Spider-Man 2 (2004) Full Movie Breakdown! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

welcome back to new rockstars I'm Erik Bosse in Sam Raimi's spider-man two triumphs by kicking its hero's ass tobey maguire takes such a beating in this film you just want to scream in frustration with everyone else frustration is exactly what makes spider-man 2 my favorite Spidey film movie that like The Dark Knight inspired younger me to spend my adulthood obsessively re-watch its superhero movies which is why I was stoked a month ago when you guys voted these movies your top requests to re-explore so let's dad back into spider-man 2 scene-by-scene hell frame-by-frame for all the Easter eggs cameos and subtle filmmaking details that you might have missed it's ok I missed some of these at first - here we go the opening titles feature comic book imagery recapping the first film with the artwork by the great Alex Ross some of rasa's spider-man comic art makes subtle cameos later the police photos and Harry Osborn's research on spider-man and we transition from Ross's brushstrokes of MJ's eyes to what we think is her face but what is actually a misdirect perfume billboard taunting Peter Parker with unattainable love this face bookends the film as its closing shot the woman Peter must turn his back to in order to be the hero the responsibility of his great power another visual example of Peters back turned to MJ the flower stand where he later buys flowers for MJ is behind him here next door to his new job at Jews Pizza Pizza time comedian aasif Mandvi plays mr. Z's cool if you actually watch this movie slowly you see how they snuck in another haunting MJ perfume ad on the bus Peter nearly hits he cannot escape her spell Show comedian Donnell Rawlings shows up and the guy who steals a slice of not deep-dish pizza is a Scott Spiegel co-writer of Evil Dead 2 with Sam Raimi he shows up in a jazz club in the next movie god I'm sorry you had to be there for that and despite Peters charming greeting Pizza time future bones star Emily Deschanel holds them to the 29 minute guarantee the phone number on his helmet sticker is the real phone number for Joe's pizza in New York and yes the address on Bleecker Street is nearby one-77 a Bleecker Street these sanctum sanctorum residence of dr. strange whom according to gender jameson exists in this movies universe dr. strange that's pretty good it's taken Peter gets back-to-back sacks [Music] you're fired hello you're fired yeah Peter cannot catch a break in this film and I cannot think of a superhero movie that's so tortures it's hero with failure after failure in all kinds of little ways now I'm sure in Infinity Ward they lose half of everyone in a Dark Knight he lose it's right raw but those losses are balanced out by sexy wins throughout the rest of those movies there's nothing sexy about spider-man - this guy's broke humiliated impotent any when he eats out as an asterisk and this is all Raimi showing how heroism is pain now Peter tries to hold off selling Jameson a Spidey photo until all right well the picture of a rancid chicken there's a headline food poisoning scare sweep city it's a boot that poisoned I'm a little nauseous yeah all right mr. Jameson yeah Peter has to give in to stop fake news from sparking a citywide panic it's also cuz it's broke but you know he tried here the second [ __ ] Columbia students who smack him is a cameo by Sam Raimi himself and we made dr. Conners after his mention in the first film Curt Connors is an amputee and it was meant to set him up in a future film to try to regrow his arm and become the lizard and yeah over a year ago some fans spotted how Peter has to duct tape his backpack strap to keep it all together it's not exactly mind-blowing though because as a high school student 2004 this is just something we all tried to do to look cool who's the era of whiteout messages and hold duct-tape prom suits so weird time now Aunt May rubs in the guilt about Uncle Ben two years next month says he was taken oof taken passive voice not since that mugger shot him but since he was taken from me by the universe and all the [ __ ] bad Samaritans in it what is that he wasn't you Peters landlord is mr. dick ovitch ramie has always said Ditko bitch's name was a nod to spider-man co-creator Steve Ditko and in Peters flat the MJ photo behind him is not one of the photos he took of MJ on the field trip pass has been incorrectly stated but is actually a promo set photo of Kirsten Dunst from the first film however you can actually see one of the field trip photos later pinned to his mirror the great Alfred Molina plays dr. Otto Octavius and Daniel Dae Kim plays his assistant now Peter and Otto trade nerdy references did Bernoulli sleep before he found the curves of quickest descent actually that can afford my high school geometry teacher was obsessed with this line and he explained how Peter is actually