Around here, “yellow” cake is the basic cake interior, and the name of the cake is determined by the icing flavor. So, yellow cake with chocolate icing = chocolate cake. Yellow cake with peanut-butter icing = peanut-butter cake. I hope to goodness I never have to say I want “yellow cake with chocolate frosting” instead of “chocolate cake.” It would take too long, and someone would get the last piece by the time I got all that out.
I’m familiar with devils-food cake, which is a chocolate cake interior with creamy chocolate icing, but I would never call devils-food cake “chocolate cake.” The two are separate.
As far as other characters, at least we know that Doctor Strange is alive and well in the Spidey movieverse.
And I’m in the chocolate cake= chocolate cake, not chocolate icing camp. Otherwise, what would you call chocolate cake with no icing? That struck me as off in the movie, too. Poor simple Russian girl doesn’t know what chocolate is.
But our local film reviewer was snarking about all the too-obvious homages in the movie, and mentioned Hal Sparks’s cameo in the elevator, and said that it was made so obvious that even the dimmest dimbulbs couldn’t fail to catch it,
and I’m all like, “Hal who?”
So: Hal who? What was there to the elevator scene, beyond a funny little conversation?
Absolutely incorrect. A chocolate cake is chocolate cake not chocolate icing. Notice it’s yellow cake mix, not chocolate cake mix.
My woman and I had this argument the other day. She said she was going to bake a chocolate cake so I said, that’s great. So she bakes it and it’s yellow cake with chocolate icing. She hands me a slice and I tell her (nicely, since I love cake and don’t care what kind it is) that I thought she was going to make a chocolate cake.
So we go through this whole rigamarole and she finally just says if I don’t agree with her, I don’t get cake. So I agree. But she’s wrong.
Bake her a devil’s-food cake, put lemon frosting on it, and call it a “yellow cake.” If she objects, and says it’s a chocolate cake with yellow frosting, tell her she doesn’t get cake.
All I can tell you is that yellow cake with chocolate icing = chocolate cake in my area of the country. Maybe your experience differs, but your SO and Peter Parker’s admirer agree with me, so I win.
So, your saying that where you live, there’re basically two kinds of cake: yellow cake, and devils-food cake?
My God, is there some sort of charity for you poor people?
Seriously, what do you call devils-food cake with vanilla icing? How do you define carrot cake? Yellow cake with a carrot on top? Your cake classification system makes no sense! It’s a madhouse, I tell you! A MADHOUSE!
Ahem.
Anyway, maybe cute immigrant girl only had enough chocolate cake for Peter, and had to make do with yellow cake for herself? It would explain why Peter’s plate was empty and her’s still cake-laden.
Maybe the yellow cake underneath the chocolate frosting was a metaphor for Peter Parker being scared (yellow, get it?) underneath his invincible chocolate-frosting-like Spider Powers.
Okay, I just saw it today and really liked it.
Just a few notes that may be redundant since I have not read through this thread:
How did Doc Ock wind up right smack dab in the center of a busy bank without anybody noticing?
When Spidey was complaining in the elevator that his outfit rides up in his crotch, the small kid behind me asked loudly, “What’s a crotch?” It was funny, but…shee-it, parents, stop taking your tiny tykes to a PG-13 movie. The violence is too intense for them, the talky scenes are too long, and if they don’t even know what a crotch is…
Spidey certainly has the most messed up personal life of all the superheroes. At least Batman has a nice mansion, a cool car, and a butler to keep him company; while Superman has his job and his pals at the paper.
If I can hijack this cake thread temporarily onto the topic of supervillains, here’s what I’d like to see in the third movie.
First, Harry Osbourne becomes Hobgoblin. Yeah, he wasn’t Hobgoblin in the comics. I don’t care: they need some sort of an excuse to change that stupid costume from the first movie. Hobgoblin, as a ploy to strike at Peter/Spiderman, tricks Connors into taking the serum/radiation treatment/uraniam suppository that turns him into the Lizard, and the two of them tag team Spiderman. Meanwhile, wossisname, the astronaut, returns from space with a mysterious McGuffin that’s being kept at some high tech lab somewhere. Maybe Osbourne labs. Hobgoblin, Spidey, and the Lizard fight in the lab, and Spidey is losing until, battered, bruised, his costume in shambles, he finds the MacGuffin, which is, of course, Venom. He dons the black spiderman costume and defeats both bad guys. Movie ends. Coda after the credits shows Peter sleeping in bed, and his costume slithers out of his closet and out into the streets.
We saw it last night, and I was left with one burning question: did Doc Ock always dress like a flasher? Dr.J assures that he was often drawn shirtless in the comic book, which I’ve never actually read. My brother and I religiously watched the cartoon series in the 80’s, though. I remember the trenchcoat from the cartoon, but I didn’t recall him being shirtless so much of the time. Of course, I was 7 or so, so I probably wouldn’t have noticed something like that.
Yeah, especially without Peter’s Spider-sense telling something was up! He obviously used it at several other points in the movie. Maybe he was too distracted with Aunt May’s toaster disappointment?
I think that was Stan Lee in the background at the end of the Raindrops montage, as well as dodging falling debris during the wall fight.
Simply put, Harry will not be the Hobgoblin because it will be much more evil to have him don the Green Goblin outfit and haunt spidey by pretending to be his dead father. If they can make gliders and pumkin bombs, a voice synthesizer shouldn’t be that hard. Somewhere midway Peter rips the mask off and realizes that his best friend is trying to kill him. Then the glider rises from behind, blades pop out, spidey sense goes off, and Spidey gets to decide whether he or his best friend dies.
As for the cake scene, I simply took it as something nice happening to Peter for the first time in the entire film. I also would like to see an end to this infernal cake debate. If she said chocolate cake, and there was chocolate involved somehow, that’s good enough for me. :rolleyes:
Doc ock the flasher was simply a good way to hide four relatively retractable robotic arms. Peter didn’t really know because his spider sense is rather non specific. He sensed the danger, but couldn’t really tell from where precisely since it wasn’t acting directly on him.
One point miller, the costume shoudn’t slither out into the night. It should slither on to the sleeping Peter and drag him out into the night. I believe that’s what happened in the comics. The suit took the spider body out joyriding whilst dear Peter slept. Then came the bells and the suit leaving and the angry reporter and the Venom. Other than that I liked your idea
