>>34051
>>34056
My money's on Mysterio to distract you from what's happening with Norman Osborn.

I didn't care for Sheen as Ben.

I think Garfield could've been a good Spiderman/Peter Parker if he'd been written more consistently.

To me, Leary almost seemed tacked on as Stacy, but he still did a good job.

Ifans as Connors? Eh, that's one thing I hate about Spiderman villains, they're not very good, I think, outside of Doc Ock, Venom, and Carnage.

But hey, they sure did fucking nail Gwen Stacy's character!

And No JJ Jameson?
>mon visage quand

>>34079
>And No JJ Jameson?
No, I'm actually okay with that. JJ is great, but you introduce too much of the mythos all at once and the story gets too dense. It's reasonable that Pete wouldn't get his job in the Bugle yet. And we at least saw a copy of the Bugle in the movie, so we know they were nodding to JJ's existence at least.

It makes perfect sense that Pete wouldn't get hired until those photos of Spider-man became something JJ started his crusade against. Since Spider-man was basically just an urban legend until the end of this movie, it's to be expected that JJ wasn't important to the origin story, even though he's important to the mythos.

I expect we'll see him next time. But honestly, I imagine I'll be disappointed with him. They can not possibly top the casting of JJ from the Raimi flicks. The best they could do is keep on J.K. Simmons, which would likely break Suspension of Disbelief for some people, so even that's an imperfect choice. I'd still vote for that option though.

Just came back from the movie (Crap, missed the opening credits. Oh well, probably something metallic like in the trailer?), so let me try to get things in order...

-Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker was good, I guess. Peter could be about 20% geekier in my opinion, but I loved the awkward moments with Gwen. By the way, loved how smart she turns out to be in that scene in the end. Oh boy, they're making it a lot harder if they get to kill her off. Peter maybe looked a bit cold towards Uncle Ben and Aunt May overall. By the way, I don't like it that they picked Aunt May to look that younger, but the actress pulled off pretty well with the scenes she got. Liked Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben.

-Flash Thompson could have been a bit more of a jerk (unless there was more at the beginning and I missed) before showing his nicer side. Also nice shirt in the end lol, they really did their homework on this.

-Skinnier Spider-Man looks better to me. Liked the way he moved, too. Oddly enough, the costume didn't bother me too much, guess I had already gotten used to overlook the Raimi one, with that texture that always bugged me.

-Kinda hoped the whole thing with Peter's father wasn't gonna be too important on the story. Oh boy was I wrong.

-Yay for no organic webbing! ...Except Oscorp/Pete's dad made it, so... almost same bullshit, on principle. I liked the quips, pity it was basically all in the trailer, as far as I recall. So, kinda.. same same?

-I think someone here mentioned they should have included Dr Connors' family somehow, and I definitely agree, but I really liked him personality-wise. Didn't like the Lizard at all. Also wasted potential for minion lizard cops mayhem. Really, Hollywood? Really?! It's Spider-Man, you have the budget/extra 5-minute screen time. And indian Oscorp executive guy could have been a cameo... or maybe it was and I didn't recognize the name?

-I liked the parts where Spidey gets help, specially since he's still a kid beginning the superheroing carreer.

-Is every movie gonna end on a funeral/someone (not the villain) dying?! Because seriously, even in the comics the ratio isn't THAT bad! I liked that for once, the villain ends up in jail though. Oh yeah, and I don't see why they didn't just tie the loose end with Uncle Ben's killer already.

Overall... guess I felt a bit rickrolled from what I expected (probably because NEEEEEEEERD!), but it was a pretty fun movie. Totally worth watching.

>>34057
Could be worse, I think it was less than in any of the Raimi movies.

>>34051
The Jackal?
Or dare I say, maybe... Mephisto? Sorry, couldn't help it.

>>34082
Well crap I forgot
>>34079
>>34081
Pete could have ended the movie selling some photos and starting a side carreer as a photograph or something, but the Lizard did a real Card Crush on that. Dammit. It's like we barely see the Batcave in Nolan's Batman movies.

>>34082
> Oh yeah, and I don't see why they didn't just tie the loose end with Uncle Ben's killer already.
They've said they want to use the entire trilogy to explore Spider-man's origin, so that and what happened to his parents is going to be a running theme and keep popping up in the next few movies.

>>34034
>Emma Watson (Gwen Stacy)
uhh...

