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Monday, February 14, 2011

Film / Nerd You Call That a Spider-Man?

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:12 PM

Marvel Comics just released a photo of the rebooted Spider-Man costume from The Amazing Spider-Man, which is a movie that I would like to remind you won't be released until 2012.

Click to enwebben.

Here's what I think: If you have the good fortune to work with a superhero costume designed by an in-his-prime Steve Ditko, you shouldn't fuck with that design at all, especially if you're just going to add weird little flourishes to the fingers and webbing. Also: Texture much?

In other nerd news: Someone put footage from an aborted CGI Thundercats movie on YouTube. It looks horrible.

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With this post Lindy's just got pushed off the front page. Bump?

Posted by gloomy gus on February 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM

Thundercats ...... hell nooooooooooooo! The only good thing to come out from a Thundercats movie, is the Hustler Parody Porno, one where Snarf does DVDA.

Posted by Kinison

on February 14, 2011 at 4:21 PM

The new suit looks like either something I'd expect on Lizardman or a basketball. Neither option is terribly appealing.

Posted by Griffin on February 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM

Superhero costumes have to change with each franchise movie, even just slightly, to establish likeness ownership for all of the collateral licensed merchandising. This Spidey can't look exactly like the one appearing already on countless dollies and bedsheets, or the good people of Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures can't cash in.

Posted by Brody on February 14, 2011 at 4:26 PM

I don't really care what the new suit looks like, as long as I hear "fwip" when he shoots his web and not "pew pew" or some nonsense.

Posted by Josh Bomb

on February 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM

Non-symbiote black is better in every way.

Posted by lotosesser on February 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM

Spidey's suit looks like it was sewn together from a basketball and those mesh bags you use to protect your delicates in the clothes washer.

Posted by Banna

on February 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM

If you want Spider-Man to be exactly the same as he was before, stick to the earlier stuff. Overly anal consistency would make the reboot even more pointless than it already is.

Posted by Zebes

on February 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM

This stupid meme where film nerds think a reboot acquits itself by further modying source elements is far worse than whatever idea of a reboot they hate so much. Still, by that logic, the most radical reboot someone could do is mimic the source with stringent orthodoxy. Set it in the 60s and everything.

Whatever. That new suit is self indulgent bullshit.Peter Parker was a typical teenager overwhelmed with typical teenage stuff who winds up having to navigate an even more complex set of unique private challenges. If you're going to update him you make the suit less magical not more.

I'm about a decade past expecting these movies to impress 11 year old me. I take them for what they are, usually like them OK and seldom feel like I'm watching whatever the titles say I'm watching.

Posted by Cope on February 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM

It's red and blue and has black webs on it. That's a Spider-Man costume if I ever saw one. Some people just want to complain so it looks like they know more than everybody else.

They need to take out that stupid dash and just write it "Spiderman". A dash in a compound word something from a 19th century newspaper.

Posted by The Wretched Harmony on February 14, 2011 at 5:38 PM

How many Spider-Man movies are we expected to see?

Posted by very bad homo on February 14, 2011 at 7:34 PM

Agreed - looks stupid.

Posted by Cory on February 14, 2011 at 9:17 PM

"I know! In the midst of me grief/desire for financial gain, I will take the ridiculously extra time to create this intricate suit so I can make LESS MONEY/SAVE FEWER PEOPLE!

This POS has FAIL printed all over it.
I can't wait until Disney/Marvel get all their properties back. Then someone can treat them properly.

Posted by MirrorMan on February 14, 2011 at 11:12 PM

It looks horrible because Thundercats was horrible.

Cartoons of my childhood that aged well: Transformers, G.I. Joe.

Cartoons of my childhood that did not: He-Man, Voltron.

Cartoons of my childhood that leave me slack-jawed in disbelief, wondering why they are so stupid, plot-thin, and everyone talks so sloooooooow: Thundercats.

Posted by PEM on February 15, 2011 at 7:21 AM

I will never understand the modern fanboy Thundercats nostalgia. The show was shit and nobody watched it. Seriously, it was about as good as BraveStarr of SilverHawks or any of the other third rate garbage the toy companies pushed on us.

As for Spiderman, I will actually wait to the movie comes out to form an opinion.

Posted by Rotten666 on February 15, 2011 at 9:03 AM