The Amazing Spider-Man Films Review

Hey, it's your friendly neighborhood Spider -Man

here, and I'm swinging by the Geekcast Radio

Network. In July, spiders crawl there, July 3rd,

2012, ten years ago. The Amazing Spider -Man

hit the big screens. I was 32 years old at that

time, and I think you were 26. And I don't remember

if I saw this in theaters or not. I think I saw

the first one in theater. I know I didn't. I

know I have not seen the second one until just

right before this recording. So the first one,

though, I do not remember. whether I saw it in

theaters or not. And I can't even go back in

my movie stub collection to look to see because

I'm pretty sure I didn't see this in theaters.

But that's right, folks. You're here inside the

studio 2009 only on the GeekCaster network as

we talk about the web double shot. How did you

get out there? Fire escape. It's 20 stories.

Your doorman's intimidating. Tell us a little

bit about yourself, Mr. Parker. Not much to tell,

really. Peter lives with his aunt and uncle.

Did you catch that spider guy yet? No, but we

will. This guy wears a mask like an outlaw. I

think he's trying to do something maybe the police

can't. Can't? You know, if you're gonna steal

cars, don't dress like a car thief. You a cop?

You seriously think I'm a cop in a skin -tie

red -and -blue suit? Who are you? I know it's

been rough for you, Peter. I forgot all about

that thing. It was your dad's. Your father was

a very secretive man, Peter. Dr. Clunters. I'm

Richard Parker's son. Your father and I were

gonna change the lives of millions, including

mine. Extraordinary. How did you come up with

this? There's a rumor of a new species in New

York. You can be aggressive if threatened. I

gotta stop him because I created him. of New

York's finest versus one guy in a unit art. If

you want the truth, Peter, come and get it. I

am issuing an arrest warrant for the masked vigilante

known as Spider -Man. I'm in trouble. Both films

directed by Mark Webb and starring Andrew Garfield

as Peter Parker's Spider -Man. He's more Parker

than Spider -Man, I feel. I agree. He is a better

Peter Parker than a Spider -Man. Yeah. Whereas

I felt Toby was a better Spider -Man than a Peter

Parker. Yeah, yeah. Re -watching this first movie,

I like it. I think it's good. I think it was

right in that whole era of, I mean, we've always

been in an era of, we must restart this for everybody

and tell the origin story for the non -geeks

out there. And that's fine. I don't even know

what was going on in 2012 when this came out.

Oh, man. My kid was born. Well, there you go.

That ear. Your oldest, right? Yep, my first.

Yep. Yay, there you go. Steve was a little too

busy to watch Spider -Man, folks. No, I'm not

in theater. No, I know. But I'm just trying to

think, like, 2012 comic book movies, 2012, like...

Oh, Avengers, duh. Oh, yeah, I saw that in theater,

too. Oh, yeah, I remember seeing Avengers in

theaters. I went with booth booth ninja. I remember

you telling us about it. Yeah, and yeah the amazing

spider -man What I like about this one is it's

it tells the origin story But it tells it from

a very different perspective than the classic

comic book version these two movies Combine a

lot of the old animated series stuff Because

we start with Richard Parker, Peter Parker's

father. And you know, his top secret things with

the government and all that and everything else.

So you have Richard and Mary Parker, which I

thought was a cool way to like, you know, showing

their. How they died and all that and everything

else. I thought that was cool and fun and interesting

and different, a different way to. Show the origin

story and then we do get the classic of Peter

and Uncle Ben arguing and then Peter Let's a

criminal go instead of not stop. Well, I mean

it's still the same thing It's just it's in a

convenience store this time instead of the sporting

arena than it was in the classics The one thing

I noticed in this movie. I'm pretty sure nobody

said with great power comes great responsibility

I don't think it's in there at all. I think it

might. So this whole plot revolves around Peter

finding out that his father worked with Dr. Kurt

Connors. And they were doing all kinds of stuff

with cross species genetics. And of course this

also leads to Oz Corp and Norman Osborne and

Harry Osborne and that was the other thing I

found interesting with these two films is that.

