All eight episodes are out now! I won't be able to watch until tonight but I cannot wait!
I've tipped my hand with the photo and the videos, but I'm planning to watch the series in black and white. What is everyone else planning to do?
All eight episodes are out now! I won't be able to watch until tonight but I cannot wait!
I've tipped my hand with the photo and the videos, but I'm planning to watch the series in black and white. What is everyone else planning to do?
Definitely Black and White. As I go along if specific scenes make me curious what they look like in color I will probably check them out.
Normally I am not much of a Nicholas Cage fan. But I remember when he voiced the character in animation thinking that made perfect sense. I am kind of amazed they really made this. I am a fan of noir, pulps, old serials. I probably would checked this out regardless. Yet they seemed to make all the right choices. Plan to start watching when I get home from work.
Normally I am not much of a Nicholas Cage fan. But I remember when he voiced the character in animation thinking that made perfect sense. I am kind of amazed they really made this. I am a fan of noir, pulps, old serials. I probably would checked this out regardless. Yet they seemed to make all the right choices. Plan to start watching when I get home from work.
B&W for sure.
Yeah, I'm not a Cage fan either but I loved him in Into the Spider-Verse so I'm keeping an open mind here. It helps that I love his approach to the character as mentioned in interviews (Bogart meets Bugs).
I love pulps, too, and that's probably the biggest draw for me. That's why it feels like this show has to be watched in black and white.
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Small observation - I had been wondering where they filmed this. Sounds like Los Angeles and real locations. But I knew they used a backlot too. In 2nd episode I recognized Warner Bros New York Street. The Mayor gives a speech at same corner that was Daily Planet on Lois & Clark. Fitting - that backlot was used for a lot of classic Film Noirs Warner Bros produced.
I have a friend who works on that lot and he told me that one of the scenes they filmed there was in the same alleyway where Tobey and Kirsten filmed their iconic kiss in the rain scene.
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That’s great. I love that backlot.
Watched the first half of the season and I'm loving every thing about it. The show is super pulpy in all of the right ways. I adore the cinematography and the nifty usages of mirrors in various shots (my favorite so far is the rearview mirror in a cab). And I love how Ben's Spidey-Sense is visualized and utilized.
I love the dynamic between Ben, Janet, and Robbie, and Cat Hardy is a wonderful femme fatale. I'm enjoying the tragic nature of Flint and Lonnie and I'm looking forward to learning more about their past (and how their power origins are probably connected to Ben's). Silvermane is a fantastic bastard of a villain with Brendan Gleeson just chewing all of the scenary. I'm not at all surprised that Cat figured out Ben's secret identity almost immediately once they got close.
My only complaint about the first half is that there isn't quite enough of The Spider but the show is clearly ramping up for more action.
I love the dynamic between Ben, Janet, and Robbie, and Cat Hardy is a wonderful femme fatale. I'm enjoying the tragic nature of Flint and Lonnie and I'm looking forward to learning more about their past (and how their power origins are probably connected to Ben's). Silvermane is a fantastic bastard of a villain with Brendan Gleeson just chewing all of the scenary. I'm not at all surprised that Cat figured out Ben's secret identity almost immediately once they got close.
My only complaint about the first half is that there isn't quite enough of The Spider but the show is clearly ramping up for more action.
I can't speak for anyone else, but mine is definitely in full monochrome. I just tested it by cranking the color up to full and down to zero and there was no change.
Same for me. After the first episode I did not think my picture was a bright as it should be. Than realized last time I watched something on my Roku must of been very blurry old source. I had it on Soft setting. Returned it to my preferred settings. Black and white looks best with cool color settings. It makes the contrast very vivid and whites pop.
It could be something on your tv settings or how you are receiving the show. That can effect what you are seeing.
I would agree with modern productions. However, up until at least the mid sixties, the projector bulbs were ideally at 5500k, a warmer, slightly reddish biased temperature. Worth experimenting with settings for old classics.
Just started watching the first episode.
When Cage makes a deal with the guy for the first time in his office he says he'll do it for "$10/day," the client confirms it by repeating it and Cage throws in, "plus expenses."
I'm overseeing a TNG S2 reference here! ("The Big Goodbye.")
So far it's pretty good, granted it's only 12 minutes in, but It sounds like Cage is too much trying to do "a voice" either related to the genre of the show, the era it's set in or what borough of NYC he's from. I think Cage using his regular voice would work better.
(Unless this now is his voice now, as it has changed due to age or some medical condition he suffered/is suffering from. In which case I apologize.)
Anyway, should be fun to watch. Where does it fit in with the MCU? Or is it just in Sony's side of Spider-Man?
When Cage makes a deal with the guy for the first time in his office he says he'll do it for "$10/day," the client confirms it by repeating it and Cage throws in, "plus expenses."
I'm overseeing a TNG S2 reference here! ("The Big Goodbye.")
So far it's pretty good, granted it's only 12 minutes in, but It sounds like Cage is too much trying to do "a voice" either related to the genre of the show, the era it's set in or what borough of NYC he's from. I think Cage using his regular voice would work better.
(Unless this now is his voice now, as it has changed due to age or some medical condition he suffered/is suffering from. In which case I apologize.)
Anyway, should be fun to watch. Where does it fit in with the MCU? Or is it just in Sony's side of Spider-Man?
Just binged it, though in color because I didn't watch alone and was out-voted. But, hey, I'm more of a fan of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels rather than the early screen adaptations, and the movie in my head while reading those books wasn't b&w, either. And neither were Chinatown, or the great 1980s HBO adaptation of Philip Marlowe.
I'd have one note, the best adaptations (and stylistic homages, like Chinatown or The Big Lebowski) replicate the first-person narration not by voice-over, but by telling the whole story from the protagonist's POV (not in the camera-sense, obviously), and therefore having them in every scene. That allows the audience to experience every new bit of information with the protagonist/detective themselves. This series, obviously, went a different route, and it's certainly easier with a runtime of 6-7 hours, to have scenes with other characters.
For example, the cliffhanger of episode 5 gave the audience the information about Cat betraying Ben, but Ben didn't know about it yet. in the proper Chandler-style, the audience wouldn't have been present for that scene, and thus would have experienced Ogden's appearance as a surprise, and would only have learned of Cat betraying Ben when Faber revealed it to him in the lab. There wouldn't have been the cliffhanger for episode 5, but we would have experienced the emotional gut punch with Ben in episode 6.
But otherwise, this show was really good, Cage got to go full Cage in a couple of scenes (especially in episode 6), and the rest of the cast was great, too.
I'd have one note, the best adaptations (and stylistic homages, like Chinatown or The Big Lebowski) replicate the first-person narration not by voice-over, but by telling the whole story from the protagonist's POV (not in the camera-sense, obviously), and therefore having them in every scene. That allows the audience to experience every new bit of information with the protagonist/detective themselves. This series, obviously, went a different route, and it's certainly easier with a runtime of 6-7 hours, to have scenes with other characters.
For example, the cliffhanger of episode 5 gave the audience the information about Cat betraying Ben, but Ben didn't know about it yet. in the proper Chandler-style, the audience wouldn't have been present for that scene, and thus would have experienced Ogden's appearance as a surprise, and would only have learned of Cat betraying Ben when Faber revealed it to him in the lab. There wouldn't have been the cliffhanger for episode 5, but we would have experienced the emotional gut punch with Ben in episode 6.
But otherwise, this show was really good, Cage got to go full Cage in a couple of scenes (especially in episode 6), and the rest of the cast was great, too.
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