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Post by DgenerationX092 on Jul 3, 2012 8:38:20 GMT -5
Saw it, and it beat my expectations.
I didnt have high hopes for the movie, it wasnt 'Incredible' or 'Amazing' but it was good. Very good.
I did get kind of bored however. Just perhaps the fact that here we are again, back at square one with an origin story only ten years later. I liked the story though, and I do feel this Peter Parker is more animated and captures the sarcastic character more then Tobey Mcguire did.
Emma Stone did better than I imagined she would. Very convincing playing a humble hot girl.
They definitely did a way better job with the Uncle Ben story than Raimi. I was very invested in the build and though I knew it was coming, definitely made me care when he died.
I dont mind his time spent being an unmasked Spiderman. I know its the whole 'secret identity' thing, but they spent two movies building the reveal in Raimi's and I understand that they dont want this series to mirror that.
Thats where theyre doing a great job. Although Spiderman 2002 and Amazing Spiderman are nearly the same story, theyre very different. So when someone asked me how they compared, I told them its kinda hard to, because theyre two very different movies. So Good Job Sony.
I didnt like Flash Thompson playing a role in the movie. It all but cements him as playing Venom in the upcoming film and I dont like that. It shouldnt be Black Ops Venom, and even if he plays Classic Venom, Classic Venom should be played by Eddie Brock.
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Post by JKLMD2002 on Jul 3, 2012 9:14:49 GMT -5
For all interested, here's my review: wp.me/p2aIde-DiLoved Sheen as Uncle Ben, just wish he wasn't around for so long. Loved the return of jokey-Spider-Man.
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Post by LtD73 on Jul 3, 2012 9:55:23 GMT -5
For those who have seen it
> Was that Osborn talking to Connors in the credits scene <
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Post by comintogetcha on Jul 3, 2012 11:55:46 GMT -5
--And MaxMoves, if you won't read Ultimate Spider-Man on the reason of not reading "crap", I'd like to know where you've jumped to this conclusion and where you've based this judgment from if you HAVEN'T read it. Bendis has done some wonderful writing in both the Peter and Miles stories, and the Spider-Men crossover, while only being two issues in, is written very very well. I just don't read the Ultimate comics period, yes I am wrong for passing judgement, but I did read them years ago and just hated the way they were changing the characters and the stories. Back to this movie however. Another problem that I had with the film was that it was too dark, and I don't mean like thematically dark, I mean like every single scene in the film takes places at night, or in the rain, or under the clouds. Spider-Man is supposed to be bright, vivid, full of energy, and I didn't get that sense at all. I was also quite bothered by plot holes like no one in Peter's school seemed to care about his supernatural ability at basketball, or how no one it seems has cell phone cameras to take pictures when he had his mask off all those times. Peter also seemed to have almost zero emotional connection to Aunt Mae and Uncle Ben here, and that's supposed to be the main driving force of the character! Peter Parker is not dark and brooding like they made him out to be in this movie, they got the characterization totally wrong. I just thought this movie was a mess from start to finish.
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Post by JKLMD2002 on Jul 3, 2012 11:59:39 GMT -5
LTD I think that's what's implied but it's so vague it really could be anyone. I don't think that's where he would see that character based on what's mentioned about them earlier in the movie either.
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Post by JL24FPS on Jul 3, 2012 12:42:00 GMT -5
I personally loved it and thought it was a better portrayal of Peter Parker/Spiderman. I thought the build to becoming Spiderman was needed. He's not just gonna go home and make a Spiderman costume after the Uncle Ben thing. Sarcastic Spidey was hilarious. I think this series will be a good one. I hope that we get some really cool Spiderman movie moments and villains out of this trilogy.
