Spider-Man: Lotus
 

(2022 trailer)



The controversial crowd-funded fanfilm premiers August 10th on Youtube. It also had a red carpet premiere event over the weekend.

Had a lot of momentum behind it before the director and lead actor got outed for racist conduct online.

So it's another one of those 'its a great project but created by the wrong person' kinda deals.

Who cares about the guy's conduct, he wasn't the only one that worked on it. The rest of the crew deserve to see the fruits of their labor.

The rest of the crew quit part way through because of the controversy though. Which given that it's a fan film that was only going to be known for it, impossible to blame them.

Irony is that the current way of public shame and societal cancellation don't do anything to actually change attitudes. It's just "vengeance over words" from the "word-pansy generation" of trophy-getters.

Not that I agree with racist chatter from these guys - I don't. But I'm not even remotely a sheep and I can't stand it when dumb people do dumb things but think they are smart and virtuous for it.

I actually think that's more evil than someone's dumb-mouth.

Didn't know this was a thing until today. Can't wait!

Yikes, fresh controversy

This production is cursed.

General consensus is the movie is pretty bad, some of the complaints seem to come from people who weren't aware it was a character study that adhered to the original comics, although some did understand that and still didn't like how they approached the characters.

I found myself enjoying some parts of it, but it needed a huge recut, the Shocker fight for instance? Save that for the end, as it stands the entire third act goes without a boss fight, if there is, it's the conversation where you're rooting for the kid's fricking mom as she tells Spidey to behave himself, go back in the room, and cheer her dying son up.

Some years back there was this Indiana Jones documentary called "Indy Fans". You can buy it on DVD, probably stream it, etc. It had so much hype built up behind it - grass roots marketing and everything.

Then it came out and it was awful. It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen - so circumplexic. Basically it wasn't a documentary about "Indiana Jones" at all - it became a parody of itself and was, no joke, basically documentary about itself. The documentary they released was almost as if they took the special features about making the Indy Fans movie and made that the movie. In the end, the best content they had was an interview with a guy about an Indiana Jones rollercoaster.

That reminds me of this Spider-Man flick in that the hype for it was real - it had something going for it. Good intentions - but then you start watching it and you can tell immediately that they overplayed the grassroots marketing and phoned in the fan film. It's as if that early on someone did the cool CGI swinging scene and then they thought enough about it that they could build a "movie" around the capability.