Mary Jane casting revealed for new Spiderman movie

I do the right thing because it's right, not because I aim to win a popularity contest.

I don't know that you are familiar with either concept, to be honest, but there it is.

I think you just answered your own question.

Sure fooled me, Buddy.

I'm actually more liberal than you on this point. You're obviously not racist, but you do sound a bit selfish.

After all, black people (apparently?) don't have any cool stories, and white people have a rich heritage of literature. Check this out: you can share your wealth and improve the self-esteem of these proud ppls. Win - win, yeah?

You gotta admit, the system is racist as hell. How are black people supposed to have cool movies when white people didn't even give them the printing press until the 20th century? That's fucked up.

dude you are trying WAY too hard here

That's not that hard, to be honest.

Fuck you.

I'll state for the record that yes, there's a huge difference between @Sean the Puritan and yourself. Namely, he isn't a troll whose sole purpose is just to stir the shit pot.

No, I don't agree with his stance on abortion. But I can actually have civil conversations with him on other subjects. He's also one of the only devote Christians on the board who actually acts like one and has read the damn Bible cover to cover, unlike idiots like Dayton. If he dies tomorrow, there are people here who will actually miss him on this board. Unlike you, who hasn't added anything of value....well, ever.

Piss off.

@Anna thank you very much for that.

Also:

Never mind Mary Jane, Betty Brant, or some completely new girlfriend... where's Gwen Stacy, Pete's first true love?
I was so happy to see her (very well) cast in the last iteration, even tho the iteration itself stunk.

Would've been nice to see Gwen and Harry, and a real Flash Thompson.

Yes to all of this. What's up with wimpy nerd Flash?

Likewise.

You're literally the most hysterical person posting at Wordforge.

Do you really not see that? Really?

I want to see a Spider-Man movie where Peter is dating Gwen and Mary Jane at the same time, they're dating other people and possibly each other, and no one makes a big deal out of it. #RelationshipAnarchy

Peter gets all possessive with Mary Jane and she dates Captain America to spite him."Face it, tiger, *I* just hit the jackpot."

AU where everything is the same, but they're Denobulans

Only in your dreams.

This is the Red Room, the forum for "Discussion of sensitive issues, philosophy, politics, religion, and often bizarre combinations of all four."

The whole point is to stir the pot, something you should know after all these years, you dimwitted bitch.

As you could with me, but you never try.

devout

You know exactly jack and shit about me and others you like to harass, therefore you have exactly zero basis for claiming to know who is or isn't Christian or who has or hasn't read the Bible.

Seriously you silly cunt, what the fuck makes you think anybody gives a shit whether they've met whatever warped idea of Christianity you have rattling around in your empty head?

Is this really the best you could do? Weak. And unoriginal. This particular curse ("you will die and nobody will care! muahahahahaha!") is better coming from John, who wraps it in a layer of dark, pretentious drama.

It makes sense. Millennials have been raised to view sports and competitive athletics as bad, as they contribute to toxic masculinity. Testosterone production is responsible for campus rape culture, so boys have to be raised to be soft, passive intellectuals. With athletics now taboo, street cred and pecking orders are established via one's online prowess. Facebook likes, YouTube views, Twitter followers, these are the new social status currencies.

So yeah, Flash Thompson is now an eastern indian-looking STEM bully. Make him mad and he might photoshop "crying Jordan" onto a picture of you he got from Instagram.

TLDR

I imagine it gets tiring carrying that cross around.

^ This guy has never played a sport in his life, I can guarantee that

I mean the movie is good, don't get me wrong, but there's definitely some stupid shit going on. If you can ignore the stupid shit, you'll enjoy the movie.

Truth be told, I've gotten bored with the superhero movie formula, especially the "origin" story.

Wonder Woman was interesting for one reason and one reason only, and that was the novelty of seeing a female lead character. Otherwise the plot was stupid, hackneyed, cliche-ridden garbage. The confrontation with Ares was anti-climactic and bereft of dramatic weight. This was the God of War, and Diana summarily dispatches him in about 30 seconds. The rest of the movie was instantly forgettable, and nothing that happened in it will mean anything moving forward with the DCEU.

Similar to my reaction to the first Capt. America, but at least that film introduced the Tesseract/Cosmic Cube/Infinity Gem, and it would be cool to again see Red Skull. Usually they kill off the villains in these films, but his fate was definitely ambiguous.

Replace Cap with Tony, and that's basically where the comics were at two years ago.

Literally not Mary Jane. People complaining need to get over it.

I just don't want to watch yet another Spiderman origin story. The first Rami Spiderman movie was an enormous hit, everyone knows who Spiderman is, we don't need an origin retelling with every reboot.

Spider-Man: Homecoming, thankfully, does not repeat the origin story.

Yes, I think Marvel was wise to forego is this time. Having seen it 2002 and again in 2012, we're all pretty much clear on Spider-Man's origin.

I was downtown today to eat breakfast with a couple of friends. We were at Seaport Village near the convention center as the views of the bay and coastal breezes are a really nice way to improve my outlook for the day. The traffic sucked, parking was worse, as the whole area is over run by tourists attending Comic-Con. On the upside despite that it was only 9am there were a ton of Con goers already there with their cosplay outfits on. I even saw one pretty young lady dressed as the classic Mary Jane. Yeah, she was white.

Some ticket scalper claimed he had real day passes for sale for $1100(?!) each. No, thank you, even if they weren't fake (which they probably are).