When it comes to movies, you can have a spirit of generosity that accepts there are acceptable breaks from reality and little items that filmmakers can sneak in underneath the veil of suspension of disbelief.
Or you can be a nitpicky snarker. Guess which route the video we’re about to show you takes!
I was waiting for “Does not feature a Steve Ditko cameo”, but apparently there are standards too high even for the fussiest of nerds.
If there’s a problem with this video, it’s that it just lumps everything together under “cinematic sins”, as if continuity errors, inelegant screenwriting, unfortunate implications, cliches, and stuff that really you should not be whining about in a movie that’s about a teenager who swings from skyscrapers are the same thing.
I mean, seriously, the guy with the lightning reflexes and Spider-sense? I believe he can catch a can of liquid nitrogen. Now, storing a highly dangerous chemical on a rooftop…
Joking aside, as funny as this video is, it is worth noting that trying to elevate continuity errors and matters of taste to the level of gross offenses against art is a bit excessive, not to mention unfair to the artist.
We bring this up because the next video in the series will be The Avengers. You’ve been warned!
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Its pretty funny but I agree a lil too nit picky. its kind of ridiculous to complain about hologram technology that doesn’t exist in the real world in a movie about superhero’s. Has he done one for Iron Man where he complains about his suit?
Not yet, but I’m assuming that’s coming.
Yeah, bitching about the non-existent technology in a comic book movie is stupid. You know what else is non-existent; metahumans.
Says you. I’ve been bitten by a radioactive animal and after the vomiting wears off and the somewhat troubling swelling goes down, I’m totally going to have the superpowers of a rat.
Damn, I’m thirsty.
I find it odd that the creators of this video were so nitpicky, yet failed to even bring up the the fact that entirely glosses over what the hell the mutated police officers were doing the whole time they were lizard-people. I guess it’s assumed they were rampaging, BUT I WANNA SEE BLOODSHED GODDAMMIT.
BUT LADDERS.
I bought a ticket for this at my local theater. I had some free time so I went at an 11am matinee (new movies don’t get matinee prices, nice). About an hour into the film the theater lost power. Me and the other 8 or so people in the theater had a nice five minute chat about how terrible this movie was. Suddenly the theater manager made his entrance, announced the obvious loss of power, and offered to give us free passes to this film at a later date and a free pass for any future movie if we stayed and filled out a form.
Every single one of us got up and left without taking him up on his offer. We agreed we didn’t need to see the end to know how it ends.
I think I would’ve filled out the form just for the free pass to a future movie, or at least asked for a refund for wasting your time
I was going to say, dude, free movies!
Oh I can’t disagree with you on that, man. But in the moment it just felt so right to get the fuck out of there and not look back.
That shit happened to me back in the day when I saw Castaway, but I took the free ticket and saw a much better movie later that week.
Happened to me when I saw the Wolverine movie… best part about that movie. I think it is gods way of saying… “Yes, this movie sucks so here is a little something to make up for it.”
Bing. Not even once.
Seriously Bing
Eh, honestly, I’d rather the product placement than yet another goddamn movie using “Finder-Spyder”.
Videos like this annoy me (and sometimes the very funny “Honest Trailers” series) because even though all movies have things that can be critiqued and made fun of, they always go for the low-hanging fruit that really isn’t a mistake if you’ve been paying attention.
I think I just enjoy when Red Letter Media makes fun of movies because even when it gets nitpicky, they almost have this, “yeah we know we’re a bunch of idiots for spending our time on this” attitude.
This movie IS bad. But this video is just nitpicks, gaffes, and plot contrivances.
To paraphrase Red Letter Media, when they questioned how Bruce Wayne was able to get out of the prison: “I mean, what is this? A MOVIE?” Basically, you might as well not enjoy anything if you get hung up on nitpicks.
Now if the video discussed how the movie made Spider-Man a huge unlikable asshole or how the movie is a boring, generic, lifeless assemblage of tropes slapped together by studio execs on a conveyer belt, then we’d have a video.
See, I disagree. I think it’s a flawed movie in many respects, but I don’t think it deserves quite the beating it’s getting, either.
It was far from… Amazing, but it wasn’t the worst movie I saw in theaters this year (Savages). At least they made an effort with the whole science thing. Decent groundwork for a better sequel. Hopefully.
But jesus fucking christ, skateboarding Peter Parker and everything about the lizard’s design were terrible.
I havent seen this and i wont until its on HBO some boring saturday and im drinking at home
The liquid nitrogen bit bugged my wife, as it does in almost every movie it’s used in, as she used to work with it on a daily basis.
Storing it on a roof, you ask? Nooooo…. You see, to refill the containers, they use semis with massive hoses…but said hoses in no way are able to reach fifty stories. Nor would you want them to, as one leak and it’s hazmat time. One large leak and people are dropping like flies, since it displaces oxygen.
Wow, I really enjoyed this movie, but I also love when people nit pick and rage over stuff like this. I’m so torn.