Spiderman 2 Trailer 280
Ant writes "Apple just posted the Spider-Man 2 trailer after the trailer was shown on The Apprentice for west coast."
WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves.
It was actually... (Score:5, Informative)
Spiderman and the Apprentice? (Score:5, Funny)
They could give him the extra four legs he's always wanted and graft some acting ability onto Kirsten Dunst.
Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? (Score:3, Funny)
"Now how are we going to even do this, Doctor?"
"I'm not sure, she's really REAALLLY bad. Did you see Mona Lisa Smile?"
"Am I wearing a pink tutu?"
"Yes but that's besides the point. I mean, we're talking a miracle here."
"Ok, what say we just give her some nitrous, and play with her boobies. Agreed?"
"Agreed."
Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? (Score:2)
cartooney (Score:5, Insightful)
That being said ill still go see it...
Re:cartooney (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:cartooney - Not a bad thing.... (Score:2)
I guess it is all about the context of which you are viewing the animation. Films like Spidey and (I assume you were referencing) the Matrix I believe have their atmosphere enhanced by this type of animation. Just as how well Gollumn was translated into CG completely enhanced LOTR.
That said, the Spidey trailer had some of the best examples of this type of CG I have seen. That isn't to say it always works, though, as last summer's Hulk easily proved. Th
Re:cartooney - Not a bad thing.... (Score:2)
Kind of like a COMIC BOOK? (Score:2)
Re:cartooney (Score:3, Interesting)
If you disagree, kindly name three movies (apart from LOTR) which you think have better CGI than the Spider Man films, and we can commence to piss all over a favorite movie of yours.
Re:cartooney (Score:4, Interesting)
Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:4, Insightful)
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:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
I've tried it, and found that I didn't enjoy it. I enjoy movies a lot more when I notice the little details and whatnot that I don't notice if I don't already understand the plot. If it's a movie I'm looking forward to (like The Phantom Menace... sigh) I'll even read the book first.
This is the same effect that one would get from watching the same movie twice in a row, but I seldom have the time, atte
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:3, Insightful)
I recommend that everyone try this. See a few movies that you have absolutely no concept of when
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Hmmm, there's a topic for an extended discussion. I'd cite The Matrix as an example of great movie/bad trailer and The Phantom Menace as awful movie/great trailer. And then ther was that Not Another Teen Movie or something like that -- hilarious trailer that prompted me to drag my wife to what turned out to be the most vile, loathsome movie ever.
On a completely offtopic note -- is there going to be another Harry
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
I hear that they're working on a new Star Wars [imdb.com] film, too.
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:5, Funny)
So you're the guy that always climbs over me 1 minute into the movie.
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Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
It wouldn't have been half as good knowing what was going to happen in the movie beforehand and I am eterna
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Yeah, me too. I never expected a movie with such a badass opening turn into a half-assed shitty vampire m
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
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Fine Line (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:4, Interesting)
The trailer for Hellboy, which I've not seen yet, seems to give a good mix of enticement and still not be a complete give-away. The Hildalgo trailer, however, looks like it shows way too many of the dramatic parts.
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:3, Funny)
Holy shit! You can give a review of a trailer you haven't even seen? I'm impressed.
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
eh, not really. who was it that quipped something about the internet being created solely for geeks to get pr0n and insider movie info? kevin smith? with my daily scouring of the net for movie trivia and upcoming movie info, i usually know a lot about the plot even before the trailer is released. what annoys me is watching a movie that's pretty funny, but the stupid audience who laugh only at the parts shown in the trailers. I have, however, given up on reading reviews. They're all a bunch of sellouts.
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Anyone noticed... (Score:4, Informative)
Linda Fiorentino: Let me guess, this is a government conspiracy and you guys are just trying to cover it up, right? (can't remember the exact line)
Cut to Will Smith: Psh, naw.
Two different frickin' scenes, I swear!
