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It's the year of the villain! In this dramatic finale to Dan Slott's Superior Spider-Man, everything comes crashing down for Otto Octavius as Norman Osborn unleashes chaos across New York. "SpideyJoe" brings the action to life with a full-on audio drama retelling the final chapter of this series (2013)!In this episode, we discuss the different methodology (and psychology) of Otto Octavius and Peter Parker, as well as highlighting several questions beginners might have about this chapter in Spider-Man's history. As the resident Spider-expert, Joe brings to light how Venom and the Avengers impact this story, and more importantly, how Marvel editorial didn't! Plus: how does Norman Osborn shape the lives of both Octavius and Parker, and why is he the perfect villain to end on?
Doctor Octopus, fresh off his victory against The King of Swing does the only thing any self-respecting would-be Kingpin of Crime should... subleases a room in the Forest Hills Queens section of New York City. What are the odds Spidey's not dead and the room belongs to his loving Aunt May? I mean it's comic books, sooooooo 100%! We've got Pete Parker vs. Otto Octavius... We've got Spider-Man vs. The Master Planner Gang... We've got the Golden Liability vs. The Hateful Eight... We've got windows and walls and alleys destroyed! The only thing missing is you, friend!
Three whole episodes dropped of the newest Spider-Man cartoon, and all deal with Norman Osborn as Peter's “man in the chair”, a slew of new suits, and Lonnie Lincoln's continued slide down the slippery slope. We talk about the beautifully freakish Ditko/Kirby-style designs in future-Rhino, future-Chameleon, and their weird-looking friend, all the tech-based villains, getting Harry involved quickly and how that instantly changes the classic Osborn dynamic, and of course… our first look at Otto Octavius!We're watchingYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man:Season 1, Episode 3: “Secret Identity Crisis”, Episode 4: “Hitting the Big Time, and Episode 5: “The Unicorn Unleashed!”Website| Patreon | DiscordPart ofThe Glitterjaw Queer Podcast CollectiveContact us: @WallopingWebPod on Bluesky and InstagramEmail:wallopingwebsnapperspodcast@gmail.comTheme song features: “Resonance (Cyan & Ladybot Remix)” by HOME | License (CC BY 3.0)
Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con XeviPanda y Masterwikie Edita: XeviPanda Canción Resumen Final: Norman lo invita con gran cortesía, y en la cena revela su teoría. Tras salvar a Harry, lo investigó, y con Spider-Man lo relacionó. Peter rechaza la oscura alianza, pero en Oscorp sigue, con la esperanza de ayudar a May en su situación, pagando las cuentas con dedicación. Mientras, en sombras, un drama se enreda: Andre, el hermano de Lonnie, se entrega a una pandilla, la ciento diez, y su líder a Lonnie lo atrapa también. María y James, con armas furtivas, roban joyerías con gran iniciativa. Spider-Man lucha, pero es superado, hasta que Osborn le da su respaldo. De nuevo ese logo, la misma señal, todo conecta en un plan criminal. Sabiendo que solo no puede ganar, Peter a Norman decide aceptar. Los Vengadores ya no son un clan, Norman y Peter deben luchar. Con trajes y nombres lo quiere forjar, pero ninguno parece encajar. Mientras, en sombras, Lonnie es mandado a comprar comida al grupo aliado. Los Escorpiones lo acorralaron, Mac Gargan su miedo usó como esclavo. Donovan ve en esto ventaja, mantiene a Lonnie con su amenaza. Protege a su gente, mas con dolor, pues ya no es libre, perdió el control. Norman comprende y le da a Peter un traje blanco, más fiel a su estilo. Con él rescata vidas perdidas en un tiroteo de fuga y castigo. De vuelta en Oscorp, un grave error: Harry descubre su gran identidad. Mientras, una rusa con gran ambición lleva el dinero a un nuevo rival. Otto Octavius, en sombras aguarda, y a los criminales su ciencia les arma. La guerra en la urbe está por estallar, Peter no sabe lo que vendrá. Otto comercia con armas letales, a Mila le vende un casco infernal. Láser y mente, su don especial, con este poder su guerra es total. Mientras, Norman planea su juego, Harry en la causa será su relevo. La sombra de Oscorp crece en la urbe, Spider-Man carga con todo el peso. Mila, ahora Unicornio feroz, libera a sus socios con gran ambición. Lucha con Peter, lo atrapa sin miedo, pero Mikhail la frena en su fuego. Usado de cebo, traición y desprecio, Spider-Man gana, la lleva al encierro. Mas Mikhail, con rabia y desdicha, jura venganza desde su guarida. Peter con Nico al cine ha ido, Harry los sigue, causando un lío. Mientras, Lonnie, sin elección, deja el fútbol por la calle y su honor. En guerra de bandas su rol ha crecido, salva a Donovan del cruel enemigo. Ahora la banda lo mira con fe, y Tombstone su nombre será desde ayer. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Por fin a Peter Parker y a Spider-Man les va bien: en el trabajo, en el amor y en casi todas las facetas, incluso como Avenger, y todo porque ya no está ese agente que le hacía mal a Spidey: Peter Parker. Cuando el Doc Ock cambia de cuerpo con Peter, y después de un dramático intercambio de puños, Otto Octavius se volverá "Superior Spider-Man". Discusión 0:00 Patrocinador 32:54 Noticias 34:29 Síguenos en Facebook, Instagram y TikTok y escúchanos en las diferentes plataformas: https://linktr.ee/nerdifymx ¡Crea tu podcast hoy! #madeonzencastr. Utiliza nuestro link especial https://zencastr.com?via=nerdifymx y obten un descuento de Zencastr. Hackers por Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio | Donations (Sting) por Riot
GREAT PREMIERE & WHAT A CLIFFHANGER!! Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Download the PrizePicks today & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ("Amazing Fantasy" & "The Parker Luck") Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ The MCU RETURNS with their Long-Awaited SPIDER-MAN Animated Series -- Greg Alba, Coy Jandreau, Aaron Alexander, & John Humphrey Assemble to give their Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, Spoiler Review - and, of course, those tasty Easter Eggs!! Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows "Peter Parker on his way to becoming Spider-Man in the MCU (and meeting friends like Niko Minoru, Harry Osborn, Lonnie Lincoln, , with a journey unlike we've ever seen and a style that celebrates the character's early comic book roots!!" And so far that holds true as they Explore the Character's classic themes whilst pulling Images Directly from the Classic Comics, & bending them in new & interesting directions. The Series is set to feature voice performances from Hudson Thames (Mad Men, I Think You Should Leave) & Coleman Domingo (Sing Sing, Selma, Fear the Walking Dead) as Norman Osborn aka Green Goblin, with appearances expected from Charlie Cox's Daredevil / Matt Murdock, Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin, Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) as Otto Octavius aka Doc Ock, & MORE! This latest series from Marvel Animation marks the first release from Marvel Studios' 2025 slate which also includes Captain America: Brave New World, Daredevil: Born Again, Thunderbolts*, IronHeart, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, & Wonder Man. Can this set the tone for an MCU up-swing in 2025??? NOTE FOR YOUTUBE: All Footage Featured From "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" Is From A FICTIONAL Animated Comic Book Series. Any & All References To Violence Or "Mature Content" Is NOT Real! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Follow Coy Jandreau: Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Spider-man is going through some things as at the moment. He is not himself.....literally. Thanks to comic book science, Doctor Otto Octavius has taken up residence in the ole' web heads.....head. Let the comedy ensue. Let's try and make up a story to go with these wacky pictures. Ok, let's see....Spidey has just been invited over to the worst sleepover ever. Who is to blame, the children who want a web-gun fight? Spidey for showing up? The adults for wanting to go out for drinks and assumed that they had a willing free babysitter? The good news is that one of the games for the sleepover is Pin-the-Bentley-on-the-Donkey. This is everyone's favorite game, not only for the pun value, but also because it really annoys the clone child. We all have that one friend whose parents are just a little too wealthy compared to all of the other friend's parents. Those wealthy parents also have bought a toy or thing that is so insane, for years you try to explain that what you saw was not a fever dream. The fact that this sleepover has a giant robotic minotaur thing is like that. You also have that one sleepover story where one friend breaks the really weird or cool toy. As long as you were not the owner, or the one who broke the toy, it is a funny story. Tragic, YES. But still pretty funny. Sometimes, it is better to just let a rowdy sleepover destroy one or two rooms. If you are the babysitter and were tricked into being in charge of this circus, your responsibility ends at the health and safety of the children...not property damage or international insurrections. But I am not a lawyer. And that is also why I do not want to weigh in on stealing from the owner's home. I mean, if you did not want me to be evil, you should not have put me in a situation that made me evil. I am pretty sure that will hold up in a court of law. Check out the artwork at our website: https://jeffandrickpresent.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/avenging-spider-man-17-untitled/ We also have some merchandise over at Redbubble. We have a couple of nifty shirts for sale. https://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffrickpresent/?asc=u You can also subscribe and listen to us on YouTube! Our show supports the Hero Initiative, Helping Comic Creators in Need. http://www.heroinitiative.org/ Eighties Action by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3703-eighties-action License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cybertrooper [the better version]
On this episode of Stealth Boom Boom, we take a look at a lead character's striking resemblance to a West Bromwich Albion fan and Guardian columnist (see: the bust on this episode's cover art). We also take a look at the origins of a small, independent, Japanese developer called Capcom, and how these big fights actually happened IRL. Crazy, right?Here are some of the things you're gonna hear us chat about in our review: Dr. Otto Octavius as played by Alfred Molina; a surprising level of sophistication in relation to the sound you make and the guards can hear; Assassin's Creed social stealth; Hitman disguises and the multiple choice quiz you might have to take when someone's suspicious; holding items behind your back; being punished for not completing stealth sections in a very specific way; the pain of an accidental jog; connected environments to can creep around; picking up coins to furnish your flat; Dead Rising; the chaos of battles being you vs LOADS; the balancing act of both the nasty and the silly when it comes to the violence; the Salvos scoring system fitting the theme perfectly and encouraging you to try different weapons; another game that's just too long; Road Rash B.C. (otherwise known as Rome Rash); a difficulty that ramps up and up; escort missions from a certain era; a fake brother called Sextus; pointless chats with trainee gladiators; Yakuza / Like a Dragon; an engaging whodunnit around the assassination of Julius Caesar; Maecenas Oven Chips; a pacing problem; Gladiator II (and also The Pope's Exorcist); the majesty of Agrippa; and how Ryse: Son of Rome is probably the closest thing to a Shadow of Rome 2.After all that, we take you through what some of the critics were saying about the game around the time it came out, and then we give you our final verdicts on whether Shadow of Rome is a Pass, a Play, or an Espionage Explosion.For those who would like to play along at home, we'll be discussing, reviewing and dissecting Shadow of Rome on the next episode of Stealth Boom Boom.IMPORTANT LINKS TO THINGS
