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Goddammit at least be consistent, Rowles!

With the punctuation, I mean.

I liked the story Spider-Man 3 wanted to tell, so I couldn't give it too much stick. Same with "The Phantom Menace". Execution was flawed, but I liked the meaning.

Why do we need a "reboot" for a franchise that already gave us three movies and began less than eight years ago? This is even more egregious than the Hulk. I guess "franchise" truly is the operative word. I hope this doesn't mean that we have to watch yet another boring superhero origin story with all the same beats yet again and that "reboot" really just means "recasting." If they have to do this, ditch the narrative baggage and just give us an adult Spiderman at some point down the road. Drop Mary Jane as a character and give us the Black Cat as a romantic interest or something else completely divergent.

Ugh, thank Godtopus.

Now let's look for a new Peter Parker and Mary Jane. STAT.

Dustin, this may be the best news I've heard all day. Also, Malkovich.

Heh, geeee maybe they should bring in Jar Jar and his Transformers writing team.

You know, bring in some new blood, get rid of all that comic book continuity that just stifles creativity.

I am not much of a Maguire fan, but he made a perfect Peter Parker. He was probably starting to get a little old for the part though.

Perfect casting opportunity for Michael Cera, he can play Peter Parker as Micheal Cera and Spiderman as....*ahem* Francois.

Good. Now they can cast Bryce Dallas Howard as Mary Jane as it should have been from the start. She was a better Mary Jane for her 10 minutes of screentime in Spiderman 3 than Kirsten Dunst was in three films and she wasn't even playing Mary Jane. And they can get a Spiderman who doesn't look like he's hiding a basketball under his shirt as soon as filming is done. I can guarantee you there are no shortage of attractive dimunitive theater actors who could take on the role and kill it.

Jay said "I believe the answer would be: integrate him into the growing Marvel Universe. Five, six years or so you could make Civil War!". Yes, yes, yes, and more yes.

Add me to the "ditto Figgy" list. I could not accept McGuire or Dunst.

I'm with Darth Corleone on this one. Why a reboot so soon? Do they think it will really pull in a ton of cash? "Spider-Man" made a gajillion dollars when it came out, and for a lot of people, that movie is still very fresh in their minds (it's only been seven and a half years!). By the time this reboot comes out, it will have been exactly 10 years since "Spider-Man" was released. Won't most people just say, "Screw it, I've already seen this, why shell out $10?" I can't see it being hugely popular unless they drastically alter some things, like a previous poster said - changing Spider-Man's race, or maybe setting it in one of Marvel's alternate timelines.

Have we really become such a short-term memory society where we have to reboot stuff that's more than 10 seconds old?

I hope they go with an adult spiderman instead of a reboot. Do the studios think anyone will sit through an origin story again so soon? and peter parker being picked on in highschool is just bankrupt for drama or comic relief.

I really liked spiderman 3, i have no idea what people hate so much about it.

be a shame if the marvel comic movie empire starts to topple; i was just getting used to having fun comic movies at regular intervals. but then came ghost rider, and xmen 3, and wolverine and it seemed like a mini-era was ending. though i liked iron man well enough and loved the Hulk reboot.

They definitely goofed when they killed off Green Goblin & Doc Ock...those fuckers are franchise players. A reboot means more of these 2 villains, plus who knows what else, but yeah, this reboot movie will probably make Spider-Man 3 look like Spider-Man 2. Look forward to a Spider-Man movie for the High School Musical set.

I'm still down with Gyllenhaal being Spidey, I always thought he was a better choice than Maguire.

Emo Spidey 4eva.

I actually REALLY liked Spider-Man 3. The main reasons people didn't like it is because of the issues with forgiveness, hardly any time for Venom, Peter Parker's sad, emotional responses to Mary Jane breaking up with him (which probably reminds people of their personal experiences in life), and that Pete was acting very confident/bold with the alien black symbiote suit's negative affect on him (which I think the dancing down the street and pointing at the women was quite hilarious and added humor that the movie needed with all of the darkness). Personally to me, forgiveness is a good thing; Peter looks and was a lot cooler in the black suit than Eddie Brock was in the comics; Pete's sad responses to MJ pushing him away was expected because of his growing arrogance with fame as Spidey and at the same time Harry would hurt him and even her, if she didn't comply; and I think that people making fun of Pete acting "emo" dancing down the street and in the club doesn't make sense to me (that's how you guys would probably act with evil suit on). Last thing: I never did like Venom too much because I don't like him being evil and I don't like him being so hulkish looking (I'd rather him look cut like Bruce Lee which Spidey is). So... when it comes right down to it Spider-Man 3 wasn't a terrible movie. And look what happens at the end: Mary Jane thinks that she doesn't have anyone left because of Harry's passing and she doesn't trust Pete, BUT when Pete shows up in the club- they hug and make up, knowing their weaknesses and everything turns out good. If Pete hadn't gone to the club with the black suit on, Venom wasn't "born", and Mary Jane found out about that Pete used the black suit to hurt the somewhat evil Harry; because MJ and Pete DO care about each other, eventually she would have gotten back with him no matter what, would tell Pete that Harry used her, and she would know that it's the black suit's fault. Come on people, Spidey 3 really wasn't that bad; the story was written the way it was to have a lot of unexpected drama, suspense, and darkness, so that it would attract people's attention instead of there being a boring, dull film. The only thing that I didn't like about the movie was that Pete wasn't shown swinging, wall-crawling, and fighting criminals with the black suit on which I was highly expecting before the movie came out.