Spiderman: The Saving Private Ryan Disease

[MarkG]

both good movies with solid stories, acting, direction, "moral messages", etc etc

why on earth do you get to see the american flag in the end???

there is no connection with the story, you could have spiderman jump around the building of london or french soldiers trying to save private lui!

and no, i wont use the word propaganda. i wont speak about undercover messages of the secret world goverment
i WILL do that unless some comes up with some decent explanation...

[monolith94]

Having not seen the movie, I'll hazard a guess...

Perhaps because it's set in New York City???

[Tuberski]

Re: Spiderman: The Saving Private Ryan Disease

Originally posted by MarkG
both good movies with solid stories, acting, direction, "moral messages", etc etc

why on earth do you get to see the american flag in the end???

there is no connection with the story, you could have spiderman jump around the building of london or french soldiers trying to save private lui!

and no, i wont use the word propaganda. i wont speak about undercover messages of the secret world goverment
i WILL do that unless some comes up with some decent explanation...

Would you have a problem if it was the Greek flag?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by monolith94
Perhaps because it's set in New York City???

Shh! He wants it to be a Greek Flag.

[Kyle]

To do away with any crazy notion that Greek, German, Icelandic, etc, spiders can make one into a superbeing.

If you want to have your DNA changed by a wrecklessly unkept, irradiated spider, you need to come to the US.

[MarkG]

Perhaps because it's set in New York City???

so what? should woody alen do the same in his movies?

Would you have a problem if it was the Greek flag?

i cant say, i dont remember any greek movies with a proudly waving greek flag in the end

[DinoDoc]

Why not have an American flag, Mark? Did it offend you to see it?

[MarkG]

even more, it was made as if someone thought: "ok, so how can we get an american flag in the end?"
the movie ends, spiderman walks away living JM behind and then we see a 10-second computer generated scene with spiderman jumping around in new york ending in on the top of a building with the flag.....

[MarkG]

Why not have an American flag, Mark?

why HAVE one? what does a national symbol have to do with a story about a boy, his super powers and a girl??????

Did it offend you to see it?

i have no clue on the intend therefore i can not be offended

[Lefty Scaevola]

Well, it could have ended with a giant product placement ad for say, Starbucks, count your blessings.

[Sprayber]

Because to be an American hero you have to somehow pay respect to the American flag.. Anyone remember one of the Superman movies where superman flys through the air with an american flag?

This is elementry hero making MarkG.

Super powers + Honest clean cut face + Patriotism

When we need villians, we look for

Bald guys
Foreign(English or Russian are the most popular)

[MarkG]

it could have ended with a giant product placement ad for say, Starbucks

at least in that case i would be sure of the intention

[MarkG]

Anyone remember one of the Superman movies where superman flys through the air with an american flag?

but that was 25 years ago!!

and i dont think the spiderman stories ever had anything to do with patriotism...

[MarkG]

btw, how can you have a superhero movie with a patriotic ending as well as an ultra-sexy rainy scene(you know which one i'm talking about ) most probably not suitable for kids?? ;D

[Imran Siddiqui]

Um... it's New York... and what happened in New York on September 11th? Oh yeah!!