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Spider Man Ruined !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Buzzetta

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I would love to have seen the table meeting when the Disney/Marvel execs met with the Sony execs to discuss Spider-man.

 

Disney: "Ok... so what do you have so far?"

 

Sony: "Millennial Spidey!"

 

(Break for an hour and a half of laughter)

 

Disney: "No really... so what do you have so far?"

 

Sony: "Just take him and put him in a film with Robert Downey Jr please."

 

 

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Buzzetta

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Spider-Man was ruined in 2008 and it had nothing to do with Sony.

 

What do you think ruined Spider-Man? I say Dan Slott.

 

I thought the same and then I realized what he was given. Slott has done the best he can with the shell of a character that Quesada handed off to him. Slott tows the company line and writes pretty much as told for the first hundred issues. Deals with the OMD thing the best he can with One Moment in Time and then... then he gives us Superior Spider-man.

 

Something tells me that if Slott was given the task to end the Peter Parker Mary Jane marriage he would have done what he did with Superior Spider-man and had Mary Jane walk away either divorcing or leaving her husband in disgust at the whole situation. Peter/Doc Ock would have become the same distant individual inside of the marriage as he was when he and Mary Jane were "unmarried". Mary Jane would have been turned away and then even once Peter came back... Mary Jane would have left him.

 

Bring on Secret Wars...

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Tiger Topher

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Spider-Man was ruined in 2008 and it had nothing to do with Sony.

 

What do you think ruined Spider-Man? I say Dan Slott.

Joe Quesada killed the Spider-Man I loved. Dan Slott (and others) have been abusing his corpse for the last seven years.

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Icculus308win

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He was ruined for me back when Peter Parker was revealed as a clone. I stopped buying them at that time. Same thing with "Death" issues. I figured once they are dead they are done for me. I rarely buy new comics any more...

 

Exactly

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Ditch Fahrenheit

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The board allotment of exclamation points has been used up in the thread title.

 

Now we have to wait until tomorrow to write anything more expressive than a casual yawn.

 

Damn it.

 

True, but we are sitting on a glut of ampersands.

 

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Use 'em or lose 'em. :sumo:

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Jeffro.

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As utterly ridiculous as that sounds (and it sure does), is it really all that different than imbuing Spidey/Peter Parker with the various 60's-isms present when Stan and Steve produced the comic?

Spidey was a product of his time back then. Sounds like they want to make modern Spidey a product of this time. (shrug)

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Aweandlorder

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EDM (electronic dance music) is the defining music for Millennials. Wondering if there’s an EDM angle somewhere with Spidey? His movements are beautiful, would be awesome with a killer DJ behind it

 

and here's a trailer from the next ASM flick:

 

 

 

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BrianR

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Can someone translate, as Yahoo never loads properly for me - it's just a wall of unformated text.

 

Here’s a pretty funny footnote in the saga of the leaked Sony emails. Yesterday, a Twitter user unearthed a truly cringe-worthy list of suggestions for making Spider-Man more appealing to Millennials. As re-imagined by one Sony exec, Peter Parker is no longer a science nerd fighting crime on the down-low while taking care of his elderly aunt. No, the proposed Spidey does Tough Mudder events on the weekends, listens to EDM while he’s fighting crime, and uploads photos of his vegan dinners with the hashtag #NBD (No Big Deal). Sound insufferable? Read on!

 

The man behind this pitch is a Sony-affiliated executive whom former Sony head Amy Pascal has called a “brilliant Millennial research expert.” In November 2013, a few months before Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opened in theaters, the exec sent Pascal an email with what he called “rando thoughts” about how to update Spidey’s image (possibly for a digital marketing campaign).

 

“A rising trend we see with Millennials are the really extreme forms of experiential exercise like Tough Mudder (a sort of filthy triathalon), the Color Run and even things like Hot Power Yoga, veganism, etc.,” he writes in his email to Pascal (which you can read on Wikileaks). “Millennials will often post ‘N.B.D.’ on their social media after doing it, as in No Big Deal, also known as the ‘humble brag’…..wondering if Spidey could get into that in some way….he’s super athletic, bendy, strong, intense….and it’s all NBD to him, of course.”

 

Of course! Everybody loves a humble brag! Particularly if it involves vegan food and yoga. Those are exactly the things missing in superhero movies.

 

Shore continues: “EDM (electronic dance music) is the defining music for Millennials. Wondering if there’s an EDM angle somewhere with Spidey? His movements are beautiful, would be awesome with a killer DJ behind it.”

 

Remember how 2003’s Daredevil was full of Nickelback and Hoobastank songs, because that’s what the kids were listening to? This sounds suspiciously like that. (Although, come to think of it, Skrillex would make a pretty good Spider-Man villain, what with the menacing mono-moniker and the black leather outfits. If an evil alien force weaponized his turntable, he’d be unstoppable!)

 

In fairness, this email is being seen out of context, and it feels more like these are marketing strategies to promote The Amazing Spider-Man 2 rather than suggestions for the films themselves. Nevertheless, the whole appeal of Peter Parker is that he’s a normal guy who struggles to keep it together in his daily life despite his celebrated crime-fighting alter ego. His spider powers make things more complicated for him; they are the opposite of NBD. Spidey is relatable in a way that Iron Man and Batman are not, and as a brand, that’s his real power.

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