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Trailer Leaked For The Amazing Spiderman (Or, How To Copy Batman)

July 21st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

The cool thing about Spiderman is that he’s a bit lame. Sure, the whole Spidey Sense thing is cool and so is the whole parkour thing he invented… but he’s still lame. He’s a complaining smart-ass who still lives with his elderly Aunt. We even saw him being a student in a bedsit.

And so, when recreating the comics, you really need to grab a hold of that lameditude and embrace it. The ’90s animated series pretty much nailed the nerd/hero axis, but sadly, the movie adaptations were too keen on making Peter Parker too nerdy, and his alter-ego too cool.

So the new The Amazing Spiderman film is going to sort all that out, right? It’ll retain some of the b-movie fun of the enjoyably crap ’70s films, as well as throwing some decent explosion at him, right? Ummmm…

Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark Goes From Bad To Worse As Actor Crunches Bones

December 22nd, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Stan Lee must be spinning in his specially-dug-grave-for-embarrassing-situations right now. Why? Because Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark is doing its darnedest to take massive great turds all over the legacy of one of the most famous superheroes ever.

From the curtain opener that saw sets not assembled properly, actors hanging limply in the rafters and more, we now have the story that one of the stuntmen of the show nearly died after plummeting to the ground like a pig kicked from a plane with a parachute made of anvils.

And of course, this is all very funny solely because U2 are involved and as we all know, Bono is a gargantuan ball bag of impressive proportions.

Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark Starts Unintentionally Hilarious Theatre Run

November 29th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

There’s a collective will for U2 to fail at the moment. Such is Bono’s intense smuggery is that the ill-feeling toward him even extends to Spiderman, who everyone loves. Seeing as Bono and The Edge did the score for Spidey theatre production Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, we’re all wishing it nothing but bad luck.

And hilariously, it seems to have befallen just that… and in bucket loads.

Last night’s opener of Broadway’s most expensive production ever, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a ripsnorting flop! That’s $65 millions worth of high-tech gadgetry fail and bad music soundtracking a utterly baffling script. Hahahahahahahahaha!

Rhys Ifans Is The New Spiderman Villain… But Who Will He Play?

October 12th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Rhys Ifans has been cast as the baddie in Marc Webb’s reboot of the Spiderman franchise, which definitely needed a shot in the arm after those three woeful Toby Maguire films. Seriously. They reeked!

He’ll be squaring up on-screen to someone called Andrew Garfield. No. We don’t have the foggiest notion who that is either. We could check but his name is so boring that every time we try to type it into a search engine, we fall asleep.

Anyway, Ifans and Garfield will join Emma Stone in the superhero flick and, while we know who Garfield and Stone are playing (Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy respectively), everyone is being a bit coy as to who the Welshman might play.

Stan Lee To The Rescue!

September 22nd, 2010 By Kris Silver

Stan Lee is a God to millions of geeks everywhere and a seemingly harmless, eccentric old man to the rest of us. Lee is the former president and CEO of Marvel comics, the publisher that brought us such legends as Spiderman, the X Men and Squirrel Girl (seriously).

Why is a washed up old geek in the news I hear you ask? Well, apparently the great state of California is attempting to restrict the availability of violent video games. That is to say, the state governed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a man who appeared in a boat load of violent films, most of which had videogame adaptations, thinks that games are bad and should be stopped before they harm the kiddywinks.