referencing the physics of his own swing Bernoulli proposed that the fastest way to get from A to B could actually be a curved motion using the forces of gravity and then a month ago when I talked about Tom Holland Peter applying classroom physics and homecoming some EU tweeted me a reddit post saying yeah Toby did the same thing but but as the comments of that post and my geometry teacher correctly explained or Bernoulli's per Kista Crone to apply Peters web length would have to change as he swings which it usually doesn't it's a taut radius of a circle yet however when I actually rewatched this movie slowly later Peter does use the elasticity of his web it's fluctuating lengths due to gravity to slingshot the Clocktower hand back at otto he has his mentor with the physics they previously geeked out over to punch his clock checkmate really to be honest math was not my strong suit I was more of a Rosie and I was trying to explain the theory of relativity and Rosie was trying to explain TS Eliot TS Eliot famously ended his 1925 poem The Hollow Men with the wine this is the way the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper and during the Cold War this poem was considered eerily prophetic for its relevance to nuclear annihilation similar fusion tech that spells out octavius's doom which thankfully for the city comes not with a bang but with a whimper and speaking of a peel it in J's play is Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest which is about a man living a double life the name ernest itself being a pun about his lack of earnestness and you probably knows how the dialogue obviously reflects Peter and MJ situation then you think we should forgive them yes I mean no I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time that would be hypocrisy what did he actually read this play this insincerity theme doesn't stop with the guy every character in the play is full of it and just like how this metaphor is really about MJ whose attraction to Peter is really based on his mysterious unknowns huge red flags not a deal-breaker hmmmm now Peters late after stopping a chasey dangles the two criminals from the light pole right beside a chandelier store because you know they're hanging from the light like they're like chandeliers and if you get it Sam Rainey collaborator Bruce Campbell cameos again as he snooty uh sure no one will be seated after the doors are closed helps maintain the illusion Ruth played the wrestling announcer in the first film and the restaurant hosting a third much speculation that he was being set up as wannabe actor Mysterio there's actually concept art drawn out for a scrapped fourth Raimi film that would have opened with spider-man booking Mysterio two years ago fans spotted that you can see how Peter briefly considers webbing that huh sure the real detail behind this is that this movie's early script draft and novelization included Peter actually with a nut Bruce Campbell within only making it into the play for the final scene so we still missed it outside there's this violin busker playing the 60s vitamin theme and the show poster behind MJ raves Jay Fraser is especially effective a nod to John Fraser who was part of the team who won an Oscar for their special effects work on the film Peter shares an elevator with Hal sparks phil lamarr actually auditioned for this cameo he ended up doing an uncredited cameo on the train now Malina nicknamed the dock arms Larry Harry Moe and Flo Flo was a top right one used for more delicate functions like handling the tritium and later removing the sunglasses light in a cigar and at the base of this incredibly dangerous fusion reaction in the middle of a city is a pool of water now this is used probably as a coolant for telling his future solution to the problem later the river chronic everything goes wrong the moment RT Vyas invokes Icarus the power of the Sun in the palm of my hand okay now his handle oozes its contents these second he tries to reassure everyone watch zipping into the fusion because peter distracts Otto Otto fails to contain the biggest energy spike the one that bends the windows and kills Rosie what was it you'll paper and I love rainy shot with Rosie reflecting on the glass right before it goes into her eye echoed later with the reflection of Peter in Otto's eye as that threat zips towards him now my second favorite scene in the movie is one rainy took months to design doc Ock's awakening in the hospital this is true rainy or evoking the tree branch dragon evil dead too rainy even includes a close-up of Ash's iconic weapon the chainsaw and he mixes in a solid bone snap sound effective when the arm grabs the surgeons leg and one of the surgeons is a cameo by horror director John Landis and one of my favorite details that I've only caught by actually re watching this again in slow motion when the arms are docile under Otto's controlled their claw lights