Doc Ock is back, and this time he's more menacing than ever, because he's got… a huggable robo-cat suit? Glitterjaw's own David Arnold is back to cover an episode that definitely shouldn't be anyone's first, because all the returning players are adults with ongoing capital-D drama. We talk all about Harry's daddy issues, Spider-Man's lack of MCU-like daddy issues surrounding Iron Man, and what it would take for us to issue a daddy card to this Otto Octavius. We're watching Ultimate Spider-Man: Season 1, Episode 22: “The Iron Octopus”. Find more from David: Linktree Are You My Mother? | Fear Coded | Gimmicks Website | Patreon | Discord Part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Email: wallopingwebsnapperspodcast@gmail.com Theme song features: “Resonance (Cyan & Ladybot Remix)” by HOME | License (CC BY 3.0)
El arco que inició todo y uno de los más icónicos de las últimas décadas para nuestro amigable vecino el Hombre Araña y todas sus versiones multiversales: Spider-Verse. Peter Parker de la tierra 616 une fuerzas con Miles Morales, Spider Gwen y muchos otros, incluido Otto Octavius, para detener a los Inheritors en su consumo de spider-personas. Discusión 00:00 Patrocinador 36:46 Noticias 38:20 Síguenos en Facebook, Instagram y TikTok y escúchanos en las diferentes plataformas: https://linktr.ee/nerdifymx ¡Crea tu podcast hoy! #madeonzencastr. Utiliza nuestro link especial https://zencastr.com?via=nerdifymx y obten un descuento de Zencastr. Hackers por Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio | Donations (Sting) por Riot
See we all think we know who this TEEN character is on Agatha All Along... but do we really? Seems to be a bit of a mystery and the way I see it we are looking at 3 strong theories, any (if not all) of which could be correct. Let's talk about it... Theory 1: Wiccan (William "Billy" Kaplan-Altman)[1] is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenage superheroes, as well as Strikeforce and New Avengers. Created by writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung, the character first appeared in Young Avengers #1 (April 2005).[4] The character's appearance is patterned on that of two prominent Marvel superheroes, Thor and Scarlet Witch (Wiccan's mother), both of whom are members of the Avengers. Like the Scarlet Witch, Wiccan possesses powerful magical abilities which make him a key member of his superhero team.Theory 2: The Child of Agatha Harkness. Agatha Harkness is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #94 (October 1969).[1] Agatha Harkness is a powerful witch and one of the original witches from the Salem witch trials.[2] The character debuted as the governess of Franklin Richards and as an ally of the Fantastic Four.[3] She trained the Scarlet Witch / Wanda Maximoff in the art of magic.[4] She is the mother of the supervillain Nicholas Scratch. Agatha Harkness has also been a member of the Daughters of Liberty.[5] Initially an elderly woman, she managed to become young again and increased her strength.[6]Kathryn Hahn portrayed Agatha Harkness in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) live-action miniseries WandaVision (2021), and reprised her role as the star of the spin-off series Agatha All Along (2024).Theory 3: He's Mephisto (all along)! Mephisot is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Silver Surfer #3 (December 1968),[2] and was created by Stan Lee and John Buscema and based on Mephistopheles: a demon character from the Faust legend, who has sometimes been referred to as Mephisto. Introduced as a recurring adversary of the Silver Surfer and Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze), Mephisto has also endured as one of Spider-Man's most prominent adversaries, being responsible for Norman and Harry Osborn's respective transformations into the Green Goblin and Kindred; and for the superhero's loss of his marriage to Mary Jane Watson, considering their future daughter Spider-Girl his archenemy. Mephisto has often come into conflict with Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, Scarlet Witch and other heroes of the Marvel Universe, being responsible both for the creation of the Cosmic Ghost Rider and the descents of Phil Coulson and Otto Octavius into villainy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
For this month's very special episode we are going back to the well that is Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy this time in celebration of the 20th anniversary of “Spider-Man 2” featuring Alfred Molina as Doctor Otto Octavius. Will Sam Raimi being blessed with more free-range with the property be enough for us to overcome the sins we discovered when we rewatched the first film 25 months ago, or will they prove too high a hurdle for even Sam Raimi at his most Sam Raimi to clear?
As Peter Parker struggles to keep his personal life in order while being a super hero, a new villain emerges in the form of scientist Dr. Otto Octavius! As Doc Ock wreaks havoc on the city, Peter must decide if he wants to continue to be the hero the city needs, or hang up the costume forever! It's a battle of inner self and the needs of the many in Sam Raimi's excellent Spider-Man 2! We also discuss This Month In Pop Culture History this week, talk the latest Star Wars television show The Acolyte, and go into Pixar's latest masterpiece, Inside Out 2. Plus a preview of next week;s featured film, Terminator: Salvation! Visit us for all episodes & more at the www.therebelradiopodcast.com Please leave us a 5-Star review on iTunes! You can also find us on Spotify iHeartRadio Follow us on Facebook
CLASSIC SPIDEY VILLAINS & LOVE INTERESTS THIS WEEK!! Spectacular Spider-Man Full Episode Reaction Watch Alongs: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Coy & John are RETURN ONCE MORE to Spectacular Spider-Man!! Tackling Peter Parker's Origins as a 16-year-old Student, Lab Intern, & Aspiring Photographer, Episodes 7 & 8 see the Green Goblin emerge wreaking havoc across New York - could it be Norman or Harry Osborn?? Meanwhile, at Oscorp, Dr Otto Octavius is pushed into a dangerous lab trial only to emerge as the fully-formed Doctor Octopus! All the while, Peter struggles to maintain his job at the Daily Bugle, attend Prom with his friends - including a NEWLY INTRODUCED Mary Jane Watson -, & keep L. Thompson Lincoln's gala from being destroyed. Returning are Gwen Stacy, J Jonah Jameson (with the introduction of his son, John Jameson), Betty Brant, Flash Thompson, with great power comes great responsibility, tons of fights & web-slinging and a whole bunch MORE! Coy & John react to all the best villain fights as well as the show's depiction of the classic struggle to balance coming of age as Peter Parker with the responsibility of being Spider-Man. With his appearance in Across the Spider-Verse + constant rumors of new Spider-Man films involving Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, or Tobey Maguire, not to mention Sony's Spider-Mondays going on in theaters, it's a spectacular time to be a Spider-Fan! Follow Coy Jandreau: Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
THIS SHOW JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER!! Spectacular Spider-Man Full Episode Reaction Watch Alongs: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Coy & John are BACK for more Spectacular Spider-Man!! Tackling Peter Parker's Origins as a 16-year-old Student, Lab Intern, & Aspiring Photographer, Episodes 5 & 6 see Flint Marko finally becoming the Sandman & Alex O'Hirn becoming Rhino as both are pulled into Hammerhead & Tombstone's super-powered criminal scheme! Meanwhile, Peter Parker struggles to maintain his friendships as Harry Osborn begins to slip into potential Green Goblin territory. Returning are Gwen Stacy, Norman Osborn, a pre Doc Ock Dr. Otto Octavius, J Jonah Jameson & the Daily Bugle, Betty Brant, The Enforcers, with great power comes great responsibility, tons of fights & web-slinging and a whole bunch MORE! Coy & John react to all the best villain fights as well as the show's depiction of the classic struggle to balance coming of age as Peter Parker with the responsibility of being Spider-Man. With his appearance in Across the Spider-Verse + constant rumors of new Spider-Man films involving Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, or Tobey Maguire, not to mention Sony's Spider-Mondays going on in theaters, it's a spectacular time to be a Spider-Fan! Follow Coy Jandreau: Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
THE SPIDER-MAN ROGUES GALLERY IS GROWING!! Save Money & Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions By Going To https://rocketmoney.com/rejects Troy Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects After Reacting to a ton of the DC Animated Movie Universe & Tomorrowverse Films, @CoyJandreau & John Humphrey are back for more Marvel Animation!! Tackling Peter Parker's Origins as a 16-year-old Student & Intern, episodes 3 & 4 see Dr. Curtis Connors finally transforming into Lizard as well as Montana's turn in the Shocker suit - returning are Gwen Stacy, Norman & Harry Osborn, pre Sandman Flint Marko, pre Venom Eddie Brock, pre Doc Ock Dr. Otto Octavius, J Jonah Jameson & the Daily Bugle, Betty Brant, The Enforcers, a mystery kingpin, with great power comes great responsibility, and MORE! Coy & John react to all the best villain fights as well as the show's depiction of the classic struggle to balance coming of age as Peter Parker with the responsibility of being Spider-Man. With his appearance in Across the Spider-Verse + constant rumors of new Spider-Man films involving Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, or Tobey Maguire, not to mention Sony's Spider-Mondays going on in theaters, it's a spectacular time to be a Spider-Fan! Follow Coy Jandreau: Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ultimate Spider-Cast Ep #278: Scarlet Spider - Sibling Rivalry Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast! This time Phil, Rey and Lilith review “Sibling Rivalry” from Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 & Scarlet Spider #20 (October 2013) featuring the return of the Jackal and Otto Octavius, the Superior Spider-Man confronts Kaine, the man who killed him. PLUS: the group discusses X-Men '97, Venom: The Last Dance, Beyond The Spider-Verse, current comic books and MORE. Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can! Ultimate Spider-Cast's Links → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/UltSpidercast → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/capeslunatics/ → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UltimateSpiderCast → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics ==================
Follow the homies Cam (Cameron Cox) and Dylan (Dylan Hernandez) two former AMC Theater employees as they take a nostalgic trip back in time to rewatch films that mean the most to them! This episode we decided to discuss the Star Wars movie that set it off for a lot of Millennials , "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace" Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero filmbased on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story conceived by Michael Chabonand the writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the film was produced by Columbia Picturesin association with Marvel Enterprisesand Laura Ziskin Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the second installment in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and the sequel to Spider-Man (2002). The film stars Tobey Maguireas Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and Donna Murphy. Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the film finds Peter Parkerstruggling to stop scientist Dr. Otto Octavius from recreating the dangerous experiment that killed his wife and left him neurologically fused to mechanical tentacles, while also dealing with an existential crisis between his dual identities that appears to be stripping him of his powers.Wanna ask us something?!? Hit us up at Xtrabutta@gmail.com or our Instagram https://instagram.com/xtrabuttapodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= ALSO Follow the homie Dylan and Steven on their fantastic Podcast "The Talk No Justsu Podcast" https://open.spotify.com/episode/05FUyTQLzBHBjGA8EIAjRB?si=b3CkutraR-Wjj5Cr1GI0FQ
