See Paul Giamatti Steal Plutonium In This Amazing Spider-Man 2 Clip

[immortalfrieza]

While I like that Spidey's quipping in the film, I have the same problem that I had with the first Amazing: could someone please try harder to make them good quips?

In the first one he was using internet troll humour (which is to say no humour at all, just the hope it will appear at some point) and here he seems to be channelling Wallace. If Gromit had appeared to roll his eyes at the attempts to catch a strangely bouncy plutonium plot device, I would not have been surprised.

It's not really any worse than comic Spidey's quips. In fact, the quips have always been incredibly bad and campy, that's why Spidey's fans like them so much.

Right.... it make so much sense to hijack a truck containing dangerous chemical especially Plutonium while driving recklessly to boot! Did the hijacker got a deathwish to go out with a bang???

Radioactive materials aren't that unstable. If it was that easy to cause a nuclear explosion it wouldn't have taken years of research to figure out how to build a nuclear weapon.

That, and besides, criminals in superhero media have always been dumb as a brick, it's why they keep trying to shoot Superman.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

It's not really any worse than comic Spidey's quips. In fact, the quips have always been incredibly bad and campy, that's why Spidey's fans like them so much.

Well first off, thats no excuse. You can't say bad writing is alright because somewhere else there's worse writing.
And second, I'd beg to differ. Spider-Man's quips in the comics make me chuckle. The bumbling here did not. Now, I'm sure in the sheer number of Spider-Man comics there are some jokes that fall flat, but I refer you to the first point. Bad writing in the comics does not excuse bad writing in the film. If the quips in the comics are for the most part funny, you should try to make them funny in the film.

 

[circularlogic88]

Ross Lincoln, Spider-Man has radioactive blood. Think him juggling rods of plutonium isn't going to really affect him all that much. I'd be far more concerned to anyone he touches/hangs out with than Peter himself.

 

[Siege_TF]

Ross Lincoln, Spider-Man has radioactive blood. Think him juggling rods of plutonium isn't going to really affect him all that much. I'd be far more concerned to anyone he touches/hangs out with than Peter himself.

This actually came up in Civil War; Aunt May needed a transfusion, but Peter's blood was radioactive and needed to be filtered, which was not possible because at that point in time Peter had revealed his secret identity, then went Anti-Registration because having an IQ over 250 doesn't actually stop you from being an idiot.

Regardless, I wouldn't be surprised if those rods were about as harmful as Mercury, they just wanted something that sounded expensive and dangerous.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Well first off, thats no excuse. You can't say bad writing is alright because somewhere else there's worse writing.
And second, I'd beg to differ. Spider-Man's quips in the comics make me chuckle. The bumbling here did not. Now, I'm sure in the sheer number of Spider-Man comics there are some jokes that fall flat, but I refer you to the first point. Bad writing in the comics does not excuse bad writing in the film. If the quips in the comics are for the most part funny, you should try to make them funny in the film.

Even the writers and the character themselves call Spidey's quips bad, and pretty much everybody in the Marvel universe says the same. Spider-Man practically infamous for his never ending extremely bad jokes, it's central to his character. The bad ones are the ones you forget quickly, the actually funny ones are the ones you remember. Spidey's actually funny quips are rare more like if you stand in an empty field and shoot a shotgun in random directions for long enough you're going to kill something. Spider-Man's quips are usually hilarious BECAUSE of how incredibly bad they are.