Seriously, though, how in the world did this end up a stage musical (scored by U2?) and not some Universal Studios Florida stunt spectacular?
FOR FREEDOM
Naghdi made the announcement earlier this week at a meeting called “Basij and Media,” in which he blasted “false” cartoon characters, namely Spiderman, and suggested that characters who promote the authority of the Islamic Republic should be used in television programming instead.
― R Baez, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They should get Armond White to review it.
"This Spiderman musical is why the terrorists envy us."
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― google street jew (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they shd get Obama to review it, since everyone thinks it's awesome that our president likes SpiderMan.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
input variable: "spider-man"obamazing processing...obamazing processing...obamazing processing...obamazing processing...
obamazing processing...obamazing processing...obamazing processing...obamazing processing...
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Meanwhile back to what's his name:
“This is a beloved character and, you know, ironically, I’m gonna be the person in the audience going … ‘Who cast this English fool?’”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL @ every bit of news about this that comes up. It's almost shocking how bad of an idea this all seems, how bad it looks from those pictures, how the word "fiasco" may need to be redefined if this ever actually opens. And "Turn Off The Dark" is the stupidest name for ANYTHING i have ever heard in my life.Also, whoever upthread fantasized that this would end up destroying U2: hell yes!― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, November 15, 2010 8:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Also, whoever upthread fantasized that this would end up destroying U2: hell yes!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, November 15, 2010 8:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OTFM.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Not ironically, I'm gonna be the person on ILE going "does this English fool really think Tobey Maguire is a genius?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL:
The show stopped five times, mostly to fix technical problems, and Act I ended prematurely, with Spider-Man stuck dangling 10 feet above audience members, while Act II was marred by a nasty catcall during one of the midperformance pauses.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Monday, 29 November 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3D4uW44cDSw/R9d4u_s8gxI/AAAAAAAABbQ/oHaObmKJqvw/s1600/RS-Point%2BAd.jpg
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Irrfan Khan cast as Nels Van Adder!
― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Monday, 6 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The new Springtime for Hitler?
― THX THO... (Nicole), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
“You heard screams,” Mr. Tartick said. “You heard a woman screaming and sobbing.”
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
How long until "Spider-Man" replaces "Macbeth" as THE PLAY THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED for actors?
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
how many spidermen must die
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Guess this is gonna be "dark"http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/andrew-garfield-as-spider-man.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
And gritty? Dark doesn't work without the gritty.
― you think you're cool, but you read ick (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like the dude from Alphaville at that angle
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Forever web
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hxYrC.jpg
it's gonna be called The Amazing Spider-Man
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that really necessary, HM?
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Deal with what? I don't understand.
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Neither of those GIFs is properly punctuated. :(
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda wish they'd mess with the costume a bit more. just to fuck with the fanboys, ya know?
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The fanboy crowd loves it from what I can tell. I'm actually not a fan, especially of the texturing - not sure why he needs to look like he's a basketball.
(view in new window to see full-size btw, it's quite large)
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
basketball is exactly what i thought too
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it would be awesome if in this version peter parker literally makes the suit out of basketballs
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
in the raimi flicks they never show him making the suit! it would be neat to see how a high school student could find the materials to secretly make such a fancy outfit.
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
then again i would watch a prequel to the star wars prequels documenting anakin's conception by the midiclorians...in real time
(not really)
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I liked the gag in the first movie where he draws all these costume designs and then triumphantly reveals his shitty hoody-based outfit, but it did draw attention to how weird it is that he could cook up the real outfit.
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:25 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
now that I think about it, this is even weirder when you consider that the rationale for organic web-shooters is that a teenage kid shouldn't be able to invent a magic adhesive that's better than anything 3M's r&d dept could come up with
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the fuck is the deal w/ the sloppy spiderman emblem. it kinda infuriates me and i could care less for spiderman.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/07/the_amazing_spider-man_trailer.html
the rooting-through-the-bag stuff looks interesting; it's surprising that there is alleyway-stuff in here that could be outta raimi's film. i feel like they could've gone for some sort of arbitrary transplant (of location, of spider-man's skin-colour per that guy applying for the role a while back) & run with it on account of how recent a similar incarnation of the film was.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't believe they're doing the origin story AGAIN. I was bored enough watching it in the trailer. Also the first-person stuff looks really lame
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think this is going to brick.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
i think i would probably watch spider-man regardless tbh. like i think geeky kid gets spider-man powers is just such powerful escapism that i will probably go see. i don't know if the moment-in-which-garfield-looks-nerdily-flustered in the trailer bodes well (emo, hooded, zuckerberg parker probably would've worked better, as a kinda reinterpretation), particularly compared to the bit in i guess spider-man 3 in which tobey maguire starts talking about soundwaves.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
looks like they're gonna explore the whole 'parents' thing, though, which i don't even remember from the comics
― g++ (gbx), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
i only ever saw the cartoon which, i don't know whether that makes me persona non grata, but iirc there was a subplot in which they were spies
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
^all of this otm. i felt exactly the same way watching that trailer.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
is this gonna be in 3D? because that would make the fp stuff cool
― could've been a baller (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I would ask if you are 14 years old but it would be insulting to earlier real and made-up ilxors who have posted here at that age.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
The Spider-Man ride at Universal Studios is a 3D first-person thing. It's really good and it's only 5 mins long.
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. Now with even more daddy issues. Somehow that's commendable.
― My Boyfriend Could Be A Spanish Man (R Baez), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
My husband told me there was a story in the comics where the parents were actually spies who got killed, I hope they don't do that for the movie -- it would be so cheesy.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Was doing some idle checking around today and discovered apparently the murderer of his parents was...the Red Skull. Or one of them. Crossover!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, Lorax, that was a little blunt.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link