Follow the homies Cam (Cameron Cox) and Dylan (Dylan Hernandez) two former AMC Theater employees as they take a nostalgic trip back in time to rewatch films that mean the most to them! This episode we decided to discuss the most influential superhero movies ever, "Spider-Man 2". Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero filmbased on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story conceived by Michael Chabonand the writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the film was produced by Columbia Picturesin association with Marvel Enterprises and Laura Ziskin Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the second installment in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and the sequel to Spider-Man (2002). The film stars Tobey Maguireas Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and Donna Murphy. Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the film finds Peter Parkerstruggling to stop scientist Dr. Otto Octavius from recreating the dangerous experiment that killed his wife and left him neurologically fused to mechanical tentacles, while also dealing with an existential crisis between his dual identities that appears to be stripping him of his powers.Wanna ask us something?!? Hit us up at Xtrabutta@gmail.com or our Instagram https://instagram.com/xtrabuttapodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= ALSO Follow the homie Dylan and Steven on their fantastic Podcast "The Talk No Justsu Podcast" https://open.spotify.com/episode/05FUyTQLzBHBjGA8EIAjRB?si=b3CkutraR-Wjj5Cr1GI0FQ
Our odyssey with Otto Octavius possessing the pilfered body of Peter Parker progresses! And the Avengers are beginning to notice... or are they? In this unlocked Patreon episode, we discuss the difference between Otto's "handling" of Massacre and his response to Screwball & Jester; how things might've gone differently if Tony, Hank, Reed, or literally any scientist superhero were present for the Avengers' interrogation of Spidey; why we understand folks' frustration over the Carlie-MJ dynamic around this time; and what it means for the next year or so of this story if Otto has, in fact, successfully purged Peter's consciousness from his body. Reading list:The Superior Spider-Man #6-10 by Dan Slott Listen to the rest of our coverage on Patreon! Website | Patreon | Discord Part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Email: wallopingwebsnapperspodcast@gmail.com Theme song features: “Resonance (Cyan & Ladybot Remix)” by HOME | License (CC BY 3.0)
The One Piece Podcast:Best Live-Action Manga of All Time?It's finally time for the One Piece podcast! The Taste Buds have finally worked up the nerve, and found the time, to watch, Netflix's late summer hit, and are ready to tell the world what they think. Manga doesn't often make the jump to live action, therefore it doesn't often appear on the podcast. Does that mean the Taste Buds are going to be in the dark? Or is this going to open up a whole new world for them?What is One Piece?One Piece tells the story of Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat pirates, as they search for the One Piece, a treasure that will make Luffy the King of the Pirates. Once King, Luffy will...wear a crown or something. I don't know. But here's what we do know: one of the crew members is played by Emily Rudd, and she's not related to Paul. Also, one of the crew members is played by Sonny Chiba's son, and he is related to Sonny Chiba.Will There Be a Second One Piece Podcast?Unfortunately, there's still a writer's strike going on, so not much movement has been made on that front. But we have heard that the scripts are ready to go into production as soon as the actors and writers get back to work!Did They Talk About Anything Other Than One Piece?Then, the Taste Buds move on to the Pull List, where they talk about every other comic book show that came out this week. Light week this week, as the sole member of the pull list is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Is The Walking Dead back? We'll see!What is the One Piece of Spider-Man?Finally, they head to S-TASmania to watch the fourth episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series! Mrs. Hardy has cut off the research money to a local scientist. Unfortunately, that scientist is named Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus! When he kidnaps Mrs. Hardy's daughter Felicia, will Peter Parker be able to get his sweater with turquoise stripes off fast enough in order to change into Spider-Man and stop him? Only the Taste Buds know the answer to that.All of that, and more, on an all-new episode of The Superhero Show Show!TV EPISODES AND FILMS DISCUSSED:ONE PIECEWatch One Piece on Netflix here!In a seafaring world, a young pirate captain sets out with his crew to attain the title of Pirate King, and to discover the mythical treasure known as 'One Piece.'SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES #104Watch Spider-Man: The Animated Series on Disney+ here!Doctor Otto Octavius, one of Peter's childhood teachers, gets revenge on the Hardy family for cutting off the funding for his research, by kidnapping Mrs. Hardy's daughter, Felicia. One Piece podcast.THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON #102: ALOUETTEWatch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on AMC.com!Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie face trouble on the road. Isabelle remembers the day the hungry ones appeared. Laurent struggles to fit into one piece podcast.WANT MORE PODCAST EPISODES LIKE THE ONE PIECE PODCAST EPISODECHECK THESE BADDIES OUT!
It's the Harley Quinn season 4 finale, plus Doc Ock on SM-TAS, and so much more, on an all-new Superhero Show Show! The Superhero Show Show #498Harley Quinn Season 4 Finale: The End of Harley Quinn?It's time for the Harley Quinn season 4 finale! On an all-new, all-different episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie and Katelynn are taking center stage, and are sharing the spotlight with none other than the Harley Quinn season 4 finale! We've come a long way this season: joining the Batfamily, killing a member of the Batfamily, dealing with clones, dealing with Luthor and, most importantly, dealing with Clayface dealing with fame. But now it's time to wrap it all up for the year.Has Harley Quinn Season 5 Been Announced Yet?It hasn't, and with the seemingly random way Warner Bros. handles everything, we probably shouldn't count on anything. But there are still so many questions to answer for this season. Will Ivy be able to save the planet, while still becoming the SHE.E.O. she has always dreamed of becoming? Will Lex finally give her the respect she deserves?Where is Harley in the Season Finale?And what about Harley? Her new best friend Barbara has been Killing Jokered! Will Barbara survive? And if she does, will she be confined to a wheelchair, only to become Oracle? Or will it be something more perverted than that, because this cartoon is rated R, and can say the F-word? Will she become...oh, I don't know...Whoracle? Cassie and Katelynn have all of the answers for you tonight!Then, the Taste Buds move to the Pull List, where they discuss every other television show based on a comic book from this week, including the series premiere of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, aka Les Morts-Vivants, and episodes 4 and 5 of One Piece. Just two weeks until the Taste Buds cover the entire first season of Netflix' One Piece, where we get to see which Taste Buds watched all of the episodes, and which Taste Buds don't care about the podcast!Finally, Cassie and Katelynn head to S-TASmania to watch the fourth episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series! Mrs. Hardy has cut off the research money to a local scientist. Unfortunately, that scientist is named Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus! When he kidnaps Mrs. Hardy's daughter Felicia, will Peter Parker be able to get his sweater with turquoise stripes off fast enough in order to change into Spider-Man and stop him? Only the Taste Buds know the answer to that.All of that, and more, on an all-new episode of The Superhero Show Show!TV EPISODES AND FILMS DISCUSSED:HARLEY QUINN SEASON 4 FINALE: POTATO BASED CLONING INCIDENTWatch Harley Quinn on MAX here!Ivy takes part in a celebrity golf tournament in order to stop Lex; Harley discovers a dark truth about herself.MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN #110: HEARTS OF THE FATHERSWatch My Adventures With Superman on MAX here!It's Thanksgiving, and Clark, Lois, and Jimmy are heading to the Kent farm to celebrate - but the holiday turns into a fight for survival as Task Force X, family, and KRYPTONITE collide. No connection to the Harley Quinn season 4 finale.ONE PIECE #102
jayypod bonecast gaming: episode 12 The journey continues as we go deeper into our Marvel's Spider-Man journey unlocking more parts to the map, suits, and gadgets as well as the basic introduction of the game meeting characters like Otto Octavius, Martin Lee, and Aunt May. We do not own the rights to any of the game Marvel's Spider-Man You can watch gameplay from this audio on our twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1899830328 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jpbc369/message
Bryan Stratton and Robb Milne from the Marvel by the Month podcast join once again us as Spidey Super Stories continues with a look at The Superior Spider-Man: My Own Worst Enemy, collecting The Superior Spider-Man (2013) issues 1-5 by Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman and Giuseppe Camuncoli, published by Marvel Comics! Doctor Otto Octavius, one of Spider-Man's deadliest enemies, is in control of the wall-crawler's body! And he's vowed to be a better Spider-Man than Peter Parker ever was, utilizing his technological genius in a more aggressive approach to crimefighting in a story that not-so-subtly pokes fun at the Distinguished Competition's Caped Crusader! Can Peter's hapless spirit keep the former Doc Ock from ruining Spidey's reputation—or wooing his ex, Mary Jane Watson? And does this “superior” Spider-Man have what it takes to Face/Off against ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode: · Are there fewer “great” Spider-Man stories than there should be? · A good couple of minutes on the Spider-Buggy, of all things · Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium One · Black Phoenix Omnibus · The Death of Captain Stacy from Amazing Spider-Man #88-90 · Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor Vol. 5 · Radiant Black Vol. 1: (Not So) Secret Origin Join us in two weeks as Spidey Super Stories continues with Ultimate Spider-Man: Confessions! Until then:Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Writer's Strike SCHMITER'S Strike! New movie announcements (somehow), potentially a NEW entertainment industry strike looms large on the horizon, and other less depressing thingsTune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/Corrections5FDP - Cancel the remaining EU shows due to complications related to Ivan's Hernia surgery.New Music/VideoBehemoth - Once Upon a Pale Horse https://youtu.be/qlLHaYK2yxs extreme metal with an audible bass part? This is a good mix. From “Opvs Contra Natvram” out last sept.Kill the Lights - Broken Bones https://youtu.be/8SM9zoE5LMw oddly A7X like… and still more radio friendly. Featuring former members of Bullet for my Valentine.Death Ray Vision - From the Rafters https://youtu.be/mwuKnUqbmi0 Record out