about TASM. Spider-Man acts like a dbag because he is supposed to be a smart ass. He is a kid when you come down to it. One of the biggest problems with the Raimi Spider-Man movies is that Spider-Man never actually talked down upon the criminals, and when he did, it felt forced or not all that funny. The first Raimi movie is probably the closes he ever did to talking smack while it was gone by the third. Also, Gwen was a far superior character in that one movie compared to what MJ had in the trilogy. Gwen was developed and could hold her own compared to Zelda in the Raimi movies. Another thing I liked better was that Peter actually got bruised when he was hit. Now I will agree with the lack of development of Connors, but his design was closer to how Lizard first appeared in the comics, so I have no problem with that. The plot was actually interesting and well done, and it out did the Raimi movies in one swoop (they have not aged well at all). I think the movie would have had a lot more positive reception had we not had one 10 years prior to tell the origin story. Nevertheless, the execution was amazing. Unfortunately, I am very worried about TASM2 due to all of the characters they have seemed to throw into the thing. Moving on, Looper: I remember not being the least bit interested in this movie when it first came out, but some friends said it was pretty good. After finally watching it, yeah, no, this movie was quite lackluster. It's biggest problem is that it was just flat out uninteresting. The characters were boring. The concept was a great idea but executed in such a bland manner that I just did not give a damn about the whole thing. In fact, I would have rathered seen the movie flesh out the 30 years before he went back in time over watching a terrible mother and son movie. The movie was predictable right from the get go whereas they should have actually done something to develop Sid's future instead of just throw it in there in the last 5 minutes. Overall, I give this thing a 4/10 because there was some cool things in it. Last edited by Dr Kain; 04-16-2014 at 10:52 PM..