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Post by AdamBomb on Jul 3, 2012 13:02:29 GMT -5
--And MaxMoves, if you won't read Ultimate Spider-Man on the reason of not reading "crap", I'd like to know where you've jumped to this conclusion and where you've based this judgment from if you HAVEN'T read it. Bendis has done some wonderful writing in both the Peter and Miles stories, and the Spider-Men crossover, while only being two issues in, is written very very well. I just don't read the Ultimate comics period, yes I am wrong for passing judgement, but I did read them years ago and just hated the way they were changing the characters and the stories. Back to this movie however. Another problem that I had with the film was that it was too dark, and I don't mean like thematically dark, I mean like every single scene in the film takes places at night, or in the rain, or under the clouds. Spider-Man is supposed to be bright, vivid, full of energy, and I didn't get that sense at all. I was also quite bothered by plot holes like no one in Peter's school seemed to care about his supernatural ability at basketball, or how no one it seems has cell phone cameras to take pictures when he had his mask off all those times. Peter also seemed to have almost zero emotional connection to Aunt Mae and Uncle Ben here, and that's supposed to be the main driving force of the character! Peter Parker is not dark and brooding like they made him out to be in this movie, they got the characterization totally wrong. I just thought this movie was a mess from start to finish. I'm sorry, I just think that not reading it because they changed the characters is silly. It'd be boring and extremely unnecessary to retell the same old story (Amazing) all over again. How many incarnations of Spider-Man have their been? How many character changes have happened? How many tweaks have their been? A ton. Cartoons, comics, video games, and movies. Different spins HAVE to be applied at this point. Newsflash: Life can be "dark". Peter's parents left him, his uncle was killed when he could have prevented it, and I could continue but I don't want to go into spoiler territory. I know you said you didn't mean thematically, but I wanted to get that out there. As far as "taking place at night" goes, well when does 90% of crime take place? Broad daylight? That was one of my problems with Raimi's films, everyone cried for less "cheese", and more "realism", and that's what was delivered, and damn well at that. As far as "connections" with Aunt May and Uncle Ben, I thought it was wonderful, everyone in that movie had great chemistry I felt... especially Peter and Gwen. I LOVED Denis Leary as Captain Stacy and Rhys Ifans did an AWESOME Curt Connors. Peter has dealt with a lot of dark times in the comics, from the symbiote to the civil war, for example. You're entitled to your opinion, but you just come off like you had the intention from the start to dislike this movie based on some goofy things.
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Post by comintogetcha on Jul 3, 2012 13:27:59 GMT -5
I just don't read the Ultimate comics period, yes I am wrong for passing judgement, but I did read them years ago and just hated the way they were changing the characters and the stories. Back to this movie however. Another problem that I had with the film was that it was too dark, and I don't mean like thematically dark, I mean like every single scene in the film takes places at night, or in the rain, or under the clouds. Spider-Man is supposed to be bright, vivid, full of energy, and I didn't get that sense at all. I was also quite bothered by plot holes like no one in Peter's school seemed to care about his supernatural ability at basketball, or how no one it seems has cell phone cameras to take pictures when he had his mask off all those times. Peter also seemed to have almost zero emotional connection to Aunt Mae and Uncle Ben here, and that's supposed to be the main driving force of the character! Peter Parker is not dark and brooding like they made him out to be in this movie, they got the characterization totally wrong. I just thought this movie was a mess from start to finish. I'm sorry, I just think that not reading it because they changed the characters is silly. It'd be boring and extremely unnecessary to retell the same old story (Amazing) all over again. How many incarnations of Spider-Man have their been? How many character changes have happened? How many tweaks have their been? A ton. Cartoons, comics, video games, and movies. Different spins HAVE to be applied at this point. Newsflash: Life can be "dark". Peter's parents left him, his uncle was killed when he could have prevented it, and I could continue but I don't want to go into spoiler territory. I know you said you didn't mean thematically, but I wanted to get that out there. As far as "taking place at night" goes, well when does 90% of crime take place? Broad daylight? That was one of my problems with Raimi's films, everyone cried for less "cheese", and more "realism", and that's what was delivered, and damn well at that. As far as "connections" with Aunt May and Uncle Ben, I thought it was wonderful, everyone in that movie had great chemistry I felt... especially Peter and Gwen. I LOVED Denis Leary as Captain Stacy and Rhys Ifans did an AWESOME Curt Connors. Peter has dealt with a lot of dark times in the comics, from the symbiote to the civil war, for example. You're entitled to your opinion, but you just come off like you had the intention from the start to dislike this movie based on some goofy things. Spider-Man DOES deal with some dark subject matter in some of his stories, absolutely, but this is supposed to be an origin story, and that's not supposed to be all that dark. Spider-Man is not Batman, and I feel like they were really trying hard to portray him like he was. I thought the first two Raimi Spider-Man films were great, the second one being one of the best Superhero movies ever. I found very little wrong with either. Spider-Man as a character and as a story is full of cheese, to try and say you want less of that would be to take the character out of it's element and fundamentally change the story. While I do like the more sarcastic tone they gave Spider-Man in this film, I felt the writing was really lacking, and most of the one liners felt like they were written by a 10 year old.
