The Amazing Spiderman

Oh boy, was this film a major disappointment! First of all I believe the studio rebooted the franchise not because fans were clamoring for it, but because the studio needed to do a new film fast before the rights reverted back to Marvel and you know what that would have mean? yup, Spiderman showing up in the next Avengers movie! Sony Pictures would not have that happen, no way, not until they milk all the money out of this character! Sony Pictures blew it when they let Sam Raimi go after he went public admitting that the studio interfered with his filming of Spiderman 3 and forced him to have characters and situations he didn't planned to have in that film, thus the reason it sucked so much. Without Raimi they thought of saving money by repackiging the franchise with a cheaper director and cheaper actors and...cheaper screenplay? The result: a so-so unmemorable film. The new angle of explaining Peter Parker's parents fate was plain corny and uneeded. Andrew Garfield is NOT Peter Parker, he might be called that, but he doesn't even come close to what Tobey Macguire achieved in the first film. This is an unrecognizable Parker. As much as I like Emma stone in anything else, she was totally miscat here. She was the wrong actress to portray Gwen Stacey who is now not only the daughter of the police captain, but also works at Oscorp as no less Assistant to brilliant scientist Dr. Connors! the lizard/Dr. Connors have always been my favorite Spiderman villain because of the Jekyll/Hyde conflict that prevents Spiderman from hurting the Lizard because he knows Dr. Connors is a good man. Here Connors comes as unsympathetic, no longer a tragic figure. The discovery of powers in the subway made Peter look like a bully, not a hero. The 'training' sequence was lame too. Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) never says the famous phrase 'with great powers comes great responsibility', but instead paraphrased something I cannot even remember. Sally Field was also miscast as Aunt May. She doesn't look nor act like Aunt May which makes you appreciate the first film actress even more. The action scenes are good and a little too much. While the special effects are great and film is gorgeously looking, it still feels shalow and near the end you feel fatigue and start wishing the whole thing finishes soon. Hmmm. That doesn't sound like a fan clamoring for more sequels. 6/10

 

I like it better than the Tobey Maguire's Spider-man...

 

Undecided.
I watched this at the movies and rewatched a few weeks back - it almost seems like a good-but-pointless remake of the 2002 version.

I like the fact they reverted back to using man-made-webbing like the comics, and I thought the blonde Gwen Stacey blew the ugly Dunst's Mary-Jane out of the water.
Didn't like The Lizard either...but then, I didnt like The Green Goblin at all in the original.

Still don't like the speeded-up flying around buildings stuff.

6/10

 

Amazing critque dude. I think most of the stuff you wrote was spot on. This film did kind of suck. I have no intention of ever seeing it again.

 

the overall feel to this new movie was better and the effects...the 2002 spiderman swinging around the city looked like a cheap south park animation..plus all these comedic parts to cater to little kids or something :scratcher:



if they somehow combined the two we'd have a decent movie

 

Well, is been 10 years since the first one, so of course the special effects are better. I wasn't crazy about the first Spider-Man film since I think it failed on the action parts, but succeeded in the Peter Parker scenes. This one is the opposite, but even that subplot of the Lizard coming up with a bomb gas to turn everybody into reptiles was plain stupid and unnecessary.

 

I think Toby was the better Spider-Man

 

Andrew Garfield reminded me lot of Hayden Christensen aka awful Anakin Skywalker.

 

Well noticed.
Although Garfield for me, was far less annoying that Christensen, who clearly cannot act at all...fuck, I hate those movies.

 

no question

he has two reactions to everything.. "pretty boy glare" or "pretty boy angry pout" and he has a severely autistic person's handle on how emotion correlates with speech

 

What I don't get is why on every freaking Spider-Man movie the directors feels the need to unmask him in public or in front of other characters. That barely happened in the comicbooks. And he didn't revealed who he was to his girlfriends. Mary Jane found out after they got married and that was in the 90's I think.

 

Yep, it was in the 90's. I actually own the comic where MJ reveals to him that not only does she know he is Spiderman, but that she's always known.

 

Spiderman 2 sucked as well.....the whole movie was him crying and losing his powers and being unsure whether he wants to be spider man :scratcher: huhhhh

 

If they are going to make another Spider-Man movie, please leave out the overused split-personality villains (Green Goblin, Dr.Octopus, The Lizard) and bring some much needed sexyness with the Black Cat!


The problem is that Hollywood usually get the costumes wrong, while the fans can easily pull it off.

 

Yeah I remember her in the comics also. Spiderman was banging her for a while too but I think she was a borderline psycho bitch as she loved Spiderman but found Peter Parker almost repulsive and wondered why he didn't just stay Spiderman all the time from what I remember. The bitch had the power to cause bad luck to people she focused on but she couldn't exactly control what bad luck would befall them. For instance if someone were attacking her they might over-shoot their target. She was also agile and could fight well for a female.

 

...and has a great rack!

 

AgREED

 

I had major issues with the plot in this movie, Peter is SUPPOSED to be the good guy right?? Well, fortunately most viewers have an extremely short attention span so they will forget the fact that Peter himself is the one who supplied Dr Connors with all the secret forumulas needed to complete the experiment turning him into a raging lizard. So end result is the city gets trashed! Like hundreds of millions and maybe billions type trashed. And while they dont show it specifically, we have to assume that at LEAST a few handfuls of unfortunate innocent people lost their lives in the ensuing pandemonium. Not only that, but Peters negligence caused the death of his own uncle, when he was too lazy and spiteful to go after the robber who shoots his uncle seconds later. Then in a strange twist he SAVES the robbers life for no apparent reason ! Oh yeah and he's responsible for his girlfriends dad dying at the end too. Did anyone consider that maybe Peters dad (who's dissapearance was never explained i think??!?) had a REASON for hiding the formulas, likely at the peril of his own life. That dumb kid should have just stuck to being a dork in school, instead of turning into a spider dude that gropes up some chick on the subway then beats the shit out of her husband and everyone else in the cart, before causing the destruction of NYC and death of a bunch of people close to him.

 

Yup, my same thoughts.