Talk:Spider-Man 2

message: What metal are Doc Ock's tentacles made out of in the movie?
:I'm not sure.  I think they are specified as non-magnetic though. RJFJR 22:43, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
::I remember in an old Spider-Man comic that they were made out of Adamantium. Scott197827 07/02/2006
::If you read the article for Doctor Octopus#Film, in the Film section it says it was defintely NOT Adamantium: "Also the metal that they are constructed from is not adamantium." --rjcuk 23:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doc Ock's tentacles 

message: Since we have a spoiler template above the plot summary should it be below everything that isn't a spoiler except external links? RJFJR 22:43, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think that would be neccessary. If it doesn't give away the end of the film, then you won't need the spoiler template above it. Graham P. 5:53, 31 March 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: placement of plot summary

message: Can anyone explain why I am unable to view the photos that have been placed on this page? They all have X's in the upper left-hand corners. Scorpionman 02:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The images are loading properly; if you can't see them, it's a problem on your end. There are, however, too many images in this article in my opinion. dc 11:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pictures 

message: Is all of the information about the budget really neccesary? 67.142.130.34 00:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Budget

message: As you may know, there is a fight scene between Doc Oc and Spidy on the side of a building. Is this a reference to the episode "The Terrible Triump of Doctor Octopus" in the 1967 TV cartoons? 
In both shows...
:Image:SpidySplat.jpg
* Oc, in the cartoon, holds Spidy up with his tentacles. In the movie, right before the battle, Oc ensnares Spidy in like manner.
* Spider-Man is tossed through a window.
* Spidy splats web on Oc's glasses.
* Aunt May (in the movie) and a bomb known as 'The Nullifier' (in the cartoon) are threatened to be dropped to the city streets while the SuperHumen are on diffrent buildings.
* Oc barely gets away while Spidy is trying to save the innocent (the nearby gawkers and Aunt May in the cartoon and the movie, respectivly). 
* And, of course, they were both fought atop two buildings.
--71.118.168.253 08:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Building Battle 

message: I've just seen the movie again and i looked carefully for the scene where john jameson is wearing the medallion with the moon ruby and i couldn't find it.. is it really in the movie?? in which scene exactly? --PASSIVE (Talk|E-Mail) 21:43, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  john jameson wearing the medallion... 

message: Hey, Um I'd hate to ask. But does anyone know where I can download the trailer in Real Media or Windows format? --UnDeRsCoRe 13:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spider-Man Trailer Download 

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:Citation for use. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 01:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for use 

message: Spider-Man 2 opened in the United States on June 30, 2004 and grossed $40.4 million in its first day; this was the second highest opening day, after The Matrix Reloaded, just inching out over the first Spider-Man's opening day take of $39.4 million.
40.4 or 39.4 on opening day?? Berserkerz Crit 19:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This should help. Reloaded - 42.5, Spidey 2 - 40.4, Spidey 1 - 43.6. Current holder Pirates 2 - 55.8. Spidey 2 is currently 9th on the opening day records.   BIGNOLE    (Question?)  (What I do)  19:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Which is which

message: Somehow i don't get it, what is Doc Oc's Motivation for re-doing the Experiment? I's not written in the Plot-Summary... I just watched the movie, but somehow i don't get it...
:Read Doctor Octopus#Film. --rjcuk 23:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, it is written there that the AI in the tentacles took over his brain and forced him to do it. That much i already knew. Maybe i should have asked the question differently: Why do the tentacles "want" to re-do the experiment...? 88.65.102.243 20:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The sole reason for existence of these tentacles is exactly that experiment. They know no other goal than doing it. They've got intelligence - almost personality, I would even say. --Cyberman TM (talk) 22:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doc Oc's Motivation? 

