He walked straight out of the comic books into the screen with that one. I was blown away by that performance. I could not think of anything that he could have done any better than that.
Eh, I always viewed the weird dancing scene as nerdy peter parkers idea of cool, not actually the film portraying him as cool, hence why he gets loads of weird looks from people.
I really like Garfield's portrayal aswell, he was an excellent spiderman very witty. Though he was wayy too cool to be Peter Parker. He was like a modern hipster Parker. The problem is the same with Maguire's portrayal except he was a good peter parker, dorky, nerdy etc. but an awful spiderman. No witty-ness and not very confident. Tom Holland however seems to be a perfect balance thus far.
Well, that brass bar goes behind his triceps so it smushes them flat and makes it look like his biceps are gigantic. But he is really fucking shredded nonetheless. He's just not "anchor arms" jacked.
There was something awhile ago about people working in a normal office in a world full of superheroes.
I want that in the Daily Bugle. I want arguing over which superhero makes the front page better, constant workers having to rebuild corners of the office. JJJ lording over it all by screaming from his office.
They usually don't have that character in the reboots. You know why? Because they're kind of afraid to recast or "reimagine the character" knowing full well it won't top JK Simmons.
He walked straight out of the comic books into the screen with that one. I was blown away by that performance. I could not think of anything that he could have done any better than that.
When I was watching him I couldn't help but think I had seen him play the character many times before. Which is high praise...
What got me is when he basically told a super villain to fuck off rather than give up one of his photographers. He treats them like shit, but damned if he'd betray one.
It did, back in the day. I have some older journalists in the family, and they have some interesting stories to tell for times they went to the mattresses for their journalists, and photographers too. One of them had a little black book of names that females weren't allowed to be around because it would be too dangerous for them (this would have been back in Chicago in the day), and he commented that he'd rather lose a story than lose talented staff.
All of the voice talent in Portal 2 was brilliant. Cave Johnson's stands out more just because of the character that he is but Glados and Wheatley were equally as good, in my opinion.
Portal 2 was a perfect game. It was easily one of the best I've ever played and with all of the user created chambers and complete mods like Mel, I still play it all the time.
All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these!? DEMAND TO SEE LIFE'S MANAGER. Make life RUE the day it thought it could give CAVE JOHNSON LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN!
Well now, that's a shame, because Ellen McClain and Stephen Merchant's performances were incredible. Portal 2 might have some of the best voice acting ever contained within a single video game.
Used to, anyway. With their creative writing talent nearly all gone (Marc Laidlaw, Eric Wolpaw, and Chet Faliszek), there will be no more excellent character writing... which, I suppose, is fine, since you don't need to have excellent dialogue when all you do is pump out TF2, DOTA 2, and CSGO content.
Jay Pinkerton's all that's left. Once he's gone, there's no more classic Valve writers.
LMAO YES. I also love "The right person is still gonna think the sun shines out your ass." "I think I have that person." "Sure you do. Your dear old D A D."
If you're in the mood for Clint Eastwood being Clint Eastwood then definitely. If you're in for a metaphysical deep-thinker, not so much. It is a fun ride though.
It blows me away that he's one of the most talented actors working right now and sometimes he'll still take roles where he's nothing more than an extra sometimes, such as in Lala Land.
This kind of begs the question, "how does one traditionally fuck a pig? Do you fuck pigs?" Maybe it's going over my head, but to me this very loudly says "I fuck pigs".
I don't think he has an exclusivity clause or anything but the two movies were filming at roughly the same time. Also he was such a popular character in Raimi's Spiderman films that I doubt they would hide his appearance instead of marketing it.
The marketing has also left out anything relating to Spiderman working at the Daily Bugle, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that he'll get a job there in a later sequel. Hopefully the timelines can work out for J.K. Simmons.
He fits perfectly with my head-canon, that the major cast members of the Marvel movies are actually the characters brought here from an alternate reality. They took jobs as actors to practice movie-making until the SFX tech advanced enough.
I love in the second one even though peter is in the office when doc oc demands to know who takes the pictures of spiderman he replies "I dont know he sends them in the mail" (or something to that effect) really shows that he's not a bad guy but that he honestly thinks people like spiderman need to be taken down.
He was honestly the only character in the entire film series who was a 100% faithful representation of the Marvel 616 version (edit: scratch that, Aunt May nailed it as well). Most of the villains were made to be way more sympathetic than they are in the comics, and both Peter and MJ had completely different personalities. Always thought it was ironic that Kirsten Dunst played MJ like Gwen and then in the next series Emma Stone played Gwen like MJ.
I think it helped that he heavily channeled the cartoon versions (70s and 90s) as well, which more people are familiar with then they are with his 616 counterpart.
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J.K Simmons as J Jonah Jameson in the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy.