The Amazing Spider-Man..

PalermoJohn · 3 months

Also, finally a wise-cracking spidey.

st31r · 3 months

I like that they're playing up the 'Spiderman is a snarky asshole' angle. I didn't realize how much I missed that.

qquicksilver · 3 months

About 10 years ago Marvel launched the "Ultimate" universe. They took a lot of the old Marvel characters and updated them. That way you can have the old Spiderman that you love and new readers can enjoy and updated/modern version as well. I personally read both. I cant imagine why anyone would disparage anything that glorifies something they already like.

nirolo · 3 months

I think its time to get out of the cheesy badly acted comic book space and into a little more serious and darker spidey film.

It's funny you said that because I watched that trailer and thought it looked really cheesy, and really badly acted. Look at that cliche family meal scene, and the incredible angst on his face as he tells Gwen "I have to stop him, because I created him". Then there are the awful special effects where he splashes into the river and the tower tips over. It has been over 4 years since the last Spiderman, I would expect it to look better than that movie.

This looks like it has been made as cheaply as possible while still trying to look cool to lure in the teenagers.

At least, that is my impression :)

aptrapani · 3 months

I still think a Spider-Man movie directed by Joss Whedon would have been a better pairing. Snarky, witty and emotionally savvy. That's exactly what you need in a Spider-Man story.

However, Marc Webb seems like he can do it. It seems odd to see him jump from (500) Days of Summer to this, though. The style of the trailer seems so... different.

Dante2005 · 3 months

I'm open minded, I am not going to dislike something that I haven't seen yet...I am hopeful, hell who doesn't like Spidey!

SkepticalOrange · 3 months

I'm really looking forward to this movie. The old series had good villains and J.K. Simmons, but lacked a decent Spiderman and M.J. This movie seems to have a great Spiderman (with jokes!) and he's starting off with Gwen, which I find to be good. No clue how the villain will be, but Rhys Ifans is a good actor, so no worries there.

Overall, it seems like they may have fixed what they did wrong in the original movies (with the exception of removing JJJ), so this movie should be really good.

1point21GriddleWattz · 3 months

Throwing in my two cents. I never really read Spidy comics as a kid so I don't know if the new movie is based off a new series.

To be honest, when I saw the very first trailer for this movie I was a bit appalled. "What? a remake of Spider-man already?!? How? It's been what...10 years?" Then I started to regress and realize that it was only 8 years between 'Batman & Robin' and 'Batman Begins'. Granted the difference might be a bit greater than Spider Man and The Amazing Spider Man. We'll see I suppose.

Either way, I like the cast and direction a lot more in this Spidy revamp. I think it has potential to be great.

TL;DR - At first I was like uhhhhhh.... but then I was like Alright, let's do this!

eatmyshortsken · 3 months

Can we remember in this movie, beyond the first time he uses it, that Spider-Man's most important power is his Spider-Sense?

Comic book Spider-Man has wiped the floor with much more powerful enemies because they can't lay a finger on him. Fight Spidey in a broom closet and you might have a chance, fight him in an open space and you lose.

One of the biggest problems with Spider-Man 3 for me was that they didn't use his Spider-Sense at all, and so Venom's comic book immunity to it never came in to play.

buttguy · 3 months

As someone who speaks English; that was a hard read.

I hate this trend that "dark" or "gritty" subject matter is better or has more entertainment value than the over the top or silly. We're talking about a series that has a villain dressed up as a rhino.

OnceInABlueMoon · 3 months

You are not alone. The Raimi trilogy was pretty bad overall.

The first film was barely passable. The representation of The Green Goblin was really poor.

The second film was pretty decent. Toby's acting gets in the way as usual, but Dr. Octopus was great.

The third was just awful. 3 terrible villains. A needless introduction of Gwen Stacy late in the trilogy. Destroyed Venom. Hipster Peter. They conveyed Peter's darkness by giving him eye liner. Oooh watch out for this guy. Fuck everything about that movie.

mattarei · 3 months

I'm really looking forward to it! I just hope to god that if they're gonna do the origin again they keep it as short as possible.

light108 · 3 months

I recently just finished watching the 1994 series of spiderman, the one i grew up with. I have to say that as a Spidy fan, the new movie does look pretty good. I also did not realize just how antagonizing he really was to all his villians. Now I know where I got my attitude from...

bulletbillx · 3 months

I wasn't looking foward to it and though it'd be a quick cash in until I saw the new trailer. Looks awesome. Hoping they do the Green Goblin/Gwen Stacy storyline in part 2.

inquirer · 3 months

You aren't a minority. I have seen nothing but positive reviews from this new trailer and the little screening some people got to see.

[deleted] · 3 months

The director's name is Mark WEBb for godsake. how could it be bad?

Requiem89 · 3 months

I'm just really sick of the constant remakes and re-imaginings. We've had upwards of four now, enough is enough. There are so many more interesting superheroes and characters out there.

Increasingly I just feel like Hollywood has no originality left.

jakethesnake_ · 3 months

This is the frist I'd heard of it, the trailer looks okay but not amazing.

rmeddy · 3 months

I'm neither here nor there about it nut I am interested to see how they're going to fit his parents into it.

Edit: I am also a fan of getting rid of natural webbing, artificial webbing any day

Zero_Kool · 3 months

I think the movie looks great, I am very excited about this year's movie line up. If the world is going to end this year at least we should have some good films to end it with!

diishy · 3 months

i think many people aren't liking it because of the previous spidy films...which to be honest, i wasn't a huge fan of. The first one was pretty good but the second and third one were rather cheesy (if i'm allowed to say)..because no one, not even spiderman would just let the villain walk away. I suppose he didn't in the second one but it still didn't feel that good..but i'm really looking forward to the new one (emma stone baby!)

anbeasley · 3 months

I'm mixed on how to feel. Some parts look good, others look meh. The antagonist in this movie feels to much like a lot of other super hero antagonist

stormholloway · 3 months

How can you "love" the old films but think the star of the movie is "awful"?

Hightech90 · 3 months

Well for one it has not been long at all since the other spider man movies. A lot of people would like to see a bigger gap between them I think. The biggest thing of all though is it should of been released in 2011 or just waited until 2014 because no one is really anticipating this series that much. It picked a horrible year to be released because with Dark Knight Rises coming out two weeks after, NO ONE is seriously thinking about this movie. You also have Superman coming out next year which is written and produced by the same people behind batman.

IslaNublar · 3 months

Why would a Spider-man movie be darker?

Claudelol · 3 months

The new Spidey movie looks great! I was so freakin' pumped when they announced Andrew Garfield for the part. I remember being so worried about the reboot until they announced his name. And then later in the year they cast Emma Stone. Two incredible actors. And I didn't even mention the rest of the cast, they're amazing (no pun intended) as well! I will always have the Raimi films close to my heart. I just have too many good memories about walking out of the theater after seeing Spider-Man 2. Can't say the same thing about Spider-Man 3, lol. I think this movie is completely flying under the radar, which is good because when people finally see it they're going to be blown away.

ebayblows · 3 months

Eh I'm just burned out on spandex and origin stories. Also the trailer was just CGI + loud noises.

That said, you're not in a minoraty (sic). This thing will sell like gangbusters.

Jacoolh · 3 months

I hope they don't fuck up Venom again (When they inevitably include him in a sequel).

lordskelzor · 3 months

Guys I have an idea, ok guys bear with me on this one:

We make a spiderman movie where his origin is that he's a mercenary, then we change it so he's proficient with swords, we make it so that he gets his powers from being a mutant, then instead of red and blue make his costume red and black and finally we cast Ryan Reynolds as spiderman.

...and change the name

...to Deadpool

fasmaverick · 3 months

For what it's worth, I think people need to sit back and actually let this film have a chance before they start saying how shit or whatever it's going to be because it's too soon or whatever. Spider-Man is a comic and has so many variations of it's own story and different adaptions that there's no 'set' one (as long as you've got the basics). Retellings are just as common as reboots and remakes, heck DC rebooted their whole entire line of comics last year.

I like the look and approach they've taken with the new suit and web shooters and this looks like in some ways it'll be truer to the comics. I like how it also seems to be focussed on Peter's relationship with Gwen and how that'll develop considering the comics. I'm also excited at how Ifans will play Curt Connors and how the Lizard will function as a villain.

jda494 · 3 months

Im fucking hyped. Spidey fanboy right here!

murph1331 · 3 months

I could really get excited for this movie if they were pushing IMAX and not 3D. TDK was the perfect example of the potential IMAX has but I wish more movies would take advantage of it. Seeing Spiderman swing through Manhattan in IMAX would look amazing and top anything 3D could do

Pleasureryan · 3 months

I've been excited for this for a while. But my one problem is how they fucked up The Lizard so much... I mean cmon hes meant to have a snout and a lab coat... It's not that hard...

b_a_d_tdk · 3 months

Fuck you that's why.

1of7billion · 3 months

I'm pretty excited for this years crop of comic book movies. Here are my unsolicited predictions for the best ones:

Batman
Judge Dredd- I bet it surprises people. Mostly because I'm a gambling man.
Spiderman
The Avengers

I think The Avengers will still be good, but may have a problem balancing all the characters, and coming up with a plausible threat for the team.

Silversurfar · 3 months

i kind of feel like they are trying to "batman" the spiderman franchise, they saw how successful the "dark" storyline was for the batman series, so they are trying to make spider man darker, i mean ill go see the movie, looks good. But i dont think spiderman should be near as dark as batman, spiderman is a nerdy kid in highschool who gets superpowers, whats so dark about that?

and tobey played an amazing peter parker/spiderman in my opinion

soasdude · 3 months

minority*

sailawaysail · 3 months

Minority

d00ber · 3 months

Well, the movie can't get any worse than the last series.

arborday · 3 months

"Serious and dark" just aren't adjective I associate with a film about teenager who can shoot webs and fly around around like a trapeze artist on crack.

I am excited for all the "hey didn't he invent facebook?" jokes the movie is opening itself up to.

beeeeeps · 3 months

You really shouldn't say, "i think its time to get out of the cheesy badly acted comic book space" because the new Amazing Spider-Man film is going to be way cheesier and more closely like the comic book than the previous 3 films ever were.

In my opinion what Sam Raimi did with Spider-man was nothing like how the comic books are.

bujweiser · 3 months

I'm not excited because it looks like the original, almost exact. Parker just seems more of a wise ass in this one though and has more swag.

I'd prefer the development treatment of the last series, where you see Parker struggling with life and his responsibility. This one looks like it's going to throw it all out the window.

Plus, I was looking forward to the 4th & 5th spiderman installments. A redeemer for the 3rd, with less studio control.

bastardsnow · 3 months

that god awful tobey maguire?

fuck yourself. in the face.

uninc4life2010 · 3 months

I am definitely not sold yet on the movie. I was hoping for more of a Dark Knight feel, but felt the trailer gave too much of an original spiderman playful theme.

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