Monday
Jul152013
Twins: Electro & Mr Freeze
Monday, July 15, 2013 at 2:22PM Have you seen the first official still of Electro (Jamie Foxx) from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is it, albeit quite, um, altered by my photoshoppin' whimsy.
Can The Amazing Spider-Man 2 be as terrible as I want it to be? I mean please please please for the love of all that is holy in comic book cinema please don't be just dull and bland and redundant like The Amazing Spider-Man reboot. Please be just straight-up terrible so that you're fun to hate! Like Batman and Robin (1997)!
Reader Comments (11)
Really? So it kinda looks like they MIGHT be doing some variant on the containment suit thing, but without the yellow and green colour scheme, which means they're changing things along similar lines without having a basic level of respect for the basic iconography like what the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon show had. Or, to cite your example, Batman and Robin. And if it were arguably "cooler" (like the X-Men films), I could understand it, but who's seen the Electro costumes so far and hasn't thought "y'know, maybe the original costume WOULD have looked cooler."
Andrew Garfield is going to be 31 and play a HS student when this comes and the filmmakers are still planning to stretch it out to have Mary Jane in the third movie. Marc Webb is almost too self-serious for it to be bad but fun. That said, the character designs of the last 2 movies for the villains are very Schumacher-esque.
Wesley Morris (his podcast on Grantland is a solid listen on both movies and music) said recently that these movies were such a huge mistake for Emma Stone to sign up for and probably stunted her career. Her romance with Garfield better be real because still playing a teenager when she should be competing with the Rooney Maras of the world (disclaimer: I am not a Stone fan at all but I hate to see a career wasted) for more adult parts is really painting yourself into a corner. That and the movie removes one of the most appealing things about her persona: the sassy redhead (let's ignore her being a bottled redhead, she is just cooler red). This ain't Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai- dying your hair that completely upends your appearance for the sake of art.
Oh my God if it is even 1/5 as delicious as BATMAN AND ROBIN I will be in HEAVEN! I still regard it as my favorite Batman movie -- that score! Those sets! UMA!
They need to get Eddy Grant to sing a redux of "Electric Avenue" over the main titles. That would set just the right tone. And Bill Hader can do his eel impression from SNL during a cameo as the villain's daddy.
I'm actually hoping ASM2 is a worthwhile film but I too want it to be more than redundant and bland, so a Batman & Robin-quality film would do as well. As for Foxx's look as Electro, I'll give it a chance on the big screen but it's hard to deny how much it looks like Ahnold's Mr. Freeze and that's not something you want to be associated with.
I have Andrew Garfield in spandex or whatever material the "new" suit is made of to stare at.... it's never gonna be dull for me.
Voldemort making a cameo?
@CMG: Are you serious? Emma Stone is 24. Rooney Mara is 28. Stone is hardly "wasting a career"--she's building up box office cred (and juicy paychecks) with Spider-Man, has been in a bunch of other hits (The Croods, The Help, Superbad, Zombieland), and has a Globe nom from Easy A. She's massively popular, and her star is only rising. There's no need to latch herself to an auteur now (as Rooney is with Fincher)--might as well go for some good commercial stuff now, cut her teeth with some great directors who want to work with her (Woody Allen, Cameron Crowe), and in a few years, she'll probably have the clout to pull both big studio comedies (dear god we need someone to replace Katherine Heigl) and get whatever indie/auteur films funded she wants.
If anything, I'd say she's teetering dangerously on overexposure. But dear god, there is nothing I want less than for Emma Stone to start gunning for a role in a Stephen Daldry movie right now. She's got a shot at legitimate, old-school movie stardom. Why ruin that chance?
I'm gonna throw things at the computer screen now. :3
Jake D- I was just given one example (and 4 years is not that much of an age difference). You're not really convincing me that she is making the right decision. Crowe has not made a good movie in years and being cast in a Woody Allen movie does not necessarily mean juicy, head-turning part like it felt for a lot of people 30 years ago. She should be controlling her own destiny now and yes, overexposure in the broadest sense with her being an action figurine and on several billboards portrayed as damsel in distress with this kind of franchise movie. It is a certain type that she has gotten herself into. I saw it with Kirsten Dunst, who by Spiderman, had just as an impressive if not more impressive body of work, on how overexposure hurt her and made people not only question her as the **type** she played but any thing she was cast in after that. She backed out of a GDT movie and Mia Wasikowska took her place (now there's somebody who has balanced this stuff out). I do question her decisions.
And what is the old-school movie stardom? Studio system? I am not necessarily sure an Emma Stone top-billed movie has the same feeling of being an automatic hit as it did 2 years ago. Being second-bill in a franchise movie and one that is not the same as a Hathaway or a ScarJo as the female leads (because they kick ass in costumes) seems like a waste of time for her.
Looks cool to me...btw I don't think the pics of Electro that are circling the net are the finished project...there will probably be a lot of digital effects going on with Electros costume.
#don't hate before you see the real deal on screen.