I think it’s usually ridiculously specific, like when he saw where the subway was going to crash. And wouldn’t it have to be pretty specific to allow him to dodge bullets and other projectiles?
That’s because the bullets are heading at him and the train was going to crash while he was on it. A mildly menacing person heading into a bank will trigger a mild twinge, but it won’t get danger leaping strong until the person makes a move against him.
If Ock had shot an arm at Peter instead of walking in dressed like a flasher, he would’ve known and been able to dodge. Since he just started whompin the bank guards, Peter had to use his Peter senses.
Now how about a no-prize for my spidey reading geek self 
Funny, my peter senses alert me to hot babes, not danger.
Saw the movie yesterday, and I don’t think I’m going to watch any more Spiderman movies on the big screen. They’re not terrible, but…eh. I figure that my not being very impressed has a lot to do with never having read the comics (and finding Tobey very unappealing to look at. There’s something really disturbing about his washed-out blue eyes) as a kid so I only have a vague idea of who is who.
When my brother was young- from just learning to read to his mid-teens- he was a big X-Men fan, and I ended up reading too many of those comics at his insistance to count; at first because he couldn’t read a lot of the words so I read with him, then because “no, you’ve GOT to read this!”. Those movies I can follow without a problem since I understand who all the characters are, and I can even complain about the character they leave out and which characters are the wrong ages.
I’ll probably watch the inevitable future spiderman sequels on DVD to see what happens, but I didn’t like the first two enough to justify spending the time and money to see them in the theater just to find out earlier.
Saw the film last night, and I will confess it’s been at least 20 years since I read a comic with Spiderman in it (I believe it was Secret Wars* when he still wasn’t quite sure what his new black suit was). He was my fave as a kid.
(Let’s see, I read some of the comics in the 1970s, watched the horrible TV series attempts, saw the 80s cartoon, and even saw some clips of the long-running Japanese series.)
LOVED THIS FILM! Better than the first one. Comic-indifferent wife loved it too.
J.K Simmons is so great as JJJ that I still can’t believe, after two movies, that it’s the same guy who plays the laid-back Dr. Emil Skoda on Law & Order.
Thoughts:
Cake: Once and for all, let’s get our priorities straight. If a cake sports chocolate in any way whatsoever, that is the first item of information that must be shared, and the only info that need be shared. Period.
Cake girl: I think she was just there to provide the audience with a moment to wince at the thought of Peter straying to be with anyone except MJ.
Dunst as MJ: Doesn’t look quite right, but she does a fine enough job. In interviews, Dunst comes across as one of the few well-adjusted actresses in Hollywood. If she’s gettin’ parts and don’t wanna change her teeth, let her.
“Advanced Science”: This is exactly the sort of deliberate reference to old-style comic-book cheese that, IME, director Sam “Let’s have red lightning shatter everything around Darkman when he gets angry” Raimi loves.
Future villains: Harry Osborne taking up where Green Goblin left off is a given, and from what I gether here, the Lizard (he wasn’t lecturing in physics, he was lecturing in “Advanced Science”) and Venom have been set up as well. I agree that the next movie could likely start with a quick defeat of a minor costumed villain, and I suppose the suggestions made are plausible enough (although, what with the “evil cloud of sand” effects having been done to death in the “Mummy” movies, I doubt it will be Sandman).
My gut tells me, however, that Raimi is going to try to see if he can push the edge of the envelope. Just as Tim Burton tried to find psychological depth in Penguin, I think Raimi is going to make his attempt to breathe live-action life into a cheesy supre-villain so unlikely, that it may well undo the entire franchise.
Ladies and gentlemen, make way for (and remember you heard it here first): The Rhino.
*Hey! How 'bout a Secret Wars MOVIE?!? :eek: 
:rolleyes: :smack:
I saw it last night and thought it excellent. During the scene where Aunt May is talking to Peter about the little neighbor kid and how much the kid loves Spider-Man, I started a train of thought that led me to flesh out the outline of a future sequel that has nothing (I think) to do with the stories from the comic books. MY idea was this: the kid turns out to be pretty smart, and when he’s 14, he hates his life so much, he decides to make himself into a Spider-Kid so he can join forces with Spider-Man. So, he irradiates a spider, and makes it bite him, but this goes horribly wrong, and he’s turned into a savage monster - half spider, half human, with a hunger for human blood. Spider Man has to combat this monster, knowing he can’t kill it because it’s really that little kid from across the street who used to adore him. 
