Madame Web, go-go Marvel Fatigue!

She's been in poor health.

 

Ben was also shown to be looking 98.

 

You know, at this point if I were Pepsi I would sue Sony.

 

Also in poor health. Just not as bad as May.

 

You must not have any healthy aunts or uncles.

Trying to do the math to make this work and I'm having a lot of trouble.

 

Just pointing pointing out that May's poor health has been an on going plot point in Spider-Man. She's been in the hospital a few times and even died once , IIRC. (She got better) May and even Ben are drawn in what most people imagined "old" looked like for most of the 20th Century. If May was in her sixties she'd have been born around the turn of the Century or before when Spider-Man was first released. These days she would have been born in the 1960s or 70s. But our idea a person in their sixties is different than it was in the 1960s.

 

Also, because of the limited technology used back when those comics were published, unless they added a lot of wrinkles and clearly "old" features to May and Ben, they would've ended up looking no different from the other teenage and younger adult characters aside from their white hair.

Problem is, this extra-wrinkliness persisted even when the technology improved and thus May ended up looking mummified in the 80s and 90s comics. It wasn't until the 2000s that artists realized they could draw her as looking older without looking ancient.

 

I don't buy that. The crew in the TV studio, Norman Osborn, Curt Connors, all the people that are the ages Peter's aunt and uncle should be didn't look 90.

 

They're not "the kindly old woman" trope. Norman Osborn and Curt Conners were probably 40ish. Norman had a college age son. Though Curt may be younger since he has a pre-teen child. May and Ben could have a decade or more on Richard Parker. Both my parents have siblings considerably older and younger than themselves. Perhaps May and Ben raised Richard?

 

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I find it weird that the takeaway from the way they're drawn is that they were 30 years older than their siblings and for you and others, that's just standard comic stuff.

 

I don't think the artistic intent was "30 years older". I don't think they were that much older either. Of course there is the Great Aunt option, if you're wedded to she's got to be "90" angle.

 

Peter got hold of some/all of Dr Octopus's memories during the beginning of Superior Spider-Man, so remembered/experienced May blowing Otto on the day of their wedding. (Not a joke. Actually happened.)

This may be why Peter died.

 

Looks like Madame Web also suffers from "copied the temp score too closely" syndrome.

 

Just watched this...

Good grief! Was this made by Chat GTP? Someone typed in "give me a bad superhero movie from the late 90s to early 2000s" and it spit out this. I know nobody goes out to make a bad movie but I feel embarrassed for everyone involved.

 

At first I didn't think this looked that bad from the trailers, but seeing the clips in the Honest Trailer was enough to convince me this really is as bad as everyone says. Hell, I'm not always good with judging dialogue, but even I could tell the writing in some of those clips was really bad.

Does anyone know what Sony Pictures Core is? It pops up on with all of the other streaming apps on my PS4, but I've never heard of it. Did Sony start their own Disney, Max, or Peacock style streaming service? I'm asking here, because the picture they're for it is Madame Web.

 

Looks like it is VOD for Playstation owners.

 

Not that I was ever going to but now I definitely never need to watch this film. The whole film summarized right there with all of the awfulness.

...although I'd love it if it got the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. Then I'd watch it!

 

Right at the beginning, I asked if Zosia Mammet was being punished?

Just watched her new low budget movie, which is 6 people in front of a green screen, but usually 2 at a time, which seems to be a remake of When Harry Met Sally, but set in the year 4000.

 

I didn't mind it but at the same time I didn't love it all that much either, put it next to The Eternals in terms of Marvel movies I have watched and I have only watched that once. It wasn't actually bad, not like people have said online and I guess once a home release is done I might watch it again because in my own space I will get more out of it than a theatre.