Yeah, I grew to hate the sulking behavior of Peter Parker in Spider Man 2 and then followed that up with a disgust for the acting in Spider Man 3. However, I don't see how a reboot will fix anything.
Batman Begins was good. Dark Knight was okay. I actually hated how Christian fucked with Batman's voice but I have to admit I liked the new Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) over the Tommy Lee Jones casting back in Batman Forever. I'm going to have to go back and watch the first Batman from 1989 though because I didn't realize that Harvey Dent was even in that movie. I was too young at the time to pay attention.
There are a couple characters I want to see on the big screen someday.
Thor
Captain America
Daredevil - I wanted to see another one
Green Lantern
I don't want to see crap though. I want a great experience watching them.
I liked Spidey 1, liked Spidey 2 better & Spidey 3 was pretty to "look at" but horrible to "watch."
Billy Dee Williams played Dent in the '89 Batman and barely made it on to the screen. He pops up, you say "Hey, there's ___ (whatever you know him most as: smooth ass Billy Dee or Lando Calrissian or the guy from the Colt 45 commercials)!" Then he disappears.
Glad I'm not the only person who actually liked
Daredevil.
the directors cut of Daredevil was really good. But Ben Affleck starring at the time was such a mistake because he was so unpopular with the media at that time.
Again, I actually liked the theater version, haven't watched the DC yet.
Heeeeere we go. And predictably thats where the thread went..
1. There is no dark or "realistic" undertone to Spiderman. Spiderman has and always should be the reluctant campy hero. Sorry to break it to all of you but Spiderman 1 nailed Peter Parker/Spiderman. There was some creative freedom taken ((skipping gwen going straight to MJ , Organic web shooting)) both worked beautifully.The goblin costume was terrible though.
Ill admit Part 2 was blah...and 3 was trash. But thats Raimis fault for falling in love with the numbers and trying to appeal to the "chick flick" audience. Part 3 was a disaster because he took full control from writing up and destroyed one of the greatest villains in the marvel universe.
I agree with the sentiment, and yes the GG costume was ridiculous. But like I said, I thought the 2nd was a better movie and Buzzman already addressed the issues with part 3.
2. Batman doesnt have any damn super powers. You have to be gritty and realistic. Batman 1 was just that . The only campiness was the Jokers insanity. Even that was oscar worthy by Nicholson. Nolans take on Joker was different but the tones of both movies was the same as the first Batman. The further that franchise got from that the worse it got.
Having some gritty dirty hyper realistic Spiderman is utterly stupid. Why not just make the Hulk orange.
Good stuff.
3. Iron Man was great. Downey was fantastic and the movie was every bit as good as Dark Knight. As "hyper realistic" as you can get about a guy flying around in a red and yellow robot suit.
Liked it a lot...but not as much as TDK.
4. Hollywood is fucking retarded. How do you "reboot" a movie thats 8 years old ,and spawned 2 sequels. Thats like Cameron rebooting Lord of the Rings.
Actually, I agree but Hollywood has something going in its favor - by 2012 there will be a whole slew of 10 year olds with little/no recollection of the first 3 movies (or the LotR series, for that matter) that will demand mom & dad take them to see
Spider-man: Valedictorian or whatever they're gonna call it.
Raimi absolutely screwed the franchise. Spiderman doesnt have great villains.
2 goblins , Lame ass sandman , Lizard.... only Doc Ock and Venom are worth any screen time.
Theres not much left unless you start crossing over to daredevil territory and have Kingpin show up.
Again, Buzz covered some of this. While Spidey doesn't have a slew of great villains there's more than enough to carry a franchise. Venom deserved his own movie, not 2 hours of build-up, 10 minutes of yapping and 5 minutes of action. Same goes for Hobgoblin. They started building toward it in the first movie then flush it by cramming him in with two other villains.