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Review The Simpsons Movie (2007)

My first viewing of this movie was last year.

Channel Awesome 10:15 was one of the parts that scared the living hell out of me when I saw this. How many people got scared of that transition?

This movie's too gory, intense and hardcore in parts to be set in the Christopher Reeves' Superman Universe, though. It is kiddie and hammy in parts now that I look back, but as a child when this came out, this was really something, I mean how brutal and violent it was - the intensity was the element of it that stuck with me, and the sequels, even though the third movie is tamer in terms of loss of blood and injury. Knowing Sam Raimi and his dark comedy/supernatural horror movies and style, it's not surprising, very unique and amazing that he got his way on these movies for the most part.

Yeah he’s a decent human being, even if he gives off the persona of being a heartless dick, when it comes down to the hard situations, he does the heroic thing.

That or he knew that if he gave up the person who sent the pictures, he wouldn’t be getting pictures anymore

vwgames49 its open to that.

vwgames49 it was written to show how he thinks. Reporter’s always protect their sources. I actually read the novelization of that scene.

I simply saw it as a man not willing to rat out a child to a psychopath in spikey power-armour. Imagine having that stigma on your conscience for the rest of your life...

His conversation in the mirror is still one of my favorite movie moments of all time.

I always felt like he'd be a _great Joker._ Just put him in the suit and the clown make-up and have him go all Green Goblin and he'd be _perfect._

Rogue the L.I-Princess Or Harvey Dent/Two-Face since he’s done both here

@@adamshows1142 I'd watch that.

I want to be an actor and my ultimate career goal is to get to play a role as fun and over the top evil as Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin

Troll Dedede Honestly. Doesn’t help that Tobey’s a more goofy looking dude (can relate lmao), so it makes sense why people pick at it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 they choose him cause peter parker is a goofy looking dude in the comics so your point doesn't make sense

Troll Dedede It's the fact that he does it as often as he does throughout the trilogy

@@half-lifescientist1991 but it's REAL CRYING. It's not like in any random scene he does it, it's only in the emotional scenes

Troll Dedede You know what, you got a good point there.

No, you got it right

That’s exactly right

Or it's just bad writing.

I know Doug hates to reference it, but in the Spiderman (90´s) cartoon, Johan acts the same way towards Peter but even when Parker was on trail or getting married, Johan was there to pay for his lawyer (in secret) and his wedding. Hard but secretly cares.

Nah, you're on the money. Outside of his hard demeanor and obsession with Spider-Man, he's a pretty stand up guy. This has been going on in comics, movies, tv shows, games, and so on.

Would love to know their reaction seeing that quote when they saw it.

Do you sign them with that? That would be hilarious. Merry Christmas! Love, some kinda freakyloo or something, wackadoo

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!

HasselHoffman1234 “When will the overacting ever stop?”

"when will the over acting ever stop?"

Mermaid man? Don't you mean just merman LMAO

Sahil .M now that you mention it you are right and that just makes the line even funnier.

Evil Con Carne.

@@morganyoung3557 ,,,,.

@@morganyoung3557 ,.,,.

I like what they did with him in what I believe was the most recent game. Usually when he pops up on the radio he's just being the usual rant about spidey asshole, but when the mercenary group starts violating citizens rights he's the first guy to sound the alarm. He's not really using a different mindset or anything so it goes to show that a mindset can be both wrong and right.

But in the game when he usually talk about spidey he's kinda right? Even peter tell so that a lot of his point are valid, the main reason the end escalated so much is because of spidey

It's why I loved how he was written in Silk. He has these problems with Spiderman, but this *new* spider themed heroine, he believes in. When she has to work for Black Cat for a time, he refuses to believe that she's gone bad.

ZoanBlade90 WHAT? Wow and he hates Iron Man in some comics (who can blame him?)

@@questworldiangreenknight7455 To be fair, the guy used to be an alcoholic, and he kidnapped Ulysses in Civil War II. I DO NOT enjoy talking about that event much, mainly because I was starting to like Captain Marvel...and then THIS event shows up.