Norman, at least in this film, he's alive at

one point and then he's not. And then the rest

of it, between this film and the second film,

it's Harry and Peter. It has nothing to do with

the classic Norman Osborn, Green Goblin. So I

thought that was interesting. What else did you

find interesting about this first movie? The

dynamics plus the fact that he wasn't with an

MJ. That's the other classic thing here is this

is the Gwen Stacy story. Which was nice to see

that angle because they started to do it in Spider

-Man 3. Yeah. And then it kind of just, it just

blew over. Yeah, it didn't. So seeing it happen

here was kind of different. And it wasn't, I

didn't dislike the movie. I liked Dennis Leary's

character of playing Captain Stacy. Yeah, that

wasn't like... I don't remember what Captain

Stacy was like in the comics, because I don't

think I've read that far back yet, but that was

an interesting casting choice and it absolutely

works. Oh, yeah, he plays that role really well.

The other thing that I noticed about this one

is something that I'm glad they tackled it here.

Mechanical web shooters. Mm hmm. Yay. Although

that's a funny gimmick in the The no way home.

Yep. Yeah, I figured it would be I mean that's

just an easy way to to do that and Yeah, it is

what it is I overall I enjoyed this again. I

Like really did not remember seeing this so I

Enjoy the story. I love that Gwen automatically

not like There's no hiding it. There's no sneaking

around. There's no nothing You know, it's just

she knows she's in on it and it works Plus she's

too smart for it. Well true very very true What

else do we want to say about the what did you

think of the effects in this one? Definitely

a lot better than the previous spider -man trilogy.

Yeah however The effects -wise, great. I did

not like the villain, but that was because I

just find the lizard to be creepy. Yeah, I kind

of agree with you there. Well, the lizard is

creepy and he was very creepy in this. I mean,

even Spidey regrowing the whole thing in the

high school with the tail. He pulls the tail

off of him and he regrows a tail and the pulled

-off tail does all kinds of weird wacky things

to him while, while Librarian Stan Lee, may ye

rest in peace, Stan Lee, but that was Stan's

cameo this time around. He was playing music

with headphones on in the library. So that was

interesting to see Stan do the cameo here. Uh,

yeah, I mean. The effects are what the effects

are I mean for 2012 effects had come a long way

and I think they were done very very well and

I think they were using the whole dual villain

because I mean Connors is and isn't the villain

the lizard part of his brain is the villain He's

not and then you have Harry who eventually becomes

Green Goblin So two villains still that's that's

okay that's fine it's nothing compared to what

will get. Next time and what they were actually

planning on doing which that would have been

crazy this would be crazy awesome to see on screen

i don't know if. The mcu will do what they were

hoping to do originally here but. Yeah no amazing

spider man i really dug it i thought it was cool.

Interesting note though. Emma Stone, who plays

Gwen Stacy. She, the actress, also acted with

another Kurt Connors. So, and most people may

or may not know this. A lot of people haven't

seen the series, but there was a short -lived

series in 2007 on Fox called Drive. It was six

episodes. It was a blink and you miss it kind

of thing. But the original doctor kirk connors

from the remy films dylan baker plays her father

in that six episode television series nice. Yeah

cuz i was like wait a minute i've heard that

voice before i've seen that face before i know

it's emma stone but where's the spidey connection

where all right two thousand sevens drive very

cool very cool. And this was was this the first

time a sony superhero film used a mid credit

scene. Maybe because i remember it teased a lot

of his villains. Yeah so the mid credit scene

in this is basically connor speaking with a man

in shadows and this always pissed me off even

in twenty twelve. Because speaks in chat as if

Peter knows the truth about his father Connors

doesn't know and demands that Peter be left alone

before the man disappears and Even back then

I'm like, that's the mid credit scene and they're

obviously trying to set up something But they

have not set it up. So yeah, and I'm just kind

of looking through here on On IMDB and I do not

see with great power comes great responsibility

under the quotes I mean, hey, if they don't want

to include it, they don't want to include it.

And that's the other thing that was cool is the

twist up of Uncle Ben's, uh, like his, like how

he was able, like leaving the voicemail instead

of being able to actually have a conversation

with Peter, which happened in the Remy trilogy.

