Spiderman...who's game?

[Reedimus]

wife and I are huge angelina jolie fans. went to see her new one (life or something like it) at 11 this morning and the line was huge for spiderman already. couldn't believe it. and they have the thing on 4 different screens. I wonder if this will take some away from star wars on opening weekend.

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by troysvihl Oh please. All I said was that I don't go to the cheap theaters after some of my friends had to be de-loused. From that you derive some sort of disparaging belief of the poor? There are so many non-sequiturs in your post, that I'm not going to even bother deconstructing it. Lets just say, that you're reading to much into my post.

OK, fair enough, but then clarify it for me, why do you feel you're at greater risk for lice at a cheap theater?

[whr2206]

I went to the theatre tonight, all the showings were sold out...and there were ALOT of times......

[troysvihl]

why do you feel you're at greater risk for lice at a cheap theater?

I am aware that lice prefer clean heads. And I'm aware that you can get lice from expensive and cheap theaters. (BTW, lice infestations are acctually quite common in the theater business, with all theaters having to delouse a few times a year)

But your analysis overlooks the critical difference between cheap theaters and normal theaters. "Cheap theaters" are exactly what their name implies: cheap. They don't spend as much on delousing as their normally priced counterparts because they run on such thin margins. So while a patron can certainly get headlice from a normally priced theater, I feel that the odds are higher for cheap theaters.

I have no for-sure proof to back that up claim. However, several people I know have got lice from cheap theaters. And when I mentioned this topic to my girlfriend, she told me that her aunt, uncle, and their kids had a lice problem after they decided to start taking their kids to the cheap theater to save money. (and they haven't had a lice problem since then)

And that's why I won't go to the cheap theaters.

[homer15]

another thing about this whole lice situation:
cheaper theaters tend to be used less then the expensive ones, which is another reason that delousing routines are a little lax (and they are lax, but not by much.)

[troysvihl]

I guess to sum it up, my remark wasn't disparaging of poor people. It was disparaging of cheap theaters.

[HAL9000]

OK, fair enough, I may have been a little quick to the assumption as whenever I hear about lice, there is always somebody waving their arms in a panic of misguided info about lice. I can't argue what you have experienced, but at the same time, the cheap theaters in my area are the ones that are actually turning a better profit and you can see that they are better maintained than the regular theaters. In my area, I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone getting lice from either one of them.

[troysvihl]

Yeah, I already knew that stuff about lice. We had a lice epidemic at my high school when I was younger. They were doing headlice inspections and sent home half the school because of lice. But in the end, most of them didn't have lice. Turned out the inspectors were just untrained.

There was a whole chain of cheap theaters in the twin cities that made the headlines because of lice infestations. They were all boarded up the last time I drove by one.

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by figarowa I saw it last night, and thought it was rather good, the movie kinda drug along at parts, but the action scenes were done very well, one large discrepancy, that i was suprised that Stan Lee let into production was Spidermans web shooters. In the movie, after he is bitten by the genetically mutated spider, he finds that by flicking and pointing his wrists he can fling webbing. However, the Cartoon, and the Comic series, peter parker makes his own "web shooters" and requires refilling of web fluid every so often...that was my only problem......

See this is where I always had a problem with the comic -- he's bitten by a spider and has all the characteristics of a spider except the ability to spin a web? My feeling is that the movie corrected Stan Lee's error (at Stan's blessing from what I've read).

-Craig

[Timberwolve81]

Originally posted by figarowa I saw it last night, and thought it was rather good, the movie kinda drug along at parts, but the action scenes were done very well, one large discrepancy, that i was suprised that Stan Lee let into production was Spidermans web shooters. In the movie, after he is bitten by the genetically mutated spider, he finds that by flicking and pointing his wrists he can fling webbing. However, the Cartoon, and the Comic series, peter parker makes his own "web shooters" and requires refilling of web fluid every so often...that was my only problem......

GEEZ, it's a movie figs, lol. quite picking fly $hit out of pepper

[Mr N8]

Actually, I thought the web shooter was a good addition. There were some parts that weren't entirely accurate to the comics, but it helped the movie move along faster and probably made more sense to people who don't know the first thing about spiderman. My friend was mad that he made his own costume in the movie. I think that that's just a little too picky.

originally posted by homer15 i'm in the new matrix!!! i don't know which part yet, though...

I hope that's still true! Did you know they are re-recording a lot of it with the new character, since one of them died? I was really dissapointed when I heard it wasn't coming out until next year, but its understandable. It's got to be hard to be an actor / actress and try to redo scenes without thinking about the fact that your friend should be there acting with you.

Nate

[homer15]

Originally posted by Mr N8 I hope that's still true! Did you know they are re-recording a lot of it with the new character, since one of them died? I was really dissapointed when I heard it wasn't coming out until next year, but its understandable. It's got to be hard to be an actor / actress and try to redo scenes without thinking about the fact that your friend should be there acting with you. Nate

damnit, you're right! she was in the scene i was in (in the streets of oakland). i have no idea what they were doing, though, i was walking in the back. oh well, i made my hundred bucks.

[Kassia]

The Spiderman movie looks awesome! Can't wait to see it!

[whr2206]

The only thing I'm worried about is it might just turn into some love story between the two. Kinda like Pearl Harbor....thought I was goining it to see a piece of history, but it turned into "Japn wages war on an american love triangle...." it disapointed me.

[Hot Rod]

About the web shooters.....If he really inherited the traits of a spider when he was bit....I doubt the webbing would come out of his wrist. I think Stan Lee had him make his own web shooters because it would not be too appealing to see Spiderman shooting webbing out his hind end. he he he