Spider-Man (2012)

[Doug Palumbo]

I wasn't going to post this as I figured that sooner or later my inner fanboy would erupt and take us all hostage...and not in a good way. However, here it is:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=46192

First pics of the new costume: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3847929

I will do my best to make it short. Some details, good. Looks like he has mechanical web-shooters this time around. I like the thinner, more lanky look of Andrew Garfield as that is how Peter Parker was as a teenager in the comics. Overall, the suit looks way too stylized, like they are trying too hard to make it "fresh".

With the Nolan Batman flicks, the updates to the Bat-Suit and Batmobile (Tumbler) were more for real-world functionality than for pure aesthetics. Still have to see the Spidey suit in action and if it is even the final version (Iron Man had several suits before the end of part 1) so my full judgement will wait until then.

[davidg]

I am NOT looking forward to it, and I was a BIG fan of spidey back in the day! I thought the BEGINNING of the last series was GREAT, but the last movie ..or two.. could have been skipped.. When a masked superhero can't keep the damned mask on.. it says something.. it says the writers don't understand the importance of the mask..

[Cousi]

I gotta agree with Dave about the mask. Hollywood always feels a need to unmask the hero for the climactic battle. I understand the emotive needs for it, but that's part of the comics; that lack of emotion in the mask. Its part of why the hero wears it.

I wish they would explain how he got the costume. If it doesn't look like it could have been home-made then they would need to. One thing I didn't like about the previous trilogy was that they only made passing nods to Peter's intellect. In the comics, Peter is one of the smartest guys in the Marvel universe if I remember correctly. I'd like to see that brought back.

[scottyrocks]

Looks like theyre dumping MJ Watson for Gwen Stacy in this series. Why can they exist together as they did in the rags?

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

I talked to Doug about this issue this morning and I wanted to wait a little bit while someone else chimed in...

I remember waiting with my breath held as I started downloading the first few pictures of Harrison Ford being in costume for "Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" and I was preparing myself for the worst. Knowing that Steve Delk was making the fedora was reason enough to believe THAT part of the costume was secure... but what about the rest. I don't want the "Indiana Jones Costume" change TOO much.

After thinking about it for a while, I'm not sure if I actually like the idea that Jones is wearing replicas of the same exact outfit he wore 20 something years earlier. I mean... besides Han Solo, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader... who else wears the same clothes or variation of such for decades at a time?

Or did I just commit heresy?

I don't mind if other aspects of the costume change... just leave the fedora alone!

What does this have to do with Spiderman's costume? Or any other costume? There is something refreshing about giving a classic look an update. I like wearing my own classic, iconic fedora with something other then a leather jacket. Like the classic Land's End Brown Long coat for winter. Many of the basic elements of what I wear are different but the basic "Renderking Fisk" look remains the same and has so over the years.

The X-Men and Fantastic Four costumes are a bit too modern and don't look like anything from the comics, they don't look like what the characters actually wore in the comics. The Iron Man costume is iconic. You look at it and there's immediate recognition. They did that one right. This Spiderman costume is somewhere in between. There's something about the Spiderman 2012 reboot look that just went too far, trying too hard to be hip and cool.

[Doug Palumbo]

Looks like theyre dumping MJ Watson for Gwen Stacy in this series. Why can they exist together as they did in the rags?

Ah but Gwen was Peter's love before MJ. I like that they are starting with her.

[DanielJones]

I don't mind the reboot, that's no big deal. Hopefully they'll be truer to the roots and who Peter Parker really was. I was never thrilled with the organic web shooter in his wrists, hopefully they'll take advantage of his scientific roots and show him developing his mechanical web slingers.
The costume I'm not too sold on. But it may be one of those things that can translate better into the black Spidy costume later that becomes Venom. I think what I'm hoping for is a more dynamic Spider-Man, sort of in the vein of the Todd McFarlane style of Spider-Man. One can only hope though.

Cheers!

Dan

[News Hound]

Spider-Man replacing Human Torch on new 'FF' team

[Doug Palumbo]

Spider-Man replacing Human Torch on new 'FF' team

This won't work. Yes, Spidey has a long history teaming with the FF on occasion but he is not a "team player". Not that he doesn't play well with others it's just that the nature of the character works better when he is on his own. Look at the recent Spider-Man/Avengers fiasco. New costume, didn't work. Revealing his true identity, didn't work. Spidey has always been an outsider, as Peter Parker and the hero. Also, black and white for superhero costumes? Now that's dynamic!

[DanielJones]

'Nuff said.

Cheers!

Dan

[RetroRebel]

Spider Man in a "Future Foundation" team? That's a horrible idea. I really don't like it. Black and white suits? Sounds cool but they look bland and boring.

Yeah, I'm not a happy camper.

[Doug Palumbo]

'Nuff said.

Cheers!

Dan

Couldn't have said it better myself Dan! I sure do miss the ol' Ren & Stimpy Show!

[Bendingoak]

Really, Sally fields as Aunt May?

[davidg]

What does this have to do with Spiderman's costume? Or any other costume? There is something refreshing about giving a classic look an update.

The problem is that, .. this can go TOO far.. If superheroes changed their looks as often as my wife changes her fashions.. they'd have to have a style sheet in the newspapers every season so they could show all the style changes! The only comic hero who seems to get away with that in the comics is Iron Man (but many of his style changes appear functional).

I wonder about one thing.. this new suite of Spiderman's CERTAINLY does NOT look like something he could come up with using Aunt May's Singer sewing machine! Perhaps he had it designed by Max Givenchy, tailor to heroes! If you don't catch the reference, google and READ Superfolks by Robert Mayer! Certainly its gotten a little dated since the 1970's but my personal feeling is that THIS is where all the dark anti-hero stuff of the 1980's FIRST originated.

[davidg]

The White Costumes are ridiculous! I must have done too much laundry.. my first thought was "wow will that show a stain!", second thought.. WOW! Talk about making a target stand out!