Hello and welcome to Retrospection, the podcast where we take an old movie on TV show and decide if it deserves to swing through the city with a wind in its mask or should it be webbed to a dumpster courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood broadcasters. My name's Paul and are you on drugs? Not today. Oh no.
And my name's James and do you believe in mind control? Do I look like a mind control? We live in this house. Well technically you get me to do what everyone.
So I cook, I clean fetch things for you. So that's a form of mind control isn't it I guess. No, because you could say no. And stuff of that withering look that you give me.
I don't think so. On this episode we're taking a look at the amazing Spiderman TV series that ran for two short seasons between 1977 and 1979. IMDB says, with the powers given by the bite of a radioactive spider, a young man fights crime as a war crawling superhero. Yep, they get good at this, isn't it?
Yeah, it's only taken about 20 years from IMDB. The pilot stars Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker aka Spiderman. Or should that be Spiderman aka Peter Parker? Come on, come with me boy, tell me.
No, it would be Spiderman aka Peter Parker. Why? Well actually no. Peter is the original.
The original. As in he is mainly Peter, but then he dresses up as Spiderman. Okay. Okay.
All right. So why don't you put the hundred? Oh my God, you're gonna pick my notes now. Colin, Colin, are you coming back?
So please don't come out. Yeah. If you're listening. David White as Jay Jonah Jameson.
I say David White because he's the Jay Jonah in the pilot movie. She's what we're talking about. He gets recast later but we'll get to that. Chip Fields as Rita Conway.
Michael Petaki as Captain Barbera. And this pilot episode that we'll be covering also features Lisa L. Bakker as Judy Tyler who would later start in Beverly Hills Cop. And they are David as Edward Byron, the villain of the story.
We'll talk about it. This show, they try to ground it in reality, which always uses me when filmmakers talk about that because it's a show that a guy dresses in a relatively suit and called on. Well, yeah. I mean they did the same thing with the incredible wild show.
Yeah, which is about a guy turned into a big green rage monster. Grounded in reality. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Good luck with that. And to keep costs down, the producers decided not to include any of Friday's comic book Rhodes Gallery.
But instead, having faced off against quote unquote real-life style criminals, that's going to be fun. Well, lots of ninjas as well. Yeah. There's always ninjas.
Seventies or so. Yeah. They like them. I mean, it's not like far-fetched to say that Spider-Man would fight normal criminals because he does that all the time.
Yeah, he's always stealing back purses from lovers. Even some of his roads get, I mean, look at people like Tombstone. He's a mobster, isn't he? Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. I'm a very bad. Stanley was very vocal in his dislike of the show, feeling that the tone was too juvenile and that the character was being treated as a cardboard character.
I don't agree with that. I think Nicholas Hammond's Peter Parker is actually pretty good. Yeah. There's nothing I can't talk about him.
No. He's being literal. Wow. Okay.
Hammond was cast after producers saw him in a play in LA. He was enthusiastic about the role. So long as it didn't become a parody in the same vein as the 60s Batman series, which I can understand because there wasn't a lot of previous live-action superhero stuff to draw on. The 40s serials of Superman and Batman, which is like that.
But on TV, I suppose the big one would have been Batman, Batman, which is a comedy. Well, I think it works on different levels, doesn't it? Works as a kid show, but also the robes get the jokes. When I was a kid watching the 60s Batman TV show, I took it 100% seriously.
It was Batman. And the Hulk TV show, as you mentioned before, each episode was shot in seven days with first and second units filming the Peter Parker and Spidey sequences at the same time. So while one was shooting Peter Parker, another unit was shooting the Spider-Man stuff, the stunt stuff. I was going to say, because how would you shoot the normal Spider-Man stuff?
Because that is Nicholas Hammond. Yeah. I think they're talking more of the actual crawling up walls, which we'll talk about that when we get to it and things, but take some guts to do some of these stunts in this show. I think I'm not the chroma king.
Not the chroma king. While in the comics, Peter Parker is a high school student. For the show, he was advanced to be a grad student instead, which doesn't bother me. They aged him up a little bit.
