Deus Ex Natura

Fight fight!

2008-07-29T19:32:00.005+10:00

Spiderman 3 Review

2007-05-09T14:10:00.000+10:00

The Spiderman 3 film is like going to Asia with limited time and trying to see five countries when you should have just settled on two and relaxed and really explored them.

Yes, it's overambitious, poorly told and handled - even by cliched big superhero film standards - and at times just plain wierd.

Firstly, forget about Sandman. Who cares? Boring! This film should had made a careful and crafted examination of Spiderman's involvement with the alien symbiote. It's a fascinating episode in the comics and deserved much, much more of an exploration on screen. Where is it from? What does it really do? How does it really affect him? - beyond turning him into some freak mix between a total soppy dork with delusions of cool and a screwed up emo type of idiot well past his bedtime. As I said, at times the film was just plain wierd. That dancing scene in the bar? What the fuck?

Anyway, so the film needed just to set better limitations and just choose to tell the story of the alien symbiote and really explore the effects of it on Peter. And I think it would have been cool to see him really lose it more. That is, of course if Toby McGuire could play anything else other than a happy chappy dipstick or a psycho emo. Which I doubt. Now that was a piece of film history miscasting.

Second. Venom is an awesome character - I am bias and freely admit it. But I am thinking from cinematic perspective when I say this...Venom needed more time and development. In every way. It needed more, from beyond the lame Eddie Brock backstory crap, to showing Venom himself and his powers and abilities.

This in my opinion is the real tragedy of the film. What a film it could have been if it had focused on showcasing the powers and abilities and characteristics of the alien suit and then Venom, through fight scenes and action between Spiderman and Venom. Venom was introduced way too late and then promptly dispatched. Oh, there he goes!

NO. This film needed to START with the alien symbiote suit and then properly explore that and its effects on Peter, and then bring in all the MJ shit and Peter's life story and blah blah, then immediately bring in Venom, develop and showcase him - ie. give him some decent screentime - and then have the end of act two through act three concerned with Spidey vs Venom and put the focus on their battles and abilities. Such a missed opportunity here. And another thing, what the fuck is that with Harry the Goblin junior. That was so Spiderman 2. It should have been dispatched early on and rid of! This crap with Goblin Jnr coming to save Spiderman...I didn't pay to see that!

Unfortunately, a mess. 4 webs out of 10.

Better luck next time. And at least they could get the action scenes right in future.!!

Hey Spidey! Give me some skin...

2007-05-01T02:20:00.000+10:00

Hello friends. There are fans, and then there are fans. What can I say. That's dedication to the friendly neighbourhood webhead. Damn. And nice too. For more tattoos from spiderfan.org click here. Here's another below - it makes me think of a Japanese Yakuza dude with a full Spiderman body tattoo, and no tip on one of his little fingers. Now that would be something. Spiderman 3's not far away...not far...no...soon...yes...THE SPIDERMAN 3 FILM!

ps. scroll down because this entire blog - if you hadn't noticed already - is currently all about Spiderman, and almost only Spiderman. Well, there's some Venom too!

Venom tears Jerry Springer limb from limb! But says..."I'm getting anger management therapy before I meet Oprah...."

2007-04-28T20:48:00.000+10:00

I've already posted lots of Venom links below to youtube spiderman school videos, and Wiki and Marvel Universe biographies. And here come some more. Spiderfan.org has a cool Venom bio and here's an iGn article about the villain in question. These are good links, but I really just wanted to post these fkn cool pictures. Oh yeah!

What you can hear (if you have sound or when it's loaded) is Venom's theme song for this post. It's 'Wildcat' by Ratatat. If you don't like it for some unfathomable reason, take it up with Venom...or just pause it on the player bottom right of this page. If Wildcat's a little intense for you right now, may I suggest something by Brian Eno - seriously! (that was sounding sarcastic) which you find in the same place.

"Though the world may mock Peter Parker, the timid teen-ager...

2007-04-28T18:03:00.000+10:00

it will soon marvel at the awesome might of … SPIDER-MAN!"

With Spidey just about to come swinging over the filmic horizon in Spiderman 3 to don the alien symbiote suit and later beat on Venom, here is a buffet of links for you.

