#john watts

[newyorkthegoldenage]

John Watts isn't a bit intimidated by the skyscrapers facing him at Trinity Churchyard, 1938. He is looking toward One Wall Street.

Watts was a local lawyer, judge, and politician who was descended from the Schuyler and Van Cortlandt families and founded an orphanage. He died in 1836.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via NYPL

[thebotanicalarcade]

Ohio Spiderwort glass slide

Bright blue (to purple) flower, 1.5" wide, with 3 petals, growing in a erminal cluseter. Stamens 6, yellow, with distinctively hairy filaments. Flower stalks and bracts smooth. Leaves long, narrow, and pointed. These flowers are perennial. Their common name refers to the spider-like bracts beneath the flowers. The term "wort" is an old English word meaning "plant." The flowers are found growing in Railways, roadsides, wet thickets, and wet meadows. They bloom from May-July. This collection was donated by John Watts, Resource Manager at the Metro Parks District Office in Westerville, Ohio on March 15, 2001. It was assembled and given to the organization by Walter A. Tucker, the first director of the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks. In 1984, Tucker received the award for "Individual Contribution over a Lifetime" by the Ohio Alliance for Environment Education for his work with the Columbus Metroparks.

Ohio History Collection

[sincericida]

Remembering the day the guy backflipped over in the theater after seeing Andrew Garfield back as Spider-Man in "No Way Home":

If you don’t believe this is real, we have video of this:

Iconic! Course, this had to happen here in Brazil. (apparently we are differentiated)

I was too busy crying and screaming, I'm couldn’t do a backflip. 🤷🏽‍♀️

(source)

[djkerr]

Two years ago, NCIS 20x11 Bridges premiered and we learned about Parker's first love. (January 16, 2023)

BTS with the Bridges cast.

🎥 [source] | 📷@sadiestratton IG

[panosatthemovies]

Wolfs, by John Watts, the director of the latest Spiderman franchise, stars George Clooney and Brat Pitt as two old lone wolves doing clean-up jobs for the mob. It's a crossover between The American that Clooney played a decade ago and the comedic sketch he exchanged with Pitt so successfully in Ocean's Eleven. That, and a bit of Scorcese's After Hours, in which a young, innocent man is caught up in the crossfire of thugs in New York during the passage of just one night. So, what do we end up with, mixing all those elements? A fun time at the movies or in front of our TV, streaming a film that is well shot, excellently cast, well written, and fast-paced in its action scenes to get your blood pumping and your mouth laughing out loud. Is there substance to the tale? None at all. Especially at the end, when the heroes are trying to extract a message from all these, and nothing sensical comes out. Thankfully, they get cornered and have to fight their way out, à la Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (there goes another inspiration for the film), and live to fight in the already planned sequel. Sweet!

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Trailer: https://youtu.be/wLJUPjiRbAM

[punkanarchist]

WELL, SAME DIFFERENCE

[ghitathepanda]

Something I've only really considered in light of recent discussions of Spider-Man and Peter Parker's relationships with his supporting casts and love interests throughout the different versions is what the live action movies were really about underneath the superhero stuff.

The Raimi Trilogy is ultimately a love drama featuring flawed individuals with a main character who just so happens to be a superhero and how that ultimately affected his love life. Again, the trilogy focuses more on the relationship drama from the comics than they do stuff like the high school stuff and the like. That's why we have plenty of focus also on MJ, who may not be like her comic counterpart, but we get straight to seeing who she truly is underneath what she would've acted like in the comics in her earlier appearances. Tobey's Peter's opening narration about how "this is a story about a girl" sums up a big part of this trilogy. It's not just about the heroism but the relationship drama and how they affect one another.

The Amazing Spider-man movies are more to mystery intersecting with a love story between two people. Not a whole drama like the Raimi trilogy where different people would finally end up witb each other truly, but how two people just love each other and bond, all while a whole mystery about a boy feeling abandoned by his parents leads to the boy learning about responsibility and becomes a proper hero when his discoveries creates a rift with some of his loved ones. And in the sequel, we see the downfall of this hero even further below when the love story meets a tragic end by the answers to that mystery. And any continuation would likely be how one would cope from that big a loss, even if this Spider-Man had saved another from going down the same dark path he did following that loss.

The MCU movies however, puts a heavier emphasis on the superhero part but themes it around stepping up to be a proper hero in a world full of them. A young kid with superpowers getting by on his own and suddenly drafted into this larger world of the big league heroes briefly and how that affects him slowly until he truly understood the sacrifice he truly needs to make. All while being a high school kid.

As you can see, the first two versions have secretly been something else that isn't just superhero stuff while the MCU Spider-Man movies IS centred on the superhero stuff. The Raimi Trilogy is a romance drama with someone rising to become a hero, The TASM movies is a tragic love story born from a mystery that gave rise to a hero, The MCU Spider-Man movies is a boy's slow rise to true heroism and that's certainly something...

[darth-memes]

DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THOSE EPISODES WHERE THEY WERE HUNTED FOR SPORT????