Which is fair enough, because most of the time in the comics, he's in the college. Yeah. Actually in the 70s, he was in the college. And even though Nicholas Hammond is quite young, he still feels a little bit older than me.
So yeah, it works. Oddly, there's no mention of Uncle Ben at all in the show. Yeah, which I think kind of takes away the motivation for the becomes Spider-Man. With great power, it comes great.
I'll find it in a cheese. The pilot had a theatrical run in Europe, which I remember going to see. I do believe that he was a... I'm pretty sure I saw it on a double bill with a movie called Catas Jack.
That sounds like a cracking show. It was a Western, a comedy Western, think live action looney tunes with Kurt Douglas as this coboy guy. And I remember there was a gag in it where he's trying to get this other guy who's played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first big role. And he paints a big black circle on foot, but it looks like a tunnel.
So basically what they do and why they go? Yeah, but then when Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to ride through it, he actually rides through it. So he thinks, what's going on? So he tries to ride through it and goes slack against the side of it.
That kind of joke. Which I... Well, it's hilarious back when I was probably sitting on top of it. You probably still do.
I bet you didn't know this series takes place on Earth 730911, apparently. I'm pretty sure they just use a roulette wheel for calling these Earths. I would imagine it's got some context to it, but at least do you see one more? Cool.
Hey, come on, they've got Batman. Yeah, okay. No, I mean more concise with the calling of Earths. I mean, you've got what?
Earth 1 and Earth 2 and Earth 3. You're going to do a wall. Earth 4, Earth 5, Earth 100. Yeah, keep going.
This is the Earth Podcast. We were just going to name off all the Earths. Exciting. David White, who plays Jay-Jaye Jameson in this pilot movie, was unavailable for the series.
And the role was taken over by Robert F. Simon, who... I prefer the guy in the movie, actually. Well, I wouldn't know if it was an English song.
Yeah, but I know. I can prefer the guy in the movie. Oddly, this show has never had a DVD or Blu-Ray release, and it's desperate for one, I think. If they brought this out as a box out of a definitely, or just this pilot.
Yeah, the movie. Greeno is a Blu-Ray movie. Because I know I've got Blu-Ray of the Battle of Stegolites movie, which was basically the pilot with added footage, edited areas, which was released on the cinema, and I went to see it. What's the...
Speaking of added footage, the version of this that we watch haven't... I'm not sure. You'd have to sit down and compare it to you in a long time since I've seen it. Probably very minute.
Yeah, maybe it's cut slightly different. The series was a co-production between CBS, Marvel Comics and Universal. So it was quite a big deal, really. Long before the days of Sony.
Long before the days of Sony, and long before anything that you know is Marvel today. A lot of action. Well, I don't know about that. I mean, I've seen a lot of the 90s.
Yeah, I'm talking about what we have now. Yeah. It's very different. Only one stunt was performed featuring five D swinging between the buildings with the shot being reused throughout the series.
And it is that shot that's in this movie. Well, they reuse it in this. They just take away the wave that he does the first time. But he doesn't do any other swinging in the show apart from that one shot.
And it is just a guy swinging from one building to another. Balls of steel Spider-Man Balls of steel. There's a misconception that the show was cancelled due to poor ratings. This is not so, as it was performing well.
The real reason was that CBS had decided that it didn't want to be known as the superhero network, having also shown the Hulk and Wonder Woman shows at the same time. I can understand that. One channel was Batman on me. Oh, Batman and Beastie, I think, I think.
Oh, right. Much Spider-Sensist England, James. Although, honestly, it might be just a headache. Yeah, well, last night was pretty rough.
We there. I don't know. And on that note, I'll see you at trailer. The world's favorite comic book hero, followed by 84 million readers a year.
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This is 1977, baby, and don't we know it? Donkey Spider-Man. Yeah. Also, I've got to mention that to coincide with this American release of Spider-Man, at the same time, we also had over in Japan, Super-Man, as Japanese Spider-Man.
