Spider-Man 2 Preview Online

Several folks noted that you can now see the first trailers for Spider-man 2, provided you have some broadband action going on. It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.

First post - source mongering...

[numbski]

The video is embedded in a swf file....ack!

Anyone able to extract it?

BTW, Doc Oc rox. :P Also the car dodging shot...wow. :)

Nice FX

WAY too small

[neoform]

Why was it so tiny? i could barely see anything.

Something to look forward to?

[Breaker_1]

I don't know if anyone else felt this way, but is ANOTHER sequel to a bad movie something to look forward to? I'm looking forward to something origional again. There have been what? 4 or 5 sequels out this year? Where is the origionality at?

Re:Trailer in theatres?

[iainl]

"When will this trailer be in theatres? What movies will it be playing before?"

Both rumour and plain logic says Rings on Wednesday - certainly, there is little else that you'd want to attach it to this week.

Real Life

[grub]

It's nice to know that there will be something to look forward to after RotK comes out.

Umm.. there's something called Real Life.. It's a hoot, I suggest you disconnect for a while and try it out.

Re:Something to look forward to?

[Gr33nNight]

At the local independant theater house. Check it out sometime, you'll be suprised at what you find.

Peter Parker - Still a Geek!

[Faeton]

I love the fact that they're still making Peter Parker a geek. True to the comic's heritage and spirit. Although in the first one we see that he has no need for glasses, he's still wearing them here. A geek at heart, but one that can kick ass.

The anguish between his powers/ reponsibilities and love life looks to play a bigger part in this movie. DocOct looks great without a cheezy mask to hide behind.. and it looks like they're working in the revenge angle for Harry Osborne. Looking good here!

Next up, Spiderman 3.. Introducing Venom!

Re:It's Monday, so I guess we

[Zelet]

I think the MPAA is fine. They put out a great product for the most part and I really can't complain about thier prices. I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more to produce a movie than some canned artist that they have for CDs yet the cost of a DVD isn't much more than a CD.

Let me get my hands

[Illserve]

on the web monkey who coded up that streaming client.

I know it's getting hammered, but you can't even pause the damned thing to let it catch up, and if you restart it, you get 2 simultaneous audio streams at different time points.

Re:Let me get my hands

[drinkypoo]

Hiding your video in flash is the latest greatest way to stop people from stealing your video, though you might be able to steal it anyway with SWF Decompiler. The problem isn't the webmonkey, it's idiot studios that think it's a good idea to stop people from downloading and distributing trailers/teasers.

Re:Something to look forward to?

[RedK]

but is ANOTHER sequel to a bad movie something to look forward to?

What sequel to a bad movie are you referring to ? This story is about the Spider-Man sequel, you know, the great characterisation, the innovative twist on an old story, the great acting and The Macho Man Randy Savage as BONESAW!

Oh... right... it's trendy now to bash movies because they're mainstream. Ok, i'm sorry, Bad Mainstream Media for stealing our geek icons!! Bad bad! Spider-Man sucks since it's now popular and enjoyed by those non-geeks.

Re:Awesome CGI, good teaser

[MORTAR_COMBAT!]

Peter can't let himself fall for MJ

No. Peter has already completely fallen for MJ, but can't endanger her by being with her. That's the tragedy of Spider-Man, that's the part (aside from fairly interesting baddies) which makes Spidey so interesting (to me at least). (Just because Clark Kent can't endanger Lois Lane by being with her and revealing he is Superman, doesn't make Spider-Man a rip-off, does it?)

Re:First post - source mongering...

[NoNeeeed]

That has to rank as one of the worst ways to deliver a moview trailer, full-stop.

I'm on a corperate network with a nice fat pipe, but I have to play the 100k version, the 300k version plays about 5 seconds, stops, plays the next five, stops, etc. The client doesn't seem to be able to cache properly. Even with flash's cache turned right up.

Just give us a damned MPEG or Quicktime file!

I bet this is mostly done to prevent copying. When will people realise that this just stops your advert from being seen by the most people. Normlly when a trailer comes out on the Apple site, one of us donwloads it and shares it with our mates, cos it's quicker. That's good advertising. This is like saying "no, you can only see adverts for Coke if you go to a special Coke store". It's not like it is the full movie, it is just a trailer, the first rule of advertising is make sure as many people see it as possible.

