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Solo said:
And then Harry stealths right outta there :lol
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I don't get this either. Did he just run away really fast? Did he have some kind of cloaking device that we never see again?

No, it's just stupid. Like the rest of the movie. I understand that it was meant to be "ominous" but even a shot of him walking away, his back facing us would have still been ominous and it would have made sense. It was literally pointless for him to disappear like that. It's not like he was trying to get away from Peter, who had already left. He accomplished nothing.

I know I'm overthinking it and the "point" again was to be ominous but just like everything else in the movie it's just there because it can be. Kind of like Deus Ex Butler.

It's also hysterical how Mary Jane should have dumped his stupid ass when he's like "ok, I get it, but I don't need your help" like a total dick and yet it took Harry in his fit of 4th grade angst to get them to "break up." There are so, so many things in that movie that could have been resolved with a couple of lines of dialogue. The whole Harry and Peter shenanigans could have been completely avoided if the fucking butler had told him what happened to begin with, and Mary Jane could have called Peter after the break-up scene and said "btw I only did that because Harry said he would kill you if I didn't"

It's just amazing how stupid the characters are. They're literally robots doing what the story needs them to do. It's just bad writing. I know its meant to be over the top and cartoony but apart from maybe a few exceptions here and there in the first two films I can't really point out any real, pressing character grievances whereas nearly everything that everyone does or says in SM3 is completely ridiculous.
 
Are 3D trailers indicative of the final product in relation to the 3D? If so I won't be seeing this in 3D at all, as even the brief trailer made things in the foreground look like cardboard cut-outs.
 
MattKeil said:
This is pretty much exactly the movie the trailers seem to depict. Hope it's better than that, but it's hard to get excited for ASM when it's sandwiched between Avengers and TDKR.
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How can you take that review seriously following the first paragraph? The writer gives more insight into his bias than he does of the quality of the film.
 
Movies and their international releases are wierd. Spider-man comes out in Japan before North America.... Ok. Meanwhile, The Avengers doesn't release in Japan until August.. How wierd is that?

I guess cuz Sony is Japanese so they don't get screwed in the case of Spidey..
 
BocoDragon said:
Movies and their international releases are wierd. Spider-man comes out in Japan before North America.... Ok. Meanwhile, The Avengers doesn't release in Japan until August.. How wierd is that?

I guess cuz Sony is Japanese so they don't get screwed in the case of Spidey..
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Spider-Man is mega huge in Asian countries.
 
planar1280 said:
2 more reviews, both french again


1st one is negative: http://www.comicbox.com/index.php/news/review-the-amazing-spider-man/


2nd one is positive: http://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-...984?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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I suspect my reaction to the film will fall somewhere between these two...we'll see, though. I have to stop reading reviews, it's going to be hard enough to leave all my preconceptions at the door on this one... ;p

Still not convinced I need to see it in the theater, though.
 
AgentChris said:
Spider-Man is mega huge in Asian countries.
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it is

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Another positive

Despite what I see as oversights in the film’s narrative, The Amazing Spider-Man is an exciting adventure that spins together a great cast and amazing special effects. It doesn’t repeat too much of what we’ve seen before, but adds enough of its own to make it distinguishable and memorable. It’ll be interesting to see where the story and its characters lead us to next, and from what’s hinted at in the post-credits sequence, some of the questions I was left with might be answered in a follow-up.

http://staticmass.net/cinema/the-amazing-spider-man-movie-2012-review/
 
Salvor.Hardin said:
How can you take that review seriously following the first paragraph? The writer gives more insight into his bias than he does of the quality of the film.
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Because none of what he says strikes me as particularly biased, and in fact seems to be a pretty clear-headed take on the situation regarding the Spider-Man film license in general and this Spider-Man film in particular? The trailers make the film look really pedestrian and mediocre outside of a couple of cool effects shots, and I'm really not looking forward to sitting through the origin of Spider-Man yet again.

I certainly don't think they should have stuck with the Raimi continuity, but ASM looks pretty by-the-numbers as far as superhero blockbusters go. Hopefully it does well so they can continue this version of the franchise into a second and third film and build it into the Spider-Man film series the character deserves. And maybe do Venom properly this time.
 
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947790?refcatid=31

A nerdy schoolboy from Queens gets bitten by an altered arachnid -- again -- in "The Amazing Spider-Man," a mostly slick, entertaining and emotionally involving recombination of fresh and familiar elements. With the propitiously named Marc Webb at the helm and a solid screenplay, Sony's reboot of its successful franchise, arriving five years after the last Sam Raimi-directed installment, is gratifyingly more of a drama-with-action than a nonstop assault on the senses. Benefiting enormously from the perfect chemistry of leads Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, this superhero date movie should do boffo biz, though only strong word of mouth can confer must-see status.
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Box office worry:

While this is essentially a remake of Raimi's perfectly good "Spider-Man" (2002), the lure of (excellent) 3D and Imax showings should help rev up fanboys, even if they feel it's something they've already seen; still, such auds might be disappointed by how long it takes to get to the action.
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good job with the fonts sentry

looking forward to this, cant wait. Probably goin for free as well with the free tickets I got for the 3D issues I experienced in Prometheus
 
lol @ that twitchfilm review's first paragraph...

"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!?"

Talk about a stick up someone's ass.
 