Now, I've only seen bits and pieces of that, and I'll look at bonkers. I've watched all of it. Yeah, it's all on YouTube. You can watch every episode.
It's great. Would you say you prefer that over there? No. Don't.
Don't. It's quite until the end. We'll talk about it. Let's just say it's basically Power Rangers, but with Spider-Man.
Okay. You can get that. I'm not supposed to notice that. He has a flying car and a giant, like, mechasaur-type thing, or leopardum.
He's also in the Spide of Us comic, briefly. Yes, he is. Yes. I mean, in the actual Spider-Man comic, Spider-Man had a dune bug at one point that was made by Joy-Star.
Yeah. He also, not a comic version, Japanese Spider-Man also uses a gun at one point. Why? Why?
Well, it doesn't actually hit anyone. And we get some open credits. Can you imagine a superhero movie showing you the suit and the only credits today? They made you wait for that one.
Oh yeah, definitely. But we see shots in Crall and Round, on Earth. Although it's up to me fairly hard. Distance shots.
Yeah, but you can only see it's back. Which I mean is good enough. Yeah. I love the fact that the director of this movie is named E.W.
Schwakhammer. That's a superhero right there. Schwakhammer. That's either a superhero name or he's in the wrong business.
What business would you say? The pornographic business. I think he's very good. You know that.
We open with various people being mind-controlled to commit crimes just walking out of the house. We open with various people being mind controlled to commit crimes, just walking out of their jobs. That's a great excuse, right? Why do you leave work after only one hour?
Mind control mate, not fair to do that, you know? When I'm thinking, you know? The mind controlled device sounds like a phone left off the hook. That's all tech, don't understand that, do you?
Not stupid, I've seen things where phones have been left off the hook. I've seen a phone! I've seen things! I've seen things you people wouldn't believe!
So we see two mind control people robbing a bank, some very, very funky value. This is like Spider-Man in Dirty Harry+. Yeah, it's a... This is already the cru All This Thing You've Ever seen, right?
Yeah, not that Spider-Man's had his own, yes. I mean just for the fact of those 1970s cars driving around, and they all look like Samurgmy's car, evidently. So the ()); with Ali and Dai... you'd have done it.
and two shady characters take the money and some lapel pins off the body. We meet Peter Parker, he's being chewed out by Jay Jonah, don't look like that. He's pictures just out up to snuff. I don't know.
So let's get into it, what about Nick Hammond's Peter Parker? He's got to be an influence on the 90s cartoon, right? Definitely, I mean, the 90s cartoon has the exact same face and hair as Nicholas Hammond. And even the same sort of clothes?
Yeah, either sweaters or polo shirts in the 90s, fine. But I also feel like Nicholas Hammond himself kind of reflects how John or me a senior used to draw in the 70s. I can see that. He's good in the role.
I really like Nicholas Hammond in a piece of Parker. I would prefer to watch Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker than Toby McGuire. Hot-taker? I haven't heard.
Yeah, it took me fair. I mean, Toby McGuire is a bit of a douchebag. So I've heard allegedly. He's also a bit of a crybaby in those films.
I think the word is, do it. Yeah. I don't mean the third one. You say that.
So the Mergates next-door should note, someone wants to pay off, or you'll make more people commit crimes and then suicide. Is this the other guy in the newsroom supposed to be Robbie Robertson? I think so. Is they calling Robbie throughout the entire episode?
You know, you've never seen him again, right? You've never seen him in the top. He's gone by the time the series comes to him. Replaced by a lady.
Later, Peter is in a lab, and the slab is plastered with the warning signs everywhere. Radioactive, warning. I think it's dangerous. No.
Peter gets a delivery from a very nervous delivery man. Yeah, I never understood why he's like, what? Because he's in a science room. I think so.
Who's science mate? Oh, whoa. I don't know. That's like witchcraft.
Pete has no money on him, as usual. He's a pico-paker. And he can't pay for his merchandise that's gone. Now this is classic pico-pico stuff, right?