Bah, bloody suites.

I hope someone manages to extract it.

EVERY year is unoriginal

[GuyMannDude]

There have been what? 4 or 5 sequels out this year? Where is the origionality at?

So you're saying that years in which there are fewer sequels feature more original movies? You must be joking. Every year Hollywood puts out films that are copies of previous films. They change the names, of course, but most films follow the same tired old formula.

If anything, sequels provide the opportunity (I'm not saying they always succeed) to do something different from the first film for the simple fact that a lot of the character development has already been completed. Not to mention there is a built-in audience so they could (again I'm not saying they always do) try something a little more radical. The Empire Strikes Back was very little like Star Wars. Even The Matrix Reloaded wasn't very similar to the original Matrix, although some would argue that the sequel was a step in the wrong direction.

Bottom line: if you want to see something original, then look for movies by new directors or new countries (check out some of the movies coming out of India if you want something radically different). Complaining about Hollywood showing too many sequels is rediculous. Even if there is ever a summer with NO sequels, I doubt the films will be any more original than any other year.

GMD

Re:Let me get my hands

[macemoneta]

Why on Earth would ANYONE with two (functioning) brain cells want to prevent broad, free, distribution of an ADVERTISEMENT???

The swinging looks as bad as always

[Darth23]

Unfortunately. When can we see a Spiderman movie that shots of swinging through the city that look as good as the 60's cartoon?

Re:Let me get my hands

[Anonymous Coward]

Because they think that being able to gauge how popular the movie will be based upon how many times the trailer is downloaded.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[bfg9000]

I bet this is mostly done to prevent copying.

Yeah, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when companies are being this overprotective of their "intellectual property". I remember the good old days when companies actually WANTED customers to see their ads, now the ads themselves are restricted and controlled as if they were a separate product.

Oh well, if I can't see the ad, I can't get hyped about the product, and I'll spend my money elsewhere. They chose control over profits.

On a side note, I'm guessing Apple releases a DVD of all their ads in High-Def pretty soon. No kidding, it'd sell like hotcakes, and only Apple seems to realize that a fanatic fanbase is a GOOD thing.

Trailers spoil movies!

[ALeavitt]

Seriously, I'm sick of this trend. The trailer for the original Alien is still the best one I've ever seen; rather then show you the plot or good glimpses of the monster, all you got were quick shots that let you know that Alien was going to scare the hell out of you. Now we have trailers like the one for the Matrix Reloaded (they showed the best parts of the Hundred-Agent Fight) and this monstrosity for Spiderman 2. I think it would have been much cooler if we had seen Doc Oc's mechanical tentacles walking up... and nothing more. Leave well enough alone; let us know we're getting something cool, but don't show the best parts. Leave some surprises for the actual movie.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[multimed]

You're giving them too much credit--while it's true about the wider audience playback with Flash, if that were really their reason, then they would have actually emhedded the video into a swf. The flash player can play back video encoded with the Sorenson Spark (or Spark Pro) codec which is pretty decent (though obviously not as good as MPEG 2/4). Instead, it actually connects to a stream which can neither be saved nor cached so playback is mostly dreadful. When I'm in charge, I'm going to send out CDs with the files to the largest P-to-P sharers. Seriously it's not like there is some value to a trailer and that people are somehow taking money away from them by downloading/copying them. It is a f*cking advertisement to get people to spend $8 on a movie ticket, and later $19 on the DVD. The more people who see the trailer, the more will purchase the money. Friggin' idiots.

Re:Let me get my hands

[Kenneth Stephen]

Then you arent thinking very well. The primary objective of advertising is to publicize your product, and not to track who is watching your publicity. If you have to sacrifice one for the other, guess which one makes sense to be sacrificed?

With regards to your second point - if someone creates a fake trailer and distributes it, how is the recipient to know that there is a real trailer that is only available from the official site? If someone is going to be taken in by a fake, it doesnt really matter what the delivery mechanism is on the official site.

Re:First post - source mongering...

[1lus10n]

mplayer plug in. why ? because i have yet to see a video it wont recognize and play correctly. including wmv, quicktime, real, and this crappy ass flash trailer. and it also works fine behind proxies.

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