Anything else you want to say about this one?

Anything I missed? Anything that we haven't gone

over? I don't think so. I mean, I definitely

felt it was more. More modern movie. Just based

on effects compared to the previous Spider -Man

trilogy. Yeah. And it felt darker. It felt. Yeah,

you had some lighter moments and to some degree,

I would argue that it was better. And not only

effects, because I mean, going back to the Remy

trilogy, Spider -Man jumping off the building

in the first movie was pretty. hilariously bad

when he first learned to leap. But here, it felt

more like a movie instead of more real, if that

makes any sense. Yeah. Whereas the Raimi trilogy

felt more like real life with Spider -Man. And

this felt more like just a blockbuster movie.

Yeah. I think it's more of because again, you

have to switch up this like you can't just cut

in pace because they weren't trying to tell I

mean they have all the classic story bits in

there with Uncle Ben and Aunt May and all that

and and everything else but like I said there's

no MJ there's Gwen instead and Gwen knows as

she should and and all that and I found the cast

of this one really interesting though like I

completely forgot Mama Gump, Sally Field was

May Parker in this. And Martin Sheen as Uncle

Ben, I did not remember that at all. And I didn't

have a problem with that casting or with Gwen

or with Captain Stacy or even to some degree,

Andrew Garfield bothered me, but not for the

reasons you might expect. Like not, not because

it wasn't Toby, but because it was just. A different

rendition, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Yeah.

And, but looking at, looking at like the Oscorp.

You know, Harry Osborn and Norman just didn't

really do it for me. Well, and again, I mean,

Harry, I can see why it's not exactly. Oscar

performance i will give it up to norman a little

seeing is how they had him on his deathbed here

that is actor chris cooper. Chris cooper was

the guy who was in the and i'm speaking slowly

because i'm trying to remember what the hell.

I know it was a great expectations but there

was a movie series that he was in the yellow.

He was in Muppets. He was the evil dude in the

Muppets with, um, oh, the, the, the... Maniacal

laugh. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal

laugh. It was, it's that guy. Oh. Yeah. So with,

with Snedley or Nedley or whatever, whatever

the Muppets name is, he played the evil theater

owner. In the muppets but there was another movie

where i believe. Was it the born films i think

he was in one of the jason born films i'm just

trying to think of movies that you would know

that i know that he's been in. Andrew garfield

is as pete is great i just don't think the best

spider man scene he had in this film. Is that

very first guy he catches the criminal where

he's like webbing him up and doing the web shooter

thing to him against the wall and then he's like

oh here shut up any you know web's his mouth

i think that was his best spidey stuff yeah the

rest of it. It's all peter parker and i agree

i really like before this the only thing i had

ever seen andrew garfield in was the social network

with jesse eisenberg as mark zuckerberg and he

played. Eduardo Savarin, so this is the second

film that I had seen him in at the time. Amazing

Spider -Man 2012. This actually came out two

months after The Avengers. The Avengers hit on

May 4th, so the Avengers took Spider -Man's may

the fourth be with you slot. That's funny. All

right, we're gonna take a quick break and come

back with the amazing spider -man 2 after this

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Every day I wake up knowing that the more people

I try to save, the more enemies I will make.

And it's just a matter of time before I face

those with more power than I can overcome. I'm

so sorry I'm late. I had a traffic thing. Did

your traffic jam have anything to do with being,

I don't know, shot at by machine guns? Yeah,

yeah. Oh, that was implied. That was implying

that. Peter Park. Barry Osborn. You're going

to want to see this. Oscorp. And you under surveillance.

Why? Isn't that the question of the day? There's

something you're not telling me, Aunt May. I

once told you this. Secrets have a cost. The

truth does too. My name is Richard Parker. I

have discovered what Oscorp was going to use

my research for. I have a responsibility to protect

the world from what I know they're capable of.

