• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
    2021·
    2 months ago

    I always read symbiote spider man in this movie as Parker with the confidence to act how he thought would be cool. And he thought it would be cool to answer the phone in an unexpected way.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      146·
      2 months ago

      That’s exactly what it was. He wasn’t supposed to be cool, he was doing what he thought was cool. I don’t understand how people watch the part of him walking down the street finger gunning everyone and miss that.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          2 months ago

          This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:

          Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 months ago

              I understand this was/is a joke. That being said, Topsy may have a slightly differing opinion on that.

              Edit: I made friends with the RBB&BC elephants before they were retired. I only interacted with them 4 times for less than a week at a time before they were retired. When I visit them in Florida, they know who I am and act like giant puppies whenever they smell me near. I have a particular love for elephants and orca.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    1501·
    2 months ago

    saying “shalom” or “namastey” or “hola” as a non-native speaker was an irritating “hip” thing to do when that movie came out, and that’s a scene where Peter Parker is trying repeatedly to be “hip” and failing spectacularly.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    671·
    2 months ago

    Ya know, given recent events, certain people have made me aware that I often say shalom, call my baby daughter “bubby” and use other words like “schlep” and “schvitzing,” as though Yiddish was evil. They are, of course, assholes.

    Natural, I’ll continue to use those words because I was raised on Mel Brooks movies, especially Men in Tights, which is a goddamn classic.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      181·
      2 months ago

      Yiddish and Hebrew are far older than and used by those who don’t support current events. It’s like the German language getting demonized in the US (and probably elsewhere) around the world wars; the language didn’t do anything, but people make assumptions of the speakers of those languages.

      • taiyang@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        So apparently it can be both Grandma and baby, and I have no idea why. I did double check, though.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          “Bubbe” only meant grandmother originally. The “baby” meaning almost certainly comes from it being a false cognate with the English word.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    2 months ago

    I could have sworn I watched this but I don’t remember the plot of the movie, let alone whatever this is. I feel like the only thing I remember from it was him telling the girl to make him different cookies.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    My takeaway from bad Peter’s sad attempt at being cool and edgy? A jazz bar dance? Strutting? But if you think about it, this Peter was raised by a very elderly May and Ben . His idea of hip music is the swing jazz that Ben could have played, his idea of cool is May and Ben watching old James Dean movies. This Peter is an absolute dork, even when he’s trying to be cool

      • buttfarts@lemy.lol
        13·
        2 months ago

        I find him personally disagreeable for reasons that I find difficult to articulate. I just don’t like his vibe.