This is a bad sign. With what we know of Civil War in the comics, Spidey's unmasking was a major event, it won't be that way for a neophyte superhero still in high school.

 

They'll probably build up his significance in the Cap movie he's supposedly going to be in.

 

The Captain America film Spidey will supposedly debut in is Civil War, or the start of Civil War at least.

 

What was wrong with Andrew Garfield? And why did I hate Tobey. Discuss (or don't).

 

I loved AG as Spidey. Hated TM ever since his ridiculous swanky, jazzy montage.

 

I didn't mind Andrew Garfield too much, especially after Tobey Maguire. I think an actual teenaged actor whose neck doesn't look like a giraffe's could still be found though.

 

I didn't mind Garfield, though his voice is pretty strange (that's a weird qualm to have, but the way he talks and the faces he makes when he talks has always struck me as mildly annoying.)

I liked Maguire, the 3rd movie notwithstanding; that had a lot to do with the fact that I really liked the second movie, more than I liked him as an actor. Neither were what I had in mind when I thought of Spiderman, though.

 

He really reminds me of [Yeagen]*, down to the frequent grimace-y expressions.

*before he gained roughly ~40-50 pounds and used to be skinny.

 

Liked Garfield, quite a bit, even if he was an assholish Spidey. I disliked TG, since I first saw him. Looked much more like a drug addict with emo tendencies than a nerdy nice guy. I know for a fact that they will really have to outdone themselves to get someone worse thand Dunst though.

 

I wonder if they'll go with Gwen Stacy as a love interest again. I know she was the original but stranger things have happened. Also, with Peter in high school there's no way we could see Kraven's Last hunt is it?

 

I kind of liked both McGuire and Garfield, but in different roles.

McGuire was the perfect Peter Parker. Shy, nerdy, awkward, all the things I've imagined a young Peter to be. Even his jazzy dance worked for me (Now. At the time, I loathed it.) I think I saw a critic once say that he's trying to be what he thinks a cool guy is in that scene. And as a dweeby nerd, his idea of cool was dweeby and nerdy. He was a horrible Spider Man though. I just hated him in that role.

Garfield, however, was the exact opposite. He always struck me as way too cool to be Peter Parker. The only reason he was called a nerd in school is because the script had to have him as such. He was an awesome Spider Man though, exactly what I've always pictured the character to be.

What I'm really saying here is we need some kind of fusion dance.

 

Being a huge Spidey fan, it is a shame for me to accept that I have only recently started reading comics.

What is this bloody Civil War? Can someone please explain where it all starts and what all is there to read to understand the storyline completely. I mean, there are currently more than six titles of only spider man going in the multiverse. With all the superheroes together, where do I start reading it?

 

Civil War was this big multi-title Marvel event from like seven or eight years ago now. If you want to read the whole thing they've got it collected in trade paperbacks you can probably find on Amazon easily enough.

You know, since the whole Registration Act that's central to the Civil War was all about revealing secret identities, I'm not sure how it's supposed to work in the films. Barely anyone has a secret identity.

 

They've already confirmed it won't be secret identities, IIRC. It'll probably be more about registering with the government and accepting oversight and direction. Meshes with both Steve's distrust of government post Winter Soldier (and his misgivings about Project Insight during it) and Tony's apparent desire to create a force to replace the Avengers/S.H.I.E.L.D> (speculated to be the reason he puts together Ultron).

 

That's actually fine by me for the MCU as it is, but then where would Spider-Man factor into the conflict if his secret identity isn't the big issue? I mean the same oversight/accountability thing would apply to him, especially with Jameson riling up the city and saying he's a menace and all that, but the secret identity thing was his defining moment in Civil War.

 

Read a summary of sorts of the whole thing.

I think it doesn't really matter if the act in the movie version involves revealing the not-so-secret identities of the superheroes or not.

Spiderman's unmasking event in itself would be a great event for Tony Stark to gain popularity for his pro-act campaign. He could use it to show that most of the Heroes are fighting together for the cause and are ready to go as far as sacrificing their personal lives for the betterment of normal folk and there are just a few dunderheads running around trying to resist the development only for the sake of resistance or some such shit.

He could very well paint Captain America as a Villain with Spidey on his side.

 

You're describing the events of the comics version of Civil War basically. Also, unmasking a high school hero won't be a 'great event' as you put it because he won't be well known, he'd possibly have local exposure - not global exposure like the Avengers - so he would unmask and people would be like "who the fuck is this kid?".

 

Sorry, but what does global exposure has to do here? The act is only for the US, if I am not getting it wrong...

Besides, if Marvel isn't exactly rebooting the entire thing from the start like the last two films, and I mean killing of Uncle Ben and then spider bite etc. etc. which doesn't seem likely considering the movie is named Captain America, Peter Parker could still very well be a great hero even if he is only in high school. I started reading comics with the original Ultimate Spider-man and he was great.

Spider-man just can't be not 'well known'. Period.

 

Imo, we know very little so far to speculate. All we do know is Marvel's track record with the MCU, and based on that I believe we can trust them to do a half-decent job with Spidey.

 

TBF, doing a half decent Spider man movie shouldn't be hard. Just look at the last one and say "Let's not do that."

Also, does this mean we get J.K. Simmons back as J Jonah Jameson? Because that would be amazing. Hell, promise me that and I'll be at the midnight showing.