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CyberCubed
06-11-2016, 02:19 AM
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/10/stan-lee-reveals-his-favorite-comic-book-movie

Legendary comic book writer Stan Lee's favorite comic book movie is the first Spider-Man film.

"I think my favorite comic book movie was the first one that was such a hit, the first Spider-Man," Lee said in reply to a fan on Facebook, going on to add that "everything else seemed easy" for the comic book movies that followed once that film was made.


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How does this make you feel? Aw yeah.

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Powder
06-11-2016, 03:20 AM
TMNT aside, I think I'm inclined to agree.
Shark_Blade
06-11-2016, 04:38 AM
I can't stand Tobey Maguire but I feel everything but him are definitely great in the movie. So I can see where Stan Lee is coming from.

Willem Dafoe is charismatic and magnificent, James Franco is captivating, Kristen Dunst is pretty, Aunt May and Uncle Ben are the closest representation of the comics imo.

Just replace Tobey with Andrew Garfield and everything would've been perfect. And maybe Emma Stone as Mary Jane. Because the two of them have a great chemistry together,

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ZariusTwo
06-11-2016, 04:59 AM
It's not the best in a deeply flawed and dated trilogy, but it has charm and it feels like it captures an authentic NYC feel.
chrisdude
06-11-2016, 06:50 AM
First movie I was insanely out of my mind hyped for.i still remember the first time I heard about it, on the cover of a Wizard magazine, and watching the trailer for the first time in a Suncoast video store. Makes me wish I was 13 again. I still have that Wizard issue.
TheSkeletonMan939
06-11-2016, 06:53 AM
Good pick. I really like all three Raimi Spidey films. Even the third one.
ToTheNines
06-11-2016, 07:39 AM
I personally feel that the Raimi trilogy has aged about as well as whole milk...
Casey
06-11-2016, 07:49 AM
I like his quote that everything was easy after that. I think that is awesome because he realizes how well they set up the formula. The only place I disagree is what Joss Whedon had to do with The Avengers. That almost killed him.
ZariusTwo
06-11-2016, 07:54 AM
I personally feel that the Raimi trilogy has aged about as well as whole milk...

Yeah, but let's face it, most of Spider-Man dates pretty badly. Most of the cartoons may be fun, but are quite hokey, and people love to pick on the 90s series for it's network restrictions at the time.

I can count on one hand how many "timeless" stories there are in the comics also, and even those ones are eventually tainted by gimmickry and retcons that invalidate them...unless, like me, you pretend nothing past 1999 ever happened and assume the series ended with the Spider-Girl comics (though that does mean pretending JMS's run did'nt happen and I like that a lot)
Redeemer
06-11-2016, 10:45 AM
I can't stand Tobey Maguire but I feel everything but him are definitely great in the movie. So I can see where Stan Lee is coming from.

Willem Dafoe is charismatic and magnificent, James Franco is captivating, Kristen Dunst is pretty, Aunt May and Uncle Ben are the closest representation of the comics imo.

Just replace Tobey with Andrew Garfield and everything would've been perfect. And maybe Emma Stone as Mary Jane. Because the two of them have a great chemistry together,

http://i.imgur.com/inO8Icw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/deqKi1s.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/vFW7AVR.gif
http://i.imgur.com/rvd6VAD.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/lXmYRNU.gif

I agree, I feel like Tobey Maguire did a mediocre interpretation of Peter Paker/ Spiderman, but not entirely his fault the character was not written well imo.
Andrew Garfield did an amazing job as spider-man, he really captured Spiderman's sarcastic and up beat personality. I also agree Garfield and Emma Stone's chemistry was amazing!!.

My biggest grip about the trilogy is not even Tobey Maguire its actually the entire third movie. Especially Eddie Brock/ Venom holy crap was that done so horribly :cry: I was so hyped about Venom at the time too...... :cry:
The Deadman
06-11-2016, 10:54 AM
http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Spiderman_d05a3d_396861.gif

After seeing that gif I feel dead inside.
Spike Spiegel
06-11-2016, 11:45 AM
The first two Singer X-Men films are way better, IMHO.

But the first Spider-Man movie definitely straddled the line between serious and campy in a way that appealed to a very broad demographic.
CyberCubed
06-11-2016, 01:09 PM
The Spiderman films hold up fine to this day. There's not much difference in a superhero movie from 2002 and a movie from 2016 to be honest.
raph27
06-11-2016, 04:45 PM
I like the first trilogy. They're not the best superhero movies ever, but they're decent. Even 3 IMO.
T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
06-11-2016, 05:28 PM
First movie I was insanely out of my mind hyped for.i still remember the first time I heard about it, on the cover of a Wizard magazine, and watching the trailer for the first time in a Suncoast video store. Makes me wish I was 13 again. I still have that Wizard issue.
Remember the trailer that contained a scene that was pulled because of 9/11? I know a guy that has a poster of the helicopter webbed between the two towers that is actually signed by Stan Lee. That thing is evidently worth a fortune now. I don't think I could ever sell it under the circumstances though.
T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
06-11-2016, 05:32 PM
I agree, I feel like Tobey Maguire did a mediocre interpretation of Peter Paker/ Spiderman, but not entirely his fault the character was not written well imo.
Andrew Garfield did an amazing job as spider-man, he really captured Spiderman's sarcastic and up beat personality. I also agree Garfield and Emma Stone's chemistry was amazing!!.

