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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Comic Books / Film New Spider-Man Trailer Boldly Promises Same Old Spider-Man Who's Possibly Kind Of a Little Bit Different Maybe

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM

Aside from a brief, predictable period in high school when he was replaced by Holden Caulfield, Peter Parker's been my favorite fictional character since I was old enough to know what a Spider-Man was. Which means, I think, that I should be really stoked about The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony's attempt to reboot the webslinger even though Sam Raimi's last spider-movie is only five years old. This time around, Sony's desperately trying to convince us that Amazing is the "untold story"—which mostly seems to hinge on the facts that this time, Peter's annoying parents are going to be involved somehow (UGGGHHH), and now he has mechanical webshooters that have little flashing lights on them. It's a whole new Spider-Man!

I'm legitimately curious about two things here, though: The casting, which seems fantastic across the board, and the humor, which was the biggest thing missing from Raimi's movies. One of Spidey's defining qualities is that he's a smartass, but Tobey Maguire was always too busy moping to crack a joke. Give me a funny Spider-Man any day, and if he just so happens to be in a movie with Denis Leary and Emma Stone? Hell, I might even look past his sparkly webshooters.

 

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Did Spider-Man always have built-in webslingers? I seem to remember mechanical versions at some point, that always got damaged or ran out of juice at the key point in the fight...
Posted by Reymont on February 7, 2012 at 10:40 AM · Report
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spider-man had mechanical webshooters until the sam raimi movies.
this movie looks alright but i don't see why they're focusing so much on peter parker's parents when they aren't really that important to spider-man's story. also, why no j jonah jameson?
Posted by bp baggins on February 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM · Report
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There is a horrible part of me that perversely wants an awesomely terrible Clone Saga movie. It was one of the worst things to ever happen in comics, but I kind of want to watch that trainwreck.
Posted by The Right Reverend Rocktimus Prime on February 7, 2012 at 12:23 PM · Report
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If your character's name is Gwen Stacy, you aren't going to get a role in the sequel. 'Nuff said.

Posted by Number Six on February 7, 2012 at 12:44 PM · Report
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Balls out stoked for a new spider-man movie. Don't love the web-slinging device, but I've always hated web-slinging as device thing. I really liked they did it the other way in the other movies.

I mean, how did he know he was a spider-man without being able to make his own web?
Posted by Fruit Cup on February 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM · Report

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