He's always struggling on him. Pete has never had any money. The delivery man's scared off by a very slow-moving robotic arm, by the way. This shot goes off at ages.
It's almost comedic in a way. It's all in silence. Yeah. Look on the guy's face that he's doing it.
He's just like, look. Look. It's gonna get you. He's very strange.
We see a house spider lower itself in a way as a housewife. He's a lower itself into the radioactive cabinet. And it gets lit up by disc lights. Yeah.
It's going on on, honk honk. But it's not honk honk. Plus you know, disc lights are very prominent in the 70s. Yeah.
It was glowing so much. You must have had his ready break, right? That's a reference for an old advert already break. You probably never seen, right?
Right. So basically, welcome to the Ready Break podcast. So when kids use the Ready Break of these adverts, they would walk out and glow like they've just walked out of Chernobyl. Right.
Yep. So what they're saying is don't eat. No, they're saying eat it. Give you power.
I always feel like sick after eating. Yes, everyone. It's slothin' it. Prism.
Prism. I'll never look at the same way again. Pizza's got allergies. And he sneezes into his own hand and then grabs a tissue afterwards.
I mean, he's got that wrong way. Right. It's not a snotty sneeze. It's more of just a allergy sneeze.
Is that right? Yeah, because I mean, if he's got allergies, we're going to do a deep dive into sneezing now. That's what I'll bring you to show. This is three different podcasts in one this year.
Yeah. Welcome to Sneezes, the podcast. Yeah. But the spider is loose and damn, it bites me through the hand.
What a surprise, I mean. Well, he does act so fine. Yeah. We see more mind control crime going on, another robbery.
Peter leaves the university, but something's wrong. He's either a spider sense, he's telling him that he's a boat to be run over by car. Or he's having a stroke, he's one of the other. Yeah.
But no, he's in danger. What does he do as his car comes towards him? He climbs a wall to escape. I did like this scene very much because it's a nice little homage to his first climbing scene in the original issue of amazing fantasy.
Is that right? After he, a little deep dive in, in amazing fantasy 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man. After he gets his powers, he, for some reason, a car nearly runs him over in an alleyway and he jumps up on the wall and starts climbing up the wall. Oh, right.
Yeah. That's obviously what they do. I mean, it's a different context. It's just a random guy in the comic book.
He takes this new ability rather well, doesn't he? He's been surprised by it. He kind of goes, oh, that was good. And he just starts taking pictures of the crash that happens below him.
Yeah, he just walks in the other side. That might be my main lens. He goes so bad. So he's even wearing a press pass or anything.
He just goes on the photography. Yeah. And we meet Griseled Captain Baba, who you might remember, as the angry Russian guy in Rocky Fort. Yeah.
I mean, I didn't even realize who you talked about. This takes access in loads of stuff. So the robbery money is gone, by the way, taken by the two shifting men that we saw earlier. By the way, can you imagine a modern superhero movie getting to the power of so quickly?
This is 15, 16 minutes into the movie. He's already climbing walls. He's been bit inspired by his climbing walls. That could be fair.
That could just be because of length. I mean, it was only a 90 minute movie. Yeah, but it's probably a 90 minute movie that still don't get to it. Well, I mean, a good example of a film, I mean, it's not necessarily recent.
Mm. A good comic book movie that gets to the powers in the first 15 minutes is The Crow. Yeah, I mean, he's already dead in the first few days. He's already dead when the film starts.
Yeah, because you see the death in flashbacks now. Yeah. And then about 10 minutes only comes back to life and becomes a crow. Mm-hmm.
I always hate it when they do orgy movies. The first hour is getting to, you know, just wrap everyone knows the origin of Spider-Man. Oh! You're all right there?
Yeah, sorry, it's sort of a cough. An allergy? I'll give you a tissue, but I'm going to just sneeze and see how I'm out. Here it goes home and you're dreaming of spiders.
And we get a montage of things that we saw five minutes ago. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Hey, maybe it's a make from Rocky Robin.
