Monday, May 14, 2007

Spiderman 3 - Attack of the Nerds

I read a piece at Nettavisen (in Norwegian) where your not-so-friendly neighborhood dorks from moviemistakes.com have elected Spiderman 3 the most mistake-ridden movie of the year. They found 17 mistakes, including in some scenes, you can see the contact lenses Toby McGuire wears, when the story clearly states that Spiderman doesn't need corrective lenses on account of him having been bit by a radioactive spider in his teens and thus acquired various superhuman powers.

Read the "shock-bracketed" sentence with a Comic Book Guy from Simpsons voice for effect.

This is a movie based on a comic wherein the basic premise is that if you somehow get exposed to radioactivity by acident, you're somehow endowed with superpowers, and these freaks of nature are concerned with contacts being visible? That's actually pretty funny. I wonder if watching movies for the sake of finding technical faults is an effect - I mean superpower - acquired from years and years of having your lunch money stolen.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That and reproduction only in the same family !!

Anders said...

WHADDAYOUMEEEEEEEEEEEEAAANNNNNNNNN???????????????

I DON'T get any superpowers buy chewing my daily enhanced uranium tablets? You must be kidding, right? As long as you stay away from the green stuff (you really don't want to look like the Hulk. Chick's don't dig green dudes) and only let cool radioactive animals bite you (The Incredible Aardvark is really not that incredible), you should be fine. I hope.

Anders Kent/ The Incredible Tigerman

Wilhelm said...

Anders: Unless you're doing Flintstones' chewable D-Bols, I'm guessing not.

And everyone knows that lasers are red and gamma rays are green - didn't you learn anything from Marvel comics?

Anders said...

I guess I have to read up. Does your University have a MC101 - Basic Marvel Science that would be suitable for me?

Wilhelm said...

About the Flintstones' chewable D-Bols or the output color of various EM pulses?

For the latter - sure we do. They're disguised as informatics courses, though, and sometimes favors manga.