Draven

IT WAS FANTASTIC.

The animation is incredible, the story is really cool, the characters are really well written, it’s funny and clever as hell.

Just an amazing movie - one of the best animated films of recent memory. I want 5 more movies with these characters.

Why So Blu?

Holy shit, just got back, and it was fucking phenomenal! One of the best films of the year and the animation was killer!

movieguru

Huh??

Spiderbite

What??? You don't know about Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew???

I had all those issues and the entire Spider-Ham series (including Marvel Tails).

movieguru

I know about Captain Carrott. I was just confused aout Devilshalo question when he asked if my mentioning Peter Porker and Marvel Tails was in response to Captain Carrott.

DRG

Has anyone seen this in 3d yet? Is this worth seeing in 3d vs 2d?

Spiderbite

I plan to see this in Prime 3D at my local AMC this weekend. The trailers looked made for 3D so I was assuming the 3D might actually be good. Haven't read anything on it yet though.

faust69

Saw it in IMAX 3-D. Nah, I wasn't particularly impressed by the 3-D.

The film, however, impressed me quite a bit. And that's speaking as a Spider-Man non-fan and sometimes hater. Definitely belongs on the best of 2018 list. Really surprised me.

devilshalo

Just as I asked, did Marvel come up with Peter Porker as a response to Captain Carrot?

Mondo Kane

I was planning on seeing this in 3D today, but no showings are listing as so (As well as anything else that’s optioned in 3D) It looks as if my nearest theater has completely abandoned the format. Which really should not come as a surprise since (In the last couple of the 3D showings I went to) there were never no more than 10 people in attendance.

Anyway, Given all the praise, I can’t wait to see this!

Draven

It almost looks 3D without being in 3D - things in the background have hazy or double outlines. It's really striking and cool.

Why So Blu?

And in some scenes depending on if they're light/dark scenes have pits/textures as if the images had been drawn on textured paper. It's really badass.

Orbi-Wan Techno

That movie was nuts.

And I loved that Aunt May was

fujishig

They have never admitted it, though Spider-ham came out the year after Captain Carrot debuted in New Teen Titans.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/spid...er-porker.html

According to this article, it was Larry Hama and Tom DeFalco, who started discussing the rumor that Marvel was going to open it's own direct market comic shops (they weren't), with them ruminating that the only way they could do so was if they had a bunch of plush toys, and for that they needed funny animal characters.

The bolded part has nothing to do with this but just a reminder how opposite things were back in the day when it came to marvel and DC properties. Also, their plan to get plushes approved failed. They made a one-shot, but it wasn't until Marvel decided to go into kids (like younger kids) comics with their Star imprint that the character got his own series.

Also, years before, Scott Shaw, the co-creator of Captain Carrot, wrote a backup in a What If issue with a spider being bitten by a radioactive scientist and gaining the proportionate abilities of a human, beocming Man-Spider, and fighting anthropomorphic versions of Spidey villains, though I think that's just coincidence.

RichC2

This is geared for $35m this weekend after a $3.5m preview last night. That's alright, but I think it'll get a bigger than normal boost during matinees tomorrow.

Deftones

I got my tickets for this tomorrow with my son at one of these: https://www.harkins.com/cine1

Never been, so I'm looking forward to it.

movieguru

I thought you were asking if what I wrote was in response to what you were writing about Captain Carrot.

It's possible. I don't think their were many funny animal comics out by the big two at that time. I can't remember, was Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew a spoof of the JLA?

devilshalo

While I figured it was kind of a spoof on the JLA, I thought Capt. Carrot as well as Rubber Duck resembled Bugs and Daffy.

Abob Teff

The only 3D IMAX showing here is at 10pm. 3D in general does seem to be dying out.

Wife and daughter are going out of town, so I had planned on a Spider-Man / Mortal Engines double feature ... I just wasn’t planning for it to be a late one. I can catch them both in IMAX 3D if I make it a late night. Trying to determine if the 3D is worth it (so far, we have one “no” here).

whotony

This movie was great.

Loved the style of halftoning like a comic from the 70’s and earlier.

Backgrounds appearing as if the comic typesetting was done incorrectly.

Everything was great.

Although I’m not sure who the two Peter Parkers are in respect to comics and movies.
I guess one was the Raimi movie-verse and one the Comic book version?

There was a death in this movie that knocked me for a serious loop.



Kingpin was a mountain of a man and other then his head being to far down on his torso I loved it. My favorite Kingpin version ever.


This deserves to be near the top of the list of Spider-man and super hero movies

Artman

Work outing to see this today... a lot of fun! You could tell this was truly made by fans for the fans....I admired the bold decisions, both story and in the art direction. I'm not a huge spidey comic follower...I know about the Miles character but that was about it...I did feel a bit lost at times watching the film, I'm not sure this can really break out beyond the fan crowd...but we'll see. I haven't seen Incredibles2 yet....but I'd like to see this take the best animated oscar.

Decker

Just saw this in a Dolby Cinema. Looks great. So fun to see something new in digital animation. Didn't totally follow it all, but it was a fun watch. I liked it better than Incredibles 2 or Ralph Breaks the Internet. Cool to see this shortly after playing the Playstation 4 game (synergy!) that also prominently features Peter Parker interacting with Miles Morales.

Speaking of which : If Miles' dad is named Jefferson Davis, shouldn't he be Miles Davis? He was Kind Of Blue.

majorjoe23

I’m impressed that Nicolas Cage got to play Spider-Man and Superman in the same year.

fumanstan

That got me curious, since I'm reading the Miles Morales comic books and it hadn't mentioned it yet, but I searching online people have mentioned 2 explanations.

1) His Dad had a criminal past in the comics and wanted to distance himself from the name.
2) Miles has introduced himself as Miles Davis but doesn't like to say that because of the musician.

Not sure what's definitive, sounds like the comics never really address it?

Deftones

Got to see this. Holy fucking shit was that a fantastic movie. That might be one of the best superhero movies ever. So the animation style took some getting used to. I didn't like that things in the background were intentionally blurry/obscure. I get the artistic style of it, but I wasn't a fan of that. However, the way it was made, basically made it seem like an animated comic book. It was really impressive, especially with all the on screen titles for things like noises and such. It had great heart. I don't really know much about the Miles Morales character outside of generally stuff, but they really did a good job with the backstory for him. The fight sequences were epic and very well done. They made The Prowler a really menacing villain. The stand-outs were Spider-Ham and Noir Spider-man, although every time I heard Spider-Ham, I could only heard Andrew Glouberman from Big Mouth.

The soundtrack/effects really stood out, too. Specifically during the fight scenes and moreso when The Prowler was on screen. It really made it those moments feel tense.

At this point, I really don't have any problem declaring this the best movie I've seen this year. It was that good.

Also, the after credit scene at the end was superb.