An example of Zeb Wells' exceedingly bad writing in ASM
#31
. Using a mask reveal to make a witty meta-commentary joke about "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" a story that is entirely straight and heartfelt.
Wells' "School of Whedon" writing embodied here.
@jfdjvndkkckc
Celebrating the death of fictional children in response to bad writing is a time honored tradition. As Oscar Wilde said about Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop"
"One must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of little Nell."
@TheFreelyAshley
The only real way to have a Batman body is to use lots of steroids and be addicted to painkillers and prescription drugs.
So I'm glad that Pattinson decided to go: "suspend your disbelief, my guy".
Harry Osborn in the comics is *NOT* Peter's cool friend. He's the rich failson who is forever aggrieved that his peasant pal gets the chicks, the smarts, Daddy's attention. You don't get that idea by casting actors who Harry Osborn himself would cast.
@TheFreelyAshley
You ever think that might have been an artistic choice?
That the Batman life would be draining and fatiguing and make the person living it behave in an unhealthy fashion?
@metaplexmovies
I love that line she says either before or after, "You think by letting them do this to you the world will forgive you for what you've done, they won't".
@ThisIsATestTai
You tell a lot about people by what they find funny...in this case making a metacommentary joke about a universally beloved story that's one of the crowning humanist moments in Spider-Man shows Wells' ideas and attitudes as an artist. And it's not a winning picture.
@JeremyMonjo
Cumberbatch would have been totally wrong for Oppenheimer. He'd do a good performance but he would come off as too heroic. Casting Murphy was a stroke of genius because he laid bare the ambiguity of Oppenheimer's life, all his shades of gray and his mixed legacy.
@FlissReturneth
Glazer as it is isn't a "career director". He takes years between projects and only dedicates himself to full-time project by project, so I don't think this will in the short-term affect him. Long-term, I think this will fade because while emotions are hot now I think it'll cool.
@sighsin616
In Spider-Man's own comics, writers (bad writers especially) feel compelled to get preachy about some grand theory of Peter Parker as this Eternal Everyman Loser that they forget that he is still a superhero and has the aura of one. Other writers write Spider-Man the superhero.
@TheAlexSylvian
Scorsese specifically wanted NYC to look beautiful and gorgeous, as well as gritty. He wanted to convey that Travis was attracted to the place no matter what he says elsewise.
@Little_Cr0w
A great film and a totally un-selfish performance because Urban knew the demands of the script and the character he was playing and decided to forgo usual signposts.
@vorticistgirl
No offense, but The Godfather and Scorsese's movies were never simple movies. They were accessible of course compared to stuff like Godard but they are every bit as intelligent. The truth is that sometimes audiences like something complex and smart.
@D4hz4hn
Calling Sam Raimi a "Spider-Man fanboy" isn't really right. Raimi was a casual reader of Spider-Man in the 70s not someone who knew stuff cover-to-cover and his Spider-Man movies depart from the source a lot.
@nick_lowe_
@LegacyOfM
Annie and her mother show up as separate characters in RYV. Mayday is a separate character and not a full composite for your claim of sole credit to hold water.
At this point, Jameson would have long published a correction or retraction of some kind.
@CrimsonGP18
The expressive mask is in my opinion worse than maskless. Just a simple static mask. That's it.
Ditko's Spider-Man was a static mask without expressions. Raimi's and Garfield's similar. That's it. The mask shouldn't emote. This ain't a Daft Punk headset.
The great thing about Saviuk's image here is that it inverts this famous Ditko image of Spidey keeping Peter/Betty apart. Here the Spidey ghost brings the married couple together.
@ComicGirlAshley
Why must bad comics circulate more than better ones, i.e. Zdarsky's Spectacular Spider-Man
#310
which won an Eisner, and which is also written and drawn by him:
@JFrankensteiner
Nicholson said in The shining documentary that the average movie star meets more people ina year than the ordinary person in their whole lives. So I imagine it’s a common experience for a famous person to lose track of things.
@parkerlucks
Miguel is in the wrong but he's understandably wrong in motivation, even if his bitterness and guilt has made him unable to understand how to treat people around him.
