Huffy Flounce

I'm a sucker for a Dirty Dozen-style narrative. I have one I want to write in the pipeline.

I can only presume some/all of them scatter at the end to allow the various DC stand-alone films to have somebody to chase?

Iron Man's put on weight.

I can't wait to binge-watch this...

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Holy crap, new trailer is out. And it's got a special guest star.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Everybody be hatin' on the new Spidey for some reason.

Good trailer though. If this is The Year of the Superhero Movie, Cap: CW may be the standout.

As well as Deadpool, obvs.

What is to hate about the new Spidey? In the 1.8 seconds he is on screen?

Some people are not happy with the bright red suit.

Pfft, that's what I say. Whatevs, bitches.

"Some people" appears to be a pretty small number of people. Even on AICN, the response has been pretty positive. Compare this trailer's like bar to the like bar for the new Ghostbusters trailers. There's where you go if you're lookin' to see people hatin' on somethin'.

I like Spidey's Romita eyes. I like the lens focus sounds when his costume's eyes narrow. I think it may be that he's modded his suit (or had it modded for him by Stark, if rumors are to be believed) to allow him to take hands-free photographs for The Daily Bugle. (He already does this with webbing and timers, but this would allow him to get non-stationary shots.)

I was going to say I thought the eyes were like the comics, and the suit looks vaguely as if a high school student could have made it from readily available materials.

Also - bitching about that in a created universe where a pan-dimensional space Norwegian flys by hammer....... pfffft.

Some people need to bitch, like some of us need to drink.

As we get older, and more drunk, we realise that pleasing everyone is beyond impossible.

We have a totally connected, coherent, multi-year, multi-franchise Marvel movie universe where even the weakest movies are are significantly above average. We have a second Golden-age of 007 underway, we have Batman v Superman on the big screen as the start of a Justice League, we just had a Star Wars movie that most definitely didn't suck.

ARE WE NOT ENTERTAINED??

NuTrek may very well auger in, this year. So the answer is... mostly yes, partly no.

ST 2009 is still the most entertaining Trek on the big screen for about two decades. ST:ID was still fun and looked gorgeous even with its missteps.

Maybe so, but Beyond looks terrible. I hope to be proven wrong.

The Beastie Boys soundtrack didn't help. Although I still think there was something in that trailer that was a massive troll on a global scale.

Hmm. I'll watch it again and see if I catch that vibe.

There is now, I will grant you, a very definite need to see a Starship Captain emerge in Kirk. But I maintain they were getting there in ST:ID.

There is something about that stoic superiority and total consideration of the situation at hand (as per Picard) that genuinely makes me want to be a UFP Starship Captain. There is something straight out of a TED talk on the essence of leadership about them when they get it right. And Kirk needs to get it right this time around as part of his arc.

Preaching to the choir there. I believe Pine has that in him, but it all depends on the writers/producers.

The direction I would have taken Trek would be less Fast and the Furious, more Interstellar and/or The Martian.

Dalty wrote:What is to hate about the new Spidey? In the 1.8 seconds he is on screen?

From the Fark thread I was reading, the complaints were mostly how the suit and the shield looked "shiny" and "fake". There was a lot of speculation that it was due to unfinished CGI and it would be cleaned up in post. Also, many were complaining the voice sounds way too young, even though IIRC they are rebooting Spidey to be a young high schooler and not playing him with a 20 something actor.

I will admit the trailer totally blew me away, but when the end rolled and I saw the webbing, I about lost it. This year, with Deadpool (which I still need to see), Daredevil Season 2, BvS, and now this might just be a golden age for us comic book nerds.

I am so MEH on this. Nothing about the trailer really makes me want to see the movie.