What is all this? The future. We literally can

change the world. What about Peter? Not everyone

has a happy ending. This is bigger than you,

Peter. I made a choice. This is my path. Soon

everyone in the city will know how it feels to

live. And it is time for The Amazing Spider -Man

2. In this one, we get more, again, because this

is a sequel, we get more of the Richard Parker

recording the video message to explain his disappearance

and all that. And then we jump to the present

day. Present day, two years after his battle

with Dr. Kirk Connors. So we have Spider -Man

apprehending this criminal, Oleski... I can't

even pronounce him. He's gonna eventually be

the Rhino. Oh, Paul Giamatti. Yeah, Paul Giamatti's

character. We see Peter having reservations about

the relationship with Gwen because of what happened

at the end of the first movie of him promising

Captain Stacy that he would stay away from her

and you know all of that Gwen actually Ends the

relationship after graduation and Then Harry

Osborn returns to Manhattan to see his terminally

ill father Norman Uh, you know, basically die.

And you also have Max Dillon. Electro. And he

was such a, like they gave him the stereotypical

nerd. It was just, I don't know, it was kind

of off -putting. Yeah. Like the glasses and the

almost like Steve Urkel -ism. It's like, okay,

this is like not even. The definition of a nerd

by today's standards. Yeah, it was so so played

out and stupid And the funny thing is is oh that's

why what that is that explains everything Jamie

for Jamie Fox. No What look who it's written

by? Oh Yes, we will get to that. Yeah We will

get to that in about five seconds here. So I

wanted to make sure, and I know they wouldn't

do this, but I know Electro from 1994's Spider

-Man the Animated Series, where he was played

by the Red Skull's son. So I did not know about

the Maxwell Dillon character. There is also Francine

Fryer. But yes, since you... This is why I didn't

like this movie. I couldn't figure it out until

just now. There was still something that just

bothered me with it, like how badly it was written.

Yes. And it explains a lot. Everything. It's

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orsi. And it seems

like everything they touched around that time

was garbage. When they did the Star Trek reboot,

the first one, okay, the first one was good.

I'll give it that. The second one was utter trash.

And then they had nothing to do with the third

one and it was good. But because the second one

was trash, it ruined the reputation of the third

one. And they're also the same ones that wrote

the Transformers movies up to a certain point.

And they wrote the rebooted Mummy movie, which

is why it sucks. Yeah, a lot of their... I will

say specifically for Alex, the only thing, and

I don't know if Roberto was on this... Roberto

kind of dropped off the face of the map after

late 2017. Yeah. But Alex... He wrote Mission

Impossible 3, which was actually a really good

Mission Impossible movie, and then the first

Transformers, and then obviously, like you said,

Star Trek. Well, and he did Revenge of the Fallen,

the Cowboys and Aliens, and it was the same guys

partnered together until 2017, and then they

split. Yep. And some of those movies that they

have on their credentials, okay, I liked Eagle

Eye, I liked The Island. I liked the first Star

Trek and the first Transformers, but other than

that, Now You See Me was okay. I didn't mind

that. Yeah, I like Now You See Me. I like both

of those. But Kurtzman, funny enough, he's got

his hands in the Star Trek pie. Oh, yeah. Which

is why I don't really like any of the new stuff.

Well, that kind of explains to me now because

I you're the Trekkie I'm not that should be established

on this show if it hasn't already been already

and Like I'm scrolling down Wikipedia and I'm

like, oh no wonder Steve doesn't like any of

the Discovery or in this is the funny thing though

Discovery is terrible. Like he's director writer

executive producer creator The short tracks didn't

much care for those either, but he didn't write

them all or direct them all. Picard, he didn't

write them. He's the executive producer, but

the show was still pretty crap. Strange New Worlds,

he actually doesn't have anything to do with

it, even though it says writer and everything.

