Big Blue Arndt: January 2007 Archives

There are two items of negligence by director Sam Raimi from the first Spider-Man movie.

1) Spider-Man is one of those repressed freaks that no matter what he is like without the mask, he is not given to just let fly with whatever it is he is thinking, unless under some circumstances. More importantly whatever Peter Parker is, Spider-Man exploits all the freedom of anonymity and makes wisecracks and jokes and such a for a variety of reasons, but he does it constantly. How many jokes and cracks did Spidey make in the first movie? I recall that one when he webbed JJJ's mouth shut. Very little aside from that. There was some levity in the dialogue when Spidey rescued Mary Jane the first time but aside from the flirting with his love interest Spidey just wasn't personally funny.

2) When Spider-Man is drawn by Steve Ditko (and the first two Spider-Man movies are loosely based on the Ditko creations), all of his combat is based on acrobatics. He is always moving, always hyperkinetic, and always the kind of opponent for a dude on a flying sled. The Green Goblin maneuvers and tosses grenades. The Vulture flies and Spidey swings up and at 'em. The point is: Spidey's fights involve aerobatics of sorts. He leaps, jumps, kinetics, dodging. Remember the train fight from Spider-Man 2? That was Spider-Man! For the most part the first Spider-Man movie's fight scenes consisted of Spidey standing on the Goblin's sled and going toe-to-toe punch-for-punch sorts of combat. "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots"-sort of stuff. There was even the last fight where Spidey got whupped for nothing.

One could make many rationalizations for it, but these things are omissions.

These are what Spidey is. These are major aspects. This was the first Spider-Man live action production in over twenty years. Most importantly, there wasn't going to be a second shot for years and these things were about seven dollars a show. For all of that, I want what Spider-Man is, and I want it the first time!

I laughed. Not much else is neccessary.

From Scott Kurtz today

We’re only 2 weeks away from the season premiere of PvP: The Series.. Kris, myself and everyone at Blind Ferret have been really knocking ourselves out trying to make this as cool as we can.

If you want to subscribe to the series, it’s still $20 for the entire season up until the day of the premiere. So now’s the time to sign up at the reduced price.

Guys, this project is probably the most exciting thing that I have ever worked on. Not only is it a ton of fun, but we’re getting a ton of experience that I couldn’t have paid for with a college education. It’s just really an exciting time for Kris and I.

I thought I would go through the process of putting one of these shorts together and share with you guys all the steps we go through. This is, of course, a very abridged version of this.

I still think it's an incredibly bad deal, and I'll go through the math of it later when it goes to thirty dollars to sign up.

You didn't miss anything Hutch.

I had a temporary job, however, from September to November of 2006, where I was traveling to South Dakota and California.

After that, the number of potential jobs were broken by the annoying 2006 elections where the GOP lost seats... and I lost possibilities. Thank you, Democrats. Thank you worse, Stupid Corrupt Liberal Jerk Republicans whom got diselected.

Either way I am unemployed and have many ancillary problems.

Now for what is more immediately relevent, aside from my own case of being really really fat.

The first two episodes of 24 season six are tomorrow evening, well, tonight actually, scheduled for 8 PM EST. They are supposed to end at 10 PM EST.

If realiy goes like last year's reality, then we will see how stupid Fox is for scheduling the large highly anticipated flagship television program season premiere immediately following a game from the Playoffs for the National Football League. Football games' endings cannot be precisely scheduled or controlled, yet we must set VCRs hoping and praying for them game to end as Fox guessed so I can see 24? Or must I record so much time before and after, eating, wasting tape!?

Just remember football. You forget football then Jack Bauer will be missing off of the end of your tape. VHS is not dead yet. It lives on in the country where TiVo and DVR, PVR is not an option. Thus we hope and wait.

Idiot TV schedulers work at Fox.