This movie's too gory, intense and hardcore in parts to be set in the Christopher Reeves' Superman Universe, though. It is kiddie and hammy in parts now that I look back, but as a child when this came out, this was really something, I mean how brutal and violent it was - the intensity was the element of it that stuck with me, and the sequels, even though the third movie is tamer in terms of loss of blood and injury. Knowing Sam Raimi and his dark comedy/supernatural horror movies and style, it's not surprising, very unique and amazing that he got his way on these movies for the most part.

BRO IT'S *JUST SELF AWARE.* Sam Raimi directed a lot of comedy-esque movies: Darkman, Evil Dead 2...so it's not too far off that characters would make a ton of out-of-character nods.

Did you ever see super hero movie

@@captainmar-vell4319 Drag Me to Hell is another great Sam Raimi movie that's like that. Definitely a must-see for people that love cheesy, tongue-in-cheek "horror."

@@sonicathehedgehog7488 yes

We're not there yet. Wait until next week.

I had pizza for dinner earlier tonight.

You're late

Darn it now I’m hungry!!!

Holy shit! Chaplin can become invisible like Lloyd!

He kind of blends in with Doug's pants lol

Exactly 😂

It has it's goofy camp but above all else it's got personality. Most movies today have zero charm and lack unique style. Raimi's strength has always been in his bold creative choices, some which land, some which don't. Spiderman 2 is the perfect example of those bold choices paying off in spades with strong storytelling. The effects of this film have aged pretty poorly but there's still moments that more than hold up today. I don't get the criticism that they're not 'gritty' enough. Raimi knows how to get dark and violent when he chooses to be. The final fight with the Goblin is still to this day the most brutal PG-13 fight scene in any superhero movie. Not even Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy had anything that intense. I guess to understand Raimi's 'style' you have to understand his beginnings as an indie horror filmmaker. Evil Dead teeters between horror and comedy with a wacky experimental aesthetic. That unique sensibility is what brought his Spiderman films into a special realm no other director has really done since.

Same!

@@chrismhp yeah why do people think Camp is a bad thing? many of classic horror films have camp and many spidey comics were cheesy as hell i loved this version of spiderman and still do i hate it when people see something goofy in the film and point it out like if was some kind of mistake when in actuality it was the porpuse of the film combined with other themes as well , i think sam riami was the perfect fit for a trikogy like this like this , it doesnt shy away when it needs to show you reality but its self aware when it needs to be self a ware because after all its a comic book movie

Same here but I dipise his Jurassic park reviews

I wouldn't call it timeless, but still very good.

Seckora17 idk if it's timeless, but it definitely has a unique personality

Definitely timeless

Consistent? Yeah. Charming? Definitely. Timeless? Ehh, despite being somewhat contemporary, a lot of the Raimi trilogy’s content wouldn’t hold up today. Take the Daily Bugle for example. Not many people read newspapers or find a newspaper company practical (whether or not it is). In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the Daily Bugle was changed into an “internet news channel”. It’s more familiar to people while maintaining the concept: harsh criticism to a particular topic. The Raimi movies are good, but wouldn’t be as great today as they were back then.

Even the MCU doesn't even go that far lol

Batman mask of the phatasm we see a guy beeing crushed by a grave (plus we see him scream before dieying) and it was rated g. Raiders of the lost Arc we see people heads beeing explicity melt and it was pg. Hell even in Sam saimi other pg-13 film drag me to hell we see a old lady head beeing crushed, an excecive level of nosebleed on our main character, and a corpe puking her on a funeral.... Are you suuuuuure this movies are ment to be pg-13? This movies are pretty much hard core as the Robocop remake.

There is hardly any blood, it happens so fast we hardly see it and he gives a comedic "Oh shit" face right before it happens.

WJ ZAV Oh yeah, there is just blood coming out of his mouth and out of his pelvis... what the fuck are you expecting for a PG-13 movie? Him to split in half with his guts hanging out?

Justin McCurdy There's hints and bits of grittiness, but for the most part, the film is undeniably goofy/kid friendly. I think that end fight is the only reason this got a PG-13 (even Spider-Verse was PG, which I think is a more mature, albeit also more outlandish film than this)

Agreed

Omg THANK YOU

To be fair it’s not necessarily Webb’s fault Avi Arad definitely had more control of the story then Webb nevertheless I do agree with you

I still like the first Amazing Spider -Man.