June 30th “No Mercy From Electric Eyes.” Old-fashioned hardcore with Mike D'Antonio from KsE.Lacuna Coil - Never Dawn https://youtu.be/SksOnTxWYUY Partnered with CMON for the sequel to their game Zombicide: White Death. This is a standalone single for that purpose.Clutch - Boogeyman Blues https://youtu.be/4Y6rJ6ioMs8 One of 3 new singles from their new Sunrise on Slaughter Beach 7” box set. Clutch just RIPS!Tours/Festivals311 - With AWOLNation and Blame My Youth. Starts Jun 29 in Aspen, CO, runs through Oct 22 in Pomona CA. https://blabbermouth.net/news/311-announces-fall-2023-tour-with-special-guests-awolnation-and-blame-my-youth Queens of the Stone Age - The End is Nero Tour. Support from Boston Calling and Sonic Temple. Starts Aug 3 in Sterling Heights, MI through Oct 8 in Sacramento CA. https://blabbermouth.net/news/queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-the-end-is-nero-summer-fall-2023-north-american-tour Tool - Runs from Sept 22 in Louisville KY, through Nov 21 in Toronto ON https://www.stubhub.com/tool-tickets/performer/2197/ SuggestsGaming/TechTrailersRobocop: Rogue City - https://youtu.be/tx6C1ANE7l4 WOW… Reg ‘ol NewsApple Vision Pro - $3500, this is not for the average user…Instagram - Dipping their proverbial toe into the AI pool. Incorporating chat bots into IG to various degrees. https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-is-testing-an-ai-chatbot-for-content-discovery-182119161.html Microsoft Presentation - this sunday… what to expect.Summer Game Fest - this thursdaySuggestsComic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsBirds of Prey - DC Comics has confirmed that Cassandra Cain will be joining the new Birds of Prey roster.Cain, who is also known as Orphan and Batgirl, is a skilled martial artist and detective.She will be joining Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya on the new team.The new Birds of Prey series will be written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Nicola Scott.It is scheduled to debut in July 2023.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-confirms-cassandra-cain-new-birds-of-prey-roster/ Superior Spider-Man - Marvel announced a new series.Marvel Comics announces a new Superior Spider-Man series this Fall.The series will be written by Dan Slott and feature Otto Octavius as Spider-Man.Slott says the series will be a "bold new direction" for the character.The original Superior Spider-Man run was a popular and critically acclaimed series.The new series is sure to be a hotly anticipated series for fans of the character.https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-confirms-new-superior-spider-man-series/ Captain America - J. Michael Straczynski is returning to Marvel Comics to write a new Captain America series.The series will launch in September 2023 and will be drawn by Jesús Saiz.Straczynski is known for his work on Babylon 5, Amazing Spider-Man, and Thor.He says he plans to "plunge Steve Rogers into a shadowy plot with a sinister foe at its core."Fans of Captain America are eagerly awaiting the new series.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-captain-america-j-michael-stracyznski/ SuggestsTV ShowsTrailersMy Adventures with Superman - https://youtu.be/nI9uUv6AdoY July 6 on Adult Swim next day on MAX.Reg ‘ol NewsStrikes - DGA signs a new deal with the AMPTP. https://deadline.com/2023/06/dga-deal-reaction-striking-writers-angry-1235408169/ SuggestsMoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsSpider-Man: Across the Spiderverse - $120.5 million in its opening weekend domestically, and swung in with $208.6 million around the world.Nosferatu - the remake has finished primary photography.Captain America 4 - now subtitled “Brave New World. https://deadline.com/2023/06/first-look-anthony-mackie-captain-america-brave-new-world-1235409693/ TrailersBird Box: Barcelona - https://youtu.be/W5gSqnYAgeA July 14th.Reg ‘ol NewsStrikes - Now AG-AFTRA is potentially going to strike.June 30th will be the final day of current contracts. If negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).Hocus Pocus 3 - Officially happening. https://nerdist.com/article/hocus-pocus-3-in-development-at-disney-max-dennison-allison-shaw-could-return/ Terrifier 3 - Green lit https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/horror-fans-rejoice-terrifier-3-is-officially-on-its-way/ Suitable Flesh - New Horror movie starring Heather Graham has been picked up by RLJE Films and Shudder, for theatrical and streaming release later this year. Based on HP Lovecraft story “The Thing on the Doorstep”. https://deadline.com/2023/06/suitable-flesh-release-heather-graham-rlje-films-shudder-1235398378/ SuggestsRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsCaptain America 4 - NOT a Hulk related sub-title.New SourcesAndy Muschietti - Now instead of Superman, the rumor mill is putting him in charge of Batman: the Brave and the BoldNew RumorsScarlet Witch - Comic Book rumored to be the next on the chopping block at Marvel.Batman - New Batman rumored to be revealed at the end of the Flash movie.Nintendo Direct - Rumored for next month.Final Fantasy IX - remake in the worksYou can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Writer's Strike SCHMITER'S Strike! New movie announcements (somehow), potentially a NEW entertainment industry strike looms large on the horizon, and other less depressing thingsTune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/Corrections5FDP - Cancel the remaining EU shows due to complications related to Ivan's Hernia surgery.New Music/VideoBehemoth - Once Upon a Pale Horse https://youtu.be/qlLHaYK2yxs extreme metal with an audible bass part? This is a good mix. From “Opvs Contra Natvram” out last sept.Kill the Lights - Broken Bones https://youtu.be/8SM9zoE5LMw oddly A7X like… and still more radio friendly. Featuring former members of Bullet for my Valentine.Death Ray Vision - From the Rafters https://youtu.be/mwuKnUqbmi0 Record out June 30th “No Mercy From Electric Eyes.” Old-fashioned hardcore with Mike D'Antonio from KsE.Lacuna Coil - Never Dawn https://youtu.be/SksOnTxWYUY Partnered with CMON for the sequel to their game Zombicide: White Death. This is a standalone single for that purpose.Clutch - Boogeyman Blues https://youtu.be/4Y6rJ6ioMs8 One of 3 new singles from their new Sunrise on Slaughter Beach 7” box set. Clutch just RIPS!Tours/Festivals311 - With AWOLNation and Blame My Youth. Starts Jun 29 in Aspen, CO, runs through Oct 22 in Pomona CA. https://blabbermouth.net/news/311-announces-fall-2023-tour-with-special-guests-awolnation-and-blame-my-youth Queens of the Stone Age - The End is Nero Tour. Support from Boston Calling and Sonic Temple. Starts Aug 3 in Sterling Heights, MI through Oct 8 in Sacramento CA. https://blabbermouth.net/news/queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-the-end-is-nero-summer-fall-2023-north-american-tour Tool - Runs from Sept 22 in Louisville KY, through Nov 21 in Toronto ON https://www.stubhub.com/tool-tickets/performer/2197/ SuggestsGaming/TechTrailersRobocop: Rogue City - https://youtu.be/tx6C1ANE7l4 WOW… Reg ‘ol NewsApple Vision Pro - $3500, this is not for the average user…Instagram - Dipping their proverbial toe into the AI pool. Incorporating chat bots into IG to various degrees. https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-is-testing-an-ai-chatbot-for-content-discovery-182119161.html Microsoft Presentation - this sunday… what to expect.Summer Game Fest - this thursdaySuggestsComic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsBirds of Prey - DC Comics has confirmed that Cassandra Cain will be joining the new Birds of Prey roster.Cain, who is also known as Orphan and Batgirl, is a skilled martial artist and detective.She will be joining Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya on the new team.The new Birds of Prey series will be written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Nicola Scott.It is scheduled to debut in July 2023.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-confirms-cassandra-cain-new-birds-of-prey-roster/ Superior Spider-Man - Marvel announced a new series.Marvel Comics announces a new Superior Spider-Man series this Fall.The series will be written by Dan Slott and feature Otto Octavius as Spider-Man.Slott says the series will be a "bold new direction" for the character.The original Superior Spider-Man run was a popular and critically acclaimed series.The new series is sure to be a hotly anticipated series for fans of the character.https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-confirms-new-superior-spider-man-series/ Captain America - J. Michael Straczynski is returning to Marvel Comics to write a new Captain America series.The series will launch in September 2023 and will be drawn by Jesús Saiz.Straczynski is known for his work on Babylon 5, Amazing Spider-Man, and Thor.He says he plans to "plunge Steve Rogers into a shadowy plot with a sinister foe at its core."Fans of Captain America are eagerly awaiting the new series.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-captain-america-j-michael-stracyznski/ SuggestsTV ShowsTrailersMy Adventures with Superman - https://youtu.be/nI9uUv6AdoY July 6 on Adult Swim next day on MAX.Reg ‘ol NewsStrikes - DGA signs a new deal with the AMPTP. https://deadline.com/2023/06/dga-deal-reaction-striking-writers-angry-1235408169/ SuggestsMoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsSpider-Man: Across the Spiderverse - $120.5 million in its opening weekend domestically, and swung in with $208.6 million around the world.Nosferatu - the remake has finished primary photography.Captain America 4 - now subtitled “Brave New World. https://deadline.com/2023/06/first-look-anthony-mackie-captain-america-brave-new-world-1235409693/ TrailersBird Box: Barcelona - https://youtu.be/W5gSqnYAgeA July 14th.Reg ‘ol NewsStrikes - Now AG-AFTRA is potentially going to strike.June 30th will be the final day of current contracts. If negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).Hocus Pocus 3 - Officially happening. https://nerdist.com/article/hocus-pocus-3-in-development-at-disney-max-dennison-allison-shaw-could-return/ Terrifier 3 - Green lit https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/horror-fans-rejoice-terrifier-3-is-officially-on-its-way/ Suitable Flesh - New Horror movie starring Heather Graham has been picked up by RLJE Films and Shudder, for theatrical and streaming release later this year. Based on HP Lovecraft story “The Thing on the Doorstep”. https://deadline.com/2023/06/suitable-flesh-release-heather-graham-rlje-films-shudder-1235398378/ SuggestsRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsCaptain America 4 - NOT a Hulk related sub-title.New SourcesAndy Muschietti - Now instead of Superman, the rumor mill is putting him in charge of Batman: the Brave and the BoldNew RumorsScarlet Witch - Comic Book rumored to be the next on the chopping block at Marvel.Batman - New Batman rumored to be revealed at the end of the Flash movie.Nintendo Direct - Rumored for next month.Final Fantasy IX - remake in the worksYou can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
FINALLY! Doc Ock gets the spotlight in an episode that helps us better understand this strange version of Otto Octavius, while also posing a ton of unanswered questions. But something we don't like? The episode's horrible lesson about boundaries, privacy, surveillance, and work/life balance for poor teenaged Peter Parker. We're watching Ultimate Spider-Man: Season 1, […]
FINALLY! Doc Ock gets the spotlight in an episode that helps us better understand this strange version of Otto Octavius, while also posing a ton of unanswered questions. But something we don't like? The episode's horrible lesson about boundaries, privacy, surveillance, and work/life balance for poor teenaged Peter Parker. We're watching Ultimate Spider-Man: Season 1, […]
Derek and Corinne learn about the fallout of Peter's recent arrest while Ben and Mary Jane finally sit down and talk.
