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Sam Raimi. You know you want it. It won't happen, but you know you want it.

138 Scourge wrote:Sam Raimi. You know you want it. It won't happen, but you know you want it.

I really don't, actually. I hate me some Spider-Movies. Gah. No one-liners and lots of wanky angstmongering does not scream entertainment. I wanted Spider-Man, not Dawson's Creek With Some Superheroes Maybe.

Hey, there were a *couple* one-liners in the Spidey flicks. Although I must agree, not enough.

Mind, Raimi's issues with Spiderman don't apply to his other work, I think. The Evil Dead films are awesome in so many ways, and I hear Drag Me To Hell is pretty decent, too.

138 Scourge wrote:Sam Raimi. You know you want it. It won't happen, but you know you want it.

God no! While I enjoyed the Spider-Man films, but I think they could have been so much better than they were. Peter was WAY over obsessed with MJ in all 3 movies and as O86 said, "lots of wanky angstmongering" isn't fun to watch. Even with the "Parker luck", Peter's life isn't that terrible. And I've never cared for many of the casting choices...

My vote would be for Jon Favreau. Iron Man was everything a comic based film should be.

Imagine Nolanverse Transformers. Optimus Prime speaks with a gravelly rasp, and Megatron is reimagined as turning into a bazooka.

Onslaught Six wrote:Hey, there were a *couple* one-liners in the Spidey flicks. Although I must agree, not enough.

Mind, Raimi's issues with Spiderman don't apply to his other work, I think. The Evil Dead films are awesome in so many ways, and I hear Drag Me To Hell is pretty decent, too.

Yeah, Drag Me to Hell rocked.

I'll agree with the not enough one-liners and wisecrackery, but visually they were friggin' beautiful. I think he could make that work. Maybe I'm just entirely too in love with Raimi, but man, did Evil Dead 2 ever warp my young mind...

And no, Peter's life doesn't suck, because, hey, Spider-Powers are spectacular, but man, everything is always getting in his way. He's gotta be the only superhero that had to buy a cheap knock off of his costume because his Aunt confiscated his real suit. ...(do keep in mind that at this point I pretty much only read the Lee/Ditko era of Spidey, 'cause may as well go with the best).

Okay, back on topic, then. As much as I hated the first couple Lord of the Rings movies (of course, I can't force myself to read the books, either), I've enjoyed the hell outta almost everything else that Peter Jackson does. And, King Kong and even the third Lord of the Rings show the man can work with action scenes involving giant things beating the hell outta each other. Just sayin'. And I sorta want the man that made "Meet the Feebles" to make my giant robot movie just for the irony. Again, never happen, ever, but be fun to picture.

Lastly, who made Live Free or Die Hard? He already had a truck win against a jet, so those things turning into robots and beating hell out of each other wouldn't be that much of a stretch.

138 Scourge wrote:And no, Peter's life doesn't suck, because, hey, Spider-Powers are spectacular, but man, everything is always getting in his way. He's gotta be the only superhero that had to buy a cheap knock off of his costume because his Aunt confiscated his real suit.

I remember the awesome early/mid-90s Spider-Man script that's floating around online, where Shocker is the villain and Sandman is his flunkie. Peter rips his costume and ends up buying a knockoff, which is actually of higher quality than his original suit. (Some of Shocker's lines are transposed verbatim to Gobby in the movie that we actually got, also. Very worth a read if you can find it.)

Onslaught Six wrote: Peter rips his costume and ends up buying a knockoff, which is actually of higher quality than his original suit.

Nice. I always get a laugh out of the panels where Peter's thinking "Man, I hate sewing and I'm so bad at it", when he's chosen to sew himself one of the most crazy complicated suits known to herokind.

138 Scourge wrote: when he's chosen to sew himself one of the most crazy complicated suits known to herokind.

Well it was designed for the show business, not crime fighting.

Sparky Prime wrote:

138 Scourge wrote: when he's chosen to sew himself one of the most crazy complicated suits known to herokind.

Well it was designed for the show business, not crime fighting.

Yeah, but still:

138 Scourge wrote: when he's chosen to sew himself one of the most crazy complicated suits known to show business.

Pretty much the same point.

Also, that's some awesome work for a guy that's bad at sewing!

Still the second best superhero thing ever, I think, but that bit always makes me laugh.