That rarest and most valuabe Spiderman comic above came out in 1962 for 12c. Now it's worth oh, about $42,000! Some appreciation. Actually, according to the Wikipedia on it, Spiderman actually started as Amazing Adventures in 1961. And here it is, I think ;-) , for sale at ebay.

Written by Stan Lee (aka Stanley Martin Lieber) and art by Steve Ditko, off it went to become well, this. Who knew huh? But then Spidey with his humanity AND powers - and smartass wisecracks and geekiness mixed with personal struggles - was always going to swing it long term. If Spiderman were to come to town now, would he work for the UN. I don't think so. He'd work for Microsoft. How dare you! I know, only joking. He'd photograph for National Geographic and conceal his identity of course and swing off to fight monsters we don't know about. I guess...

But before you see the film school it up on the villains in the links among my posts below. I've got youtube spiderman school videos biographies on the villains so you won't be going "what the story with that angry black dude?", and a veritable treasure trove of Marvel Universe and Wikipedia links and lots of other links to Spidey and Spiderman 3 film stuff including the black alien symbiote suit and how Spiderman got it in the first place. Go I say. Scroll!

Then come back here if you still want more...cause over at Comic Book Movie Spiderman's getting some serious news coverage. At the No Sheep blog there's also a discussion of the black suit and it's comic origins.
This is a link to the Spiderman soundtrack site (usual soundtrack fodder but a few decents) and here is a great Spiderman book which you can browse at Amazon which I have and it's money!

cheers. enjoy friends.

Spiderman 3 ...bring on the symbiote!

2007-04-27T02:53:00.000+10:00

This is the best, in my opinion, Spiderman comic cover ever. Like in the upcoming Spiderman 3 movie, here we see Spidey wearing the alien symbiote suit.

For the lowdown on the suit click this Wikipedia link.

For more info on the magazine cover, click here.

Don't miss ALL the posts below on Spidey related stuff.

Cheers

Spiderman, Spiderman, here's some more info for the fan...dunah...here comes...

2007-04-27T02:00:00.000+10:00

Wikipedia has an excellent explanation of Spidey's powers and abilities here, and here's an awesome bio of Spidey from the Marvel Directory.

Below is just an excerpt from the latter. Nothing new, true, but cool to see it written up by Marvel as such considering that's where it all came from - and with all the details exactly according to them.

ps. don't miss the posts with links below - all many of them - to Spiderman 3 related stuff.

Know Superhuman Powers: Spider-Man possesses superhuman strength, reflexes, and equilibrium; the ability to cause parts of his body to stick with great tenacity to most surfaces; and a subconscious premonitional "danger" sense.

The irradiated Common House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum) which bit Peter Parker was apparently already mutated from prior exposure to certain frequencies of radiation and received a final, lethal dose during Parker's attendance of the exhibition. The radioactive, complex mutagenic enzymes in the spider's blood that were transferred at the time of the bite triggered numberous body-wide mutagenic changes within Parker.

Spider-Man's overall metabolic efficiency has been greatly increased, and the composition of his skeleton, inter-connected tissues, and nervous system have all been enhanced. Spider-Man's musculature has been augmentedso that he can lift (press) about 10 tons. His reflexes are faster than an average human by about a factor of 15 (he is often able to dodge bullets, if he is far enough away). Spider-Man is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength.

He has developed a unique fighting style that makes full use of his agility, strength, and equilibrium. Spider-Man's exposure to the mutated spider venom induced a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-atomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers. This overcomes the outer electron shell's normal behavior of mutual repulsion with other outer electron shells and permits the tremendous potential for electron attraction to prevail. The mentally controlled sub-atomic particle responsible for this has yet to be identified. This ability to affect the attraction between surfaces is so far limited to Spider-Man's body (especially conetrated in his hands and feet) and another object, with an upper limit of several tons per finger. Limits to this ability seem to be psychosomatic, and the full nature of this ability has yet to be established. Spider-Man possesses an extrasensory "danger" or "spider" sensewhich warns him of potential immediate danger by tingling sensation in the back of his skull. The precise nature of this sense is unknown. It appears to be a simultaneous clairvoyant responce to a wide variety of phenomena (everything from falling safes to speeding bullets to thrown punches), which has given several hundredths of a second's warning, which is sufficient time for his reflexes to allow him to avoid injury.

