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Michael Hatton
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:01am \| IP Logged \| 1

Okay I am not trying to defend the organic web shooters. They should have just left things the way they were. But I never liked one of the arguments against it, the one that said that the web would have to come out of his butt if they were organic.

This link diminishes that argument somewhat.

Tarantulas Produce Silk From Their Feet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201410.ht m

Anyway, I still like the mechanical web shooters.

Edited by Michael Hatton on 05 August 2009 at 2:42pm

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Sam Karns
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:25am \| IP Logged \| 2

I get the chills when Tobey gets the urge to squirt the other character's mouths or worse yet their faces. Ewwww.

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Pascal LISE
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:25am \| IP Logged \| 3

Nice find !
I'm 100% for the mechanical shooters but I find hair splitting geeks annoying at times.

How come they could forget we're talking about a fictional character with the
proportional strength and surface climbing hability of a spider (!) in the first place?

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David Kingsley Kingsley
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:40am \| IP Logged \| 4

Mechanical webshooters just seem a lot cooler. That's the only adjective I can think of to explain it.

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Derek Rogers
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:46am \| IP Logged \| 5

If they used mechanical webshooters in the movie, that would have established Peter Parker as a genius. In no way, do I get the impression that Tobey Maguire is a genius - he just seems like a dork that got super powers.

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Paulo Pereira
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:53am \| IP Logged \| 6

Pascal wrote:

How come they could forget we're talking about a fictional character with the proportional strength and surface climbing hability of a spider (!) in the first place?

More to the point, why did Raimi forget?

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Kevin Hagerman
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 11:54am \| IP Logged \| 7

Organic's got nothing on invented. Viva science!

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Bill Mimbu
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 12:09pm \| IP Logged \| 8

Jack Black's take on Spiderman's organic webshooters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-NqU3_Cv8

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Pascal LISE
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 12:11pm \| IP Logged \| 9

Paulo said :
"More to the point, why did Raimi forget?"

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Mebbe because a teenage inventing a mechanical web shooter from scratch
doesn't necessarily make more sense?

Without question I'll go for the original and I complained about Raimi
changing this in the movie but I find ridiculous the way some people
argumented against it.

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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 12:17pm \| IP Logged \| 10

Giving Spider-Man organic webbing in the movie was a needless change
that takes away from an important aspect of the character.

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Jeff Gillmer
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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 12:25pm \| IP Logged \| 11

But with mechanical web shooters, we would have missed out on the kewl sceen of Flash being hit with the lunch tray!

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Posted: 05 August 2009 at 2:00pm \| IP Logged \| 12

Okay --- here's the dead horse for you to flog.

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