>>34034
>Emma Watson (Gwen Stacy)
uhh...

>>34084
But How do they do that when SHIELD, Nick Fury, and the Red Skull are all off the table for Sony?

>>34081
>No, I'm actually okay with that. JJ is great, but you introduce too much of the mythos all at once and the story gets too dense.

You know, that's a good point. I think the introduction of the villain was a little bit too much, even. I would have honestly left out Connors and just had the move be about Parker coming to terms with what he has to deal with as a superhero. After all, Spiderman was written to introduce a more personable element to the superhero yarn, so we see what he has to deal with as an individual, blessed with super human skill.

>>34085
Oops. How did I confuse Stone with Watson?

>>34087
By basing it off the Ultimate Universe. It's basically Ultimate Spider-Man: The Movie.

>>34087
Wait what... were they in Peter's parents story in the comics? Never read that part.

>>34092
Actually SHIELD is all over the ultiverse, no?
I can see they probably took a few factors from it... that's probably the cause of at least half my problems with the movie.

>>34068
To be honest, most of my gripes could be summed up in this entire review, and far more eloquently (ironically).
THere were moments were it was definitely an improvement over the Raimi films, but it just kinda fell flat for me.
It was fun, but forgettable. And as the reviewer pointed out, take out all the Spider-Man scenes, and Peter's still kinda the same creep he was in the beginning. In fact, he didn't even feel all that geeky; more douchey loner-type than anything. I appreciated they at least made him crack wise and actually have a brain when it came to science, though.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/diamanda-hagan/other-stuff/35858-the-amazing-spider-man-vlog

>>34120
But she scares me...

I agree with the director with the whole "we can't make him an ugly nerd who gets beaten up, because nerds are actually sort of cool now" thing. Times change. And I think the fact that Gwen had the Twilight books in her room lampshaded the whole "Peter is being creepy" thing. He's a teenage boy, he's irresponsible and unintentionally a jerk and creepy.

Mark Webb is the best name of anyone doing a comic book adaption since Joseph Kuhr wrote episodes of Batman: The Brave and The Bold.

I liked the Stan Lee cameo, I always do. Just as long as he stays in the Marvel movies he had a hand in writing the comics of, like Spider-Man. I respect the guy but he's gotten an ego as of late.

Was really impressed by Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. I still like the Sam Raimi films (mainly the origin story of the first, all of the second, and a couple parts of the third one), but this is a different take on it, and I liked actually explaining where his parents went. Didn't believe them for a second as high school kids though, but eh. Especially impressed with Garfield as I intentionally avoided The Social Network (maybe that was a mistake? I just thought the idea of a Facebook movie was kind of stupid.)

(Side note: Every time I see Emma Stone or one of the other actors/actresses from Zombieland in something now, I feel a bit of sadness that we haven't gotten any more in that series.)

This was the most subdued I've ever seen Dennis Leary. I liked that the cops and the civilians in every Spidey movie actually did something, I don't believe everyone would always sit around and go "eek, a villain" and run away without doing something. Reminded me of this conversation I saw on a chan awhile back about "don't cops feel undermined because a superhero's trying to do their job for them?"

I liked Connors, and I also got a lot of Otto Octavius vibes from him, although he had serious Super Mario Bros. movie Goomba-face. I don't know how they're gonna top Alfred Molina if they do Doc Ock in this continuity.

Kind of laughed when he said "mother-hubbard" because it made me think of the Engineer from TF2.

Being from New York, I liked them showing the suburbs, too. I hate when people think the whole state's one big city.

Don't think they needed JJJ in this one, but I hope they can get back JK Simmons for him in future ones. Think it all worked out well because he got to do Portal 2 and Legend of Korra and the Farmer's commercials, but I hope if they do get him back it doesn't take away any future Cave Johnson and Tenzin stuff.

http://moviebob.blogspot.se/2012/07/youll-never-guess-what-i-talked-about.html#more
Okay here is more of Bob raging at that movie again, I dont know yet because Im posting this for the nostalgia bombs at the start alone.

> I intentionally avoided The Social Network (maybe that was a mistake?
The Social Network was the single best movie of 2010 and you are severely cheating yourself if you don't watch it at least once.

I rather liked it! I had a few minor gripes:

>The Lizard thing seemed pretty rushed between the first appearance and the final confrontation. There was hardly any breathing time between the fight scenes.

