Cool Spider-Noir featurette focused on its four primary villians: Silvermane, Sandman, Tombstone...and Megawatt?! Who the hell is Megawatt?! While I appreciate giving a D-Lister a moment in the spotlight, why not just use Electro?
Cool Spider-Noir featurette focused on its four primary villians: Silvermane, Sandman, Tombstone...and Megawatt?! Who the hell is Megawatt?! While I appreciate giving a D-Lister a moment in the spotlight, why not just use Electro?
The video is part of a big "cover story" on IGN:https://www.ign.com/articles/spider...-look-at-the-shows-sandman-tombstone-and-more
All the article says about them using Megwatt instead of Electro, is that they're using Megawatt instead of Electro, so I'm not sure if there was a deeper reason. I was wondring if maybe they weren't able to use Electro is because they're going to use him in a movie or something. but we're getting Tombstone in both this and Brand New Day, so they're obviously not afraid two productions at the same time.
https://www.ign.com/articles/spider...-look-at-the-shows-sandman-tombstone-and-more
Marvel will be releasing a prequel comic called Spider-Noir #1. which will be free and only available and cons and other events where they'll be promoting the series. Like the show it will also be offered in black and white, and color versions.
https://www.ign.com/articles/spider-noir-prime-video-marvel-tie-in-comic
All the article says about them using Megwatt instead of Electro, is that they're using Megawatt instead of Electro, so I'm not sure if there was a deeper reason. I was wondring if maybe they weren't able to use Electro is because they're going to use him in a movie or something. but we're getting Tombstone in both this and Brand New Day, so they're obviously not afraid two productions at the same time.
Yeah, I get that but it's still annoying knowing all of this footage is out there and we aren't getting to see it.
https://www.ign.com/articles/spider...-look-at-the-shows-sandman-tombstone-and-more
Marvel will be releasing a prequel comic called Spider-Noir #1. which will be free and only available and cons and other events where they'll be promoting the series. Like the show it will also be offered in black and white, and color versions.
https://www.ign.com/articles/spider-noir-prime-video-marvel-tie-in-comic
It wasn't that long ago that even the big Comic Cons had mostly exclusive footage that didn't show up online, until people online acted all entitled and threw a tantrum that the big studios decided to just put the footage on YouTube, too.
And those are fan conventions, that footage was supposed to be seen by fans. Cinema Con is a business convention. The target audience isn't fans, it's theater owners who are shown footage to convince them to book these films, and that the films provide an experience that will create good word-of-mouth and keep them coming back, that these films will sell lots of tickets and are good for the theaters' business. They sometimes screen full movies at Cinema Con for that purpose.
What I'm saying is, yeah, right now you're pissed, not so much that you didn't get to see it, but that somebody else did and you heard about it. Relax, the movie's coming, and in the long run, you'll find it didn't really matter whether you saw that particular footage online before-hand. Just be patient.
Really?! They just had to have the studio logos in color?
Godsdamn, I cannot wait for this show.
Spider-Noir looks kind of interesting, but it's incongruous to see a man in his early 60s doing big acrobatic stunts like that. Maybe Cage is past the age where he should've played this character in live action, although I suppose there was less chance this show would have gotten made except as a vehicle for him.
lol same
i hope nick cage does his trademark acting styles on spider noir
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about his age.
Other than that though, this looks like it's got a ton of potential, I'll definitely be watching it first thing on release day or the moment it's released.
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That sounds awfully ageist, intended or not. Cage is undoubtedly not doing his own stunts (or at least most of them) but why is it so hard to suspend disbelief that a character in his 60s is doing all of those acrobatic moves...when he was bitten by a radioactive spider that has given him superhero abilities (or whatever Ben Reilly's specific origin)?
That's just such a weird hang up.
Except Jackman doesn't look as old in those movies as Cage does here, and his character is nigh-immortal. Since it's acting, it's more about the impression than the actuality.
I don't know about the others, but my impression of the Neeson movies is that he's mostly doing gunplay rather than big acrobatic stunts.
There was this infamous bit from Taken 3 where they had an insane amount of cuts in a timeframe of six seconds to show Liam Neeson's character jumping a fence:
That was over a decade ago.
They can't all be Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves. And even those two aren't doing the same kind of stunts they were doing in their 50s.
That said, spider powers kind of make age a non-issue.
That was over a decade ago.
They can't all be Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves. And even those two aren't doing the same kind of stunts they were doing in their 50s.
That said, spider powers kind of make age a non-issue.
It's interesting how, since The Matrix or thereabouts, we've come to expect movie stars to do a lot of their own stunts. It used to be a given that they were doubled for anything strenuous or risky; indeed, the insurance people hated the idea of actors risking their safety or looks doing heavy stunt work. I know that Harrison Ford did a number of his own stunts as Indiana Jones, notably the boulder run in Raiders, but that was less common at the time, or less expected, than it came to be in this century.
And these days, you can just digitally replace a stunt performer's face anyway, so it's not like actors need to do their own stunts anymore. Heck, it's pretty routine in action movies these days to create photorealistic digital doubles of the actors to perform the big "stunts."
Perhaps. The comics pretty much showed that with Ezekiel Sims. On the other hand, there was the episode in the '90s animated series where Peter was turned elderly and his powers got far weaker. Although his artificially induced age was substantially older than Cage's.
To be...very mildly fair to Liam, that's the editing style for most of the movie. The speed of the cuts is absolute insanity for much of it.
I don't think The Matrix was really the starting point. Jackie Chan and Jet Li coming over from Hong Kong in the 90s and becoming big action stars certainly did a lot in that regard, and let's not forget that Cruise did film in a wind tunnel for the fight on top of the TGV in the first Mission: Impossible.
If you really think that the actors actually shoot these action scenes, I recommend that you watch this video series sometime;
"No CGI" is really just invisible CGI
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