It was created by the other guy. He's the executive

producer, but he actually is executive producer

only on Lower Decks and Prodigy, which are animated,

and those are the best ones. Yes, Transformers

Prime was good for what it was, but again, I

feel like the animation stuff did fared better

with them at the helm than any of their live

action stuff. Their live action stuff is absolute

garbage. The Strange New Worlds is actually kind

of a Kiva Goldsmiths baby, which is why it's

actually good. He wanted to get back to episodic

Trek and he was kind of listening to the fans

and he has an in with with CBS Paramount And

so that's created by him Kurtzman and then this

Jenny Lumet Lumet Which I don't know who that

is, but But anyways Akiva wanted Strange new

worlds, which is why that's the only bearable

to watch live -action Trek show Yeah, but yeah,

I don't know I'm Pretty much anything Hertzman

touches, I just have this bad taste in my mouth

automatically because I know that he's going

to bastardize whatever it is. I've been rewatching

Alias because Alias is one of my favorite shows

and Alias had other writers besides him on it.

But just that whole thing, that's my... One,

J .J. Abrams thing that I absolutely love all

the way through all five seasons of it, but yeah.

Back to this film. Yes, back to this film. I

didn't mind Jamie Foxx. I really didn't like

The Goblin. Yeah. It was an interesting take,

but I really didn't like it. Paul Giamatti was

kind of a cliff note. you know, to bookend it.

Yeah. And, okay, I actually would have preferred

more of him and less of Goblin or less of Electro.

What I like about this film is what it tries

to set up. It tries to lead them into the Sinister

Six. I think that was a good, like, yes, have

the Electro story. I like that those were all

experiments of Oscorp. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And

I like the angle of Richard Parker and his, you

know, his whole scientific, his whole science

aspect. And then, you know, basically infusing

Peter with the, you know, having the specialized

blood that's only tailored to that spider, you

know, that he's the only one that was able to

partake of it. That's the other interesting thing

that they did with this film and the first film

is that At first I thought they were just gonna

straight copy the title sequence from the from

the Sam Raimi trilogy they don't know and I like

that but with these spiders and how the discovery

of what Richard Parker was working on I like

all of that visual. I like that kind of spiders

frozen in time kind of visual thing. And yeah,

the one thing I noticed that he doesn't have

in this. Like, yes, he has super strength. He

has fast reflux. They don't say anything about

spider sense. They don't do anything with spider

sense. I don't know if that was because they

didn't want to bring it up or didn't want to,

and that's fine. not saying a peter parker spider

man doesn't have to have spider sense but. At

first in the beginning of this movie in the beginning

of the last movie when he first gets his parents

i'm like oh the quick reflexes it's because spider

sense but they never showed us any spider sense

so my okay then maybe he doesn't have the spider

sense and that's fine. Like i said i like the

mechanical web shooters i like how much this

one reminds me. of episodes of the old 90s animated

series because of very little. Hello, Sinister

Six right there. You got it right there. It's

on the on the cusp of being a thing. And then

it went away. Yeah, sadly, the. Electro thing,

it was goofy. I liked how they did play into

the music. Yes, sound with the electrical aspect,

which was nice. But other than that, I didn't

really care for him. Yeah. I didn't find... First

of all, Max is more self -deprecating than I

am on my own self half the time. You hear me

say every episode, I'm a 14 years of crappy podcasting

from TFD1 Mike. I know it's technically not true,

but like this guy, this character, and I don't

know if he's always been this way in the comics

or whatever else, but like he's like, oh, you

noticed like he goes from being so negative about

himself to, oh, Spider -Man saved me. We're now

best friends. I must stop Spider -Man. Don't

go to don't go from one extreme to the other.

Like, come on, but. I just couldn't connect with

his, like, I'm so glad, I'm so glad that even

with this being a curtsy, Ortsman or Ortsman

-Curcy thing, it didn't rely on quoting a different

franchise when Electro got the power. We don't

need Jamie Foxx quoting Emperor Palpatine Please

and thank you and thankfully they didn't do that.

But other than that the effects in this I absolutely

love I thought it was great One of the I mean

what we've seen electricity in films before and

we've seen it in other films just in general

and I think it looks really good here. I don't

know if it was because Andrew was a I don't want

to say he's a bad Spider -Man but I don't remember

a not like he yes he does web swing in these

two movies but not as much as we saw Toby doing

I don't think he did more of the crawling around

and kind of leaping and yeah that was that was

this yeah yeah that okay so what they did was

they they took yes he does do web swinging I'm

not saying he doesn't They took that though and

then divvied it up amongst everything else because

what he does have in this is what something that

Toby's didn't. Impact webbing I love that. Where

he just shoots little web balls at you and they

explode sort of kind of so instead of just webbing

somebody up. You create this web ball just shoot

it right at him bing bing bing bing bing just

absolutely love that one overall it's not. The

worst Spider -Man set of films. It's just different.