Spoilers, spoilers everywhere (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spoilers, spoilers everywhere (Score:3, Funny)
I heard they made a book of it, and I was going to read before seeing the movie, but there's little point in that now. =)
Re:Spoilers, spoilers everywhere (Score:5, Funny)
I read the book (Score:4, Funny)
I read the book, and I have no intention of watching the movie now. In the book, at the end, it was so obvious how they forced it to leave and open ending to then milk more cash in a sequel.
Re:Trailer or Spoiler? (Score:2)
Annoyed, yes, but "now" isn't right. I've been watching a lot of old movies on DVD, and on those DVDs that include the original trailers, I've noticed that the "giving the whole plot away" problem isn't anything new. I've seen it in trailers from the 1950s and earlier.
Which, if nothing else, makes me believe that it's a practice that will probably never change no matter how annoying it is to some people.
I think it's one
Re:post contains SPOILER (Score:2)
God, I hate you.
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Torrents! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Torrents! (Score:2)
Re:Torrents! (Score:2)
Re:Torrents! (Score:2)
Re:Torrents! (Score:2)
However the Divx torrent is not. Perhaps the divx was made from the fullscreen quicktime source - but the result is noticeably smaller, darker, and more compressed.
I can't complain given the turnaround time of the first divx
Full Screen Torrent (Score:2, Informative)
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Direct download link (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, it works with Linux! (Score:5, Informative)
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w00t! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:w00t! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:w00t! (Score:3, Insightful)
Easily the most faithful, honest, and entertaining adaptation of a comic-book character ever.
michael (Score:4, Informative)
Re:michael (Score:2, Funny)
Phoebe: (to Chandler) Hey! (Chandler looks up, startled) Why isn't it Spiderman? Y'know like Goldman, Silverman...
Chandler: 'Cause it's-it's not his last name.
Phoebe: It isn't?
Chandler: No, it's not like, like Phil Spiderman. He's a spider, man. Y'know like ah, like Goldman is a last name, but there's no Gold Man.
Phoebe: Oh, okay. There should be Gold Man!
Now I feel unseemly for posting "Friend's" quotes to Slashdot...
Re:michael (Score:2)
I'd like to know... (Score:5, Funny)
Listen to Stan.... (Score:5, Informative)
With makeup and CGI like it is, Defoe could have easily had his own face used without a hitch, and being the actor he is it would have been far better than the stupid mask.
Of course, people need to keep in mind that these movies are only "based" on the actual comics and Lee, et al., are not fully consulted....
Re:Listen to Stan.... (Score:2)
Re:Listen to Stan.... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Listen to Stan.... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Listen to Stan.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Uh... (Score:2)
I really hope they listened to Mr. Lee on this one. He's sorta the guy behind spidey, and he had some sound advice on how the first movie coulda been a bit better. His argument as to the necessity of Peter Parker "making" his web solution and shooter mechanism made for some good sense
Uh, no, he agreed that it was better for the movie that shooting webs was part of his genetic mutation. Why?
Because it would have been
Spiderman I teaser w/WTC? (Score:3, Interesting)
WTC trailer here... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:WTC trailer here... (Score:2)
For the under-informed here (namely, me) - was that WTC sequence ever intended to be used in the movie? Or was it just something "thrown together" for the advertisement?
Someone at the web site "got it" (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess they got tired of people complaining about not being able to download the trailer.
Re:Someone at the web site "got it" (Score:2)
they've allowed this for several trailers - matrix, star wars, and some more that i can't think of right now. usually you can download the high-res version. also (you probably already know this) if you have quicktime pro, you can select "save as quicktime movie" after the whole thing's been loaded. that's for all the stuff on quicktime.com, at least.
Re:Someone at the web site "got it" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Someone at the web site "got it" (Score:2)
holy crap (Score:2)
I saw this last night (yes, I watched the apprentice, but only to eye that cute little blonde on there) and it was awesome. From ED, to Herc, and now to one of the worlds most beloved comic heroes, Sam Raimi keeps making awesome stuff. I was a little annoyed at "another Hollywood sequel" a few months back, but after watching the longer trailer, I'm more than excited. In fact, there are three things on my body that are hard right now. I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are.
