brief nerdery

Real quick-gotta get this off my chest.

Spider-Man 4 is an inevitability. Sam Raimi's on board, Tobey too...all well and good. These folks would have to try to fail to make a worse Spidey movie than the third embarrassing installment was. Well, it seems they are headed in that direction. The problem is having a proper villain that is well known outside of hardcore Spider-Man readers. Raimi wants The Vulture. The studio wants a villain that more people know, also they'd prefer one that isn't an old man, I assume. Never mind that they've been setting up the Lizard for two movies now. That apparently is off the table, for now. Vulture would be fine for me, he's not the most dynamic antagonist possible but after the Green Goblin, the other Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Venom, it's a lot harder to come up with a suitable supervillain every one can be happy with. My vote is for Mysterio. He's cool looking, and his array of tricks (they're not really powers, per se) could make for some wicked CGI, not to mention any number of scenarios that would Peter Parker believe he's out of his mind. ANYWAY, this rant is all over the place. Back to the Vulture. They put him in the movie, fine. But they want to introduce Felicia Hardy, who in the comics we find out is a cat burglar at night called Black Cat. The rumor now is that Felicia Hardy would, in the movie, become...The Vulturess. 

Anytime you take a well-established character from the comics and change them dramatically it spells disaster. Like Deadpool in the last half of Wolverine. Or any number of bullshit scenarios from X3. And they not only want to change the character, but also make her a copy (albeit a younger, better-demographic-skewing) of another character already in the movie. I love Spider-Man. I want to love his movies. Appeal to the nerds!