The AMAZING Spider-Man [Rumors, Cast, News]

[ala4]

he didn't steal his web shooters... there was a whole sequence in the movie where he is clearly building them.  

                                                                                                                                                     

also it is pretty clear that the webbing was his fathers work.he is the one responsible for the super spiders

[RobCVela]

actually, its done like this:

Posted by: ala4

Quote from: legion of daves on Today at 10:50 AM
he didn't steal his web shooters... there was a whole sequence in the movie where he is clearly building them. 

also it is pretty clear that the webbing was his fathers work.he is the one responsible for the super spiders

[JimN]

wrote this up on a facebook group:

okay, so here are my thoughts on amazing spider-man, i thought it was good. in general, i enjoyed it.
the good: andrew garfield and emma stone were both fantastic. this goes a long way in earning the movie points. i liked tobey maguire, and garfield is a different approach, but really great, he's got charisma and a lot of heart in his portrayal. and stone is obviously in a different league acting-wise than dunst. the fact that it was gwen stacy at all is good, even though she's in spidey 3, that doesn't really count. i've always liked campbell scott, so it was nice to see him briefly as peter's dad. the action was tight and pretty exciting. there was one moment in particular where my heart skipped a beat. it was also great to see peter developing the web shooters, but no real need to redo the whole origin, just replace the actors as needed and keep going. tighten it up. that brings me too....
the bad: tone felt off for me. they were definitely going for a more modern/edgy/batman begins kind of take, and i don't particularly feel like that works for spider-man. even the best modern spider-man comics have an air of levity and fun and campiness to them, and that's something that spidey 1 and 2 accomplished with aplomb. when garfield and stone weren't on screen the movie just felt kind of bland. i thought the lizard sounded horrible, and looked laughably bad. he looked like one of the koopa's from the mario brothers movie. google it. on the subject of sound, the score was terrible, intrusive and distracting at all the wrong times.

i guess that's it for now, i'd rank it spidey 2, 1, amazing, 3.

I'd rank them the same way and after seeing the movie today, my take on it is very similar to yours. I think it was a good,enjoyable movie but nothing special. I walked out of the first 2 Spider-man flicks elated and I walked out of this one disappointed. The acting was good, particularly Stone and Sheen. Garfield did a nice job too. As you said, the score was distracting and I definitely think Raimi (and Maguire) brought a light comic book energy to Spidey that this movie seriously lacked. In fact, this take on Spider-man felt downright listless at times.

My biggest issue with the movie was the Lizard and I have to confess, I can't really be unbiased about that character. He was my favorite Marvel villain when I was growing up. I drew the Lizard, dreamed of doing a Lizard mini-series and collected every appearance of the character in Spider-man comics (except his first appearance, which was beyond my means. I settled for the Marvel Tales reprint). Unfortunately, the cinematic version of the Lizard looked laughable and unlike in the comics, I didn't find Connors to be a very sympathetic character.

There were scenes that worked, characters that worked and even set pieces that worked but overall, I just didn't think The Amazing Spider-man came together. It was entertaining but with this reboot following so closely in the footsteps of the other Spider-man films, it needed to be... amazing.

By the way, there were a few things in the film that bugged me so much they were distracting and I'm wondering if anyone else felt the same way:

— Spidey took his mask off a LOT and at one point, after battling the Lizard at his school, he was walking through the halls without wearing his mask. That took me right out of the movie. Why would he do that in a place where almost everyone would be able to recognize him? Sure, most of the students and faculty had fled at that point but there could have easily been a wounded, trapped or hidden person remaining. I could see no story reason for him to be without the mask. I know it's a little thing, but it was distracting and everyone I saw the movie with said they had the same reaction to that scene.

— As the movie builds to a climax, Peter realizes the Lizard plans to use the whatchacallit device to disperse his bio-agent over the city and turn everyone into lizards. He's on his way to Oscorp to stop him but he's already sent gwen there to formulate the antidote. She's there... why not tell her to damage/destroy the freakin' dispersal device? Instead, she ends up hiding behind it! I know Peter was hurt, avoiding police, etc. at the time so he was obviously distracted but this still felt like a clumsy story moment to me.

Sorry to bitch and moan. I did enjoy the movie ...

[RobCVela]

You know the part that I liked the most in the movie

I liked the part where Captain Stacy made Peter promise not to see Gwen anymore and she figures it out. It is not a drawn out process like the other Spider-Man movies. Right then and there she figures it out.  The other part I liked was when they were in class and he goes in late and the teacher says,"Don't make promises you can't keep" and he whispers to Gwen, "Those are the best ones" or something like that. I loved that because this is a new Spider-Man and you know he is getting back with Gwen and avoid the dangers that he should and its gonna bite him in the ass in the next movie where hopefully we all know what will happen.    What I didn't like was no Harry. 

[JimN]

You know the part that I liked the most in the movie

I liked the part where Captain Stacy made Peter promise not to see Gwen anymore and she figures it out. It is not a drawn out process like the other Spider-Man movies. Right then and there she figures it out.  The other part I liked was when they were in class and he goes in late and the teacher says,"Don't make promises you can't keep" and he whispers to Gwen, "Those are the best ones" or something like that. I loved that because this is a new Spider-Man and you know he is getting back with Gwen and avoid the dangers that he should and its gonna bite him in the ass in the next movie where hopefully we all know what will happen.    What I didn't like was no Harry. 

Those were definitely good scenes...

...especially the one where he tells his Gwen "Those are the best ones". I loved that. I also really liked the scene where he saved the kid from the burning car. That was probably my favorite Spider-man moment.

[legion of daves]

Those were definitely good scenes...

