In that area, Spider Man 1 did a much better job.


with great power comes great responsibility is a very well known line from that film.

other than Flash

There is so much on the cutting room floor I feel in this one, just kind of choppy overall, but I like it.

AMAZING SPIDERMAN

I did like the reboot overall. I thought Garfield is good as the new spiderman. He may be almost 30 but he has good genes to play a 17-18 year old. Stone was good and the villain was nice too. It seemed like they were cramming alot into the movie to get us all up to speed again. It felt a bit like watching the first spiderman with the whole spider bite, the transformation, realizing his strength and so on. I did like the new web spinner device on his hands. Towards the end it was getting a bit boring with the lizard man wanting to turn everyone into himself. I thought that was been there done that. Felt Xmen-ish. I wasn't really excited about the Osborn stuff and the peak in the credits. Does this mean we are getting yet another Goblin? Ugh.

Grade - B

I have only seen pieces of this movie while working, but:
Peter screws someone being a dick to him, only for the result to kill his uncle ben.
Peter Parker is a normal geek in hs, ignored by most except the super popular/awesome chick he loves, and something slowly develops.
Peter's driven from his love by realizing he will always put her in jeopardy, but can't stay away.
Peter develops an increasingly tense relationship with Aunt Mae following her husbands death, before resolving their issues and her recognizing he is doing what he must.
I can see where someone might make the comparisons.

Really cheesy, annoyingly stupid at times while entertaining at others. Stone and the villain were the only good parts of the film. Fuck a pointless spider-man film, I think the villain needed his own damn movie. Such a great motive behind what he was trying to do that it should present the question of if he really was even the villain? Was cool to see in IMAX 3D, probably wouldn't have really been worth my time otherwise. Bring on The Dark Knight Rises, please. C

Crazy scientist with personal connection to Peter is threatened with the end of his business/experiments and takes his own formula, mutating and becoming super strong, attempts to kill those who wanted to pull his funding and ends the film a top a tall structure thwarted in his attempt to cause harm to a lot of innocent people.

Loved it. Better than any of the original 3 IMO. Original trilogy is glossy, I really liked the character work in this one - Garfield and Stone made Parker/Stacy seem like real people. It just seems like such a clean cut, well paced, simple in a good way film. I love Marc Webb.

I wasn't expecting to like this that much.

But I LOVED it. My favorite Spidey film and I liked it more than Avengers as far as Super Hero movies of 2012 go.

A

I completely agree. This is just the usual somewhat entertaining Marvel superhero movie. Completely forgettable.

I was more entertained by 2002's Spider-Man, though I was a teenager back then, so maybe that's why.

This is much better than it had any right to be. In fact its better than the Raimi version (which I love) and the best superhero film of 2012 which is a huge surprise. Its flawed but works extremely well over all. I'm expecting big things from the sequel.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Well I've been waiting a long time for a superhero movie that I can enjoy so much. The film wasn't limited like the Raimi trilogy was, and the attitude of Parker was brilliant to what I was used to from the comics. I loved all of the tie-ins, like how they show you that machine when Parker visits Oscorp for the first time - you just know that will be used later, but it didn't matter, it was fun and great escapism. I loved all of the jokey scenes, like when he catches the American football and breaks the metal bars, or when the glass breaks when he slams the door etc. Effects were superb, and it did one thing that the Raimi things couldn't, I actually want Parker and Stacy to get together. She is so much more likeable than Kirsten Dunst; who was just a bitch that wanted to better her career.

The lizard was excellent too. Ok, so he changed his mind pretty quick and decided to save Parker at the end, but that's comicbooks for you. I did dislike one thing, and that was the Parker never caught his uncle's killer. I understand why they didn't do this in the first one, it's so they have a hook/connection when they make a sequel, but I would have loved to see him catch that guy. All around, it was a much better film than all of Raimi's rolled into one, and that's coming from someone that quite liked Spider-Man 2.

A-

Yes agree completely with the above.

It was very trifling. Where was the sense of ferocity, danger, thrills or even excitement? I hardly ever felt it, for all his effort and the functionally well done action sequences (visual consistency and solid distance and angle with the camera) Webb fails to create general tension during these, trying to keep it far too bouncy and upbeat. The school fight was weak. There was some genuine emotion through Garfield and Parker's tragedies, but it disappeared during the action. The crane line-up sequence was lame. Even the final battle felt safe and undramatic, I didn't give a shit about the tough but "loveable" douche of a Gwen's dad. I enjoyed myself but felt little at risk or motivation to care, inferior to the first two of the original franchise, unfortunately. Webb's talent, Garfield and Stone's too for that matter, are being mis-applied, I would have much preferred a dark, indie rom-com with this group.

Garfield & Stone are better, but that's about it. This whole thing reeks of last-second reshoots and editing room hackjobs. And the Lizard is just ridiculous.

If you don't think this is a mediocre remake of the first film, you're blinded by irrational lust for Emma Stone.

All fair enough...but irrational?

That was about as necessary as Van Sant's 'Psycho'...

6/10 for ... the view.

Did you like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films (well, the first two)?

Not particularly. Moralizing always puts me off. Raimi's first is slightly better than this one, though.

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Same sentiment here. I have no recollection of this movie, in fact I don't think I remembered it 24 hours after I saw it. Don't blame the drugs.... blame the utter inanity and pointlessness of this movie's existence.

So apparently this movie happened.

0/10

I just watched this again in preparation for the sequel on Monday. Great, great, great fun. Much better than the entire Raimi trilogy.

B+/A-

I just rewatched this. So who the heck was that in the mid-credits scene? Had nothing to do with the second movie, right? lol

It is the same man who visits Harry in prison.