I hope he's not. So he decides to test his new abilities by carving out the window. Yeah. And we get some great, promo key photography here, don't we?
You're impressed by this one. Oh, this is a great one. I saw outline around him as he goes across the still image. The bit that amused me is when he can't cut the wall to the house and then there's an overhanging bit where the roof is.
Yeah. And all of it's just flat. Because he's just like, I've been on the floor. He's ecstatic about these new developments.
So much so that he runs out to find the nearest alley that you can climb up. Yeah. No, this effect is great. This is practical.
Oh, this is the best. Yeah. You can't see the ropes. He's obviously on a harness being dragged up this wall.
Yeah. It looks right. Yeah. I don't even know the way the ropes on the wall.
You thought it was really fine, man? No, man. As in, like, I knew he was attached to something, but I didn't realize it was attached to the top of the building rather than. That would be the only way they could do it.
Yeah. I mean, I always thought he had some kind of thing on the front so you couldn't see it. What attached to it? It'd still be attached to ours.
Yeah. You know. But just welded. Either way, some of the shots later in the film, and he's on the top of these big buildings, it's mind-boggling.
Oh, yeah. They got away with this stuff. So he scares the crap out of a mugger that he sees, of course, in the lady below. He takes a few pics, but he still can't tell them.
Even of the dead guy. Yeah. Jay Jonah just wants to pick up this new Spider-Man guy that people have seen because people witnessed him climbing up and down the wall. They're running round the wall.
Peter tells him this whole story, don't he, about how he saw Spider-Man. But if he went and saw the actual people that also saw Spider-Man, the way Peter describes him, very different to what the everyone else saw. Well, he's already thinking two steps ahead, you know. He's thinking about the suit and everything and all that.
And Peter plays up to it. And this is where we get a little homage to the 60s cartoon because he quotes some of the lines from the old theme tune to that. Pete just sends himself into oblivion here having to think on his feet as Robbie and Jay Jonah questioned him. He's adding more and more lore to the Spider-Man character.
He'd be thinking, don't you know so much about him? Yeah, after one sign. Oh, no, for years, mate. He's done a local every night.
Yeah. So we meet Aunt May, Mark 1. Again, she's recast in the show. Oh, right.
No sign I mention of Uncle Ben, as we said. No one called Ben at all. But Pete is busy. Don't come in here.
Ah, the classic scene refray in A James. I have to put the first amendment on that one. But it's all about Pete. And has been putting those needlework skills to the videos.
He's made himself a suit. No, we have no prior knowledge to the fact that Pete can sew. No. And then he's going to be costume for the first time.
And Pete stands in front of the mirror and has a look at himself. Go on, damn it, I'm some sexy Spider-Man. And... That's not that.
And... You were watching. So let's talk about the costume. What do you think?
This is probably one of my favorite live action Spider-Man suits. Really? Why is that? It's because the other ones are really sleek.
Yeah, but there's kind of a charm behind the homemade look behind Spider-Man, because that's how he makes his costume. It's not like Toby Maguire's version or Tom Holland's version where he kind of just thinks up of this suit and then all of a sudden it's there. Yeah. Tom Holland originally just got Tony Stark to make it for.
That's true. That's true. I guess the only person we really seen making costume is Andrew Garfield. Yeah, and that goes from being really, really rubbish to suddenly looking great in a montage.
I think I agree with you. I mean, I'm biased in a way because this was obviously my first live action Spider-Man, so it's kind of special to me. But I look at this and I just see Spider-Man from comic. No, go.
This is, I mean, minus the round eyes, but that doesn't take away from it. No, it's just an interpretation, isn't it? And those are the changes that series goes on as well. It's like with drink.
Yeah, he does. Yeah. But yeah, no, this is literally just Spider-Man ripped off of the comic page. He's even down to the logos and everything.
Yeah. His center, Spider-logo literally just genre me a singer's art, put on a costume. Yeah, and the one on his back. And the one on his back.
Yeah. Yeah, I completely agree with you. I think I, because obviously I know later on in the series, he gets his into a little and his gauntlet. But he's got, by the end of this movie, he's wearing his utility belt for some reason.
