Come anticipate animated Miles Morales in SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE with me

was this released in 3d anywhere? is anything released in 3d anymore? I had this vague feeling I saw the first one in 3d but my kid tells me no. It would be both amazing and incredibly overwhelming in 3d.

Apparently there was some grumbling from the 3D fans that this movie was rushed out with no time to make a 3D version.
I'm kinda with them since I'm not a fan of the faux-3D off-register effect they use to simulate depth, which I assume would disappear in an actual 3D version.

A 3D version would have been super fun to watch, but we already waited 5 years for this one. I suspect there will be a delay for part 3

Nah, they worked on both at the same time. Due for release in March.

It's still possible - from what I understand they were still tuning this up all the way to the release date - but Steinfeld recently said she hasn't even recorded voice lines for the third movie yet. there's still enough time, but...

I thought the voice work was done pretty early in an animated film so the visuals could match.

Yeah most of the voice work is done early but I wonder if some of the action sequences are worked on even earlier like they are in lice-action Marvel

That typo is so much better than what I was trying to say

Lice action baby

this movie was so good I don't even know what to say about it

love that Jeff Koons is now canon (or was this established in the comics?)

loved the venom cameo too

Saw this with my 9yo and my (comics ambivalent/averse) wife and we all came out loving it so much. We didn’t know it would be a cliffhanger so we had some whiplash right at the end but then we went out for some burgers and couldn’t stop talking about everything we loved. I’m shocked my son never got tired of the lengthy family emo scenes but he was rapt throughout.

I noticed something up was up when his mom's eyes were GREEN.

My wife noticed that too! I didn’t (we just saw it)

I thought the soundtrack was terrific. The animation too, obv.

My favorite part was the introduction of Indian Spider-Man, as it recaptured the fun & humor of the first movie (but I know this movie was a different thing, and OK not to have much more of that schtick). I also loved that sassy digital assistant gal.

As a Jessica Drew stan, I enjoyed that character (Issa Rae!)… even if she was kind of a jerk :/

I didn’t quite get why, if Miles being Spidey is an anomaly, why would his dad not dying also be an anomaly? Like why would his father be an important “Captain” in the “real” Spider-Man’s story in that universe? But I know there’s no point in questioning multiverse logic..

(I also didn’t get how that spider happened to get to Miles’s universe in the first place, but I assume I wasn’t paying close enough attention)

I assume there will be a 4K box set of this trilogy sometime next year after "Beyond..." is released and I'm already looking forward to that.

I think the first was rendered at 2K, I didn't bother buying the 4K disc for that reason. The second certainly needs 4K!

Amazing.

Pretty impressive (and detailed) list of comics references in the movie: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs-list-1235506838/

I think the new villain was responsible for the spider getting across, as part of the research for the Kingpin - the whole thing about him and Miles having the same origin.

Yeah, I thought that was it… but how did he happen to grab this random radioactive spider (that was meant to bite someone else)? Or was it more like – when you monkey around w/ the Spider-Verse, you’re gonna mess up something Spider-y… and this is the form it took.

My takeaway from the movie was that they explicitly grabbed the spider as part of testing the collider

the third one was represented by Donald Glover as the Prowler, who of course that's who he is in Homecoming

I assumed this was a capper to the Community S02e01 joke (which I regret to inform us all is from thirteen years ago)

Surprised Cindy Moon (Silk) wasn’t involved at all; she’s a pretty major modern Spider-character. Maybe b/c they’re developing her own thing…

the only disappointment for me was lack of Spider Pig

he was there very briefly near the end

I have a feeling we’ll have returning and new characters next time.

yeah the crew gwen was assembling at the end included all the spider-people from the first movie iirc

I was thinking that one reason they may shy away from Silk is that her story (in the comics, anyway) sort of goes against the movie's concept that every Spider-person needs to lose one or more ppl close to them as inspiration; and also that there can only apparently be one Spider-person per universe (although I don't know if the movie actually says that's a rule, or if I'm making it up). Her origin & background are also heavily tied up with the comics' version of the "Spider-Verse" and related concepts, which the movie doesn't f with.

All that said, they apparently got around the same points w/Jess Drew by just using an alternate version...

(The first two points, I mean... Jess's backstory in the comix isn't tied into the Spider-Verse, it's just weird as hell.)

Going thru the soundtrack album (Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack from and Inspired by the Motion Picture)) is somehow a lot less pleasing than encountering/experiencing the music in the movie itself... but at least I was able to identify / add-to-playlist the track that plays throughout the opening Spider-Gwen sequence ("Self-Love," by Metro Boomin & Coi Leray). Its use was so perfect, I thought...

sounds like this thing was a nightmare to work on

According to people who worked on the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable. Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion. Four of these crew members agreed to speak pseudonymously about the sprint to finish the movie three years into the sequel’s development and production, a period whose franticness they attribute to Lord’s management style — in particular, his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html

also seems unlikely reading this that part two is gonna hit its release date

So apparently there are multiple (slightly) different versions of this in theatres now?

I only heard about a version with an updated sound mix (which I assumed we would’ve gotten at the late date we saw it, but some of the dialogue was pretty muddy).

I was wondering when people might start noticing… https://t.co/E6G9tUXmDE

— Andy! Leviton (@AlliterAndy) June 23, 2023

Saw this last night with the crusty sound mix. I enjoyed the film but damn if there ain’t a lot of it

Saw this yesterday, and it was great. I did feel like it dragged in places towards the end (too many action set-pieces of all things), but the emotional scenes are extremely potent.

The cliffhanger ending where Gwen's drum solo shows up on the soundtrack again was OMG, A+++++.

I wouldn't normally watch an 18-minute (or even 8-minute) YouTube video; but my kid showed me this, and it's really well done – the guy tackles a big plot element of the movie that didn't really make sense for me either, and goes for a grand No-Prize explanation that seems right on target (guess we'll find out in the third movie):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESxmyDnTms

also seems unlikely reading this that part two is gonna hit its release date

I blame you, bg! j/k

“Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” the third film in the blockbuster Lord and Miller animated franchise, has been undated. It was meant to open March 29, 2024. Due to union’s work stoppage orders, the voice cast cannot complete dialogue recording in time for the spring opening, said a Sony source. A new date is expected in the coming weeks.

honestly, good, maybe they won't give the animators as many lashes this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ90GIuawAo

Navel gazing that I'm here for.

Like it's genuinely kinda beautiful.

That was surprisingly great!

Coming to Netflix on Halloween: https://deadline.com/2023/10/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-digital-release-date-netflix-1235575546/

Do we have a thread for discussing "Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU)," and specifically this new Madame Web movie? Thx

One of Dr. Morbius's many gifts to our community is making it impossible to find anything on the Jared Leto film.

Free-to-stream Spider-Verse short on YT tomorrow!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-spider-within-a-spider-verse-story-when-and-where-to-stream-the-short-film/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcGPpwFdE1Y

I still don't know what they thought, not releasing this movie in the relevant territories as Kilometers Morales.