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Post by AdamBomb on Jul 3, 2012 14:35:54 GMT -5
I think you misunderstood what I meant when I said "cheese". There is a difference between Spider-Man himself being cheesy, and Raimi's films being cheesy. Tobey's over acting when crying, the terrible faces he would make in slow motion, not to mention things like strutting, "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head", and the tight zoomed in goofy face shots of people screaming, just to name a few. Sorry, Sam Riami has a very cheesy style to his films... I feel that Amazing, was a much needed change to the story.
...and to people saying too many people could figure out Spidey was Peter... Tobey did some pretty damn similar nonsense in his films.
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Post by JKLMD2002 on Jul 3, 2012 15:05:26 GMT -5
Dead on Adam.
In this one it seemed like Peter made much more of an effort to hide his identity as opposed to "gee, I'll trust all the nice folks on this train not to snap pictures and sell it to the Bugle for a million bucks" in Spider-Man 2.
Spider-Man is always walking that line between the sad sack Peter and the carefree, fun-loving superhero. That's what "Amazing" got right. Peter's life is all kinds of complicated, but he's able to let it go when he's behind the mask.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Jul 3, 2012 17:13:04 GMT -5
I thought it was really awesome. I didn't think it was possible, but I actually liked this one a lot better than the original.
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Post by J12 on Jul 3, 2012 17:29:22 GMT -5
Saw it at midnight last night. I loved it. I've always been a fan of Spider-Man, and I went into this cautiously optimistic and a little nervous, because truth be told, I love the original trilogy. I even like 3, as flawed and disjointed as it was.
At times, it did fee a little too similar, but that was more or less impossible to avoid. I think the overall tone and approach of the film was completely different. Garfield's Spider-Man is nothing like Tobey's, and I loved that.
Emma Stone was adorable and absolutely charming in her role.
I thought the 3D was cool at times, distracting at others. I plan to see it again, hopefully in 2D.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2012 17:51:08 GMT -5
I saw the mid-night preview, got an exclusive cinmark t-shirt. its awesome.
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Post by comintogetcha on Jul 3, 2012 18:04:48 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thing Emma Stone looks like she has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
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Post by MacReady on Jul 3, 2012 18:06:16 GMT -5
For those who have seen it > Was that Osborn talking to Connors in the credits scene < That's what I got out of it.
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Post by LtD73 on Jul 3, 2012 18:12:09 GMT -5
For those who have seen it > Was that Osborn talking to Connors in the credits scene < That's what I got out of it. If it's not man > can he sure do a good Wilem Defoe impersonation
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Post by T R W on Jul 3, 2012 18:17:42 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thing Emma Stone looks like she has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? yes
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Post by MANN on Jul 3, 2012 20:28:47 GMT -5
I just got back from seeing it.....I cant say it was better or worse than Tobey/Raimi. It was just different. But Spideys animations were much much better and Honestly to me, this movie fits more in the current Marvel Universe than the previous series. It just looks and fits more. I honestly think this film just suffers from the much too quick reboot....cause the previous series had no conclusion, no absolution and it seems that there was much more to be shown and told.
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Post by marino13 on Jul 3, 2012 22:10:25 GMT -5
Just walked in the front door from seeing it. And I can honestly say I thought it was better than the Rami films in every way. From The acting, The action, & The story. It all felt like... well, SPIDER-MAN. Though I've always like the first two Rami films, this one did the character much more justice.
Garfield was perfect. I was very impressed with how good he was in this. Same could be said for the whole cast really. I usually leave a movie with a complaint or two but with this film I have none.
I was kinda hoping I wouldn't like it because I (like many others) want the license to go back to Marvel. But I'm more excited about the prospects of a sequel now.
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Post by King Silva on Jul 3, 2012 23:17:46 GMT -5
I'm going to see it at 10 pm tonight in 3D!
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