are white but when they are in controlling and evil the lights go red and we see this again later when he regains control of them in the final act hey you may be able to relate with Peter Parker's frustrations in today's era with issues like the content you normally consume on the internet being blocked from your reach or hackers and scammers stealing your info well expressvpn is your solution thanks to expressvpn for sponsoring this video expressvpn is a virtual private network that encrypts your data to keep it from being stolen or tracked and can grant you access to blocked content many websites and services are blocked in different parts of the world in some countries censor websites and don't let you surf freely 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octopus is coined by jameson well actually by kaufman head rainy Sam's brother and again gotta mention dr. strange was taken dr. strange that's pretty good it's taken meaning he's this in this film universe which has proven more than a bit ironic now that Sam Raimi is directing dr. strange too for Marvel and a pause in here so JK Simmons can make you smile could you pay me in advance Auto laments and these monstrous things should be at the bottom of the river along with me from flow and gradual fade from white to red signals the arms take over from here forward when they turn white again at the end Auto will resume with this suicidal thinking drowning himself in his little monsters in the bottom of the river joel mchale cam here this is a loan officer oh but I'm giving piano lessons again you are I'd love that cement to kick Peter butt kicks Joel but Mays piano teaching might justify why Peter was a randomly good at piano in the third movie if anything could justify that madness Otto's climb up the wall has a rhythmic pacing to it that's because during production Molina was performing at stevia in the revival of fiddler on the roof if he would hum under his breath that stompy song for a rich bone and the puppeteers would sink the arm walk with a song a little dumb I play piano Stanly cameos pause I'm gonna safety then in the worst gig ever Peter leaves the lens cap on come on and it keeps missing out on the last a poor cocktail a gag that the high society movie The Great Gatsby would later call back and Jay gets engaged to Jameson's astronaut son John becomes man wolf in the comics and after his powers glitched out again the Daily Bugle he reads includes a blurb about chronic back pain maybe a nod to Tobey Maguire's back pain that almost caused him to sit out this movie some believe that the later joke could've been a nod to that my back but the writers claim that this joke was already written in the script for Toby's issues came out Peter drink chats with Uncle Ben's ghost under Peters zip-up you can actually see he is wearing the red top of his wrestler costume Peter says any junks his suit with this frame pulled directly from the famous amazing spider-man issue 50 spider-man no more this title also shows up on a daily bugle front page now Peter fixes the wheel of his moped that got crushed earlier in the film but just like that wheel flies out the window so do his hopes for normalcy now the bugle blames him for rising crime and he watches a guy get jumped originally in the script this victim was gonna be the man who recovered and sold Jameson the suit a more direct consequence of Peters retirement now as I pointed out my breakdown of the previous film the guy who points Peter to the burning building is the same guy from the bridge and again despite this apparent victory Peter still cannot win some poor soul got trapped on the fourth floor but Peter finally gives in to this heroism is pain idea inspired by Aunt May's swallowing her pride and selling her house sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most now it's pretty obvious that Maine knows Peter is spider-man which I suspect is why she got the kid next door to help her pack up her house despite his baby arm she's guilting Peter with a child's disappointment Otto gets Peters attention by throwing a car at him just as the face of rosey was reflected on the glass before her death MJ's kissy face is reflected briefly on Peters lenses seconds before her near death these are the frames Peter literally detaches from justice he lets go of his dreams of love with MJ regaining his heroic vision both literally and metaphorically this fist close-up was an image focused on by Alex Ross's opening arts ring in peter full circle with the rediscovery of his power the bugle reports he's back but no photo on the front page since they wouldn't have any recent photos of spider-man being used also the blurb up in the corner reads MTA insider concerned over ageing El train safety reflecting the safety concerns for the following el train sequence now New York did not have an L in operation so they shot all of this on Chicago's loop this train