Naughty, Naughty Boy. 
Chocolate cake is NOT yellow. Ever.
Devils Food is more better anyway.
I know, I know, I’m late to the party - but:
It was the best movie I saw all year. It has been said before, but it did a fantastic job of capturing the feel of Spiderman. All the things that I remember about the comic and the cartoon series. I kept saying to myself: Wow!
Loved when Aunt May gave the “We need heroes” speech. Loved when MJ said “Go get 'em tiger!” Thought the Effects were fantastic.
Was worth seeing.
When I was a wee pre-pubescent tyke, my mom took me and my younger brother to see a PG-rated comedy movie I forget the title of. In one scene, the heroine lamented that, “I’ve lost my job, all my money’s gone, the mob is trying to kill me, and to top it all off I’m having my period.”
My younger brother turned to my mom and asked, in a nice loud voice, “MOM, WHAT’S A PERIOD?”
Later, in the same movie (after my mom explained that “period” meant what she’d previously referred to around our house as “discharge”), there was a scene where the hero found a woman murdered in her bed. She’d obviously been stabbed, and there was a huge pool of blood under her body. My younger brother commented, again in a nice loud voice, “WOW, SHE MUST’VE HAD A BIG PERIOD!”
During the “hero” speech, did Rami mean to imply that Aunt May knew (or at least suspected) Peter’s alter-ego? It seemed to me the actress was playing it that way, the exaggeratedly important tone of the monologue makes more sense if that was the case. Maybe it’s just me, though the films do play more loosely with Paker’s secret than what I remember from the comics.
I think that was the case. It seemed so to me and makes sense. She was in his arms more than once as he saved her and he spoke to her. She was *like * a mother to him and what mother wouldn’t know what her son’s (I know he is her nephew) arms feel like and voice sounds like?
I definately thought Raimi was trying to make that point.
How old is Aunt May supposed to be? She should be the same generation as his parents, but she comes across as grandmotherly. Peter’s only a college freshman, right?
Of course, the fact that she unexpectedly decided to empty out her house without Peter’s knowledge might have also had something to do with it. Could it be that she ran across some designs for the Spider-Man costume that Pete had stashed away somewhere and forgotten about? That’s what I thought when I saw that scene, and was surprised when it wasn’t followed up on.
If Sam Raimi decides to try and reimagine one of Spidey’s second-tier villains, I think that Electro might make a suitable choice. Yes, the character was intensely lame, but let’s not dismiss the potential out of hand. Much of the lameness might be ameliorated by a judicious change of costume. Also, Electro is one of the most sadly underachieving characters in the Marvel universe. He essentially has the ability to mentally command electromagnetic energy. To give an idea of what an amped-up Electro would be like, one need only look at the other Marvel villain with this power, Magneto.
One other possibility that might hold promise: what about the Spider-Slayer? If JJJ’s son becomes a villain, either the Man-Wolf or (ick-please, no- shudder) Venom, then his defeat at Spider-Man’s hands ought to provide the motivation for Jonah’s character to move from comic-relief to grudge-driven antagonist.
Well there can of course be fairly large age differences (20 years isn’t unheard of) between siblings, and if Peter’s parents had him fairly late in life, yadda yadda yadda…
**Harborwolf ** your description of the Spider sense is consistent with what we see in the movie…it seems to work more with immediate physical threats (like a car flying at him) rather than a general menace. ISTR though his comic book Spider sense is more generalized but I am not an aficianado by any means.
Sorry for this question, but I haven’t read the comic books.
After seeing the movie, it seemed clear that Harry Osborn will be a villain in a future film, and this is complicated by the fact that he knows that Peter Parker is Spiderman. Someone here suggested that John Jameson and the landlord’s daughter (Ursula?) also become villains. Both have a grudge against Peter Parker, John because Mary Jane left him at the altar and Ursula because she had a crush on Peter. So how do they become enemies of Spiderman?
Just saw it.
At the end, when MJ shows up in the tenement apartment and falls into Peter’s arms and tells him she loves him and can’t live without him, the first thought that popped into my skull was “Awwwwwww…that poor blonde cake girl will be sad.”
Oh, and I also noticed that she never changed her clothes. (I kept hoping she’d turn up in some hotpants or somethin’.)
Maybe Ursula is Gwen Stacy’s clone! Oh, you evil Jackal, you!
In the version I saw she had red hair… 