>This is probably the blandest version of Aunt May in any medium. She got better after Ben died, but she never stopped being underwhelming.

>The whole ~what happened to Peter's parents~ subplot. Really not a fan. I know it's probably more based on the Ultimate version but it reminds me too much of the idiotic Peter's-Parents-Were-Secret-Agents thing.

> And yeah, okay, the Lizard's face looked kind of dumb. I liked how he looked and moved other than that, though, and I'm not inclined to be too harsh on it.

Other than that, though, I liked it a lot! Captain Stacy was a show-stealer, and Ben was great too. I liked the comedy, both physical and verbal. And I liked how Peter was socially awkward and it took him a dozen minutes to say something face-to-face, but once the mask went on he could talk a mile a minute.

Most of all, though? I like that Marvel Movie civilians are, by and large, not Marvel Civilians. The equivalent scene was my favorite int he first Raimi film ,too.

>>34170
>The Social Network was the single best movie of 2010

Speaking of the Social Network, Sony should get Jesse Eisenberg to play Harry, because it will amuse me.

>>34176
>The Social Network
>2010
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
these last two years have been the fastest ones ever.

>>34179
And because reuniting him and Emma Stone would be hilarious.

>>34187
You've been into ponies too huh

>>34196
Ye-- We--

...I'm not a brony or anything. I just like the show.

So, finally saw The Amazing Spider-Man, and I have to say that was WAY better than I thought it was going to be, and I liked it a hell of a lot better than the Raimi movies. I liked that they used the lizard, I liked his relationship with Uncle Ben, Osborne being the sort of shadow antagonist (kind of, but not really), Peter's relationship with Gwen, and how they handled Peter and Flash. I really liked how this movie's flash, despite being a dick at first, knew when to cool it on fucking with Peter, and how in the end they were a bit closer to being friends. I especially liked that Gwen wasn't just kind of eye candy and did shit. Emma Stone was fantastic in that role.

That being said there was a few, nit picky things, I didn't like.

- The costume. I still hate that design.
- Uncle Ben doesn't say the full phrase. "With great power comes great responsibility." He says something in the same spirit but... It's just not the same.
- When Uncle Ben dies, Aunt May gets regulated to the background. Why did bother getting Sally Field if you weren't going to utilize her? What little I saw of her was great though.
- Pete seemed more like an Art-Nerd rather than a Science nerd most of the time.
- Spidey took his Mask off and revealed himself to other people WAY too much. He also did a lot of no mask shenanigans in front of a ton of people.
- The lizard had no snout. He looked more like Killer Croc than the lizard.
- The Lizard kept taking off his lab coat. Hell, it slides off him when he breaks into the school, has the fight, then presumably goes back to his lair, grabs ANOTHER coat, only to shrug it off AGAIN when he appears again.
- George Stacey's dying wish is for Pete to stop seeing Gwen. Actually, that's not that bad, and I actually found it kind of funny.
- However it was less funny how the way he gets back with Gwen is to kind of make fun her dad's dying wish, and she's like totally cool with that. She even smiles.
- Spidey wasn't a wrestler. I like that he was inspired by a lucha costume though.

There were also parts of Gwen and Peter's relationship that seemed kind of iffy to me, but that's something I can easily let go. I liked how they handled Ben's death so that Peter can know it was his fault (not really, but it's easy for him to blame himself), but also never really let him get closure from it by eventually stopping the guy.

All in all, I'm just excited for the next one to come out and just hope they get J.K. Simmons to come back as JJJ, since I don't see how anyone else can do that part.

>>34256
>- Spidey took his Mask off and revealed himself to other people WAY too much. He also did a lot of no mask shenanigans in front of a ton of people.
Go back and watch the Raimi movies. He was without mask SO MANY times in those. Need I bring up Spider-Man 2's train sequence? (Not dissing that movie because, damn, I still absolutely love Spidey 2)

>>34257
Because the actors want their fucking face time...
Even if it make the movie stupid.
Thats what made Iron man so great, they make it cool with the in suit shots and flip up visor.