fight is one of the best sequences in the superhero genre Raimi breaks it all up into three acts just like a short film that works on its own act 1 Peter versus Otto on the clock tower a ticking clock as meta for act 2 Peter versus Otto on the train both victims of destiny together and in an act 3 Peter alone versus a train man versus time and destiny itself it opens with Peters heroic swings into action with Raimi pulls out to reveal framed within the deadly threat waiting for him the sunglasses lens of Doc Ock no cool moment without an asterisk of how he's about to die I love this kind of shot Robert Zemeckis actually used a similar tracking shot mirror reframe and contact the very cool way of shifting subjective point of view to the target of the action when they tumble down onto the train Otto's arms cushion his body during the rule ramie also smartly cuts often to the passengers including the classic woman with a baby and briefly Peter and Otto go inside the car so that a minute later when Otto starts playing 500 with people this doesn't come out of nowhere it happens after Peter's empathy has been triggered now this train stop gives us some epic Tobi faces which yes the memes are hilarious but without the ironic detachment that hijacked us as we got older this is a beaten-down hero ripping onto the one thing he has left after having to let go of everything else he once all of this suffering has boiled over and now Toby is venting pure cathartic rage it's earned and I love it we had some good Christ pose imagery and the kids who returned his mask are cameos by Toby's half-brothers after Robbie the editor may these passengers and then of course Harry in MJ Peters precious anonymity in this film is stripped away from him when many things he has to let go of Otto wraps Peter in barbed wire echoing the moment Peter briefly saw a spiderweb strung up in a barbed wire coil in the first film his whole webby world surrounded by a ring of death behind Harry's prop tonight is a framed photo with Norman I assume this is Harry's revenge table Peter ends up flipping Otto by repeating Aunt May's wisdom Oh sometimes to do what's right even now dreams and Peter can finally deliver this with sincere honest heartbreak because in this moment he is really talking about his dream with MJ he truly gets the importance of being earnest now along with John Jameson I just realized that Jay Jonah and Bachmann arrived with the cops - this guy cannot pass up an opportunity to insert himself in the story in order to sell more papers Norman Osborn returns inside Harry's mind now a little detail I spotted by going through this frame by frame when he throws the dagger through the mirror it briefly switches from Norman to his own reflection and then back to Norman who looks pain as the glass breaks two generations of Green Goblin becoming one in the same and then after Harry finds the Goblin cave I think most of us got that green bow tie he shows up wearing at the wedding that's okay if this was a poncho for you it's just kind of like baked in for me since spent the whole summer of Oh for rewatching this with like prisoner of azkaban but I love this ending it parallels the ambient of the graduates runaway bride fleeing the church to be with the scrap you dope but the graduates ending is brilliant because it is not a fairy tale ending it's a bittersweet hello darkness bus ride where the young couple catches their breath and realizes wait crap what did we just do what now MJ here mix these same realization she teases fairy tale ending with her comics pet name okay I'm tanked and for a second we think it's gonna end with another golden sunset heroic swing pass and Stars and Stripes just like the first movie did but nope rainy cuts back to MJ with dark tones and an ominous fade to black it's a bittersweet graduate hello darkness ending echoing the opening shot of MJ as the love that Peter would never have time for reminding us that spider-man two is not a story about heroes win but how heroism is pain and every heroic victory is underscored by a dark consequence as you could see smarter man too was one of the all-time best superhero films filled with awesome attention to detail that other recap was just gloss over because it's not the precious and see you and I am so thrilled that you guys asked me a month ago to break down a movie that was such a big part of my youth and if you were there with me in the summer of 2004 I hope this brought back some memories for you feel free to share those in the comments instead of you know like a snart pain that I missed some [ __ ] Ford Focus Easter Egg someone pointed out to you without really understanding the actual movie detail is join our future classic movie watch along Jean discord by becoming a patron 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Length: 21min 26sec (1286 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 03 2020