Quote: Rob Kamphausen said: yes, excellent point. your writers are workin over time!
I pay in ass-chips...
Quote: toby's acting is shit. and he's creepy.
Quote: but as a whole, i've never understood the (mass!) appeal to the two films. especially when compared to, what i feel, is the vastly superior xmen franchise.
While I won't disagree with certain things like the waste of Willem Dafoe's creepy-ass facial expression hidden behind a gay mask, I think this is comparing apples to....well....older apples. From my experience with the two movie franchises, Singer's X-MEN was obviously written for a more adult crowd. The SPIDER-MAN movies are really written for the more younger crowd. And, I see nothing wrong with that. The (mass!) appeal of SPIDER-MAN goes into parents being able to spend a trillion on merchandising for their kids who run around pretending to web things. X-MEN focuses on dark, feral loner that smokes stogies and guts people. Not exactly kid-friendly in the short term. And, by gob, I certainly wouldn't want them to dumb-down Wolverine to fit the younger crowd. In fact, here's hoping for some dark brutality when Jackman makes the Wolverine solo films.
Quote: buuut... venom rules. the villain is great, the costume is great, the struggle spidey faces while in the symbiote is great. so i have big hopes for this third edition.
Whereas, I loathe Venom. He was cool in that first appearance back in Amazing #300. Ever since, he's had this fucking ridiculous tongue-thing going on (what the FUCK is the deal with that? Anyone?), and just seems to be the "Spider-Man from the Mirror Universe". A trite, and boring concept. The Sandman should be cool, though. And, I hope Maguire beats some acting ability into the actor that plays Harry Osborne...
