I see Curtis Stigers does the soundtrack in this way before he went on to do the theme for Sons of Anarchy!
Before Youtube, making a fan film was no easy undertaking. You might, if you were fortunate, own a massive VHS camcorder, but odds are you didn't own an editing deck for it. Licensed costumes weren't at the same level of detail they are today, and hell, we barely had superhero movies - 1989 was the year Tim Burton's Batman finally gave things a kick in the pants again.
Which makes this fan film all the more impressive. Directly styling itself after the 1967 cartoon, it pricelessly mimics the excessive narration, limited animation poses and cheesiness of those early episodes without ever winking or resorting to deliberately awful acting - this cast is doing the very best job they can at portraying camp without becoming it.
Quite fittingly, filmmaker James Krieg went on to be pretty successful in animation. Be sure to watch the whole thing after the jump.
h/t John Dredge
Tags: Fan Movies, Spider-man
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Post one of these a week and we've found your FFF.
JJJ was kind of awesome tho.
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Two weird things to note: One, this actually seems more like a mash-up of at least two Spider-Man episodes from the Seasons Ralph Bakshi produced after the first...Check out "Criminals in the Clouds" & "King Pinned" for some proof.
Two, & even weirder, I think I actually prefer this to the Bakshi cartoons. I never really liked the Bakshi years that much (vastly preferred the Season One stuff with all the classic Spidey villains), but the way Krieg matches the look almost shot for shot while simultaneously playing tribute to & poking fun at it...Friggin' awesome, man. Just plain awesome.
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@SlyDante777 For research above and beyond the call of duty. I give you a thumbs up.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e00297f57bcf1e5ee7720547bb91825/tumblr_mg0aljunH31rmu6i5o1_250.gif
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I'm shameless spider-man fan Dylan Raishe, and I approve this video.
http://i.imgur.com/jqU93.gif
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Areyou sure this wasn't one of the Electric Company spiderman stories from the 1970's?:
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I loved that, they matched the style and even a lot of frame-for-frame shots with the 60's cartoon.
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Few thoughts:
So, Spiderman helps them win by cheating?
Why is he helping Robinson dress?!
You realize there is 3⁄4 inch tape of this as well! Not to mention outtakes and just different scenes.
@LYT @Someguy 3/4 inch tape is what we use to (and some places still do) video tape and play videos on for TV stations. You would also use them with editing drives. VHS (we use to ) refer to as 1/2 inch tape. Here is a picture of the tape and drive.
http://www.suchmedia.com/assets/images/umatic-tape.jpg
There is horrible blackmail videos of me floating around out there on the same format. I keep praying the format dies completely before someone finds it and gets it to youtube.
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And this is why I refuse to watch the new Spiderman, that's not his story - this is his story, he uses his powers to help out people and a society that constantly dumps on him as Parker but generally admires and respects Spiderman. When you take that away from him he is generic super hero dude
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@Gallen_Dugall It is disturbing to think that this basic story line concept seems to be out of reach of modern day Hollywood and some current Comic Book writers.
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@Someguy @Gallen_Dugall technically they changed it because the new "Spiderman" fits focus group demographics better
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I figured it might be futile to post anything after the Star Wars news...but seriously, hilarious movie here.
