Spider-Manic Monday #5--The Great Coincidence Machine

Some minor but spoilerish points about the brand-spanking new Amazing Spider-Man movie (which I thought was pretty good). So, if you ain't seen in yet, come back later, OK?

Spoilers commence after the 4 promo posters...




Look, I'm the last guy to insist that a movie be slavishly identical to the comic books.

And I understand that the constraints of a 2-hour movie require certain storytelling short-cuts that you might not need in a weekly TV show or a monthly comic.

But really, screenwriters James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves...do you expect us to believe a) Richard Parker worked at Oscorp AND b) that Peter Parker's dad "created" the genetic hybrid spider that bit Peter AND c) That same spider was also responsible for the stronger-than-steel "super-silk" that Peter uses to make his webbing AND d) that Curt Connors also worked at Oscorp, and was Richard Parker's "partner," and was perhaps responsible for his disappearance/death AND e) Richard Parker developed the equation that led to the Lizard formula AND f) that Gwen Stacy had an internship at Oscorp under Connors??

For the next movie, why not just have the Daily Bugle headquarters in the Oscorp building, AND Max Dillon employed as an electrician there, AND Otto Octavious a scientist there (who was also buddies with Richard Parker), and...

An awful lot of coincidences going on there, is all I'm saying.

Also, how much does a NYPD Captain earn? Because the Stacys' crib is pretty damn swank...

Also, a 17 year-old high school intern, granted a very smart young lady, has access to every piece of technology and every top-secret formula at the world's biggest bio-tech company? Even after her boss gets fired?

Also, we're fighting a doctor who has experienced terrible results from an inadequately tested serum, and your solution is to expose everyone in lower Manhattan to an even-less tested antidote? There are no possible side-effects from everyone inhaling these gene-altering snowflakes??

Like I said, pretty entertaining movie...just don't think about it after it's over...