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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 05, 2012, 06:27:24 pm ---Just saw this in the drive-in the other day. The movie wasn't bad, but it was just totally unnecessary. There really was no major innovation in the plot, it was just a cash grab. I'll stay away from real spoilers, but if you don't want to know anything at all about the film, don't read on.

Well, it wasn't a bad film, I just had a thought going on that in my mind that possibly they wanted to fix a bunch of things that could have been cooler from the first film. The mechanical webbing being one. Stupid thing is they added it but there was no point in doing so. He never ran out of webbing, never even needed to change a web cartridge. They were more innovative with his actual fighting though. He fought more like a spider, and used his web in a couple really clever ways.

They completely failed trying to capture the tragedy behind spider-man. It kinda devolved into a "ooh, spiderman is all cut up and comes home late". I always thought of Spidey as the one superhero you wouldn't want to be, because his life gets crapped on more and more every day. I think they tried to convey that, but it just didn't work.

Oh, and Emma Stone does not pass as a high schooler. At least a high schooler who isn't on meth.

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Well, neither of them looked like high schoolers. But they usually are older anyways. Mcguire just looked young as hell.

So I just saw this. I'm going to completely up-end Vigo's statement. Possibly because he didn't grow up with it, let alone in one of the golden ages (the early 80s) of Spider-Man, he didn't see how faithful to the comic book 'environment' it was. To the end. And yet it was updated to current times. There were a few 'um, yeah, they would've figured that out' s, but in all it was a total Spider-Man comic book movie, as well as a great movie. I like it better than Spidey 1 with Mcguire for those reasons. Not much, but enough.

And it was cooler than Batman. Spider-Man was one reason I read Marvel instead of DC.

Three other things:

I was skeptical when I found out about the movie, partly because of the dark look of the 'cover'. I thought maybe they were trying to compete with The Dark Knight (which they were of course, economically speaking). But I was impressed. The overall lighting schemes were way cool. Never cartoonish, yet fantastic. In fact, the city elements I think were the best done of all the comic movies I've seen.

The story was adult - again, going back to the comic books of earlier decades - but it wasn't 'too hip'.

The technical elements of the story were the most interesting of perhaps any comic book movie I've seen.


Also cool was they did the Marvel movie extra scene. That's like in the comic books, but also I think it's a cool Marvel movie feature.

My only caveat - although they addressed every part of it in the story, which was surprising, and made it a more mature kind of story - was the promise. I would've told Gwen's dad 'yeah, I'll leave her alone' - because he's dying, ---fudgesicle--- why not - and then told her everything, and let her make up her own ---smurfin--- mind.

Oh, and the soundtrack was better. Better themes, less sensational while still being very provocative. The only thing that [really] got my attention as a rip-off was when Spidey was flying at Oscorp, and I was all 'okay, the ta-da Wrath of Kahn theme....oh, well not quite....hmmm, maybe that's not a rip-off....' Well, it was. How do I know this? Because Horner did the soundtrack. Wellll, I can cut him slack on that one. There were other things that reminded me of Danny Elfman stuff, and even Samuel Barber, but otherwise it was pretty substantive and seamless.

ark_ader:
Actually it was good movie reboot idea without that toby dude, that had potential. But ended up crap.

No spoilers....I get it.  :laugh2:

Howard_Casto:
Toby MADE the first two films... if it wasn't for the superior casting  those movies would have fallen flat. 

The Amazing Spiderman is far worse than being bad, it's unremarkable.  Not a single interesting thing happened throughout the whole film.  5 years from now, it will be forgotten.

Well except for the fact that the lady that did the Goombas in the Super Mario movie decided to recycle the head design for the Lizard and thought nobody would notice.   Guess what?  EVERYBODY did.   I couldn't take any of his scenes seriously with that dumb, cartoony head slapped on. 

SNAAKE:
5 years? you mean like 5 days :dunno

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 11, 2013, 01:20:09 pm ---Toby MADE the first two films... if it wasn't for the superior casting  those movies would have fallen flat. 

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Kirsten Dunst was a pile of steaming poo that you stepped in and failed to notice until you got it on the carpeting in your new car.  Worst female lead choice in a long time.  Not only is she not charismatic, she's also not attractive, and she can't act, which is a pretty big problem when you're playing a model/soap actress/stage performer.



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