Anthony Blankenship:
As much as I didn’t want to like the Spider-Man reboot this year, I admit that it wasn’t bad, and there were even things I liked more than Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. When it comes to Spider-Man though, I feel like the outspoken one, because I didn’t mind Spider-Man 3. In fact, when it first came out, it was one of my favorite movies. Tobey Maguire did an amazing job in his role, and his performance I think was as close to a perfect Spider-Man as we’re going to get (disregarding his “emo” scene in the third movie). Andrew Garfield isn’t a bad Spider-Man, it’s just that Tobey is better, and that is something that we’re going to have to accept if we’re going to like this reboot.
That being said, this trilogy, or however movies they decide to make, does have the potential to be better. For one, I liked the action sequences in The Amazing Spider-Man more than almost every battle in the other series, with the exception of the Green Goblin fights. I also like that the villains for the most part seem like they’re going to be different than Raimi’s villains (except for the inevitable Goblin). The casting of Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, and Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben were also perfect castings in my opinion. Now, the movie wasn’t perfect and missed out on a lot in my opinion, but it was an introduction to a new Spider-Man, and I’ll let it slide if they capitalize with the next movie.
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... because they've casted an actor who's in his late 20'sto play a teenager, which might not be a problem for the first movie, but obviously it will be ridiculous when it's the 6 years later and they're doing the 3rd movie.
The Spider-Man reboot was so bad... The death of his uncle was rushed and the rest of the movie was simply very stupidly written. The action scenes can't hold a candle to Raimi's superior direction.
The new costume looks better and the slimmer body of Garfield is more like the Spider-Man from the comics but that's not enough to make it a good movie. Emma Stone was awesome too but the director (Marc Webb) was mediocre and the script too....
I agree with everything the reviewer wrote about Sam Raimi's trilogy and the re-booted version. In my opinion they all had their flaws but were all equally good.
For some reason, I just couldn't feel the magic in the reboot. Or anything at all, sure it made me laugh at peters comic like personality, but I just didn't feel anything watching it compared to the first trilogy. It just doesn't hold a candle to the first two movie's. Just felt like what happened to the Jurassic park series.
But it was pretty good, excited to see where they take this series.
I was disappointed with the reboot as well. Garfield played a better Spider-Man than I thought he would though, he had the physique, quirkiness, and quick smart ass remarks. However, IMO the movie was overall horrible, excluding Emma Stone playing an awesome Gwen, Martin Sheen playing a great Uncle Ben, and what I've already stated.
The rest of the movie was just bleh, irritating, and frustrating. The skateboarding scene was unnecessary, the car theft scene stayed well beyond it's welcome and what started out as clever, classic Spider-Man, quickly turned into a cheesy hipster, forcing to be new generation Michael Bay-esque disaster.
Also, The Lizard, to me is just a bland enemy although the bridge scene was pretty good. Some say this reboot is much darker than Raimi's but I didn't think it was dark at all. I really wish they'd make a series that goes into a Carnage main villain finale with Venom being somewhere in there as well. (I am biased on this though, as Carnage was always my favorite villain, and Maximum Carnage being my favorite series in the comics.)
They could produce magic with the right casting that could mimic that of Batman The Dark Knight. Oh well...there's always the next reboot.