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andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2007-12-17 01:50 pm

Only me! *Thwip!*

You don't want to do it like that, you want to do it like this!A revelation has come unto me.  I've worked out why I can't stand Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.

It's not that he's a whiney emo boi-bitch.  Spidey's a whiney teen.  That's fine.  It's not that he speaks in expository voice-over, because Spidey does that too.  It's not even that Sam Raimi gets flabbier and less entertaining the more money he has to work with, or that Spidey's beloved wise-cracking has been drowned under those big watery baby blues.

It's simply this:  Tobey Maguire looks like a young Harry Enfield.

'Nuff said.

[identity profile] ravenbait.livejournal.com 2007-12-17 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Dammit.

You're right!

Tobey Maguire IS Tory Boy!

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2007-12-17 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Christ, so he does.

I think the series would be substantially improved by Kathy Burke playing practically anyone.

[identity profile] jarkman.livejournal.com 2007-12-17 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone. She should play everyone. That would sort it out.

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-12-17 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd certainly 'reimagine' Aunt May!

[identity profile] alacerus.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aunt May, theres something I need to tell you..."
"I AM SMOKING A FAG!";-)

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's better already!

[identity profile] ravenbait.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Or Mary Jane:

"I want a BRAHN baby!"

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
But this is the Marvel universe - "I wanna GREEN babay!"