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Spider Man 4 has been canceled, and the series is going to be rebooted, featuring a new cast and director.

Apparently, Sam Raimi making 2.5 billion dollars for Sony Pictures wasn't enough of an incentive to continue having him direct.

Seriously, though... rebooted? The motherfucking series is eight years old. Not 18. Not 28. Eight.

Edit: You know, though, that if they go through with this, that there's things that they should not do in the reboot.

1) Don't use the villains you've already used. Yes, the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman and Venom are well known members of Spider-Man's 'rogues gallery'. But give us someone we haven't seen in the movies. Give us the Lizard, the Vulture, Mysterio....

2) Don't show the origin again. As noted, the first movie in the Sam Raimi directed series came out in 2002. We do not need to waste 30-40 minutes of the movie showing Peter Parker becoming Spider-Man. We know the fucking story already.

3) For fuck's sake, don't get put super-star actors in roles just because they're super-star actors. Tobey Maguire was a relative unknown when he got the role of Peter Parker. In other words, no Tom Cruise, no Russell Crowe, no no, a thousand times no.

That won't help things

Iranian nuclear scientist killed in bomb blast

Of course, Iran is blaming Israel for this. Because right now, in a country that's had regular protests since a widely criticized election months ago, ramping up to deaths of protestors just a couple weeks ago, why of course it's Israel behind this, and not one or another faction in Iran. Because everything is hunky-dory in Iran, despite all the evidence. Who are you going to believe - Ahmadinejad or your own eyes?

Edit: The plot thickens! It turns out that the dead physicist supported the opposition (Mousavi), so this really takes away from the idea that Israel was behind this. (But who really believed Israel was behind this?)

fly the expensive skies

If you fly without luggage, people will think you're a terrorist.

If you fly with luggage, the airlines will charge you more for the privilege. (And you can bet the other airlines will jack up their fees in response to "stay competitive".)

Oh bullshit.

Scott Roeder's defense team is going to try the 'necessity' defense.

Yeah, I'm so much more confident in McCain and Palin now

"The Today Show" bitchslaps McCain