Thought this deserved it's own thread. I'm very cautiously optimistic about this. I wasn't a huge fan of Sam Raimi's movies. They weren't terrible by any means, but I never felt the need to rewatch them or see them in theaters. This one has me actually excited for some reason. What do you guys think?
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Jul 20 2011 02:19 pm
I do enjoy me some Spiderman.
Hope it turns out good.
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Jul 20 2011 03:30 pm
I'm currently at "Wait for DVD" with this thing.
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Jul 20 2011 04:07 pm
It has a Coming Off Age Movie feel to it. The first person scene must kick ass if the film is in 3D. Well, it looks good so far, i think i'll check it out if it comes to cinema. I like the actor that playes Peter Parker more then Tobey Maguire.
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Jul 20 2011 07:43 pm
i like the mirrors edge feel to the first person views
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Jul 20 2011 08:40 pm
Spiderman is my all time favorite and I'm a little annoyed at how the handled certain aspects of the last films so I'l l definitely check this out.
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Jul 24 2011 10:13 am
Yeah the other Spiderman movies pissed me off as well the only redeeming quality was Toby Maguire was a good high school Peter Parker even if he fell short on Spidey's or even grown Peter Parker's personality.
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Jul 24 2011 01:00 pm
In the first batch of movies, I didn't like how virtually every action scene was in CGI. I realize that pretty much everything Spiderman does would be difficult to create without CGI, but still......I liked how in the Dark Knight, you still felt like you were watching a human being for most of the action scenes. I'd like to see superhero movies take a step back in that direction.
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Jul 24 2011 07:22 pm
Ice2SeeYou wrote:
I liked how in the Dark Knight, you still felt like you were watching a human being for most of the action scenes. I'd like to see superhero movies take a step back in that direction.
I'd like to see all non-animated films take a huge LEAP back in that direction. The computer effects will never look as convincing as something that actually exists in the real world and interacts with the light and suroundings.
And from the trailer, I'd give this movie about 20% chance of being really bad, 60% of being bland and forgettable, 15% same as Raimi's, 5% better than.
But I have been thrown off before by really bad trailers for really good movies, so who knows...
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Jul 25 2011 09:47 am
My only concern is that an origin story told again so shortly after the previous one was told might not leave enough time to be able to clear the old out of the brain and accept the new.
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Jul 25 2011 11:53 am
I really like the actor they picked to play Parker. He's talented. That's at least a step in the right direction.
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Jul 25 2011 12:03 pm
The first person perspective in the trailer is fucking annoying. I'm not playing a video game, I'm watching a movie. It's my understanding that there was supposed to be alot of that in the movie as well, but I hope I'm wrong.
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Feb 27 2012 10:34 pm
This movie looks good.
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Mar 15 2012 01:26 pm
The Raimi films were Sony Spider-man. Now the rights are reverted to Marvel (I know: Disney) which means, IMO, it will be closer to the comics - and the cross franchise tie-ins can happen. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for a cameo in Avengers.
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Mar 15 2012 03:00 pm
The rights are not reverted this is a sony production.
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Mar 15 2012 03:06 pm
So much for that then.
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Mar 16 2012 12:40 am
There's a lot less of a likelihood I'll see this than The Dark Knight Rises. There's only so many ways that you can re-do an origin story, and like him or not, Sam Raimi is a director with a lot of work under his belt and who's had a lot of solid successes; Marc Webb, other than directing (500) Days of Summer, has done some music videos and a TV pilot. Who knows, the guy might knock it out of the park, but call me skeptical. I'd hope that it's closer to the comics origin story [SPOILER:894f5adf21]but since it's about his father being involved with Curt Connors and him investigating that, so it's more than likely yet another jumbled re-envisioning.[/SPOILER:894f5adf21]. Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to give it a chance, but I may well wait for it to come out on DVD as well, especially since 3D nauseates the fuck out of me in a physical sense.
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Jul 05 2012 11:42 pm
So this came out. Has anyone seen it? Wanna hear some of your thoughts. I doubt I'll get a chance to catch it in theater, but I'm still curious.
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Jul 05 2012 11:46 pm
The consensus I hear is that the story is pretty meh, but the action scenes are good, and the actors for Gwen and Peter did a really amazing job.
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Jul 06 2012 12:08 am
I'm watching it tomorrow, but yeah, I hear the biggest gripe with the story was that they added a lot of things that don't actually go anywhere.
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Jul 06 2012 05:12 am
i will probably wait til the Dark Knight movie comes out and then i'll sneak into this one afterwards. overall, mostly good reviews
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Jul 06 2012 11:21 pm
Just saw it today. And I gotta say, I think the main complaint I got about the movie was completely unfounded. It's /not/ the classic Spiderman's story, but that was expected. I really liked it, and not just because "the battles are awesome", like I was told (They are, they really explored Spidey's 3D fighting capabilities, but it's not the only redeeming quality of the movie, to me ). Spider doesn't take himself as seriously as in the former movies, and isn't as "honor bound", and I kinda like the character like that
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Jul 07 2012 12:25 am
Sehkmaenzo wrote:
Just saw it today. And I gotta say, I think the main complaint I got about the movie was completely unfounded. It's /not/ the classic Spiderman's story, but that was expected. I really liked it, and not just because "the battles are awesome", like I was told (They are, they really explored Spidey's 3D fighting capabilities, but it's not the only redeeming quality of the movie, to me ). Spider doesn't take himself as seriously as in the former movies, and isn't as "honor bound", and I kinda like the character like that
Yeah. I never read many of the comics themselves, but I thought Spiderman wasn't your typical "I have a responsibility" kind of superhero, but more just a goofy guy who happened to get bit by a radioactive spider.
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Jul 07 2012 01:03 am
sabotage times had a decent review on the movie. they said best way to go into this is to see this movie as a Marvel "what if" story. http://x.co/lnT6
). Spider doesn't take himself as seriously as in the former movies, and isn't as "honor bound", and I kinda like the character like that 