People focus on Disney so they can be like "ooh evil Mouse empire wanting to control all the things!" while ignoring the biggest moral factor in this: MARVEL. Marvel created Spider-Man, they own everything about the character they created except for the movie rights which Sony bought for next to nothing from a Marvel company which was bankrupt at the time and selling everything that wasn't nailed down just to keep the lights on. They don't deserve to keep those rights, they didn't create the IP. It belongs with Marvel, period.
@v1ndictive: Interesting viewpoint... myself, I found her both adorable and charmingly amusing, so I am definitely down to see more of her on screen. She absolutely stole both of the first Thor movies from Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, who was dull as dishwater in comparison to Kat Denning's quirky cute fun.
@linkbuscus01: I liked her until the BS at the end where she just casually said "Oh yeah, people call me MJ". Umm, NO. That is NOT MJ, not no way not no how. It was bad enough they screwed around with the rest of the classic supporting cast, but MJ was a bridge too far.
I'll still take the Sam Raimi films for their faithful adherence to the source material, there was way too much reiimagining going on for me.
@Martin_Pagan: Of course you can't please these people, outrage is their business model. They'll always nitpick until they find something to complain about, or move the goalposts, or just plain misrepresent issues in order to gin up a controversy. Being satisfied would put them out of business, if they can't generate self-righteous indignation their clicks and donations dry up and then they'd have to create something productive or -gasp- get a real job! Obviously they don't want to do that, so they're going to find something to criticize no matter what.
I remember being shocked seeing Robocop, as I was unaware at the time that it was a suit that could be worn by a person and filmed from any angle. I had always thought it was done with a combination of miniatures, puppetry, and the like --basically that Robocop only existed in-camera assembled from various SFX shots using various techniques. In particular, the way the shoulder joints are structured where the arm is attached just don't look like they can accommodate a human arm, so I thought it had to be a mechanical puppet.
So it took me by surprise to see a nearly film-accurate Robocop just walking around in the midst of a crowd filmed by a live camera. Until that moment, I hadn't realized that was possible.
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