The sense also can create a general resonse on the order of several minutes: he cannot discern the nature of the threat by the sensation. He can, however, discern the severity of the danger by the strength of his response to it. Spider-Man's fighting style incorporates the advantage that his "spidey-sense" provides him.

Spiderman 3 villains @ Marvel

2007-04-18T18:30:00.000+10:00

Spiderman this, Spidey that - see two posts below. Here are a couple of links to Marvel's own lowdown on Venom and Sandman from the upcoming Spiderman 3 film. There's also a nice Venom bio here from Marvel UK. Check it out.

Be the man. Swing it!

2007-04-14T00:39:00.000+10:00

While it's all about Spiderman - see below, I thought I'd quickly mention the Spiderman 3 game which is about to come out on PC and Playstation 3 etc. You get to swing around town as Spidey and beat on lots of different villains and um...do lotza cool Spidey stuff including hopefully, crack some really bad one-liners. Check it out if you're a wannabe webhead at www.sm3thegame.com

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SPIDEY merges with ALIEN SYMBIOTE fights SANDMAN and then VENOM! Caught on film!

2007-04-12T18:31:00.000+10:00

With Spiderman 3 coming out soon, here's some links for background need to know info on the villains of the film. From the movie trailer we can see that Spidey will have to fight Sandman, and then...the most loved and favourite villain (having replaced Green Goblin)...none other than VENOM!

Venom? Sandman? Dcompose at youtube has good spiderman class 101 videos. Click here for Venom 101 and here for Sandman 101. Also don't miss the Venom 102 and the Carnage lesson also.

Wikipedia has a summary here for Venom, and as does ign here. School it up.

More Super Heroes...

2007-04-11T00:19:00.000+10:00

Aside from his own illustrations - seen here (click to enlarge) and @ his homepage, artist Dean Trippe runs Project Rooftop. It's dedicated to superhero costume design. They recently did supergirl. Impressive, have a look.

Filmic Schizm

2007-03-30T21:58:00.001+10:00

czech this out.
This is an image competition run by the b3ta website where entries must link two films with a common word and produce a poster for it. Brilliant. Not to be missed.
click the link below.

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/movie_combos/

Here's a bit of my script for this particular one...

[De Niro is very angry and looking in the rear view mirror at himself. Miss Daisy sits oblivious in the back seat until...]

De Niro: [talking to himself] "You talking to me. You looking at me. You must be. There's no one else here!"

[Catches Miss Daisy's attention]

Miss Daisy: [Inquisitorially] "Are you alright young man. There most certainly is someone else here. Have you taken your medication?"

Deniro: [Quietly to himself] "That's it. The old bitch goes in the boot later."

*Random Trivia: Deniro played the monster itself in the 1994 Frankenstein movie...seriously...well as serious as you can be about it!

...now do yourself a favour and have a look at brilliant comic Frank Caliendo's take on this here

Frank Caliendo does an amazing and hilarious George Bush impersonation which you can see at youtube here, and also check out his website for more more more. Don't miss the ringtones.

Cannonball

2007-03-30T21:29:00.000+10:00

Damien Rice. An Irish singer songwriter who sort of slipped under the radar. sort of. you may have heard this.

if not. do yourself a favour. quite a ridiculously remarkable song.

Cannonball [listen to the version at the bottom, the Hug Robot Radio version ] @ hypemachine

video at youtube

also:
the blowers daughter
cold water
volcanoe

his music features in the film 'Closer'
he has also done good cover versions of 'can't take my eyes off you', 'when doves cry', and 'creep'.

Cut Copy

2007-03-30T21:01:00.000+10:00

Cut Copy. A melbourne band. very impressive.

listen to these tracks @ Hypemachine (cut copy search)

[or search for them individually for even better results]

time stands still
saturdays
going Nowhere (whitey remix)
gliterring clouds
drop the bomb

while your @ it have a listen to The Presets with
girl and the sea

Regina Spektor's музыка (music)

2007-03-30T19:42:00.000+10:00

The beautiful Regina Spektor. 27 now. came to new york at 9 yrs old from russia.

media:

youtube video for 'fidelity'

hypemachine search for her songs

also listen to
us
on the radio
better