Yeah, a underdeveloped Connors and an Electro that becomes the bad guy because they didnt sing happy birthday to him are such amazing complex characters

Crisdean Mackinnon he said he was

I swear those movies aged worse than the Raimi films. They are such a bore and so freaking bad.

Sebastian Cintron ehhhhhh maybe 2

Ivan Cerecer And then I guess the Tom Holland Spiderman movies fall within the middle of that nice balance

@@Lauren_210 The Tom Holland movies are _too_ light. There's rarely any tension. I never feel worried for Peter in those movies because he's way too protected with the billions of dollars of Stark tech, happy go lucky life, barely any fists throw, ect. It's like Disney shudders at the idea of Spider-Man taking another Raimi level ass whooping in these movies. I don't even think Peter's thrown a punch in the MCU Spider-Man movies yet.

Yeah

Aren't the MCU Spidey films almost exclusively targeted towards children.

Nodnarb999 Imo the MCU really does work for all ages. There’s lots of fun action and humor, but there’s also some really interesting character work in them that I don’t think enough people give them enough credit for. The same could be said about the Raimi films. I personally love MCU spidey and Raimu spidey fairly equally. I like tasm too, but it’s easily the weakest franchise of the bunch

@@calebwitts1232 I'm not speaking for the MCU as a whole, just their Spider-Man movies that take all the drama, angst and grounded emotional out of the character that has those characteristics more than any hero. Where teenagers aren't written like teenagers but 10 year olds. Those movies feel like Disney channel movies with a budget.

Nodnarb999 eh, different strokes for different folks. I’m sorry you don’t enjoy them

I remember hearing that the creator of Death Note was inspired by Green Goblem for Ryuk. If true, then it basically came full circle.

@@ryanlioce4933 I hope that’s true!!

That sounds more like Cinemasnob territory

@@Tadicuslegion78 It does suit his expertise more than it does Nostalgia Critic.

It'd be intersting to see more films in the same quake concerning interesting backstories, The Thief And the Cobbler took 31 years to make.

Dude, you've been banging this drum a lot in Nostalgia Critic comments. And I've been asking him to review The Crow, Dark City, and Prince of Persia for a while now. @@Tadicuslegion78 Come to think of it, what does the CinemaSnob do differently than Doug?

Louis Duarte he covers shlock and obscure stuff much more often

They do this after every review

@@Lasherluke What his other first viewings, he's almost never watching them for the first time mate-

@@Nuigi12 Well, not every single one.

@@VicenteTorresAliasVits yes as the phrase "Almost never" implies

@@Nuigi12 I was replying to your first post, though.

Yeah. The writers behind that show were obviously huge fans.

Starting to miss those days a lot

@Bulb 66 I think it's due to child labour laws

@Bulb 66 haha alot of teens looked older at the time, flash Thompson is unforgivable tho

It’s a silly complaint though. They were in high school for like 5 seconds. Also, to children high schoolers look like adults.

Spiderman was my introduction into superheroes as well

Same here dude!!!! I grew up with the Raimi movies they were my introduction to the world of superheroes and then even the Webb movies I grew up with as I got older and then the MCU Spidey is where we are now of course. Definitely my favorite Spider-Man is Tom Holland for tons of reasons but one of the main reasons is that he's great at both Peter Parker and Spider-Man!!! While Tobey is my second favorite Spider-Man,he's a great Peter Parker but not a great Spider-Man IMO!!!!! Garfield was a great Spider-Man but not really a great Peter Parker!!!! But like I said about Tom,he's great at both!!!!!!! And of course Spider-Verse is a freaking phenomenal movie!!!!!!

DetroitAlan01 that whole ‘you’re not a real fan’ criticism is dumb and needs to stop imo

Brian Justus - Walker’s very much a true fan. His strong feelings towards this film demonstrate that. However, it also shows his take on Spider-Man’s a bit off the mark. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. It just is what it is.

Which Walker?

Matt 2112 - Doug.

@@nexus7034 No it is true idiot. I can be a fan of Superman and believe that it doesn't matter if he's a murdering maniac like how he is in Man of Steel.

My nephew swore they were graduating from college at the end until I enlightened him.

