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Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread
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I doubt it, as The Amazing Spider-Man is one of those TV series forever listed on various "most wanted" list of shows that have not had a proper, official release (of any genre), and has its share of fans (and of Hammond specifically) who are still watching current superhero productions. Moreover, The Flash's timestream sequence featured visual nods to DC adaptations younger generations (e.g. Zoomers) never watched, or in some cases never heard of (or cared to explore), yet they were added, with the producers knowing there are some among the audience who would recognize and appreciate the nod.
People mostly recognised Lou Ferrigno in his Hulk cameos. Admittedly Hammond isn’t quite as distinctive a figure as LF, but the shows were contemporaries.
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I always put the Raimi Spider-Man movies ahead of the rest, and not just because I HATE teenage Spider-Man. Tobey Maguire is the only outright nerd spider-man, a guy who looked and acted exactly how you'd expect Peter to act. Andrew Garfield's Peter was 100% a "cool teen" of his era just based off his style and Holland, while a bit less "teen magazine model" then Garfield, always came off as too clueless, even though they like to pretend that he's smart when the story needs him to be. That said Andrew Garfield was actually good in No Way Home, I think with better writers and being an adult Spider-Man he could probably do well in a main character role now.
Also, the Raimi movies had the better supporting casts. James Franco is an ass IRL but as Harry he was good, much better as a supporting character then Ned from the MCU films. Unpopular opinion, but I think that Kirsten Dunst's MJ is just written better then Stone or Zendaya's characters, and I'd say that even if I wasn't sick of seeing Zendaya everywhere, although acting wise Stone is probably technically the best of the three. The villains of Raimi's movies also completely beat the ones from Garfield's or the first two MCU Spider-man films, although Jamie Foxx did get some redemption in NWH.
Of the 8 theatrically released Spider-Man movies I'd say that only three are good (Raimi's Spider-Man 1 & 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home), and the rest are generally pretty bad.
Also, the Raimi movies had the better supporting casts. James Franco is an ass IRL but as Harry he was good, much better as a supporting character then Ned from the MCU films. Unpopular opinion, but I think that Kirsten Dunst's MJ is just written better then Stone or Zendaya's characters, and I'd say that even if I wasn't sick of seeing Zendaya everywhere, although acting wise Stone is probably technically the best of the three. The villains of Raimi's movies also completely beat the ones from Garfield's or the first two MCU Spider-man films, although Jamie Foxx did get some redemption in NWH.
Of the 8 theatrically released Spider-Man movies I'd say that only three are good (Raimi's Spider-Man 1 & 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home), and the rest are generally pretty bad.
How many people watching the MCU's The Incredible Hulk knew that the pizza shop owner was played by the guy who voiced Bruce Banner in the '60s cartoon? How many people watching Thor recognized J. Michael Straczynski as one of the guys trying to lift the hammer? Some cameos are less obvious than others.
Ferrigno was at the Stuttgart Comic-Con a few years ago (where I got my vintage Hulk poster signed), and during his panel, most of the audience questions were about King of Queens.
I saw Ferrigno at a local con in February. I was a little surprised that he's not that much bigger and taller than me but I was still starstruck by getting to see my childhood Hulk in person and standing right in front of and next to me.
This is the most recent photo of Nicholas Hammond that I could find
I doubt if many moviegoers had seen him they would have exclaimed, "Ah! He played Spider-Man too!"
Hmm, maybe as an In-Joke HE should have played MCU Uncle Ben?
There was absolutely nothing realistic about Maguire's portrayal of 'nerdy'. It was one of the most absolutely awful aspects of the film.
Yeah, even his picture in a photo frame would’ve been a nice tribute.
The thing is nowadays they ends up in movie news sites, wiki pages, youtube "Did you miss?" videos, promotional interviews and so on. So something for us long-timers but I think a lot of other people pick up on those things in various ways.This is the most recent photo of Nicholas Hammond that I could find
I doubt if many moviegoers had seen him they would have exclaimed, "Ah! He played Spider-Man too!"
And that's a good thing, right?
Silly rabbits! They started filming under the writers' strike and couldn't improv, so I expected reshoots.
It's means the films a failure, Feige is fired and Disney is up for sale.
Reshoots are normal for any movie with that kind of budget, with or without strikes. We hear about them all the time, yet people still act as if they're anomalous.