In fact, your pinkies are now forfeit to me. Hand 'em over.
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Elena - Jul 24, 2003 11:44:06 am PDT #3592 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Steph L. - Jul 24, 2003 11:45:15 am PDT #3593 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ist eine daum ein finger?
Elena - Jul 24, 2003 11:45:52 am PDT #3594 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
All your digits are belong to us.
billytea - Jul 24, 2003 11:47:51 am PDT #3595 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Why don't the Chinese use this finger? (Holds up left pinky.)
...Becuause it's mine. t ba dum
JohnSweden - Jul 24, 2003 11:50:19 am PDT #3596 of 10001
I can't even.
I think I'm one of the few people who really disliked Tobey as Peter Parker. I was/am too invested in the comic version (and think NB would have been much much better) and found Tobey's tongue-tied, sullen, dim portrayal to be throw-something-at-the-screen unwatchable.
Elena, I think they missed an opportunity for great conflict/drama by hacking out Gwen, but I guess it was the usual narrow movie focus.
§ ita § - Jul 24, 2003 11:54:04 am PDT #3597 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JSw, I hated him too. I don't think he's a good actor, even if I could get past the voice. But I don't think I tap into the Spidey things that make his fanbase tick.
Cindy - Jul 24, 2003 12:00:10 pm PDT #3598 of 10001
Nobody
And Tobey Maguire won me over; don't get me wrong. But who does dorky-yet-heroic-and-also-quippy better than NB?
Nobody. I don't care if they had to retcon the age. It's not like film always respects the literature from which it springs.
sprains brain figuring out billytea's joke
Sean K - Jul 24, 2003 12:01:21 pm PDT #3599 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I blame that on Tobey's apparent lack of wit (based on the interviews I've seen of him where he comes across as quite unintelligent).
It has been my experience that there are two types of actors - the not so bright ones, who aren't necessarily unintelligent, but very much blank slates for the director to mold as they will, and the hyperintelligent ones.
§ ita § - Jul 24, 2003 12:07:21 pm PDT #3600 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's been my experience that actors tend to pretty evenly span the continuum of brains.
JohnSweden - Jul 24, 2003 12:32:44 pm PDT #3601 of 10001
I can't even.
I'm guessing they were looking to enhance the contrast of the wise-cracking webslinger by making Tobey/Peter to be more withdrawn and shy (and also: mask on, insecurities off), but that's not the Peter Parker I grew up with, and that's from before the actual comics that the movie story was based on.
ita? What Spidey things do the Tobey fanbase say re: ticking?
For me, killing Gwen was like the killing of Jenny Calendar was for some people with Buffy. An HSQ moment that let you know these people were seriously prepared to mess you up (even considering the totally crass cover of #121). That's why I think conflating Gwen and Mary Jane was a mistake for the movie. It robbed it of serious drama/tension.
Still, fun flick and all, Willem Dafoe great, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have.