Spiderman 2 Trailer

Ant writes "Apple just posted the Spider-Man 2 trailer after the trailer was shown on The Apprentice for west coast."

cartooney

[VC]

The CGI looks kind of cartoonely, kind of like when you can tell during the burly brawl when they stopped using keano and started using the all cgi character.
That being said ill still go see it... ;-)

Trailer or Spoiler?

[Darth_Vito]

Is anyone else annoyed by the amount of story that is given away in trailers now? I guess the production companies must have found that these types of trailers are effective in pulling in audiences to see the movie but it seems to detract from the experience.

Re:cartooney

[jgabby]

I think that's on purpose in this case...given that it's based on a comic book world.

Re:Trailer or Spoiler?

[Jin Wicked]

I love it. They put so much in the trailers now, that if you're shrewd you can usually tell which trailers actually represent the movie, and which are a collection of nothing but the best 2 minutes of the entire movie and the rest is downhill from there.

But I've never cared about spoilers. I read at least two or three reviews for almost any movie before I see it, to make sure I want to spend the $15 it costs now just for a ticket, popcorn and a drink plus two hours of my time not including all the adverts at the beginning... Anyway, I've never had a trailer or even a review ruin a movie for me, even when I know the ending in advance.

Someone at the web site "got it"

[doublem]

I think this the first time I've seen a "Download" link that lets you save it to disk with a couple clicks, instead of having to look at the HTML source and download it by hand.

I guess they got tired of people complaining about not being able to download the trailer.

Re:Trailer or Spoiler?

[re-Verse]

Completely. About 10 months ago I decided that I will no longer watch trailers. It was the best movie decision I have made. I mean you can't really tell if a movie will be good or not from a trailers. I've seen some bad movies with excellent trailers, and some great movies with terrible trailers. All in all, I really enjoy films a lot more now that all the high intensity parts aren't revealed to me in advance.

I recommend that everyone try this. See a few movies that you have absolutely no concept of when going in, it makes for a much more interesting ride.

Fine Line

[dolo666]

That's the fine line for the industry; I think with a franchise like Spiderman, the movie will be fun regardless of what plot details leak... I mean it's an action movie, so the total experience is what you're paying for, unlike other movies where the plot matters much more (because it's all some generes have, plot), while the action/comic genre offers more in terms of the experience. Spiderman 1 was very pleasing, but the Hulk was missing plot/char development. I think Spiderman 2 will be better, but I won't know for sure until after I've seen it in theatres (and hence the catch 22 of all moviegoers today, really). Downloading the trailer now...

Re:w00t!

[*weasel]

That's funny, I thought he already had.

Easily the most faithful, honest, and entertaining adaptation of a comic-book character ever.

Re:Most curious

[GR|MLOCK]

If you want people to download something from your website, you zip it. Pretty much all browsers know how to handle a .zip file. They save it to disk. If you give a link to a .mov, crazy things can happen. People who don't get the whole right-click thing just click on it, and then the QuickTime plugin takes over and loads the thing.

It's all about MIME types.

Re:Most curious

[Eagle5596]

Oh wow! Such hoops! You mean I have to unzip the file? Oh woe is me, for unzipping is such a difficult process.

Stop whining, it only makes you look incompetent. Yes, for your information, 1MB of savings per user, over several million hits really does save a lot of bandwidth you insensitive clod.

Re:Trailer or Spoiler?

[FoxMcCloud]

Well then you should try going to a movie without knowing the plot. It's a totally different experience. I HATE trailers, and try never to watch them... I try to turn my attention to something else during the trailers before a movie.

I like to go watch a movie just on advice from friends whose tastes I trust, and go watch it without reading a single thing about it and only having been told that they enjoyed it. Try it.

For instance I saw Bruce Almighty and when the guy met God and whatever, I was totally amazed cause I didn't see it coming at all... I also watched The Butterfly Effect and enjoyed it a lot more than my friends cause the plot totally surprised me, I had no idea what it was about.

From my point of view, trailers suck, and so do reviews. They just serve to ruin the movie.

Re:Much better

[Tibor the Hun]

I have to disagree with you. The old trailer told us nothing about the movie, and made us think that maybe Doc. Oc knows who Spider-man really is.

The new trailer explains that he doesn't really know that. He only knows that Parker can get Spider-man, because that's what Green Goblin's son told him.

It's pretty easy to figure out most of the movie then:

Parker's life is messed up by being Spider-man, so he quits doing it.

Green Goblin's son wants to find Spider-man, since he "killed his dad".

Doc. Oc is created in goblin's lab by accident.

Goblin's son tells him to find Spider-man, by going through Parker.

Doc. Oc kidnaps MJ to get Spidey.

Spidey comes back and gets his ass kicked by Oc, who then delivers him to Goblin's son.

From there on it's pretty much guesswork but it's pretty easy to guess that Spidey wins at the end and gets the girl.

Granted, I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but it'd be nice not to know most of the plot of the movie from watching one trailer.

Re:Listen to Stan....

[roman_mir]

Wait a second, wasn't the point of the mask to hide the identity of Goblin from everyone? Without the mask Spiderman would have known from the very beginning who he is up against.