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Peter's first time crawling on a wall in Spider-man is a GOAT scene
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the wall crawling stuff in particular looked bad when it came out. i remember a critic comparing it to a PS2 cutscene at the time of release.
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Fun scene for sure but i've never been a fan of the odd camera cuts. Plus the score for the Spider-man scene is just sooo good.
yes. yes it is.
also i find his reactions to discovering millions of tiny barbs in his flesh and the weird blister on his wrist to be... not what a normal person would react like
i remember finding this out before the movie came out because i overheard a group of comic nerds at the school cafeteria complaining about it lmao
It just sucks because it removes a key genius to Parker... and opens up a bunch of weird biological and physiological questions lol
Also couldn't someone just gather the webs and do a DNA test and connect it to Peter? He leaves the shit everywhere.
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I never understood those microscopic hairs to be able to crawl... Like organic webshooters, unnecesary weird.
Well Rami's Spider-man is kind of a loser and idiot even by Spider-man standards so this fits.
Still team non-bio webshooters though.
This is totally actually why I defend Emo Parker and his loser dance as 100% tonally consistent with his character lol
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I mean, super hot take on here, but...
Coming from someone who never read the comics, and only found out that spiderman is supposed to have mechanized web shooters when Amazing Spiderman came out...
I think the bio ones are way better. It just makes more "super hero" sense to me. Because as it stands, to my limited knowledge, he got bit by a radioactive spider and got super strength, agility, etc for reasons that are basically explained by "a spiders strength relative to their size, scaled up, explain why a human is so strong and agile." They even are unclear on his wall climbing ability which has gone through iterations from being biological (hairs in the raimi films), electrostatic (comics) to the official explanation of "enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself"
They try not to get too specific because with most super hero things, if you try to science explain it too much it gets WAY too easy to poke holes in it.
I just think its lame that a spider bite just made him a super strength, heightened senses ninja and then he developed shooters and a web fluid to be "on brand" or some shit.
From a superhero standpoint, I like the Tobey films a lot better. He gained biological super powers that he can hone. That feels more satisfying to me than adjustments to his suit and web shooters. In the MCU he's basically given a version of an iron man suit without thrusters.
I watched it last year for the first time since release. It didn't hold up at all. I'm so happy we have the MCU and a spidey actor that remotely looks like a teenager rather than some grown ass man playing a kid. What is this, The OC?
Again it allowed him to demonstrate that he's more than just his powers.... that's even more heroic
Its honestly not any more ridiculous than MCU peter wall crawling. Which he can do out of suit, in amateur suit, in first stark suit, and in metal suit.
In comics it's a form of electro magnetism. His daughter takes it a step farther she can not only stick to stuff but she can sticks things together and can repel things
Oh I really mean as he's crawling up the wall for the first time in the Raimi movie - his jeans/knees seem to be covering for his wearing of "normal" shoes - I'm actually not a purist on any of the versions but the barbs makes visual sense and logical sense in that scene.
I agree that organic web shooters detract from his cleverness and agency - but they certainly work as a piece of internal consistency and a "normal" superhero outcome. The mechanical ones used to be a constant source of unreliable headaches and plot points like the Millennium Falcon when I was reading them back in the day (landscape format - reprinted and redesigned to fit on newspaper remnants by DC Thompson in Scotland).
TBH I have been fine with most of those sorts of changes. Back and forth.
Im glad there's a very low ceiling for my nostalgia. These movies get worse the more people bring them up.
genius question? that's not ruined.
he still looks human so why does it mattee where the web comes?
Also, spiders stick to walls differently from spiderman as he can through clothing or his suit. so not realisitic. dumb comics ruining my science. fucking thing sucks.