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"I like when he fought the big lizard"
this guy knows his source material
He's 11.
"I like when he fought the big lizard"
this guy knows his source material
Hmmm, well we'll see. Waiting game now, could go either way.
Haha, I thought the same thing. They obviously went in with very low expectations and came out with a 'hey it wasn't that bad' feeling. :lol at those kids though.That last one obviously being a gaffer.
He's 11.
"I like when he fought the big lizard"
this guy knows his source material
He's 11.
He is 11 after all
"I like when he fought the big lizard"
this guy knows his source material
This OT might be better than the movie.
The 6 day tracking numbers are good but what is the general thinking on the three day/opening weekend number?
If the studio is (likely low ball) estimating $125m for the 6 days is a guess of $60-70m for the weekend a solid shout?
Nothing in the previews so far have me wanting to watch this. I'll wait on reviews. It'll need a metacritic of over 85% to take my money.
Did someone say gifs? ...... no? Ahh who cares;Nothing in the previews so far have me wanting to watch this. I'll wait on reviews. It'll need a metacritic of over 85% to take my money.
I knew he would beat the lizard.
Did someone say gifs? ...... no? Ahh who cares;
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did someone really just quote 7 gifs?
did someone really just quote 7 gifs?
Junior junior, something junior.
99% of the audience that go and see this will be saying the same thing.
The Bottom Line
This satisfying reboot slings a darker Spidey, a stronger romance and a welcome slew of tongue-in-cheek humor.
Leaping back onto the screen with a new cast, crew, costume and a whole new array of daddy issues, The Amazing Spider-Man reboots the top grossing Marvel franchise to altogether satisfying results.
Directed with emotional depth and plenty of comedic touches by Marc Webb (no pun intended), this somewhat darker depiction of your friendly neighborhood superhero inserts a touching portrait of adolescent angst into an otherwise predictable dose of CGI-fueled action, with stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone breathing new life into Stan Lees 50-year-old creation. With a stateside release set on the cusp of an extended Independence Day holiday, one hardly needs Spidey-sense to predict huge worldwide returns for Sony in the first frame, although long-term theatrical may be hindered by the arrival of Warners The Dark Knight Rises only two weeks later.
This satisfying reboot slings a darker Spidey, a stronger romance and a welcome slew of tongue-in-cheek humor.
Review reads more like a 4, possibly 4.5 though.
oh it's just a summer blockbuster popcorn CG thing, he needs to keep his critic cred up.
I'm watching Spider-man 3 right now. I used to think it was just MJ that was stupid in this movie. No. Everyone is stupid in this movie but she's probably the most sensible. Watching Peter and Harry argue is like watching kids during recess. It's pitiful. And the whole "break up with Peter or I'll kill him" section is like watching a bad soap opera complete with the horrid dialogue that you'd find on Days of Our Lives.
But then you get the "how's the pie" part and it's awesome.
I still can't believe they rebooted the series....4 could have easily made up for 3, but alas if you can't fix it reboot it.
On one hand, The Amazing Spider-Man certainly delivers the minimum required of its expensive genre, and those who just want another fix of super hero action with a bit of heart will probably have a good time with it. But, it's never at all jaw-dropping, stunning or even particularly exciting. It's the type of film that's not painful to watch and equally easy to shrug off -- probably not worth any serious vehemence or scorn. And yet, after I walked out of the Paris premiere, there was this part of me that just wanted to scream: As if the idea of re-booting a franchise that wrapped five years ago wasn't cynical and unnecessary enough, you then drop $215 million plus on this mediocre waste of time that offers nothing new and fails to measure up to its predecessor in almost every way?? HOW DESPERATE DO YOU THINK WE ALL ARE!?
So yes, this new iteration of the web slinger's origin is, I suppose, serviceable, but it also feels like a clumsy, uninspired cash grab, one which lurches through virtually all of the story beats from Sam Raimi's original, but never manages the freewheeling exuberance that propped that movie up even when it lost its footing. Sure, its got a darker color palate, a new villain, and some arbitrary changes to the back story, but nothing in the film is anywhere near diverting enough to justify the existence of the thing. Worse still, the charm, humor and melodrama that Raimi weaved into the action so deftly all feel forced and cloying this time around.
Sadly, Garfield is strangely charmless once he's suited up. Part of it certainly has to do with the weak material he's given (Example one liner: "Ohhh. Somebody's been a bad lizard!"), but I also wonder if his acting style is simply too subtle to come across once he's behind a mask. Then there's The Lizard. Dramatically speaking, the character arc is fine, and Rhys Ifan does solid work, though Willem Dafoe's similarly plotted transformation into Green Goblin was still more fun. However, after Cloverfield, The Lost World, Godzilla, and hell, even Alligator, it's near-impossible to do anything visually innovative with a big lizard attacking a big city. And so we're left with a number of action set pieces, which, while often slick, never feel very fresh or exciting.
It doesn't help that director Marc Webb seems to find visual inspiration mostly in one-minute spurts. As a result, many of the action scenes feel like collages of occasionally clever super-bowl commercials, except with more punching and flipping. At certain moments, a 30-second visual gimmick will inspire a bit of wonder or maybe a chuckle, but the scenes always settle back into the mechanical CGI grind. The 3-D is some of the best I've seen though, and its never murky or headache-inducing like so many scenes of The Avengers, so if you're a connoisseur of that sort of thing, take note.
Jammed in-between it all are Parker's parent-issues and his by-the-numbers romantic relationship with the brainy blond Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). This is probably where director Marc Webb was supposed to excel, but the oh-so-precious teen angst sensibility of his previous film, 500 Days of Summer, feels even more forced here, and while Garfield and Stone have nice chemistry in some scenes, the script never raises the stakes enough to make it feel at all genuine or affecting.
There's plenty about the film that's decent -- the cast is all game and, yep, CGI has come a long way since the last Spider-Man movie. The script certainly does have action, emotion, drama and comedy all rolled up into a summer blockbuster spectacular... at least on paper. But the end result is like listening to a robot playing live jazz (at least, what I imagine that's like) -- the notes are all there, but there's no heart or soul behind it to make you care. And yeah, it's a $215 million robot.