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Comment by Tevan on April 28, 2012 at 2:58pm

Comment by Peterslam on April 28, 2012 at 11:33am

Be sure to check the scene at the end of The Avengers, DURING the credits. Comic Fans will really enjoy it lol

Comment by Rob Da Nero on April 28, 2012 at 1:07am

For some reason people tend to have selective memory for the superhero movies. Especially with the original Spider-man trilogy. People seemed almost two faced when it came to those films. I kind wish that reviewers would/could watch these movies twice before they give their reviews. I'm kind of getting annoyed that people praise a movie when it first comes out but call it mediocre or crap later. I know sometimes something might seem awesome at first but when you look at it a second time you realize that it really wasn't that good. This phenomenon has happened a lot with the recent superhero outings lately.  I'm not even going to listen, watch, or read a review  for the big 3 until I watch them twice myself. When the Dark Knight Rises comes out I'm willing to bet that people are going to look for things to nitpick and bitch about.

Comment by Jeff W. on April 28, 2012 at 12:14am

Hey, Billy, if you and the rest of the guys on the b.s. train wanna know why Hollywood reboots franchises like Spider-Man and Superman so fast there was a really good article explaining the reason is obvious: big money, young audiences and really short attention spans:

That didn’t work? Okay, then — go ahead and reboot.”

We’ve become used to hearing this shopworn command these days, usually uttered by a bored IT guy. Yet, until recently, reboot was a dangerous word, and one seldom intoned in the corridors of Hollywood. A reboot was the movie equivalent of using a defibrillator on a heart patient. It was risky and undertaken only as a last resort, when a film franchise was dying or already half-dead.

In 1978, Superman: The Movie flew into theaters 30 years after the George Reeves TV version went off ABC. Nearly 30 years after that, when EON Productions rebooted the James Bond franchise in 2006 with a 007 that had not yet earned his license to kill, it was still considered a perilous procedure. But over this past blockbuster-hungry decade, that window has gradually gotten smaller and smaller. Just look at Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, a 2005 retelling of the Caped Crusader’s origin story released a mere sixteen years after Tim Burton tackled it. Earlier this month, there was news that Universal would reboot its Mummy franchise, likely for 2014, just six years from its most recent release.

This July, The Amazing Spider-Man will set a new land speed record for rebooting: Just five years after Spider-Man 3, with the image of Tobey Maguire still dancing in moviegoers' minds, Sony has installed a whole new creative team (director Marc Webb of (500) Days of Summer, and stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone) on its $2.5 billion franchise to deliver an origin story radically different in tone and premise from director Sam Raimi’s trilogy. 

Unlike previous reboots, which followed box-office disappointments (like Edward Norton's 2008 The Incredible Hulk, coming five years after Ang Lee’s Hulk) or utter creative failures (see 1997’s Batman and Robin, a franchise-killer that George Clooney recently described as “really shit”), The Amazing Spider-Man is coming close on the heels of a vaguely unloved third film that still managed to gross just shy of $900 million worldwide. Hypothetically, there was enough juice left in the Raimi-Maguire–Kirsten Dunst trio. But when Raimi expressed creative exhaustion and was bereft of new ideas, Sony realized that with a great franchise comes great responsibility. So it quickly hit the reset button because there was too much at stake to show patience: The company's annual bottom-line profits have ebbed and flowed based on whether or not they've had a new installment of Marvel’s best-known title that year. And beyond the theater, there are mountains of merchandising money to be lost when there is no new movie to tie tons of Spider-Man toys to. With that kind of pressure, this kind of short-turnaround total reboot is likely to become more common in blockbuster-obsessed Hollywood, a town already so dependent on franchises and brands and the lure of the familiar.

Besides the Spider-Man trilogy's multi-billion-dollar theatrical grosses and DVD sales for Sony, the films have generated an astonishing amount of revenue for Marvel — now owned by Disney — and its toy licensee, Hasbro. It’s too early to tell how much merchandise The Amazing Spider-Man will ultimately sell, but if the previous film is any indication, it will be substantial: In April 2007, toys tied to the release of Spider-Man 3 were estimated by analysts to have contributed as much as $70 million to Hasbro’s first-quarter revenues — and this was from a film that wouldn’t open in theaters for another month. “In the case of Marvel,” explains Geoff Ammer, a former marketing chief at both Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, “their primary objective is to sell merchandise.” Which is why, to hear top producers and directors tell it, there is almost no such thing as too soon when it comes to the right time to refresh a film franchise these days.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/spider-man-and-the-half-life-of-the-...

Comment by TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle on April 27, 2012 at 6:37pm

Stupidest hysteria I've ever seen.

He didn't assault her. He pranked her reporting. He's also black in South Carolina and she's a white reporter. OF COURSE he has to go to jail for that.

Such horseshit, guys.

Comment by JBRupert on April 27, 2012 at 12:25am

This week's fu*k your thoughts was literal! Fu*k your thoughts! Damn, I'd love it if let's do this ended like that more often.

Comment by Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II on April 26, 2012 at 9:31pm

This week's episode of Let's Do This was Laugh Out Loud Funny. I Loved it.

Comment by Lunatik on April 26, 2012 at 7:25pm

LMAO Classic ending..

Comment by TheTerminizer on April 26, 2012 at 7:21pm

Comment by TheTerminizer on April 26, 2012 at 7:18pm

It's " Get the funk up!!!", but I prefer "Get the fuck up!!!"

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