That's all it is. And there are plenty of things

to like and dislike about these two films, just

as there are plenty of things to dislike in part

one when we talked about the Toby films. Yeah.

And I didn't like how they killed. Norman. Gwen.

Oh, yes. The god. That was like so that was so

like heartbreaking to watch. You mean her father?

Or did she die too? She died too. She died because

of the dream. Oh, that's right. That's right.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. Oh, right. Friggin' Harry.

That's right. I just watched this a day or two

ago, folks. My memory is mush. I watched it two

months ago. But, yeah, I was like, oh, that's

horrible. And then he has to like live with it

and like so like he's you know you could you

could feel the depression. Yeah oh yeah Gwen's

death yeah so that okay so that's what I like

I don't like the fact that the character died

but it showed him having to deal with a real

trauma with the plot point and trauma with him

being guilt -ridden and depressed over her death.

Peter ends his career as spider -man and he's

you know a little boy Going up against the Rhino

and then he's like he's like I can't let this

kid do this. I Love that that scene. I Really?

He's like all right. I got it. I can take it

from here. I love that that That was a great

ending And then he used the manhole covers and

went after the rhino. Yep. And then it ended.

Yep. But I loved, I mean, we'll talk about that

when we get to it, but he was able to redeem

himself. Yes. Later. Yes. Yeah, we'll talk about

that in a month or so, I think, at this point.

So, let's see, I think we are going to rate both

films. What would you rate the first one, zero

to five? I would give it a four. Okay, I am also

going to... I'm trying to think. I'll give it

a four too. I was gonna take a half point off

because... Lizard just kind of like the whole

limbs coming off thing. Yeah, I'll give it a

pass on the other aspects Yeah, because the rest

of it was good. Yeah, the lizard was my least

Favorite aspect of the film even though it's

the biggest part of the film Yeah, I felt like

the rest of it kind of Redeemed it. Yep For the

second film I am probably going to give it a

moderate Three and a half maybe three out of

five because I like Like, overall, between the

two of them, I like what they did in differentiate,

as I already said about the mechanical web shooters,

the this, the that, the whatever, all the good

things I like. But at the same time, the negatives

still are there. So I'll stick with three and

a half out of five. I'll probably give it a three

just because I didn't like some of the multitude

of villains that showed up. how they were used.

There were aspects that I liked, which were Spider

-Man and Gwen and then his evolution once that

came to an end. But on a whole, I'd have to give

it a three just because they killed Gwen and

just the way that the rest of it went down. And

Harry was just annoying and it was just, I don't

know, it was worse than the lizard to me at that

point. I mean, they did and they didn't set up

his and Pete's relationship. Because most of

the first film, he's off in boarding school or

whatever. And then he comes back in the in the

second one. Dane Dehaan is the guy who played

him. Now I'm looking at Dane Dehaan's filmography

on IMDB. Chronicle, Kill Your Darlings, Amazing

Spider -Man 2, Place Beyond the Place. Like this

is the first time I've ever seen this actor is

in Amazing Spider -Man 2. Yep. I do not recognize.

I mean. I never watched True Blood on HBO, so

I would never know his Timbo character. In Treatment

was a TV series apparently back in 2010, but

he was in one episode of Law and Order SVU in

2008, and I don't even remember that episode

off the top of my head. But yeah, he's currently

in the TV miniseries The Staircase, which I believe

that's... Oh, that's the Peterson. I don't care

about that. There's so many different, and this

is completely off topic, but it's on topic. It's

not necessarily about him, but the staircase

refers to the Lacey Peterson, you know, murder

case and all that. I've seen so many different

made for TV and actual documentaries on that

case. I don't ever want to see that case. anything

to do with that case ever again. May the woman

rest in peace, but because it's horrible that

her husband killed her. Anyway, we're gonna take

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Amazing Spider -Man, the Mark Webb double -shot

directed films. There are a lot of good things

in there, plenty of things that I probably won't

watch these films again in a long time, if I

ever do. These are not... I mean, even when we

did the Remy trilogy, that was the first time

I had gone back really to do it since we did

the original M -Wire episode in 2009, so... These

two films I probably won't rewatch and there

were a couple of cancelled things and then obviously

we have to talk about the provincial revival.