message: *Tobey Maguire's back problems, which set the film's production back several months, were also referenced in the film itself. When Peter Parker tries to leap off of a building, he falls to the ground in an alleyway. When he stands he winces crying "My back! My back!". As clarified by both Raimi and Maguire, the line was not initially poking fun at Maguire's problems - it was simply a line gag (ex. "I'm back! I'm back! My back! My back!"). But once Raimi heard about Maguire's back problems he was considering taking the line out of the movie, but Maguire wanted to do it so Raimi left it in.The "Bonus Material" DVD of Spider-Man 2
*The name of Peter's landlord, "Ditkovitch", was an obvious hat-tip to Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko.
*Spider-Man creator Stan Lee makes yet another cameo appearance (as he did in Spider-Man, and nearly every other Marvel film) during Spidey's first battle with Doc Ock. 
*Phil LaMarr appears as an extra in the movie. He can be seen in the train.  The appearance is not credited.
*Tobey Maguire's younger half-brothers also appear in the train sequence as the young boys who hand Peter Parker his discarded Spider-Man mask.  Neither is credited.
*Spider-Man 2 is the first movie to be released in UMD format for the PSP. The first one million copies of the U.S. PSP included the movie free.
*The scene in which J. K. Simmons (as J. Jonah Jameson) shouts "Spider-Man was... A THIEF!" caused much hilarity around the set.  Simmons was wearing false teeth for Jameson's trademark scrooge smile, and whenever he tried to form the "TH" he spat out his false teeth.  These scenes can be seen on the blooper reel of the DVD.
*Bruce Campbell, the star of Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy makes a cameo appearance as a theater doorman who won't let Peter Parker into the theater.
*There is a cameo of Queer as Folk star Hal Sparks as the elevator passenger Spidey speaks with while having to take the elevator when he finds his powers weakened. Hal Sparks character in Queer as Folk is a comic book fanatic.
* It was the first film with over 4,000 theaters for an opening day and second for overall counts. 
* Willem Dafoe enjoyed working on the first film so much that he offered to return for the sequel, so long as Raimi could write him in somewhere. Raimi obliged with his request, and Norman Osborn's cameo scene was the end result. 
*Film director John Landis has a cameo appearance in the scene in which Doctor Octopus is in the hospital after the accident.
*Sam Raimi was the second student to hit Peter with his back pack,which could been seen on the gag reel of the Spider-Man(2)  DVD.
*Donnell Rawlings has a minor role in the beginning when Peter Parker delivers the pizzas.
*Dan Hicks makes a cameo appearance as one of the passengers on the runaway train. Dan Hicks played the character Jake in another Sam Raimi film, Evil Dead 2.
*In the commentary Sam Raimi says that the hospital scene was the first scene they started filming and the first one to be done.
*In an easter egg on the second disk of the DVD version of the movie, (You must select the "Making the Amazing" option and then push Up on your remote control. Doctor Octopus's arm should be highlighted in a green color) Willem Dafoe makes a surprise cameo as he practices the first fusion experiment scene in Alfred Molina's place, much to Molina's surprise and delight.
*In another easter egg, on the second disk of the film, (You must select the "Gallery" option from the main menu and then push Left on your remote control. Spiderman's head should be expressing that he is using his "Spidey Senses") shows Alfred Molina doing a highly entertaining skit from the broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.
*A story arc of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series, called "Hollywood", was inspired by the film.
Exported from article for possible re-integration into the rest of the article. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 18:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia 

message: Comment I think that Spider-Man 2.1 should be merged into Spider-Man 2.  This is because
**The article is short.
**It is Spider-Man 2 with extras.  Other re-releases (such as Lord of the Rings Extended Editions) have been put in their original articles. Why should 2.1  get its own article.
**The section in Spider-Man 2 is sufficient for the re-release.
SpecialWindler 20:46, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Spider-Man 2.1]] 

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Alientraveller 20:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations for use 

message: "The film used the Spydercam to a greater degree" This is the first and only place this is mentioned in the article.  Can we get a definition here? --Knulclunk 04:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you talking about? Alientraveller 15:53, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spydercam 

message: * "developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, David Koepp and Michael Chabon" - "developed"? where these four gentlemen involved in script writing or producing? please clarify. also, please provide details of the producers of the movie in the lead para
* "The film was released on June 30, 2004 in the United States, and received mostly positive reviews from critics. It went on to earn over $373.5 million in the US, and $783 million worldwide." - did the film debut in US? I thought it opened in Japan a few days before US. Also, with two-third of the revenue coming from worldwide market, the lead para should focus on the international markets as well
* "The film's success led to another sequel, Spider-Man 3." - the sentence implies that the crew had not planned for a third movie and based on the success of the movie, they decided to take one more. if this is the case, please provide reference in the lead para or the main article
* The lead para needs info on the cost of the movie.
* "Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire)" - remove wikilink for Tobey
* "and Peter Parker is finding his " - remove wikilink for peter parker
* "J. Jonah Jameson names him " - add wikilink for Jonah Jameson
* "M.J. is planning to marry John Jameson" - provide wikilink to john jameson as well as a reference that he is jonah's son
* "M.J. is planning to marry John Jameson and Harry lashes out at him in a drunken rage due to his loyalty to Spider-Man" - sounds as if Harry lashes out at John. sentence needs copyedit
* be consistent in using either "Doctor Octopus", "Octavius", "Doc Ock" or "Ock" in the second and third para of the plot section
* In the cast section, remove wikilinks for people/characters that have wikilinks already
* "In April 2002, Sony had hired " - sony needs wikilink and a mention as production house in the lead para
* " also felt he had the physicality" - is physicality a word?
* "Filming was still going after Christmas 2003.[15]" - needs copyedit. use past tense
* "Danny Elfman returned to compose the music for Spider-Man 2 and described his experience on the film as miserable.[18]" - provide a summary of why Danny felt his experience was miserable
In summary, most of the changes are copyedits and hence i am going to move it to GA. I believe that the article needs more depth esp in the production side for it to make it to FA, though the coverage is OK at GA level. --Kalyan 10:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review comments 