@starwolf_oakley
@hiddenhush
Actually, Murdock was established as an Irish Catholic before Miller's run. It was just a background thing at the time and not looked at too much. Miller himself didn't emphasize it significantly until Born Again (and he wrote 30+issues before).
@PoorOldRoloTony
he main dramatic journey at the end is Paul's decision to subject himself to destiny despite knowing the visions. In the end he fights someone who in a vision he saw as being a friend in a possible life. But he follows through on the other part that kills him.
@Thatoneguy64
I don't know what people's ideas about acting but that was a great performance even if it wasn't your idea of how Walken should play him.
@1danzy
@NicholasPas5
Even without the controversy, they pushed Kang too hard. With Thanos, they prepped up The Avengers and dropped him in the post-credits (and then as a CGI dude back to audience). Then the teased bit by bit and didn't tell us about him till IW. Whereas Kang got pushed too fast. 1/
So apparently, Dan Slott had used a nom-de-plume called "Willie Lumpkin" to edit his own page, got caught, and got banned from editing his own wikipedia page:
@comixjeff
The problem is if Spider-Man's life is dangerous why work with the X-Men, especially since her kidnapping has nothing to do with Spider-Man this time and entirely because of her connection to X-Men.
@ComicGirlAshley
The story people don't imagine is Spider-Man saves Gwen, and then shortly after they break up anyway because they were incompatible.
Conway did say that had he not got the kill order for Gwen he'd have broken them up.
@nick_lowe_
@Bholi88
Erasing the work of Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz is a choice. Defalco being a far more significant and greater editor in Spider-Man and Marvel (in terms of sales and acclaim) than any who've come after.
Especially since it was Defalco/Frenz that wrote the version of May as a baby.
@henry_belman
Harry Osborn wasn't even best man at Peter's wedding to Mary Jane. That was Flash Thompson. Harry Osborn and Peter were friends but it was "classically" a very toxic relationship filled with envy and inadequacy on Harry's part.
@hankofjuly
This is disrespectful as all get out. Roman Coppola is a major VFX artist, he collaborated on the VFX for Bram Stoker's Dracula and also Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou and is a vital screenwriting partner to Wes. He's a talented artist in his own right.
From ASM
#142
by Ross Andru. When people talk of Spider-Man being relatable, it's got nothing to do with melodrama and stuff, but simple stuff like this. I've been in scenes like this moving apartments, with the unspoken intimacy and 'being there' of it all.
@ArkhamNumb
1) It's not genius. It's symbolic lighting 101.
2) They foreshadowed it before with Norman constantly wearing dark green suits, just like how Steve Ditko did it in his final issue. Something done in the comics. Not to the game's credit.
@jessehawken
It bothers me that people call Kevin Feige a “great producer” when he just uses infinite money from a theme park company to test screen his way to a movie. That’s not producing.
@ThisIsATestTai
@maryjanesparker
@brandonjc_art
1) Nobody in Spider-Man Comics Protested the Vietnam War during Stan Lee's run with John Romita Sr. because Lee was largely in favor of the war.
2) Gwen was constantly anti-protest (as was Peter) in that run.
Marvel: People complaining about OMD are a small shrinking irrelevant minority, not representative of the readership and new fans who bury them in sand.
Also Marvel *going on begging knees to same irrelevant fans*: please move on and stop holding us to higher standards.
@PiercedTheToast
You don't start a run with a baroque breakup when the previous run kept them inseparable and get to say a story "accentuates" their relationship. Sorry, the privilege to use 10$ words has been revoked.
Remember when Venom’s height was down to the fact that Eddie Brock was a bodybuilder built like a tank and modeles in part on Arnie? Now its just big for no reason.
"The Norman Osborn I first met. The one who treated me like a Son." Hey asshole that's not the Norman you met. The Norman you met for the first time was a psycho businessman who tried to kill you while strapping you to a chair. Why even have editors at this point? 1/
@CTropes
Hank slapping Janet (contrary to what defenders and even Shooter claim) was intended to show him as a domestic abuser. The actual plot of the comic makes it clear that Hank's actions are abusive. Whereas that wasn't the story of intent of the F4 and Clone Saga Spider-Man. 1/
@TheFrenzyMan
"One must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell".
-- Oscar Wilde.
If you didn't cheer at the non-existence of those non-existent kids then you ain't got a pulse.
@TheFirstOkiro
It's a shame that people think David Prowse has any greater ownership to Darth Vader than the many others behind that character. Like Bob Anderson the guy who did the lightsaber fights while wearing the suit (and who rocks it better).
@nick_lowe_
Mr. Lowe, aren't you a bit behind the times. Are you neglecting that your company was so compromised by the leaks that they spoiled the story 2 weeks before street date and gave us high-res 4k images of the spoiler?
@harryhenry6
Most acting is in fact body language historically. Like in theater, actors know that the majority of audiences (beyond the first few rows) aren't going to have a clear look at their faces so they have to emote via gestures and body language. 1/
@ChapTaylor2
Especially since Paramount is an empire in recovery...they got cricket rights in India from Disney, which was basically the main pillar of Disney's streaming empire globally.
@ProwlingEngine
@magnetoshotjfk
Actual Hot Take: The Phoenix and Dark Phoenix Saga are actually about women and female experience and Hollywood blockbusters were (and are) so intrinsically male centered that they misrepresent the core themes and betray its aesthetics.
According to this video, at 13:11, They talk about Spencer's run and they mention meeting Spencer at Keystone Convention where he confirms that his original idea was different, and overturned by editorial:
@NavoSchmavo
People's first exposure to Spider-Man is merchandise, toys and stuff they see as kids. They know and love Spider-Man long before they learn he's Peter Parker or Miles Morales for that matter.
@decoyrobot
There's more to performance than impersonation. Sinatra was an Italian-American hearthrob, popular among teen girls and then grew up and became a tough macho guy, and a leader of a group of rakes. Couldn't be more "literally me" for anyone other than DiCaprio.
@parkerlucks
Romantic comedy leads to unethical behavior, in this case, May telling Peter to cheat on his girlfriend and see someone behind her back. May even leans in on Peter like a "frat bro".
So Dan Gvozden offers some commentary on the Slott story today, including admitting that he knew some aspect of Spencer from another source for a while but also being a bit speculative. Gvozden thinks at one point Marvel was on board to undo OMD and Spencer proceeded with that.
@comics_jeff
It's been downhill since the day Tom Defalco got wrongfully fired. Since then it's been decay and rot with brief respite provided by a few writers below the line.
@Kaitou_D_Kid
@carlos_esconde
@BenReilly149
@Raizarri
Also the Joker took ages to settle into any kind of default, around about 1973 (same year Gwen died, a few months apart). Whereas that persona of Goblin was established by Ditko in 1963.
Dan Slott actively f--ked over a major part of Hickman's run with Franklin's mutantface.
Glad to have this confirmed. Total mediocrity had the temerity to sabotage the work of his betters. Wouldn't surprise me if Hickman wrote USM in part for revenge.
@D4hz4hn
The Shaw Anakin is a version of Anakin that never existed. It's Anakin if he remained and died as a Jedi. It's not the Anakin unveiled by Luke by removing his mask we see there. The prequels showed us the Jedi Anakin, so that makes more sense.
@TheAlexSylvian
Exactly. I think the movie is saying that the Western never ended...that the idea that this is safely in the past is what the movie is upended. Especially the final scenes. It's an unfinished and unresolved story, an ongoing story.
@jbromovies
The Star Wars Prequels are "late stage" Lucas. In terms of film aesthetics it's the culmination of all his ambitions he wanted when he started out as a young experimental film-maker.
@SCentralized
This kind of discourse is trying to land on one's feet while jumping without a parachute. Trying to make random stuff make sense by bringing in poor Macbeth which doesn't even apply as a parallel.
So I re-read
@DanSlott
's SPIDER-ISLAND, the only Marvel event to show a city-wide epidemic in the last 10-20 yrs. Mayor Jameson comes across as more capable than a lot of officials have during this. He reacts decisively in crisis, and believes that vaccines should be free. 1/2