So did you or did you not tear up at

I SO DID!!!!! God damn, I even *knew* I was being manipulated, and I still teared up!

MECHANICAL WEB-SHOOTERS FTW.

Weren't they wonderful?

Oh my god, while he was making them, I was all "Science, BITCHES!"

I SO DID!!!!! God damn, I even *knew* I was being manipulated, and I still teared up!

Right? I loved how the dad specifically said out loud, "That's the guy who saved my son!" Just in case we didn't recognize him. (Um, I didn't. But still. It was so blatantly silly.)

Oh my god, while he was making them, I was all "Science, BITCHES!"

As he was making them, I was all, "Why did I ever settle for organic webshooters?"

So have you seen the stuff about the Untold Story? I'm really glad they cut that stuff out, but it's interesting that it seems to have been all cut out so late.

So have you seen the stuff about the Untold Story?

I hadn't seen any of that, but I did wonder about Peter just dropping the hunt for Uncle Ben's killer. I wondered if maybe we were supposed to assume that he realized that vengeance wasn't a good life choice and just decided to focus on the super-heroing part.

All that weird genetic destiny stuff -- I remember it from the trailers, and I remember Dr. Connors' line about how all the other subjects on whom cross-species DNA merging was tried ended up dying, and thinking, well, that's not entirely true, is it? Maybe that'll be addressed in a future movie -- but I hope not. I really don't want to see him ending up as Peter Parker, human guinea pig. For one thing, the costume would suck compared to the Spidey costume.

That was C. Thomas Howell!

I also teared up at the crane scene. I love shit like that.

That was C. Thomas Howell!

Ponyboy was Jack's Dad? I'll be damned.

His career these days seems to consist of crappy movies that my husband watches on Netflix streaming, so I totally recognized him.

Ponyboy was Jack's Dad? I'll be damned.

Yes, literally, he is credited as "Jack's Father."

Dana, I love that shit too. It was like the subway scene in Spider-Man 2. I am a sucker for people doing good things.

It totally reminded me of the subway scene in Spider-Man 2. (I originally typed that as the Subway scene, which would have been a very different movie. "I am *fighting crime,* okay? I'll take that footlong meatball sub to go!")

So I just watched this Michael Shannon movie called Take Shelter. Has anyone else seen it?

I thought it was excellent, but I was left wondering if we were supposed to take the ending literally, or metaphorically, or both, or what. Because it kind of works any way you cut it, and it's kind of messed up any way you interpret it.

Every time I hear Steve Blum's voice I think of Spike Spiegel

He sounded very much like Spike in this movie. Similar vocal mannerisms and everything. Plus, the characters themselves were very much of a type.