But I don't really feel like he would have needed that. No, I know. But much better if he just kept it as he did originally. He just accepted it.
Yeah. Or you do the conceit that he's got it under his costume even though he wouldn't ever do it. Yeah, he could. Because I mean, in this scene we see him take it off, but he takes it off like a one-piece costume.
You know, later on in the series, you could evolve it so that it's a two-piece. Yeah. So it's a shirt, trousers, and then he can just lift up the shirt. I feel like in the 70s as well, people would have just accepted it.
Yeah. I don't think people were as nit-picky. I don't think that's what they are now. I made this argument when we watched it.
People were always worried about making comic book things silly. Mm-hmm. They were going to make it serious so they changed the costume in a way. With Spider-Man, there's no real way you could make his costume look silly.
Because any iteration of Spider-Man, that's just Spider-Man. Yeah. It's not like Batman or Superman where someone might conceive the trunks on the outside looking silly. That's not us, obviously.
Not us, we're with comic purists. Yep. But yeah, I think you make a Spider-Man costume that looks like the comic. That's just Spider-Man.
I think that's what you try and say, don't try and reinvent the wheel. Yeah. Just take what on the page and put it out there. Yeah.
That's why a lot of problems I have with the modern interpret. The one that Tom Holland is going to wear in this new Spider-Man film is probably the next best thing. That is also just, I mean, with a few minor changes with the logos. But that is another iteration of Spider-Man leaving off the page.
But even in previous costumes, like the one he has in Homecoming and Far From Home. There's no real need for all that extra stuff on it. Yeah. I don't like the, you know, the night helmet things that they have in these modern shows.
That's just so you can take off. Yeah. I don't like that. But yeah, I'd agree.
I think this is great. Yeah, no, this is great. So Pete goes out and he takes some sexy Spider-Man shots of himself. Yeah, he only compares it to underwear and calls him a freak.
He's not impressed. He's never is. And there's been another robbery and a death and Pete is the only photographer available. That's so convenient.
Yeah. But it is a bit suspicious about Peter always appearing at crime scenes. Yeah, at least he's, at least someone's onto him. Yeah.
Everyone else just like, yeah, just let Palfi go down there. Right? This is the only one police officer in the entire city in the office. Well, if you notice that.
The robber, however, is still alive and he's trapped in the car. But Pete uses his super strength to free him. And I like that this is just something that he does. There's no big deal about it.
He just pulls the wheel apart and so that I can get out when no one's looking with the classic 70s super strength. Yes. So defect. Right?
Six million dollars. Yeah. I think they use that in the hole because well, don't they sometimes? No, that's usually just a bending noise.
Is it more of a war? Yeah. Hey, the noise podcast. Can you make a fun noise today?
Oh, yeah, the bad. You know what? You're not fun noise. Oh, yeah, the bad.
That looks good. Anyway, unfortunately Pete drops his camera and it smashes on the floor. That's a bad look for him. At least, no one looks at the realer film that's in the camera.
Judy turns up and Judy is the daughter of the guy in the car. Yes. The robber. And Pete wastes no time on any hitting all that like nobody's business.
He always goes for the Reddit. He does. We meet finally at Master Villain. Is it Doc Ock?
Is it Green Goblin? No, it's a fat guy in a suit. Kingpin. I said to you, they should have been Kingpin.
They should have used Kingpin for this. Kingpin. Kingpin. Kingpin.
Oh, wow. Where's he from? I'm not saying. He's going to kill himself.
The computer screen flashes destroy just in case we weren't sure what I'm going to do. Oh, sorry, Judy and Pete. See what's happening. But luckily Pete's brought his spider suit along with him.
He's wearing his clothes, just in case. Well, that's what Pete and Norman does. Yeah. I mean, keep your arms on, wouldn't it?
Yeah, I spoke. And he climbs up the villainy side of him. Again, more practical start work. He's really good.
