486: Crazy With the Lizard Juice

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this final appendix to our Summer of Spider-Man, we watch a movie that’s probably much better than you’ve heard—2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Yes, it wasn’t necessary to re-tell Spidey’s origin ten years after the Tobey Maguire version, but you know what? This movie does it better, Andrew Garfield is pretty great as a mopey skateboarding Peter Parker, and Emma Stone is a fun and smart Gwen Stacy. We also discuss “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” which is a movie that reminds us of Batman movies—the really awful ones.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable T-shirts are back on sale through November 17th.
0:03.4	There's the new Incomparable logo, a robot or not shirt, the random trek spaceship, and the total party kill dragon.
0:09.2	Get them now at theincom slash shirt.
0:16.5	The Incomparable, number 486, November 2019.
0:26.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:28.8	I am your host, Jason Snell, and yes, it is the summer of Spider-Man.
0:33.7	Wait, what?
0:34.8	It's November?
0:35.9	What's happening?
0:38.9	So here's the thing. There's these two movies that are in
0:41.2	between the sam ramy spider-man
0:43.1	movies and the marvel cinematic universe
0:45.4	spider-man and they are
0:47.6	amazing spider-man from 2012
0:49.9	and amazing spider-man two very clever title
0:52.4	from 2014 these are the movies starring Andrew Garfield
0:55.9	as Peter Parker, kicking off a whole new series of stories involving Spider-Man until the
1:02.2	second movie didn't do well at the box office, and they decided to just go all in on Marvel
1:06.1	Cinematic Universe instead and make a deal with Marvel. So we're going to, we missed these, and I want to talk
1:12.7	about them as a pair to kind of put a book in on the summer of Spider-Man. And I have invited three
1:20.2	fine people to come. And finally, this has been a snake bit, star-cross kind of thing to get this
1:26.1	recording session to actually happen.
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