My biggest grip about the trilogy is not even Tobey Maguire its actually the entire third movie. Especially Eddie Brock/ Venom holy crap was that done so horribly :cry: I was so hyped about Venom at the time too...... :cry:

I've always said the same thing about Garfield. He really nailed the actual "Spiderman" aspect of the character. Tobey just wasn't nearly smartypants enough. Then the whole emo kid thing in part 3 just drove me crazy.
T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
06-11-2016, 05:35 PM
Yeah, but let's face it, most of Spider-Man dates pretty badly. Most of the cartoons may be fun, but are quite hokey, and people love to pick on the 90s series for it's network restrictions at the time.

I can count on one hand how many "timeless" stories there are in the comics also, and even those ones are eventually tainted by gimmickry and retcons that invalidate them...unless, like me, you pretend nothing past 1999 ever happened and assume the series ended with the Spider-Girl comics (though that does mean pretending JMS's run did'nt happen and I like that a lot)

I like the JMS run also until stupid Joey Q decided to destroy the whole franchise because of his hatred for married superheroes. I really can't stand Joey and I mean man it is pure visceral animosity that I feel for the guy. Mainly because of what he done to Spidey. One More Day and Brand New Day are two of the worst things ever to exist in my opinion and they are all on him. Even JMS said that there were certain things he was forced to do that he didn't want to do. I'd say he can't stand Joey to this day.
ZariusTwo
06-12-2016, 04:36 AM
I'd say he can't stand Joey to this day.

Yeah, JMS ultimately stopped writing for Marvel because he kept clashing with the editors over what to include due to all those ridiculous crossover events. His Thor run was sabotaged. He wanted to stay on Spider-Man indefinitely too, but he did'nt want to keep writing him after OMD.

Stan Lee and his brother Larrry control the ASM newspaper strip and they made the decision to keep Peter and MJ together over there, revealing Brand New Day was nothing but a bad dream, as a result Spidey's remained married for 29 years.
Shark_Blade
06-12-2016, 07:07 AM
And I think J Jonah really helps a lot with the immersion of Raimi's trilogy.

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Mayhem
06-12-2016, 09:15 AM
Yeah, I think JK Simmons was a great casting for him.
MsMarvelDuckie
06-12-2016, 04:17 PM
Absolutely! The Raimi Spidey films are my faves too- well, now Deadpool too, but those still hold a special place in my heart.
Candy Kappa
06-12-2016, 04:26 PM
I can definetivly see why it's his favorite, to bad he never got to one-up Bob Kane with the movie release.

The first Raimi movie have aged a lot better then X-Men and FF.
Wesley
06-14-2016, 10:02 AM
It's my favourite superhero movie as well, partly for sentimental reasons, as it was the first comic book film that I remember really liking. Spiderman 2 was great, too. 3 had potential, but I thought it was mostly bad.
CyberCubed
06-14-2016, 11:56 AM
Who thinks Tobey should have a cameo in Spiderman 2017?
ProphetofGanja
06-14-2016, 12:42 PM
Who thinks Tobey should have a cameo in Spiderman 2017?

We could catch a glimpse of a bumbling nerd chasing after some dropped papers while Peter visits a college campus :lol: any type of cameo would be pretty funny. I liked Tobey as Spider-Man even if the plot/writing of his trilogy started to suck, a little nod to those films would be cool
TheSkeletonMan939
06-14-2016, 12:48 PM
It'd be pretty cool if they could get both him and Andrew Garfield to interact in a cameo.
ProphetofGanja
06-14-2016, 03:38 PM
It'd be pretty cool if they could get both him and Andrew Garfield to interact in a cameo.

even just seeing the two of them standing in line at a coffee shop or something would be cool

any problems I had with their respective Spider-Man movie series were not their faults, at least directly
ToTheNines
06-14-2016, 04:23 PM
Tobey should cameo on To Catch a Predator with Chris Hansen. Creepy ****.
Cure
06-14-2016, 04:24 PM
I laughed.
CyberCubed
06-15-2016, 02:32 AM
I'm happy to see Stan Lee cameos and talks about the Spiderman and X-men movies that aren't produced by Marvel. Have no idea why Marvel likes to pretend they don't exist and screw over the X-men in the comics.

Marvel at war with its two biggest franchises never made much sense.
ProphetofGanja
06-15-2016, 09:31 AM
I'm happy to see Stan Lee cameos and talks about the Spiderman and X-men movies that aren't produced by Marvel. Have no idea why Marvel likes to pretend they don't exist and screw over the X-men in the comics.

Marvel at war with its two biggest franchises never made much sense.

I wish they'd never sold the rights in the first place.

Spider-Man, Deadpool, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, they all belong at Marvel, that's their home. Now Sony has to be involved with the Spider-Man movies when they really don't need to be, they did not do a great job with the two ASM movies
Cropsy
06-18-2016, 09:59 PM
2 is better.
ToTheNines
06-20-2016, 05:09 PM
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Spike Spiegel
06-21-2016, 01:13 PM
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TheSkeletonMan939
06-23-2016, 11:04 AM
Now Sony has to be involved with the Spider-Man movies when they really don't need to be, they did not do a great job with the two ASM movies

I think Sony is only there for a cut of the revenue. They should realize that it's in everyone's best interests, including their own, for them to stay far away from the film from a creative standpoint.