...especially the one where he tells his Gwen "Those are the best ones". I loved that. I also really liked the scene where he saved the kid from the burning car. That was probably my favorite Spider-man moment.

yeah, the rescue scene was really wonderful.

[jdudley]

yeah, the rescue scene was really wonderful.

I absolutely agree. I think that was spot on, didn't care how corny it was at all.

[ala4]

actually, its done like this:

Posted by: ala4

Quote from: legion of daves on Today at 10:50 AM
he didn't steal his web shooters... there was a whole sequence in the movie where he is clearly building them. 

also it is pretty clear that the webbing was his fathers work.he is the one responsible for the super spiders

sorry I didnt't know how to do it.I just figured it out lol

[Brian G]

Really?!

Instead of inventing the web shooters, he steals them, to talk to Dr. Connors he screws some Latino kid out of his internship (and doesn't seem to feel all that bad about it), you can argue that he really picked a fight with Flash in the basketball scene (which he gets called out on by Uncle Ben), hell, he even steals the milk from the guy who wouldn't spot him the .02¢.

I think he totally came across like a little self centered emo dildo. Maybe the Tobey Maguire was a little mopey at times, but the character didn't wallow in self pity like this one did.

I have to disagree here. The Spider-Man in the first trilogy was a bigger d-bag. He was intentionally stealing his friend's girlfriend and constantly whinning. I thought this film had a better representation of Peter Parker.

[Lucien21]

http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/05/was-the-untold-story-cut-from-the-amazing-spider-man/

That totally makes sense.

I liked the movie. Like most people the Peter/Gwen scenes were the best bits of the film, but I felt that large parts of the plot were just dropped about half way through the movie.

Oh and the bit with the cranes was cheesy as fuck.

I think it was a solid movie, but it certainly wasn't amazing.

[jdudley]

That totally makes sense.

I liked the movie. Like most people the Peter/Gwen scenes were the best bits of the film, but I felt that large parts of the plot were just dropped about half way through the movie.

Oh and the bit with the cranes was cheesy as fuck.

I think it was a solid movie, but it certainly wasn't amazing.

I agree bout the cranes. One guy just seeing spidey's predicament and moving the crane to help him out would have accomplished the same result and been far less cheesy. Less is definitely more.

[DGoodhart]

Ugh. No, thanks. I'll sit this one out. Y'all have fun. 

I wished I done the same.

[Dave Faust]

No way! Italian Spider-Man had style and swagger!

Turkish Spider-Man leaves all others behind.

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[legion of daves]

wow, dgoodhart gives the rare thumbs down!  

[RickV]

I really liked that and it outstripped all the Raimi Spidey films pretty easily.

That is a movie that understood what it was, where it came from and how that is supposed to move and look. A little cheesy, a little ridiculous, very tightly strung action packed and dynamic. The casting is across the board better, the action is better the chemistry is better and they are setting up for something that I am not sure if they have the balls to do but if they do go through with it I can not wait to see how that all plays out.

I am so much more ready for ASM2 than any other of the sequels other than Rises.

[Tom Scioli]

The part with the cranes made me think of Metroid Prime. Rescue the kid to unlock the platforms so you can get to the next level.

[Brian G]

The part with the cranes made me think of Metroid Prime. Rescue the kid to unlock the platforms so you can get to the next level.

Hah! Very true!

[Wood]

Cranes moment aside (which I give a bit of a pass because C. Thomas Howell is back from the dead ), I thought this movie took the Raimi trilogy behind the woodshed and beat them like rented mules.  I re-watched the first Spidey this weekend with the kids in anticipation of seeing the new one, and before seeing this one, I was STUNNED at how poorly I thought the Raimi film aged. The acting was so ham-fisted and overdone. I realize in retrospect they were going for a silver age comic book feel, but now that we've had the pleasure of seeing so many other comic book films, Raimi's film's flaws really stuck out.

And then seeing this new film? It made everything better. I thought it was absolutely wonderful.  I loved the actors in their principle roles, thought the origin made more sense, loved the way they tweaked the wrestling as inspiration for costume idea, and felt the Lizard was 100x more imposing and legitimately threatening than Power Rangers Green Goblin was in Spider-Man 1.

 

[BRONZE]

Cranes moment aside (which I give a bit of a pass because C. Thomas Howell is back from the dead ), I thought this movie took the Raimi trilogy behind the woodshed and beat them like rented mules.  I re-watched the first Spidey this weekend with the kids in anticipation of seeing the new one, and before seeing this one, I was STUNNED at how poorly I thought the Raimi film aged. The acting was so ham-fisted and overdone. I realize in retrospect they were going for a silver age comic book feel, but now that we've had the pleasure of seeing so many other comic book films, Raimi's film's flaws really stuck out.

And then seeing this new film? It made everything better. I thought it was absolutely wonderful.  I loved the actors in their principle roles, thought the origin made more sense, loved the way they tweaked the wrestling as inspiration for costume idea, and felt the Lizard was 100x more imposing and legitimately threatening than Power Rangers Green Goblin was in Spider-Man 1.

 

I agree, though I'd distinctly remember really liking the silver age feel that Raimi was going for at the time.  This latest Spiderman movie is a clear example not knowing what you’ll like until they show it to you. 

We all know that once you make a movie with sequels planned, then the youthful protagonist begins to rapidly age more than any normal human.  With that in mind, I wonder if they're going to fast-forward Parker’s life well past high school.  I kinda hope that they do.  It would address that aging issue anyway.

[David]

(which I give a bit of a pass because C. Thomas Howell is back from the dead )

No one watches Criminal Minds or Southland I guess...