I really like the POV shots that they do in between when he's crawling up walls. Yeah, he's basically just a stunt with a camera on his head. Climb up the wall. In class it's superhero style, Pete turns back up after it's all over.
That reminded me of Superman too. Yeah. But I think that's like Judy's not even suspicious. She's not just, she's just missed it.
He's like, oh, really? Yeah, I was just going to take pictures. Yeah. Let's go to John is still angry Pete when Judy turns up and he leans a little for money.
No, that's classy. That's classy. You're not about that. Yeah.
Never been on someone for money. That's all I'll say to that. I'm loving the cool time and sweaters by the way. But fine.
He's got a new one. So he's got enough money paid for all these sweaters. Yeah. Maybe he's, maybe he's, maybe he's, maybe he's a knitted for him.
Maybe he's sweaters. Or always a sign of class. They're always sexy. Those are always the only mates.
Judy asks Pete to check out our villain. He's named Byron and he runs and improves his psychology kind of think tank, doesn't he? Yeah. Judy's dad remembers nothing even though Burberry's skeptical.
But Pete and Judy attend one of Byron's seminars and he just spends the time roasting his audience apparently. Yeah, he's very straight to the point in this. You're ugly. You're a moron.
You're the only one I'm trying to hit. Yeah, you get out. You just get out. You're wasting my time.
There's nothing can help you mate. Get out. I'm bad for this. It's got to be $200.
Okay. I'm not sure why they didn't use MJ in the first place. They don't think they've done you slightly any characters from the comic. That's all apart from J.
Jameson and Aunt May and Spider-Man and Robbie in this. You told me that Judy's not even in it after this. I don't think she comes back. I may be wrong, but I don't remember it.
Judy thinks that Byron's shtick might be useful and she decides to stay. And Pete has got the classic Parker charm of the ladies, doesn't he? Oh yeah. He doesn't really work.
Pete, whoever goes back and he makes his one. Just the one. Yeah. Web shooter.
He looks good. Maybe not the thick rope that shoots out of it. I was wondering why they only gave him one. I guess maybe budget.
Would you consider it too, mate? Yeah. How much do you think that's fine about Succot? So he goes to test it, but I'm having a bit of a low swing on a tree.
It's not quite as impressive as a Toba Maguire slamming into the side of a building, is it? Yeah. Could you imagine? Like he swings off this tree.
He's like, oh, this is great. This will hold me. Go and swing off the field and it's snap. Snap.
The end. I was thinking about him swinging on this tree and he looks like a little kid swinging on it, but he's a grown man. And imagine having a walking path. Oh, it's such a shame, isn't it?
You've only had a girlfriend. Oh, he comes out going, what are you doing? Yeah, the net. Pete detects a signal which coincides with virus mind control device.
And he rushes off to investigate as Spider-Man. So we get a mix of practical effects and more chroma key stuff. But this looked great and it still does now. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm concerned.
I forgot a problem with any of it. Even the chroma key stuff kind of has a charm to it. You know, how else are you going to do it anyway? And as you said before, the POV stuff is fantastic.
I like how he's constantly sneezing inside his mask as well. Yeah. Can I just say that mask? He takes it half.
It's on a piece of face. Yeah. That's amazing. What are you doing in this mask?
Don't ask. Don't ask. Why would you see the mask? Maybe he puts it in the wash.
He's a teenager. He's not going to do his own washing. Believe me, I know. I'll make it like this is a great cosplay you've made of this Spider-Man.
It's a real deal. That's exactly what it is. No. Watch it.
Hold it at gunpoint. He sneezes and he drops this little undetected device that he made. No, this is classic con work stuff. Anything you want to make it better is after he dropped it, he went, oh, booger.
Sick of an accident. Oh, who the hell? I dropped him. Me little doodah.
He's little doodah. I also like the shots where he's literally crawling on a set that they've got on the floor. But he feels real. Yeah.
And I'm pretty sure that he's still like doing that at some time. Probably. His body goes into the building and he has a great ninja fight with these three guys. I like how he instantly runs away.