message: In the article, there is the comic panel that depicts Peter walking away from the Spider-Man suit in a garbage can, and the shot from the film that recreates the scene. However, could we get a picture that puts the two pictures side-by-side? I think that would help in seeing how the scene was recreated. What I'm thinking, basically, is merge the two pictures. Anybody else think this is a good idea? Anakinjmt 01:09, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture comparison 

message: Many recent films articles (i.e. Into the Wild, Eastern Promises, No Country for Old Men) include a section chronicling their appearance on critic's year end lists. Spider-Man 2 has appeared on at least six such lists. If anyone would like to add such a section, the following link could serve as a reference.
http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2004/toptens.shtml
S. Luke 04:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top 10 Lists 

message: I've removed the category "2000s drama films". I do not believe it fits the category. Any comments? Andrzejbanas (talk) 19:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Spider-Man films actually have more dialogue and in-depth character development than action itself. That counts strongly. Chigurgh (talk) 21:36, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but this also has a character who has mechanical arms, a character who stops a runaway train and a scene involving a car being flung right through a window. You wouldn't find this in let's say, A Beautiful Mind. Andrzejbanas (talk) 21:58, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is no further discussion, I'll remove this category. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:45, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, Inglourious Basterds also has more dialogue than adventure. You wouldn't find this in let's say, Indiana Jones, The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings.201.68.108.57 (talk) 18:49, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Drama means dramatic, Spider-Man series are dramatic action films, Andrzejbanas is confusing drama with oscar-winner; If Die Hard is an action thriller, the suspense in die hard is separated from the action of die hard, but that doesn't make it less an action thriller. Spider-Man 2 is a drama with action sequences, 99% of it is dialogue, and 1% is that small action scene on the trainside. Inglourious Basterds has lots of dialogues, things not in common with real adventure films like Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings. LordXVMon (talk) 09:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't just repeat arguments against me through different user names. It's not helping your case. ;) Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Yes I understand that's your opinion, but this is talking about Drama Films in the Spider-Man article, Not Chuck Norris. Please do not mention anything not related to a subject in the 'Talk' page. MasterWolf0928-Æthelwulf (talk) 14:40, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Drama film

message: I don't know much about editing these articles, but the cast descriptions are all screwed up.  Someone really needs to fix this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.91.126.157 (talk) 15:21, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cast 

message: I may be missing someone from the list of credits,but who plays Peter Parker's landlord's daughter,the girl that invites him into her apt. for a piece of cake?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68left (talk • contribs) 13:28, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is the actress that plays Peter Parker's landlord's daughter? 

message: Danny Elfman's few scores in the film were rejected, Christopher Young did most of the soundtrack for the film and he was uncredited somehow... Kade Klodt (talk) 01:31, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christopher Young's additional score 

message: Shouldn't there be a panel for it to what scenes were add to the movie either in the plot or at least it's own panel  Underdog0123 (talk) 20:24, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended edition  

message: There's a 14 or 15 year old rumor that gets brought up once in a blue moon, that the Punisher made a cameo appearance in the film, but the only thing these people are basing that on is that the guy somewhat looks like Thomas Jane (opinion) and is wearing all black... that's it. But now there saying it was his stunt double from the film, but it's never been proven from anyone, no "quotes" or statements, they claim it's from a Wizard Magazine and the audio commentary, but after 14 or 15 years, no one has quotes what they've said. Story wise it makes no sense, also, Sony didn't own the rights to use the character, they would have gotten sued by Lionsgate. I want see the statements from the filmmakers and I want to hear an audio recording from the commentary, is that too much to ask for????108.208.137.67 (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This would qualify as a somewhat extraordinary claim, so extraordinary evidence would be needed in order for it to be included. For what it's worth, I've searched for reliable online sources that spoke on the matter, but I couldn't find any. I've found, however, two statements, one in the IMDb trivia section on Spider-Man 2, and one in a WhatCulture article, both questionable sources, but even these two say the rumor is false. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/trivia At first, WhatCulture seems to confirm the rumor:  But the rumor is actually refuted later in the same paragraph: https://whatculture.com/film/8-brilliant-film-cameos-characters-completely-wrong-series?page=2 Let it be clear that neither of these sources can be used in the article. El Millo (talk) 04:45, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cameo 

message: Of course, it is one of the best movies of all time!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CathyF.13 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Did you know nomination

message: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2akmkf/roger_ebert_calls_spiderman_2_the_best_superhero/
Can we add this in legacy section. Ashokkumar047 (talk) 17:03, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roger Ebert calls Spiderman 2 the best superhero movie he's ever seen 

message: The claim that the film is regarded as one of the best superhero movies of all time isn’t valid. It’s using old lists from 2014 and 2011 as well as a user poll that are long outdated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2#cite_note-11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fearthereaper3 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  best claim 

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