Where is she

God, Willem’s delivery of that is absolutely chilling, and I hardly say that about anything.

He actually pointed out in an Old vs New on the Lord of the Rings films. He thought the old Frodo was better than the new Frodo ant that is similar to the reason why.

Spider-Man's not really as light hearted like Superman is. The early Lee-Ditko comics actually portrayed him as a hero who goes through a lot of angst, is prone to have temper problems, and tends to raise his voice at people like Jameson.

There's dark, and then there's stupid dark where stupid decisions cause dark situations. Man of Steel is stupid dark, particularly in moments like how Superman didn't lead Zod out of the city like any other iteration of Superman would've done, and instead proceeded to crash through buildings and kill more people that might've survived that whole mess.

@@jacobsmith4428 That's because it was Superman's 1st fight ever, this is the 1st time he ever fought someone let alone someone as strong as him, that wasn't your grandfather's Superman.

@@socklock1957 I'm failing to see that as an argument considering that 1, it's not his first fight, as this is his final bout after dealing with multiple Kryptonians at once alongside a terraforming machine that already reduced a good amount of the city to rubble, and 2, Zod swore his unending need to destroy Superman before the fight began, meaning he would've chased him to the ends of the earth if he just chose to leave the city. There was zero reason for Superman to let the fight go on any further in the city. He could've flown off to a desert, the arctic tundra, or someplace where there was nobody that could die from their fight. Iterations before and after Man of Steel's Superman are all aware of their powers and how much of a danger it is to innocent lives caught in the crossfire, so why does that moment of dumbassery deserve any slack?

It's all about finding a balance. ...and if anyone makes an MCU Thanos joke I will snap your neck.

Personally I think he purposely does that to troll people.

YES!

Email him

Send him an email! Maybe he'll do it...

I've been waiting for this

Nasapackage18 what’s his email?

And he shows his dark jokes how likes, when said in "Freddie Got Fingerd".

Irony!

Hypocrite

Theres has to be a balance between both world beeing sily and bright and dark an serious... And into the spiderverse did it and it won an oscar.

Spiderman is supposed to be cheesy

Mitchell-ized exactly. That’s what the comics were. Campy, cheesy and charming

That cheesiness is part of of Sam Raimi's filmmaking trademark. It's there in his other body of work.

Few???

MyName is Jeff lol really think you need to rethink your definition of a “masterpiece” if that’s what you think of this movie

Hits different after watching across the spider verse

Yeah. Even when I was in a phase where I hated Spider-Man 3, I at least saw some positives towards it. And looking back, I thought it was fine. Not as good as the first two, though. And I know I'm in the minority, but I actually don't think The Amazing Spider-Man movies were that bad. Sure, they were flawed but I was kinda interested in what they were going for. I really like Tom Holland's take on the character, and I really love Into The Spider-Verse.

Also why did the military create a glider suit that looked liked a Halloween custume?

Well it’s military green and has abs and stuff

@@jareththegoblinking3191 Still i don't see the military desinging it.

And Aldo Jones' Bully Maguire, which is the reason Emo Peter is popular now.

Fletcher Reed imagine thinking sjw iron boy jr is better quality spider man films then the rami films

Spencer Phelps oh I see what youre doing. Get them fish

@@TheSTPhelps I don't get what's sjw about the MCU Spider-Man movies

Agreed

@@Lasherluke So? Most of them aren't "first" viewings.

Nostalgia talking if I ever seen it

For me it felt more like the 60's Spider-Man cartoon and I always preferred the 90's cartoon. I prefer Amazing Spider-Man 1, but the best Spider-Man movie is Into the Spider-Verse.

2000s fans: "Maguire!" "Garfield!" "Maguire!" "Garfield!" Me: "Christopher Barnes."

@@thomasrichardson-smith8125 I was born in '99

@@thomasrichardson-smith8125 Excellent choice. That's a great Spider-Man.

Too easy my friend too easy.....

@Isaiah Rucker Chill your beans, what are you five... I mean he's not the only one with small balls IMMA RIGHT!!!

@Isaiah Rucker its called an opinion. Its this thing where others will like, and dislike things that are different from you.

Read the description you goofs.

@@Lasherluke and who cares really?

How has there been hate for this.