Mario's good in it, really? I've never liked him in anything, although he's very good looking. How does Melvin come off? I've had the book burned into my brain, and he's pretty unflinching about himself there and IRL too -- you make it sound like Mario's true to that.

He WAS good., And a beautiful man--he's 46 and he looks gor-juss. And, yeah, it does a good job of showing us Melvin's many strengths and weaknesses and how they both contribute to and hurt his work. And the fascinating and thing is that sometimes his weaknesses help his work and vice versa.

He's a piece of work, alright. The perfectionism works out in the end, I guess, but it's stressful during.

Oh! Another sort-of-teary moment was Harry's reaction when he took Spidey's mask off and realized it was Peter.

The thing that surprised me about that scene was I had seen it fifty zillion times in the trailer, and because itwas in the trailer I assumed it was a False Reveal, and either Harry would be interrupted before he could remove the mask or it wouldn't actually be Peter in the suit. It was almost a nice change to have a scene like that actually end with a true reveal.

I'll never be able to remove the mental image of Mario Van Peebles as Piño in The Last Resort with Charles Grodin.

I'll be there too. Especially if there's the promise of more than five minutes of Methos this time.

Was there ever any explanation for why Methos suddenly disappeared in the middle of the last movie? Or was that just the point where Peter Wingfield said "Screw this! I have a coffee commercial waiting!"?

Huh. A Highlander movie with Lambert (ugh), with Wingfield (yay), and without Paul (???). Maybe it'll be set before Duncan was born? Dammit, I'll have to see it, no matter what they do. Darn their nefarious power!

Speaking of nefarious power, I'll add my voice to the Spidey love, and to the just not caring about any of the gaffs and stuff. I did, however, cover my eyes and moan when Doc Ock declared he could stop nuclear fusion by dropping the miniature sun in a river.

You can always tell an old comics fan. We're the only people who ever say the word "nefarious."

Okay, Hec's comments about Spidey 2 reminded me that some people here saw it and felt that Spidey did things that were beyond his strength.

Supposedly.

People who feel that way need to go pick up copies of Who's Who in the Marvel Universe.

Marvel Catalog Canon flat out states that Spidey is like the third or fourth strongest person in the Marvel Universe, behind only Galactus, The Hulk, and like one or two other people.

Stopping a train is a tall order, but one I think Spidey's capable of.

If I remember correctly, there was a Spidey/Superman crossover once, and Spidey hit Supes hard enough for Big Blue to feel it. Spidey's strong.

But Marvel ranks strength and durability separately. You can be strong, but have a body that doesn't stand up to huge stresses or vice versa.

You can always tell an old comics fan. We're the only people who ever say the word "nefarious."

I had never read comics when I named the villain in my myth movie for ninth grade English Nefarious.

You can be strong, but have a body that doesn't stand up to huge stresses or vice versa.

Oooh. Good point. The stress on his body there had to have been immense.

Of course, durability in comics can really fall by the wayside sometimes.

All of those busses Supes has picked one handed by the front bumper over the years? Those bumpers should have broken off the buss, really.