Corinne catches Derek up on a surprisingly touching and "amazing" issue of Spider-Man... the 400th!
Corinne runs through the events of Players and Pawns (sans Amazing Spider-Man #400) and we learn a little of what Peter Parker is going through.
Derek and Corinne try to piece together what is going on with Spider-Man. I guess that Jackal is back? Also there's a little Jackal? Also there's a lot of nudity. This comic is weird.
Corinne goes over the Funeral for an Octopus and tries to understand why it exists.
This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the undisputed king of intellectual property in the entertainment industry. As of February 9th, 2023, the day I record this episode, there have been thirty full length motion pictures part of the MCU in the past fifteen years, with a combined global ticket sales of $28 billion, as well as twenty television shows that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a entertainment juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon. This comes as a total shock to many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, who were witness of cheaply produced television shows featuring hokey special effects and a roster of has-beens and never weres in the cast. Superman was the king of superheroes at the movies, in large part because, believe it or not, there hadn't even been a movie based on a Marvel Comics character released into theatres until the summer of 1986. But not for lack of trying. And that's what we're going to talk about today. A brief history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 1980s. But first, as always, some backstory. Now, I am not approaching this as a comic fan. When I was growing up in the 80s, I collected comics, but my collection was limited to Marvel's Star Wars series, Marvel's ROM The SpaceKnight, and Marvel's two-issue Blade Runner comic adaptation in 1982. So I apologize to Marvel comics fans if I relay some of this information incorrectly. I have tried to do my due diligence when it comes to my research. Marvel Comics got its start as Timely Comics back in 1939. On August 31, 1939, Timely would release its first comic, titled Marvel Comics, which would feature a number of short stories featuring versions of characters that would become long-running staples of the eventual publishing house that would bear the comic's name, including The Angel, a version of The Human Torch who was actually an android hero, and Namor the Submariner, who was originally created for a unpublished comic that was supposed to be given to kids when they attended their local movie theatre during a Saturday matinee. That comic issue would quickly sell out its initial 80,000 print run, as well as its second run, which would put another 800,000 copies out to the marketplace. The Vision would be another character introduced on the pages of Marvel Comics, in November 1940. In December 1940, Timely would introduce their next big character, Captain America, who would find instant success thanks to its front cover depicting Cap punching Adolph Hitler square in the jaw, proving that Americans have loved seeing Nazis get punched in the face even a year before our country entered the World War II conflict. But there would be other popular characters created during this timeframe, including Black Widow, The Falcon, and The Invisible Man. In 1941, Timely Comics would lose two of its best collaborators, artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to rival company Detective Comics, and Timely owner Martin Goodman would promote one of his cousins, by marriage to his wife Jean no less, to become the interim editor of Timely Comics. A nineteen year old kid named Stanley Lieber, who would shorten his name to Stan Lee. In 1951, Timely Comics would be rebranded at Atlas Comics, and would expand past superhero titles to include tales of crime, drama, espionage, horror, science fiction, war, western, and even romance comics. Eventually, in 1961, Atlas Comics would rebrand once again as Marvel Comics, and would find great success by changing the focus of their stories from being aimed towards younger readers and towards a more sophisticated audience. It would be November 1961 when Marvel would introduce their first superhero team, The Fantastic Four, as well as a number of their most beloved characters including Black Panther, Carol Danvers, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Thor, as well as Professor X and many of the X-Men. And as would be expected, Hollywood would come knocking. Warner Brothers would be in the best position to make comic book movies, as both they and DC Comics were owned by the same company beginning in 1969. But for Marvel, they would not be able to enjoy that kind of symbiotic relationship. Regularly strapped for cash, Stan Lee would often sell movie and television rights to a variety of Marvel characters to whomever came calling. First, Marvel would team with a variety of producers to create a series of animated television shows, starting with The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966, two different series based on The Fantastic Four, and both Spider-Man and Spider-Woman series. But movies were a different matter. The rights to make a Spider-Man television show, for example, was sold off to a production company called Danchuck, who teamed with CBS-TV to start airing the show in September of 1977, but Danchuck was able to find a loophole in their contract that allowed them to release the two-hour pilot episode as a movie outside of the United States, which complicated the movie rights Marvel had already sold to another company. Because the “movie” was a success around the world, CBS and Danchuck would release two more Spider-Man “movies” in 1978 and 1981. Eventually, the company that owned the Spider-Man movie rights to sell them to another company in the early 1980s, the legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, New World Pictures, founded and operated by the legendary independent B-movie producer and director Roger Corman. But shortly after Corman acquired the film rights to Spider-Man, he went and almost immediately sold them to another legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, Cannon Films. Side note: Shortly after Corman sold the movie rights to Spider-Man to Cannon, Marvel Entertainment was sold to the company that also owned New World Pictures, although Corman himself had nothing to do with the deal itself. The owners of New World were hoping to merge the Marvel comic book characters with the studio's television and motion picture department, to create a sort of shared universe. But since so many of the better known characters like Spider-Man and Captain America had their movie and television rights sold off to the competition, it didn't seem like that was going to happen anytime soon, but again, I'm getting ahead of myself. So for now, we're going to settle on May 1st, 1985. Cannon Films, who loved to spend money to make money, made a big statement in the pages of the industry trade publication Variety, when they bought nine full pages of advertising in the Cannes Market preview issue to announce that buyers around the world needed to get ready, because he was coming. Spider-Man. A live-action motion picture event, to be directed by Tobe Hooper, whose last movie, Poltergeist, re-ignited his directing career, that would be arriving in theatres for Christmas 1986. Cannon had made a name for themselves making cheapie teen comedies in their native Israel in the 1970s, and then brought that formula to America with films like The Last American Virgin, a remake of the first Lemon Popsicle movie that made them a success back home. Cannon would swerve into cheapie action movies with fallen stars like Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and would prop up a new action star in Chuck Norris, as well as cheapie trend-chasing movies like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. They had seen enough success in America where they could start spending even bigger, and Spider-Man was supposed to be their first big splash into the superhero movie genre. With that, they would hire Leslie Stevens, the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits, to write the screenplay. There was just one small problem. Neither Stevens nor Cannon head honcho Menachem Golan understood the Spider-Man character. Golan thought Spider-Man was a half-spider/half-man creature, not unlike The Wolf Man, and instructed Stevens to follow that concept. Stevens' script would not really borrow from any of the comics' twenty plus year history. Peter Parker, who in this story is a twenty-something ID photographer for a corporation that probably would have been Oscorp if it were written by anyone else who had at least some familiarity with the comics, who becomes intentionally bombarded with gamma radiation by one of the scientists in one of the laboratories, turning Bruce Banner… I mean, Peter Parker, into a hairy eight-armed… yes, eight armed… hybrid human/spider monster. At first suicidal, Bruce… I mean, Peter, refuses to join forces with the scientist's other master race of mutants, forcing Peter to battle these other mutants in a basement lab to the death. To say Stan Lee hated it would be an understatement. Lee schooled Golan and Golan's partner at Cannon, cousin Yoram Globus, on what Spider-Man was supposed to be, demanded a new screenplay. Wanting to keep the head of Marvel Comics happy, because they had big plans not only for Spider-Man but a number of other Marvel characters, they would hire the screenwriting team of Ted Newsom and John Brancato, who had written a screenplay adaptation for Lee of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, to come up with a new script for Spider-Man. Newsom and Brancato would write an origin story, featuring a teenage Peter Parker who must deal with his newfound powers while trying to maintain a regular high school existence, while going up against an evil scientist, Otto Octavius. But we'll come back to that later. In that same May 1985 issue of Variety, amongst dozens of pages of ads for movies both completed and in development, including three other movies from Tobe Hooper, was a one-page ad for Captain America. No director or actor was attached to the project yet, but comic book writer James L. Silke, who had written the scripts for four other Cannon movies in the previous two years, was listed as the screenwriter. By October 1985, Cannon was again trying to pre-sell foreign rights to make a Spider-Man movie, this time at the MIFED Film Market in Milan, Italy. Gone were Leslie Stevens and Tobe Hooper. Newsom and Brancato were the new credited writers, and Joseph Tito, the director of the Chuck Norris/Cannon movies Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A., was the new director. In a two-page ad for Captain America, the film would acquire a new director in Michael Winner, the director of the first three Death Wish movies. And the pattern would continue every few months, from Cannes to MIFED to the American Film Market, and back to Cannes. A new writer would be attached. A new director. A new release date. By October 1987, after the twin failures of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe, Cannon had all but given up on a Captain America movie, and downshifted the budget on their proposed Spider-Man movie. Albert Pyun, whose ability to make any movie in any genre look far better than its budget should have allowed, was brought in to be the director of Spider-Man, from a new script written by Shepard Goldman. Who? Shepard Goldman, whose one and only credit on any motion picture was as one of three screenwriters on the 1988 Cannon movie Salsa. Don't remember Salsa? That's okay. Neither does anyone else. But we'll talk a lot more about Cannon Films down the road, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cannon Films, although I will leave you with two related tidbits… Do you remember the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg? Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk martial-arts action film where JCVD and everyone else in the movie have names like Gibson Rickenbacker, Fender Tremolo, Marshall Strat and Pearl Prophet for no damn good reason? Stupid movie, lots of fun. Anyway, Albert Pyun was supposed to shoot two movies back to back for Cannon Films in 1988, a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and Spider-Man. To save money, both movies would use many of the same sets and costumes, and Cannon had spent more than $2m building the sets and costumes at the old Dino DeLaurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where David Lynch had shot Blue Velvet. But then Cannon ran into some cash flow issues, and lost the rights to both the He-Man toy line from Mattel and the Spider-Man characters they had licensed from Marvel. But ever the astute businessman, Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan offered Pyun $500,000 to shoot any movie he wanted using the costumes and sets already created and paid for, provided Pyun could come up with a movie idea in a week. Pyun wrote the script to Cyborg in five days, and outside of some on-set alterations, that first draft would be the shooting script. The film would open in theatres in April 1989, and gross more than $10m in the United States alone. A few months later, Golan would gone from Cannon Films. As part of his severance package, he would take one of the company's acquisitions, 21st Century Films, with him, as well as several projects, including Captain America. Albert Pyun never got to make his Spider-Man movie, but he would go into production on his Captain America in August 1989. But since the movie didn't get released in any form until it came out direct to video and cable in 1992, I'll leave it to podcasts devoted to 90s movies to tell you more about it. I've seen it. It's super easy to find on YouTube. It really sucks, although not as much as that 1994 version of The Fantastic Four that still hasn't been officially released nearly thirty years later. There would also be attempts throughout the decade to make movies from the aforementioned Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man, from companies like New Line, 20th Century-Fox and Universal, but none of those would ever come to fruition in the 1980s. But the one that would stick? Of the more than 1,000 characters that had been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics over the course of forty years? The one that would become the star of the first ever theatrically released motion picture based on a Marvel character? Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck was not your average Marvel superhero. Howard the Duck wasn't even a superhero. He was just some wise crackin', ill-tempered, anthropomorphic water fowl that was abducted away from his home on Duckworld and forced against his will to live with humans on Earth. Or, more specifically, first with the dirty humans of the Florida Everglades, and then Cleveland, and finally New York City. Howard the Duck was metafiction and existentialist when neither of these things were in the zeitgeist. He smoked cigars, wore a suit and tie, and enjoy drinking a variety of libations and getting it on with the women, mostly his sometimes girlfriend Beverly. The perfect character to be the subject of the very first Marvel movie. A PG-rated movie. Enter George Lucas. In 1973, George Lucas had hit it big with his second film as a director, American Graffiti. Lucas had written the screenplay, based in part on his life as an eighteen year old car enthusiast about to graduate high school, with the help of a friend from his days at USC Film School, Willard Huyck, and Huyck's wife, Gloria Katz. Lucas wanted to show his appreciation for their help by producing a movie for them. Although there are variations to the story of how this came about, most sources say it was Huyck who would tell Lucas about this new comic book character, Howard the Duck, who piqued his classmate's interest by describing the comic as having elements of film noir and absurdism. Because Universal dragged their feet on American Graffiti, not promoting it as well as they could have upon its initial release and only embracing the film when the public embraced its retro soundtrack, Lucas was not too keen on working with Universal again on his next project, a sci-fi movie he was calling The Journal of the Whills. And while they saw some potential in what they considered to be some minor kiddie movie, they didn't think Lucas could pull it off the way he was describing it for the budget he was asking for. “What else you got, kid?” they'd ask. Lucas had Huyck and Katz, and an idea for a live-action comic book movie about a talking duck. Surprisingly, Universal did not slam the door shut in Lucas's face. They actually went for the idea, and worked with Lucas, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics and Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, to put a deal together to make it happen. Almost right away, Gerber and the screenwriters, Huyck and Katz, would butt heads on practically every aspect of the movie's storyline. Katz just thought it was some funny story about a duck from outer space and his wacky adventures on Earth, Gerber was adamant that Howard the Duck was an existential joke, that the difference between life's most serious moments and its most incredibly dumb moments were only distinguishable by a moment's point of view. Huyck wanted to make a big special effects movie, while Katz thought it would be fun to set the story in Hawaii so she and her husband could have some fun while shooting there. The writers would spend years on their script, removing most everything that made the Howard the Duck comic book so enjoyable to its readers. Howard and his story would be played completely straight in the movie, leaning on subtle gags not unlike a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, instead of embracing the surreal ridiculousness of the comics. They would write humongous effects-heavy set pieces, knowing they would have access to their producer's in-house special effects team, Industrial Light and Magic, instead of the comics' more cerebral endings. And they'd tone down the more risqué aspects of Howard's personality, figuring a more family-friendly movie would bring in more money at the box office. It would take nearly twelve years for all the pieces to fall into place for Howard the Duck to begin filming. But in the spring of 1985, Universal finally gave the green light for Lucas and his tea to finally make the first live-action feature film based on a Marvel Comics character. For Beverly, the filmmakers claimed to have looked at every young actress in Hollywood before deciding on twenty-four year old Lea Thompson, who after years of supporting roles in movies like Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves and Red Dawn, had found success playing Michael J. Fox's mother in Back to the Future. Twenty-six year old Tim Robbins had only made two movies up to this point, at one of the frat boys in Fraternity Vacation and as one of the fighter pilots in Top Gun, and this was his first chance to play a leading role in a major motion picture. And Jeffrey Jones would be cast as the bad guy, the Dark Overlord, based upon his work in the 1984 Best Picture winner Amadeus, although he would be coming to the set of Howard the Duck straight off of working on a John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Howard the Duck would begin shooting on the Universal Studios lot of November 11th, 1985, and on the very first day of production, the duck puppet being used to film would have a major mechanical failure, not unlike the mechanical failure of the shark in Jaws that would force Steven Spielberg to become more creative with how he shot that character. George Lucas, who would be a hands-on producer, would suggest that maybe they could shoot other scenes not involving the duck, while his crew at ILM created a fully functional, life-sized animatronic duck costume for a little actor to wear on set. At first, the lead actor in the duck suit was a twelve-year old boy, but within days of his start on the film, he would develop a severe case of claustrophobia inside the costume. Ed Gale, originally hired to be the stuntman in the duck costume, would quickly take over the role. Since Gale could work longer hours than the child, due to the very restrictive laws surrounding child actors on movie and television sets, this would help keep the movie on a good production schedule, and make shooting the questionable love scenes between Howard and Beverly easier for Ms. Thompson, who was creeped out at the thought of seducing a pre-teen for a scene. To keep the shoot on schedule, not only would the filmmakers employ a second shooting unit to shoot the scenes not involving the main actors, which is standard operating procedure on most movies, Lucas would supervise a third shooting unit that would shoot Robbins and Gale in one of the film's more climactic moments, when Howard and Phil are trying to escape being captured by the authorities by flying off on an ultralight plane. Most of this sequence would be shot in the town of Petaluma, California, on the same streets where Lucas had shot American Graffiti's iconic cruising scenes thirteen years earlier. After a month-long shoot of the film's climax at a naval station in San Francisco, the film would end production on March 26th, 1986, leaving the $36m film barely four months to be put together in order to make its already set in stone August 1st, 1986, release date. Being used to quick turnaround times, the effects teams working on the film would get all their shots completed with time to spare, not only because they were good at their jobs but they had the ability to start work before the film went into production. For the end sequence, when Jones' character had fully transformed into the Dark Overlord, master stop motion animator Phil Tippett, who had left ILM in 1984 to start his own effects studio specializing in that style of animation, had nearly a year to put together what would ultimately be less than two minutes of actual screen time. As Beverly was a musician, Lucas would hire English musician and composer Thomas Dolby, whose 1982 single She Blinded Me With Science became a global smash hit, to write the songs for Cherry Bomb, the all-girl rock group lead by Lea Thompson's Beverly. Playing KC, the keyboardist for Cherry Bomb, Holly Robinson would book her first major acting role. For the music, Dolby would collaborate with Allee Willis, the co-writer of Earth Wind and Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, and funk legend George Clinton. But despite this powerhouse musical trio, the songs for the band were not very good, and, with all due respect to Lea Thompson, not very well sung. By August 1986, Universal Studios needed a hit. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in March with Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa, the first six films they released for the year were all disappointments at the box office and/or with the critics. The Best of Times, a comedy featuring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends who try to recreate a high school football game which changed the direction of both their lives. Despite a script written by Ron Shelton, who would be nominated for an Oscar for his next screenplay, Bull Durham, and Robin Williams, the $12m film would gross less than $8m. The Money Pit, a comedy with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, would end up grossing $37m against a $10m budget, but the movie was so bad, its first appearance on DVD wouldn't come until 2011, and only as part of a Tom Hanks Comedy Favorites Collection along with The ‘Burbs and Dragnet. Legend, a dark fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to be one of the biggest hits… of 1985. But Scott and the studio would fight over the film, with the director wanting them to release a two hour and five minute long version with a classical movie score by Jerry Goldsmith, while the studio eventually cut the film down an hour and twenty-nine minutes with a techno score by Tangerine Dream. Despite an amazing makeup job transforming Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness as well as sumptuous costumes and cinematography, the $24.5m film would just miss recouping its production budget back in ticket sales. Tom Cruise would become a superstar not three weeks later, when Paramount Pictures released Top Gun, directed by Ridley's little brother Tony Scott. Sweet Liberty should have been a solid performer for the studio. Alan Alda, in his first movie since the end of MASH three years earlier, would write, direct and star in this comedy about a college history professor who must watch in disbelief as a Hollywood production comes to his small town to film the movie version of one of the books. The movie, which also starred Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfieffer and screen legend Lillian Gish, would get lost in the shuffle of other comedies that were already playing in theatres like Ferris Bueller and Short Circuit. Legal Eagles was the movie to beat for the summer of 1986… at least on paper. Ivan Reitman's follow-up film to Ghostbusters would feature a cast that included Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah, along with Brian Denny, Terence Stamp, and Brian Doyle-Murray, and was perhaps too much movie, being a legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller. Phew. If I were to do an episode about agency packaging in the 1980s, the process when a talent agency like Creative Artists Agency, or CAA, put two or more of their clients together in a project not because it might be best for the movie but best for the agency that will collect a 10% commission from each client attached to the project, Legal Eagles would be the example of packaging gone too far. Ivan Reitman was a client of CAA. As were Redford, and Winger, and Hannah. As was Bill Murray, who was originally cast in the Redford role. As were Jim Cash and Jack Epps, the screenwriters for the film. As was Tom Mankewicz, the co-writer of Superman and three Bond films, who was brought in to rewrite the script when Murray left and Redford came in. As was Frank Price, the chairman of Universal Pictures when the project was put together. All told, CAA would book more than $1.5m in commissions for themselves from all their clients working on the film. And it sucked. Despite the fact that it had almost no special effects, Legal Eagles would cost $40m to produce, one of the most expensive movies ever made to that point, nearly one and a half times the cost of Ghostbusters. The film would gross nearly $50m in the US, which would make it only the 14th highest grossing film of the year. Less than Stand By Me. Less than The Color of Money. Less than Down and Out in Beverly Hills. And then there was Psycho III, the Anthony Perkins-directed slasher film that brought good old Norman Bates out of mothballs once again. An almost direct follow-up to Psycho II from 1983, the film neither embraced by horror film fans or critics, the film would only open in eighth place, despite the fact there hadn't been a horror movie in theatres for months, and its $14m gross would kill off any chance for a Psycho IV in theatres. In late June, Universal would hold a series of test screenings for Howard the Duck. Depending on who you talk to, the test screenings either went really well, or went so bad that one of the writers would tear up negative response cards before they could be given to the score compilers, to goose the numbers up, pun only somewhat intended. I tend to believe the latter story, as it was fairly well reported at the time that the test screenings went so bad, Sid Sheinberg, the CEO of Universal, and Frank Price, the President of the studio, got into a fist fight in the lobby of one of the theatres running one of the test screenings, over who was to blame for this impending debacle. And a debacle it was. But just how bad? So bad, copywriters from across the nation reveled in giddy glee over the chances to have a headline that read “‘Howard the Duck' Lays an Egg!” And it did. Well, sort of. When it opened in 1554 theatres on August 1st, the film would gross $5.07m, the second best opener of the weekend, behind the sixth Friday the 13th entry, and above other new movies like the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason dramedy Nothing in Common and the cult film in the making Flight of the Navigator. And $5m in 1986 was a fairly decent if unspectacular opening weekend gross. The Fly was considered a massive success when it opened to $7m just two weeks later. Short Circuit, which had opened to $5.3m in May, was also lauded as being a hit right out of the gate. And the reviews were pretty lousy. Gene Siskel gave the film only one star, calling it a stupid film with an unlikeable lead in the duck and special effects that were less impressive than a sparkler shoved into a birthday cake. Both Siskel and Ebert would give it the dreaded two thumbs down on their show. Leonard Maltin called the film hopeless. Today, the film only has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 81 reviews. But despite the shellacking the film took, it wouldn't be all bad for several of the people involved in the making of the film. Lea Thompson was so worried her career might be over after the opening weekend of the film, she accepted a role in the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful that she had turned down multiple times before. As I stated in our March 2021 episode about that movie, it's my favorite of all John Hughes movies, and it would lead to a happy ending for Thompson as well. Although the film was not a massive success, Thompson and the film's director, Howard Deutch, would fall in love during the making of the film. They would marry in 1989, have two daughters together, and as of the writing of this episode, they are still happily married. For Tim Robbins, it showed filmmakers that he could handle a leading role in a movie. Within two years, he would be starring alongside Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, and he career would soar for the next three decades. And for Ed Gale, his being able to act while in a full-body duck suit would lead him to be cast to play Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies as well as Bride of Chucky. Years later, Entertainment Weekly would name Howard the Duck as the biggest pop culture failure of all time, ahead of such turkeys as NBC's wonderfully ridiculous 1979 show Supertrain, the infamous 1980 Western Heaven's Gate, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman's Ishtar, and the truly wretched 1978 Bee Gees movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But Howard the Duck, the character, not the movie, would enjoy a renaissance in 2014, when James Gunn included a CG-animated version of the character in the post-credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy. The character would show up again in the Disney animated Guardians television series, and in the 2021 Disney+ anthology series Marvel's What If… There technically would be one other 1980s movie based on a Marvel character, Mark Goldblatt's version of The Punisher, featuring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle. Shot in Australia in 1988, the film was supposed to be released by New World Pictures in August of 1989. The company even sent out trailers to theatres that summer to help build awareness for the film, but New World's continued financial issues would put the film on hold until April 1991, when it was released directly to video by Live Entertainment. It wouldn't be until the 1998 release of Blade, featuring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire, that movies based on Marvel Comics characters would finally be accepted by movie-going audiences. That would soon be followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, the success of both prompting Marvel to start putting together the team that would eventually give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe we all know and love today. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 102, the first of two episodes about the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures, is released. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Howard the Duck, and the other movies, both existing and non-existent, we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
Corinne and Derek take a look at the Web of Death storyline from Spider-Man's Clone Saga!
Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastOn this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Anthony are joined by SPECIAL GUEST ALFRED MOLINA of Prime Video Original Series THREE PINES. Adapted from Louise Penny's New York Times best-selling Chief Inspector Gamache series, Three Pines follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (Alfred Molina) as he investigates cases that happen beneath the idyllic surface of the Quebec village of Three Pines, finding long-buried secrets, and facing a few of his own ghosts. Three Pines premieres December 2 on Prime Video, with two episodes releasing weekly.Listen to The Movie Podcast review now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube
Tonight We put on our spidey underoos and play some OG Xbox Spider-man Games. ________________________________________________________________________ Find Us on these platforms: https://twitter.com/_RetroRenegades https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077718475122 ________________________________________________________________________ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcT8wcspekw5tSzbc3qWPCg/join ________________________________________________________________________ Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 video game based on the film of the same name. Published by Activision, the console versions were developed by Treyarch, while the others had different developers and are drastically different as a result. The game is the sequel to 2002's Spider-Man, itself based on the film of that same name. The Treyarch-developed versions are considered a landmark title in the industry for being the first superhero video game to incorporate a full open world design. Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the game finds Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man. When scientist and Peter's mentor, Dr. Otto Octavius, becomes the diabolical villain Doctor Octopus after an accident, Spider-Man must stop him from recreating a dangerous fusion power experiment. Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina, Kirsten Dunst and J. K. Simmons (PSP version only) reprise their roles from the film, as Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus, Mary Jane Watson and J. Jonah Jameson, respectively, while Bruce Campbell, who played an usher in the doors of Mary Jane's show, narrates the game. ________________________________________________________________________ Grab a beer, a slice of pizza and come hang out with us. We play the greatest games from yesterday while discussing today's gaming news and reminisce on the past. A no topic, no fuks given eccentric cast. Come hang with us at 7:00PM EST | 6:00PM CST | 5:00PM MST | 4:00PM PST.. ________________________________________________________________________ Listen to RetroRenegades on all major podcast platforms https://anchor.fm/retro-renegades ________________________________________________________________________ Like some merch? https://willijay.redbubble.com & https://gamers-united-guild.creator-spring.com ________________________________________________________________________ THE RETRO RENEGADES ARE: Graphic God Twitter: @Graphic_God Youtube: https://Youtube.com/GraphicGod Twitch: https://twitch.tv/Graphic_God SUPERSONICSTATION Youtube : https://youtube.com/user/SuperSonicSt... Twitch : https://twitch.tv/supersonicstation STINKINCORPSE Twitter: @stinkincorpse Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UChhVxkV0... UK Dazarus Twitter: @UKDazarus Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCud_ef29... Jago Kuken Twitter: @RetroRenegade_ Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCqKT2pP9... CRISPYBOMB Twitter: @Crispybomb EnFin3t Twitter: @EnFiN3t Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RetroRenegades Jeepers VR Twitter: @Jeepers2u Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHs-KAWDIYYN-cE5F-WiAQ DragonHeartYoby Twitter: @DragonHeartYoby Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dragonheartyoby Cerebral Paul | Living Differently Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CerebralPaul Twitter: https://twitter.com/CerebralPaul1 DoggyDog420 Twitter: @DoggyDog420Xbox Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Axle1324 ________________________________________________________________________ FOLLOW OUR FELLOW #GAMERSUNITEDGUILD FRIENDS! Visit www.gamersunitedguild.com for loads of positive gaming content ________________________________________________________________________ The ORIGINAL Next Level Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/TheORIGINALNextLevelGaming TXR (The Xbox Roundtable) Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7S-10RbSWEskn3r6xsQK6w 4GQTV https://www.youtube.com/c/4GQTV Classy Gaming Fun https://www.youtube.com/c/OEBPet --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/retro-renegades/support
