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[spookyfish]

Gotta love that Raimi's crazy choices

Pretty sure this was Sony's push, as she was their artist at the time and had an album coming out a few weeks/months after this.

The album sold crappily, if I remember right.

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

Maybe that how all women look at you?

Well yeah, but I meant aside from that.

She kind of reminds me of Isla Fisher.

I guess I can sort of see that, but there's someone that's a spitting image of her. Kind of annoying me that I can figure it out.

 

[foxuzamaki]

man...I was 11 when the 1st spooderman came out

 

[Ridley327]

Because Jim Carrey is/was a giant fan.

I think the TV version of Ace Ventura actually has a longer scene featuring the band, where Ace crowd-surfs and stuff.

I'm still endlessly amused that he was able to get a band like that in a mainstream film.

 

[usea]

The scene at the end is much worse. Spiderman swings around the city for no reason and lands on a flagpole which holds a giant american flag. This was pretty soon after 9/11 and they only added that shit so people would go "fuck yeah, 'murica"

Pissed me off to no end.

http://youtu.be/g5QxUHCKqMU?t=3m46s

 

[Recon]

I'm still pissed we havnt had a great Spider-Man movie. Raimi's films were good at the time, but the cheesiness doesn't age well, at least for me. And while I loved Garfield's portrayal, that film was even dumber than the previous version. Maybe someday...

 

[Liamario]

OP, while I agree with your sentiment, in the particular instance of Macy Gray; there was a parade on and it's not unusual to see musical acts performing. So, why not have Macy Gray there instead of some generic act. She at the very least makes the parade more believeable.

 

[Rayis]

I don't know why everyone says she can't sing, she CAN sing (she's not amazing but does have singing talent) she just has a VERY unfortunate ultra raspy singing voice which is not to everyone's taste, I personally like it cuz she's unique and I Try is a good song

 

[usea]

OP, while I agree with your sentiment, in the particular instance of Macy Gray; there was a parade on and it's not unusual to see musical acts performing. So, why not have Macy Gray there instead of some generic act. She at the very least makes the parade more believeable.

It's not that she's there, it's that they focus on her and say her name and stuff. Serves no point in the movie other than blatant product placement.

Like, if the main character turns to the camera and says "I sure do love McDonalds" while chomping down on a big mac.

 

[acrid]

At the time of Spider-Man's release, I worked for Cingular Wireless (formerly Bellsouth Mobility, then AT&T, now Verizon). They had this stupid ass little orange"Jack" as their mascot. Cingular paid GOBS of money to have "Jack" featured for about 1.5 seconds in the movie- it's right around the time Macy Gray makes her appearance too. Goblin comes swooping in on his glider and you can see the stupid ass "Jack" in the background.

We had to celebrate this shit for a damn week. It was nauseating. It's real hard to be happy about your corporate mascot appearing in a movie when you hate the company to begin with, and you actually have people calling the cell phone customer service/tech support line to bitch about why the company spent the money to have the mascot appear in the movie.

 

[User 100115]

"Oh boy, I get to see another shitty band that takes up almost as much screen time as the actual characters"

I thought Buffy used the bands/music really well. They used songs that fit the episode, and even incorporated the bands into the show ("I hate vampire towns.")

 

[AgentOtaku]

WONDERFUL OP and wholeheartedly concur!

 

[DopeToast]

It is pretty weird, but it seems harmless enough, and doesn't really break up the movie that much. I've honestly never thought much about it until now, and I love the first Spider-Man movie.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Macy Gray was probably signed with Sony at the time. Dat cross market synergy.

It also has the PS3 font.

Synergy.

 

[Woody Invincible]

On the other side of the spectrum, Eurotrip had the best inclusion of a song by Lustra that made the movie bearable.

 

[Currygan]

the first Spiderman movie is truly dreadful, but it was a success and made Spiderman 2 a reality, which I couldn't be more thanful for

 

[Powdered Toastman]

I liked the Offspring in Idle Hands

 

[D.Lo]

Nickleback was much worse.
Such an ugly, ugly man and his band that Nickleback guy.

 

[JB1981]

Haha great OP

 

[PhantomZone]

It looks ridiculous now, but at the time i didn't mind.

 

[Zee-Row]

The Spiderman movies always had horrible background actors. They ruined the mood.

 

[spats]

"Oh boy, I get to see another shitty band that takes up almost as much screen time as the actual characters"

I've been watching through this lately and my GOD this show has some of the shittiest artists playing in it.