>>34256
>>34257
Honestly, the "Spidey without his mask" thing is sort of a situation like that episode of JLU when Lex Luthor and the Flash switched bodies, and Luthor goes to a mirror with the line "At least I can figure out the Flash's secret identity!" ... "I have no idea who this is." Pete is not a public figure, he doesn't have any major distinguishing characteristics (other than his spider powers) to make him more visually memorable to a stranger, neither his prints nor his DNA are likely to be on file (at least not associated with Peter Parker), and he's distanced enough from the people he catches and/or saves that there's rarely any strong motive to pin to him. George Stacy recognized him because he had met him personally (and even if he handn't, his knowledge of Pete's personal involvement with Gwen might've been enough for a good cop to figure it out from), but he's the only one who had much of a hope of identifying him just from seeing his face.

The cops who did see him (and really, George Stacy's the only one who got a good look, because he was moving around a lot when the others saw him) could probably track him down if hard-pressed to do so. Certainly they would be able to say that he was young, probably in his twenties or earlier, white, and they could probably give his hair color, which would bring the number of people to search for down to...let's say five hundred thousand people (I have no idea how correct that is because I don't know the demographics of New York that well, it's just a ballpark estimate). Given that and other evidence that could be gleaned from different encounters, it might be enough for the police to catch him, with enough work.

But the average Joe wouldn't have police resources, and the cops might just not consider him high enough priority to dedicate the resources it would take to track him down. Only people who personally knew Pete would have much chance of figuring anything out from the glimpses they caught of him unmasked in this movie.

>>34257
That was not a comparison, though, it's one of the problems he said he had with the movie. Raimi having done it too hardly excuses it.

>>34257

It annoyed me when it happened in the Raimi movies did it too. In fact, it was the worst in Spider-Man 3. Just terrible.

What's your point now?

>>34274
>>34278
What T4 posted is pretty much dead right. This is a film, actors want/need face time. Hell, PRODUCERS want that face time. It's all financial and marketing BS. But my point is, it wasn't as prevalent in this one as in Raimi's. (also, there were FULL STORY ARCS in Ultimate Spider-Man where Pete was in his suit with no mask.)

>>34296
Come on man ultimate's no standard for Spider-Man fans

>>34296

And it bugged me in Ultimate Spider-Man too. I'm not saying that the movie is shit because they did that, only that that's one of the few things I had a problem with, but overall liked the movie. Just because Raimi did it, or Bendis did it, doesn't mean I can't fault this movie for doing it. It's an ongoing problem in the movie franchise.

>>34296

And it bugged me in Ultimate Spider-Man too. I'm not saying that the movie is shit because they did that, only that that's one of the few things I had a problem with, but overall liked the movie. Just because Raimi did it, or Bendis did it, doesn't mean I can't fault this movie for doing it. It's an ongoing problem in the movie franchise.

>>34298
Most superhero movies actually

Just got back from it.

Waste of two and a half hours of my life. Eugh That was not good. The first two Raimi ones were much better and I had my issues with them.

>>34303
Eh, it had flaws but I can't ever call it worse than any of the original trilogy. They all sucked much worse and the characters were much more flat all of them rather than a few of them.

>>34308
I'll agree it was better than the third, but the best Spiderman movie is Spiderman 2 easily.

>>34391
I really have to disagree. It was bad and any redeeming it had was lost with Toby and Kristen as leads. They literally drained any positive points any of the original trilogy originally had.

>>34391
I really have to disagree. It was bad and any redeeming it had was lost with Toby and Kristen as leads. They literally drained any positive points any of the original trilogy originally had.

>>34409
The casting was so mixed in those movies. JJJ was great, Doc Oc was great, and Norman Osborne was great. But Maguire and Dunst were such bad choices. I don't even know what they were thinking casting those two as the leads.

>>34417
I feel Maguire was hampered by the writing rather than failure to fulfill the role, Like when he first started getting the powers and when he had the Black Suit he was NAILING IT, but otherwise it was disastrous.

I probably should have seen it before Dark Knight Rises, but oh well.
Still okay.
Lizard's face was weird, but I guess they didn't think the skin shedding thing would work as well.
I don't know why, but I got this feeling that it took a really long time to get going, and once it did, it realized it didn't have much time left and rushed through it.
But I don't know if that's actually the case, I haven't seen Spider-Man 1 in a while so I can't say for sure if the origin story - boss battle ratio is any better.

Most mediocre, unfullfilling movie I've watched all year.

Like I said on the chan of fours, I liked everything and disliked nothing.

>>34719
Then you are lost.

I was a little disappointed by the lack of banter in the last fight.

>>34732