I know we cover a lot of ground, a lot of topics and a lot of pop culture in every episode of the ‘Geek Shall Inherit’ podcast… but I’ll bet you weren’t expecting an impromptu discussion of ‘Miami Vice’ to break out in this episode! But that’s how we roll. We are the Crockett and Tubbs of Geek-dom. I’ll leave it to you listeners to decide which of us is which.
Also we discover our mutual love of “Bloom County” … and that we both owned plush version of Opus.
As you can see the episode is full of surprises. So stop reading this and get to the listening part!
In this episode we discuss:
- - Alphas on SyFy.
- - San Diego Comic Con International is staying in San Diego through 2016.
- - Jason is going to a Rush
concert this week. He’s picking up their new album and some greatest hits CDs as a study guide.
- - Christmas catalogs aren’t what they used to be.
- - Jack Kirby in Argo. (No Spoilers)
- - FRINGE starts this week on the Science Channel. Everyone should watch the first season. Give it the first 7 episodes… trust me.
- - First 9 min of new ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ before ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ in IMAX.
- - New video game movie casting.
- - Hostess is closing? Twinkie the kid? Fruit Pie the Magician? WHY? WHHHHYYYYY?!?!?
- - Jason gives you his NON-Spoiler-y thoughts on ‘Skyfall.’
- -Neil Finn “Theme from the Hobbit” and soundtrack available to listen and pre-order.
- - Looking for a geek gift idea? We recommend Steve Sansweet’s new Star Wars figure book – Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection: 35 Years of Characters
- - Jason FINALLY saw “The Amazing Spider-Man” movie.
- - Our documentary pick of the week: the Wayne White Documentary: Beauty Is Embarrassing
- - Our Mutual love of Bloom County
- HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
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Thank you for sending us off on our Thanksgiving weekend on a high note! How this podcast isn’t #1 on iTunes every week is beyond me. My original suggestion for the 50th episode was to find Cash’s original parents and have them try to take him back.
Issues with The Amazing Spiderman Reboot:
1. It’s boring: Probably the worst sin of a summer blockbuster. Was there any plot development in this movie that caught you buy surprise? The origin, the Lizard, Captain Stacy, all of this was already predetermined before the lights went down.
2. Conveniences and plot holes: No one found it convienent that Peter’s father worked with Spiders, alongside Dr. Connors, who employs Gwen Stacy, at Oscorp, home of the Green Goblin? Or that Uncle Ben’s killer is completely forgotten by the end of the movie? How about the thug that yells “We know what you look like” just as Peter awakes to see a luchador ad? Or the not so subtle pointing out of the aerosol device. Think that might come up later? Where’s Pete getting the money for this space age suit? He’s not selling pictures to the Daily Bugle, one of the defining tropes of Spider-man. How’s Dr. Connors getting the power down in the sewer? If Peter sees an article online about his Dad dying in a car crash, why would he scream “where is he” to Uncle Ben? After a flying half court dunk and bending a goal post, some high schooler’s not going to put 2+2 together? What happened to Connors’ boss on the bridge? The list goes on and on.
3. The Aunt May relationship: It would appear the studio hired Sally Field to walk around with a horrified look on her face and cry. Her and Peter never have a bonding moment that even comes close to the emotion in the Raimi films. And after you’ve freaked out on your adopted son for coming home with cuts and bruises, you then just hug him when he comes home looking even worse!? It’s either bad writing or bad editing.
4. THIS is emo spidey: Everyone had kittens when Raimi decided to go with a poor joke briefly in a montage where Peter had a haircut indicative of a teenage movement called emo. What he didn’t do is have Peter act completely emotionally stunted for at least an hour, sputtering out hems and haws that made it look like he has a brain condition. And for all the talk about getting Spidey back to funny, this was a very melodramatic piece. There’s a laugh at May’s Meatloaf and with Stan Lee, but after seeing the Small Knives clip in 100+ TV ads, it loses it’s merit.
5. The Lizard: You can’t relate to him, you don’t feel bad for him, his face looked ridiculous and the CGI looked like it was from 10 years ago.
6. Where is the reaction to a “Spider-Man”?: There’s suddenly a dude in tights webbing through the city and everyone other than the police is basically OK with it? It’s just a given? There needed to be more outsider reaction to the phenomenon as done in the previous franchise, the Nolan Batman, and even to a degree, the Avengers.
7. Don’t do an after scenes credit that even comic book fans don’t comprehend.
8. Great power. Great responsibility: It has to be there
Raimi’s films were a tribute to the classic Lee/Ditko character of Spiderman. This adaptation obviously is culling from Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man. If fine with that, but it lacks Bendis’ knack for dialog and his integration of super heroics and teen drama. The myriad of writers and the inexperience of director Marc Webb is obviously the issue.
Honestly, I hated Amazing Spider-Man. Peter Parker was just not a heroic character, he was a jerk. There wasn’t any chemistry between Peter and Aunt May. I thought the web-swinging sequences were awful, the first Spider-Man film was much better, much more fluid. I agree with all of the problems above, it was just a mess. Whatever it was, it just wasn’t Spider-Man.