Reel Comic Heroes: 151 - Spider-Man (94) Script Read We decided to do something a little different this episode and assembled some folks for a script read of the unmade ‘Spider-Man' from 1994. We're performing the 2nd revision by Joseph Goldman, James Cameron and John Brancato from 7/29/1993. This script would've eventually changed even more and would have become the version James Cameron planned to direct with Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Parker. Ultimately, this project never got made (for several reasons) but we dusted off the script and gave it our best. Okey dokey. Discuss the episode over at the Facebook group: The Reel Comic Heroes League of Citizens Performers: Rob O'Connor as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Surgeon #2 and Truck Driver #2 Niall McGowan as Doctor Otto Octavius, Nurse, Ref, Cabbie, Cop #2 and Henry Megan Coleman as Liz Allan, Professor Thorkel, Chief Surgeon, Old Lady, Clerk, Young Woman, Doctor, Woman and Female Cop Alex Thompson-Forte as Professor Rosomorf, Harry Osborn, Aunt May, Guard, Ring Announcer, Bank Guard, Cop #1 and Man Jonathan Howell as Uncle Ben, J Jonah Jameson, Kim Nickson, Brainman, Crusher Cole, Detective, Boy, Truck Driver #1, Wife, Fireman Travis Bow as Weiner, Flash Thompson, Max Reiss, Head Nurse, Hipster, Radio, Girl, Walkie Narrated by: George Hendricks Our next movie review - The Batman/Superman Movie Rob O'Connor is the host of All-Star Superfan Podcast and Dick Tracy Minute Niall McGowan is the host of Bat Minute and Miami Minutes Megan Coleman is the host of MASH Minute. Find her on IG and TikTok @meggzcharm. Visit your local library! Alex Thompson-Forte is the host of Galaxy Quest Minute Jonathan Howell is the host of Minute: Impossible and The Cast and the Furious George Hendricks is the host of The Mogwai Minute, Elementary, My Dears and editor of First Insight Twitter | Instagram | Website Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Prelude and Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) - License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Deep Haze" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) - License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Intro/Outro by Matthew S Mendoza
Ultimate Spider-Cast Ep #194: Superior Spider-Man #1-#3 Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast! In this Sub-tember episode, Phil is joined by guest hosts Charlie and Justin to review Superior Spider-Man #1-#3 (March-April 2013) featuring Otto Octavius as a more brutal Spider-Man. PLUS: a discussion of the failings of Doctor Doom and why does Juliette Lewis keep coming up? Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can! Ultimate Spider-Cast's Links → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/UltSpidercast → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/capeslunatics/ → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UltimateSpiderCast → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics ==================
A new weeks brings a new episode and this week, we're going back to the movie that many a young man probably watched just to see some bewbs in the mid 90s: Species. So join us as we ask if this sci-fi thriller starring Trevor Slattery, Otto Octavius, Mr. Blonde, and Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai holds up.
Episode 57 of LRSM. Eddie and James B are joined by host of the Daily Spider Panel, Sara Pezel to discuss issues 88 and 89 of The Amazing Spider-Man from 1970. In issue 88, We begin at the Museum of Natural Science where Doc Ock's arms are on exhibit. During a lecture we are informed that the arms still hold a threat. In a lonely midwest prison Doc Ock senses his arms and focuses his mental control on them. With impeccable timing, Doc Ock succeeds and is able to control his arms in the middle of the lecture. Later in issue 89, Doc Ock intends to draw Spider-man into combat to defeat him once and for all! Meanwhile, Peter is approached to protest air pollution and looks weak when he says he can't. Eventually Doctor Octopus battles Spider-Man aboard a plane full of hostages and foreign dignitaries. Was this the best fight ever? Should Sara replace Eddie as the new summary person? Who is General Su? Reach out to us on Twitter at @letsreadspidey or at e-mail at letsreadspiderman@gmail.com with your thoughts! Stay tuned for the next episode. Tragedy will strike the town of Midtown and a hero will die. Theme Music by Jeff Kenniston Sponsor Music by @EHasspacher. Sound effects generously provided royalty free by www.fesliyanstudios.com. Podcast hosted by Podbean. Irving Forbush lunch paid for by Irving Forbush. Check out all the episodes on letsreadspiderman.podbean.com or wherever you get your podcasts! Find the podcasts on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoKSfjDVKvj5C5lkjQvUByA Follow along on Facebook at the Let's Read Spider-man Podcast page. A no-prize if you can find it!
Zo gives you his spoiler free impressions of Spider-Man: No Way Home.www.backlookcinema.comEmail: fanmail@backlookcinema.comTwitter: @backlookcinemaFacebook: The Back Look Cinema Podcast Instagram: backlookcinemapodcastBack Look Cinema Merch at Teespring.comBack Look Cinema Merch at Teepublic.com
In this episode:Mike and Ed discuss Philadelphia and how super battles are expanding out of New York City. Meanwhile, Dr. Otto Octavius was released from prison and immediately returned to committing crimes. Has ANY supervillain been successfully rehabilitated? Also, are supervillains going to start working for organized crime, or are they going to start running organized crime?In this issue:Doc Ock is released from prison early, for good behaviour. He immediately returns to a life of crime by breaking a mobster out of prison. Spider-Man tracks Doc Ock down, and they tussle. Betty Brant's brother, who was involved in the prison breakout scheme, is collateral damage in the battle.This episode takes place:After Doc Ock returns to a life of crime.Assumed before the next episode:People are starting to wonder if they should build super prisons for supervillains; and whether there should be super penalties, too. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.superserious616.com
A brother's love is a brother's love... But what if his deeds are hateful? We've got the Brant siblings beholden to the brutish whims of Blackie Gaxton! We've got slap fights and slugfests on a schooner on the Schuylkill And we've got the return of the maniacal master menace with mechanical arms, none other than Dr. Otto Octavius, Dr. Octopus, himself! And we've got me, We've got you We've got no further ado We've got The Amazing Spider-Man #11 Turning Point Bonus Episode, Yibambe!, can be found at Patreon.com/HSPP
In this episode of Me & my friend, Pete, I bob and weave my way through The Amazing Spider-Man #3. We've got the first appearance of the One Man Hand's Team, Doctor Otto Octavius, himself, known the world over as Dr. Octopus, in a clash that sees philosophical ideologies collide! Join me as I give play by play to Pete's first encounter with his "Strangest Foe of All!" The bonus episode this week, found exclusively on Patreon.com/HSPP is Witchblade #80. Believe me, Sara Pezzini has seen better days.
In anticipation of Spider-Man: No Way Home later this year, we are rewatching all 7 Spidey films! This week, its 2004's Spider-Man 2. Join Mason, Lolly, and Justin as they talk about the movie and give out their Spoilery Awards. @spoilerwarspod
In this episode:Mike and Ed discuss Doctor Otto Octavius — yet another super-genius gone bad. The Fantastic Four were called in to help by the governor, but claimed that they were “too busy”. Meanwhile, the Human Torch was seen at a speaking engagement at a local high school. Why couldn't they make the time to help? Fortunately for millions of Americans, Spider-Man was available and DID save the Eastern seaboard. Was he just a subcontractor for Reed Richards, or was it just good fortune?In this issue:Spider-Man casually stops some thugs who were robbing a warehouse. Meanwhile, Dr. Otto Octavious, known as Dr. Octopus, while working at an atomic research centre using his mechanical arms to conduct nuclear experiments, is injured by an explosion at the research centre, leaving his mechanical arms fused to his body and responsive to his very thoughts. Spider-Man runs into Dr. Octopus, who has been keeping his former colleagues hostage, and is defeated handily. Fresh from his victory, Dr. Octopus continues with his mad plans to take over the research facility and increase his power. Spider-Man, in his alter ego, high schooler Peter Parker, is bummed out. He is motivated by the Human Torch, who happens to be giving a lecture to the students as Peter's high school. Spider-Man decides to take a second crack at Doc Ock, and this time, he is able to beat him by his combination of brains and brawn.Assumed before the next episode:People are guessing which super-genius will break bad next.This episode takes place:After Doc Ock has been apprehended. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.superserious616.com
TV & Movie Reviews: Spiderman 2 (2004) We go back to 2004 and the Sam Raimi directed - Spiderman 2 (2004). A much heralded movie and one that to this day has some amazing iconic movies. The guys gush over the classic. Plot Summary: Peter Parker is an unhappy man: after two years of fighting crime as Spider-Man, his life has begun to fall apart. The girl he loves is engaged to someone else, his grades are slipping, he cannot keep any of his jobs, and on top of it, the newspaper Daily Bugle is attacking him viciously, claiming that Spider-Man is a criminal. He reaches the breaking point and gives up the crime fighter's life, once and for all. But after a failed fusion experiment, eccentric and obsessive scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is transformed into super villain Doctor Octopus, Doc Ock for short, having four long tentacles as extra hands. Peter guesses it might just be time for Spider-Man to return, but would he act upon it? www.twitter.com/comicsinmotionp thecomicsinmotionpocast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/support
A guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. What are the odds? We'd better talk about it. And who better to join us than super-fan, Callie Smith (Ignite The Spark). We also discuss news and rumors surrounding Spider-Man: No Way Home including the alleged return of Doc Ock. Follow Callie Smith: @CallieSmith92 Follow us: @TalkAboutSpidey Follow TMBC: @ThatMightBeCool
Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of The Wrinkled Rabbit Podcast! This week we talk about Sam Rami's superhero classic, Spider-Man 2. The film is about Peter Parker who is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius. It stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and J.K. Simmons. Next Week's Movie: Mad Max Fury Road YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/WrinkledRabbitProductions Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrinkledRabbit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrinkledrabbit/