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The Amazing Spider-Man

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Hey, I saw it!

I still prefer the Raimi ones- I LOVE the Raimi ones. But this was pretty good too.

What I liked:
-Gwen! I love Emma Stone and her Gwen was brilliant. And she got to do stuff and be all sciency. (Okay, we didn’t see her do that much sciency stuff, but still.) Please don’t let her die! Although I suspect it’ll end up that way anyway. Poor Gwen is doomed in every continuity.
-Andrew Garfield’s adorable performance
-Making Uncle Ben’s death even more heartwrenching, because if Peter hadn’t gotten angry and stormed off Ben wouldn’t have been out there in the first place. It was doubly Peter’s fault. Poor sod.
-Collllldplay. (Yeah, I like Coldplay. Sue me.)
-asdfghjkl was that Norman at the end? It was! (Wasn’t he lit in a green light? Gotta be him.)

What I didn’t like
-The sidelining of Aunt May. She’s so important in the comics and the original movies, but she was hardly in it! And at the end, where the Lizard’s going ‘You have no father, no mother, no uncle,’ I was so hoping the interrupting gunshot was Aunt May come to rescue her nephew. (That’s what Ultimate-verse May would have done.) But it wasn’t, it was Captain Stacey. Bah.
-On a similar note, (and Batman Begins suffers from this as well) both Peter’s parents were killed that night. Why does it only ever mention his father? Do we really need another father/son story, Hollywood? Why isn’t his mother just as important?

Also:
-If Norman’s dying, why is he spending all his money on funky glowing screens and holograms? IS THAT REALLY NECESSARY.
-Where was Jonah? He needs to be there. It doesn’t feel like a Spider-Man movie without him.
-And HARRY. Give me Harry so I can ship Peter/Harry some more.
-Can we have Karen Gillan as Mary Jane? Oh please oh please oh please.

I still think it’s missing the essential ingredients that made the original movies so great, though. The cheesiness, the crash-pow-comic-book-ness…plus the overriding theme of everyone just being good and pulling together and Spider-Man having help all the time and the villains never being entirely bad. (Except for Venom, I suppose.) I remember on my first day of Film Studies class, when we were asked to talk about our favourite movies, I said of Spider-Man 2, “It feels like it was made just for me,” and that’s a pretty rare thing, something I didn’t get with this movie. Still liked it, though.

30 Women

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Okay, this is a challenge antistar_e is doing, and it’s a wonderful idea and I want to do it too. :p

The challenge is to write 30 ficlets for 30 women. (I believe orginally it said fabulous women…but some of these people are downright nasty characters.)

(Doctor Who)

1. Martha Jones

2. Donna Noble

3. Rose Tyler

4. Nancy (from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)

5. Francine Jones

6. Sylvia Noble

7. Jackie Tyler

(Star Wars)*

8. Beru Lars

(Spider-Man movieverse)

9. Mary Jane Watson

10. Gwen Stacy

11. Ursula Ditkovich

12. Emily Osborn**

(Holes)

13. Kate Barlow

14. The Warden

(Watchmen)

15. Laurie Juspecyzk

16. Sally Jupiter –kindle a light

17. Gloria Long

18. Rorscarch’s mother

(Atonement)

19. Briony Tallis

20. Grace Turner

21. Cecilia Tallis

22. Fiona

(Batman Begins/The Dark Knight)

23. Rachel Dawes

24. Barbara Gordon

(Harry Potter)

25. Dolores Umbridge

26. Hermione’s mother

(Lord of the Rings)

27. Eowyn

(Blind Faith)***

28. Sandra Dee

(V for Vendetta)

29. Evey

30. Evey’s mother

*Not including Leia or Padme because I’m no good at writing them.

**Okay, she’s not actually in the movies, but she’s mentioned. I wrote her in Faith In Humanity and I like my version of her.

***This is a Ben Elton novel. It’s probably not that good a novel but I like it all the same.

Sit Down Next To Me- an Ursula Ditkovich fanmix

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I confess; this contains a few bits of my own fanon, but there’s nothing too distracting. Just playing up the ideas that 1) due to her shyness Ursula spends most of her time alone- and is not entirely happy with this- and 2) that, spending so much time in close promixity to Peter, she’s guessed his real identity but keeps it to herself. Which might be reaching, but I love the thought. ;)

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Spidey 3

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In today’s random-fandom news: Thomas Hayden Church is playing a/the villain in Spider-Man 3

So because I’ve been meaning to post this for aaaages, and because I’ve already posted what I would like to happen in the upcoming chapters of my other Big Fandoms-

On the villain: Almost everyone seems to want Venom, but I…well, I don’t know. I think the main problem is that they haven’t introduced Brock- sure, he was mentioned in the first movie, but most casual movie-goers won’t remember. They could of course introduce him at the beginning of the movie with no trouble at all, but I think they already have a lot of things to deal with…namely Peter, MJ and Harry. I’d rather see how things work out between all of them, and have the new villain on the sidelines this time. (And yeah, I do kinda want Harry to be the main villain…)

On the Peter/MJ relationship: My guess is that there will be one minor arguement between them, then it’ll be quickly resolved when the action begins. John Jameson the Jilted will probably be at least mentioned, although I seriously seriously doubt they’ll have her going back to him. (Would be interesting if he showed up again, though)

On Harry: Sadly, I don’t think he’s going to survive to the end of the movie :( My guess is he’ll either a) Become the Goblin and go to take out Peter, or b) spend a good amount of his screentime arguing with his father’s ghost. Or some combination of the two. Sam Raimi actually did say that he didn’t know whether Harry would be the next Goblin or not, but I think the problem is, if he’s not, that doesn’t really leave him with an awful lot to do in the movie. And yeah, if they do take the Goblin route I think he’ll end up dead by the end. And redeemed of any past evilness, because I refuse to believe they might *not* do that…we’ve known this guy for two movies, he can’t go out a villain. XD

Other stuff: I actually really want to see the Lizard, but I guess not. :p

Truth be told, though? As long as they keep Sam Raimi as the director (which they are) I’m not too worried. :)

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I was looking through my vast collection of Spider-Man 2 screencaps and something jumped out at me…

You see the woman in the portrait next to Harry? Is that Mrs Osborn? His mother? Because she looks like him, whoever she is…

EDIT: And Harry has the same picture in his apartment. (You have to look closely for it, but it’s there). Guess that settles it. ;)

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