Sony had originally intended the film to launch

an expansive film universe around Spider -Man

to compete with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Good thing those plans fell through there, huh

Sony? Yep, I think Disney made him some money.

The third film was supposed to have a potential

release date of June 10th, 2016, and Kurtzman

and Orsi, along with Jeff Pinkner, were returning

to write on a fourth film with a release date

of May 4th, 2018. So we would have had Spider

-Man films all throughout the 2010s if this had

happened. There was rumors, or there was also

a clue to spin off films for Sinister Six and

Vetam. Well, we got the Vetam films. Say what

you will about those. Yeah, I didn't watch them.

I watched the first one. It was okay. I didn't

have interest in it. This is a totally different

episode and a different topic, but I don't care

to watch movies about villains. Yeah like it

to be honest i would prefer it like if i'm gonna

watch a movie it's gonna be about a good guy

kicking the bad guy. The one thing and i hope

marvel does eventually do this but the one thing

that we would have gotten out of this. Sinister

six part one was planned for november eleventh.

Twenty sixteen additionally by august twenty

fourteen sony had hired lisa joy. to write a

script for a 2017 female -led film starring Felicia

Hardy, a .k .a. Black Cat. I would love to see

a Black Cat film because technically she isn't

really a villain. She's kind of an anti -hero.

Yeah, she's. Yeah. So. So, yeah. And then obviously

the MCU with what's coming up next month with

with us getting into part three in our summer

of Spider -Man finale with the the Tom Holland

films. Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures co -production

Spider -Man No Way Home released in 2021 and

all that and there have been a bunch of things

following the events of ASM2 and No Way Home.

He's still haunted by his inability to save Gwen

Stacy from her fall and ends up obviously saving

MJ. No way home. So here's hoping that you know,

whatever they end up doing in the Marvel Cinematic

Universe, it's Who knows we may get a sinister

six film. I think that's their plan because when

I I could be I don't I When I saw though because

again, I did not remember like I know you guys

or somebody covered I know Kevin and Dan and

there were three shows that covered that yeah

that really really I don't remember watching

Amazing Spider -Man 2 for that podcast, for those

releases. So when I was watching this again and

I saw the Sinister Six stuff and I'm like, oh,

well, for 2014 standards, this all looks great.

Like, seriously, let's see what it is in 2024,

2028, or whenever it happens, if it happens.

All right, folks, that's going to do it for us

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by now but june first is our arm are. 13 year

anniversary of the network. So who 13 we got

to be a spooky. Oh God, I'm I'm losing it folks.

This may be the last episode of studio until

the middle of June because I am moving back across

the country moving eastwards. Most likely to

Indiana but I don't want to reveal that just

yet, since I don't have anything full on set

in stone. But yeah, I'm going to be moving in

the month of June. So you'll probably hear something

from us here at the studio 2009 in July or September.

Well, obviously you'll hear Spider -Man part

three in July. In July, spiders grow there. I

can't live in a place that doesn't have central

air folks, and the Pacific Northwest does not

believe in central air conditioning. We will

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Hey, Spider -Man. I knew you'd come back. Yeah,

thanks for stepping up for me. You're the bravest

kid I've ever seen. I'm gonna take care of this,

Jerky. Go take care of your mom, okay? Alright,

get outta here. Go. Go. of the five people in

New York City and real rhinos everywhere, I ask

you to put your mechanized paws in the air. Never!

I just so I tell you, I destroy you. You want

me to come down there so you can kill me? Yes!

I'll be right there. Ah, there's no place like

home.