Much better (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Much better (Score:2)
I didn't think you could sit around getting high in restaurants in the US.
Re:Much better (Score:2, Insightful)
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 cre
Hooligans. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot really needs to be more considerate of small, startup-quality companies like Apple.
Think of the dropped packets.
Akamai (Score:2)
Re:Akamai (Score:2)
Akamai is mostly owned by Intel, afaik.
I only mentioned that for those who wanted to be mad at some other kneejerk-meme on this good Friday.
Great evil villain to get ass kicked (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great evil villain to get ass kicked (Score:2)
And I would also put money that she's the reason the hapless Democrats crumbled into impotent nothingness after a decade of being on top politically.
Most curious (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Most curious (Score:3, Insightful)
It's all about MIME types.
Re:Most curious (Score:4, Insightful)
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:Most curious (Score:2)
They don't do it for the saving, they do it because most browsers will try to play a
Sure they save a huge big 1Mb, and you get a file integrity check thrown in for free!
Potential (Score:2, Interesting)
My 2 cents:
Superman - Classic. Great. But didnt have the technology to bring the movies to their full potential. Story started to fade as it approached the later movies. Didn't fully capture the superman comic.
Batman - First one was great, possibly one of the best Comic book Movies EVER. The rest...well you've seen them. Storyline altered to make it more entertaining.
X-Men - Fantastic movies. Very entertaining to w
Trailer opens a website (Score:4, Interesting)
MPAA (Score:3, Funny)
Man, this sucks for 2 reasons (Score:5, Interesting)
As was said earlier, the trailer gives away pretty much the whole damn movie! We see the initial backstory, the inner demons, Peter throwing away the spiderman costume, Peter putting it back on... I mean, am I going to have to stop watching trailers soon just so I'll be surprised at the theater?
And second, from the trailer the plot looks almost identical to the first. Evil scientist has a wardrobe malfunction (heh) that turns him crazy, and destroys NYC. Peter wants to be with MJ but has to choose what he really wants (Superman 2, anyone?). Crazy scientist captures MJ, Spiderman has to rescue her.
Or am I missing something?
Its All About Marketing (Score:2)
As much as you hate the fact they showed Peter wanting to throw away the costume, many more people want to know Peter is having this turmoil. So marketing sticks it in. As much as you don't want to know why Do
this is funny (Score:2, Funny)
heh heh, hadn't even thought about it since the 60's when my dad MADE ME give away my collection when we moved because he didn't want to pay shipping on it with the full sized tractor trailer that moved all our other crap... uh huh, full collection going way back to the 50's, marvel and DC and Mads.. geez....
that collection would be worth..
Re:this is funny (Score:3, Funny)
The move and the removal of the comic books wasnt due to "shipping". He was trying to turn you from a pansy boy to a man. Unfortunately, due to the avid slashdot reading, he has obviously failed.
Re:this is funny (Score:3, Funny)
He used to tell me, "Son, if my Ma hadn't thrown out my Superone 1, I would be a rich man today. But since she did I can't afford a gardener, so GET OUT THERE AND MOW THE LAWN!"
The Apprentice (Score:5, Funny)
With the trailer shown during The Apprentice, they had to include this:
JJ Jameson, Peter Parker's boss at the paper, says
"YOU'RE FIRED!!"
I want the original music !!! (Score:3, Interesting)
Dr. Oc (Score:2)
-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]
Re:Dr. Oc (Score:3, Funny)
They don't want you to pity him, they want you to fear him. And what's more fearsome that a crazy guy with a George Michael haircut walking around in a trenchcoat?
"This Octopus has NINE big tentacles baby!"
Re:Dr. Oc (Score:3, Funny)
Is that you Mr. T? Welcome to slashdot....loved ya in the A-Team.
Re:Supervillan (Score:2)
Re:Ye gods... (Score:4, Interesting)