Figured I'd start this so we dont bog up the movie thread.
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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
But it doesn't have to be this way. Comic books can be a medium for real, serious work - granted, only Sandman and Watchmen really reach that highest plateau but that goes to show you it can be done. Why limit the genre, as well as the movies that come from it, to some artificial quality ceiling? I want a good comic book movie and a good movie.
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I don't think there's a quality ceiling, but I think there is a suspension of reality that we all have to assume with these things. For example in the Avengers people complain about Thors ability to come back to Earth, which essentially negates the ending of his solo movie, get explained away with one line of dialogue about "dark enery" and doesn't get mentioned beyond that. I personally am fine with that. I came to watch the Avengers, not how Odin was able to send Thor back.
I also look at these movies as extensions of the characters canons, rather than an attempt at copying old stories to the screen and thus I don't view them as blasphemous if they change something. Just like when a new writer/artist takes on an established character, they get creative license to do what they will. Sometimes they follow the established formula, sometimes they veer away from the source severely. Sometimes the interpretations will be good and sometimes bad in books and movies. Some will be satisfactory and some will redefine the genre.
There are some awful comic movies. Spiderman 3, Green Lantern, etc.. but I really don't think this classifies as one of them or a bad movie in general. Even sitting here a day later I can't really think of any plot holes that bothered me enough to take away from the movie. Maybe some people can point them out, but if it didnt bother me while watching, I personally probably don't care enough about whatever it was to let it ruin it for me.
I was curious to see if they actually had the balls to kill off Gwen given the family-friendly nature of most of it. I was happy they did and it will make for way more interesting dynamics of MJ and likely Black Cat in the next one. If Gwen was still around you would always know he would go back to her.
I like that they show Peter's scientific acumen much more in these ones. His experiments on his webs was a good scene.
Also did anyone else think they saw the symbiote on the power line into Peter's garage before the scene with the batteries?