Matrix said:
lol @ that twitchfilm review's first paragraph...

"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!?"

Talk about a stick up someone's ass.
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This dude sounds salty about something. He wants to rag on it because it's not Raimi-Man. To me the reboot is necessary, the Raimi-Man series had come to its natural end, and nothing could have saved it. Sony had little choice but to reboot it or lose the franchise. I will agree that a five year gap is not long enough, but as a Spidey fan I will take whatever I will get.

The dude has a very obvious agenda.
 
All that stuff about Sony hating the film must have been bullshit. The "clip-rush" was probably more a result of box-office concern.

Thanks Devin Faraci!
 
Another review

http://boxofficebuz.com/news_full.php?id=5337

3.5/5

The Amazing Spider-man has some well done moments, relatively decent set-pieces, and a strong character in Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey, but with muddled writing, presumably that of three writers given a month apiece to polish things up, lacking threat and a lead who can vary in likability, the film doesn't stand up to the original film series, nor the audience's high expectations of a super-hero in a post-Avengers world. There was an awful lot battling Spider-Man this year, and the film does nothing to dissuade naysayers. It's alright, sure, but it won't be remembered vividly in a decade. Swing and a miss.
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HYPED

don't know if I will watch it in 3d, dolby 3d is kind of terrible.

btw, the other day I was watching Doctor Who and Andrew Garfield was in an ep I think it's season 3 the one with 1930 NY.
 
Error said:
HYPED

don't know if I will watch it in 3d, dolby 3d is kind of terrible.

btw, the other day I was watching Doctor Who and Andrew Garfield was in an ep I think it's season 3 the one with 1930 NY.
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Daleks in Manhtattan which is Season 3. And yes. Im hyped as well.
 
An illuminating piece by the Guardian about how Marc Webb landed the job as Director. Looks like they were looking for someone to replace Raimi while he was working on Spider-Man 4. Ouch.

In truth, Webb must be one of the most extraordinary directorial hires in recent memory: chosen to preside over a $200m budget superhero film, with only one feature under his belt, the manbag-toting, indie romcom 500 Days of Summer. Boasting yards of tortured twentysomething angst, ruminations on urban architecture and British 80s post-punk, and absolutely no explosions, 500 Days of Summer couldn't be a less obvious audition for the Spider-Man job. How on earth did he swing it?

"You know," says Webb, "it was kind of absurd. There was no process of shilling myself." He says Spider-Man was only mentioned casually in a meeting with the studio: "I was interested, of course, but I didn't think they were actually looking for someone. Sam Raimi was still doing Spider-Man 4 at the time." Just as casually, Webb was asked if he wanted to direct it. "With 500 Days I spent six months developing a presentation just to get Fox to back the movie. This was very different."

Webb professes to be unaware of the thought processes that handed him the job ("you'd have to ask the studio"), but his appointment is the latest and arguably most radical in the superhero movies' attempt to get away from mere surface flash; he is the anti-Zack Snyder. Kenneth Branagh (Thor), Jon Favreau (Iron Man), Ang Lee (Hulk) and, most notably, Christopher Nolan are previous beneficiaries of the policy. 500 Days of Summer, with its eye for emotional nuance and delicate structural layering, presumably offered the producers an easily digestible form of realism that they could see being grafted on to comic-book heroics.

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On a personal level, though, you have to wonder: isn't this something of a diversion for a film-maker who has put such value on elaborately intellectualised films, The Graduate foremost among them? Webb once wrote an article for the Guardian saying The Graduate was "permanently fused to my brainstem". If 500 Days of Summer was a genuine stab at a latter-day Mike Nichols, will doing a Spider-Man film mean – dare we say it these days – selling out?

"You know, you can do both. It's just about finding good drama. There's something really exciting, as a film-maker, about doing something on a Spider-Man scale. It hopefully enables you to make more of those Graduate-type movies down the road – but that's not why I did it. It wasn't a strategic decision: you can't spend two years of your life making a movie thinking about how it's going to affect your career.

"It's unbelievably rare to find a film of that quality, anyhow. Mike Nichols has made a lot of movies. The Graduate was, what, his second – how many of them are as good? Nowadays there's a shitty culture of preciousness: people should be allowed to make more films, in a climate that allows risk-taking, and be allowed to fail."

Just not this one, maybe.
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I bet my friend twenty dollars that ASM will outperform Brave at the box office. I told her I felt 99% confident.

Will I win?
 
Feep said:
I bet my friend twenty dollars that ASM will outperform Brave at the box office. I told her I felt 99% confident.

Will I win?
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Lol. Your friend is crazy for taking on that bet. ASM is already tracking to open at more than twice of Brave's opening week. Figure in international BO figures, and ASM is going to end up earning by even more.
 
Even though Spidey is a popular hero, the hype level is quite low for this movie. Mainly due to being a reboot. Most people don't even know this movie exists.

I don't see ASM being front-loaded, so WoM is gonna pull it through (if at all). It will also be interesting to see how it fares once TDKR hits.
 
dmshaposv said:
Even though Spidey is a popular hero, the hype level is quite low for this movie. Mainly due to being a reboot. Most people don't even know this movie exists.
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I think it's more because it was sandwiched by Avengers and Batman. If it was released any other summer, there would probably be a lot more hype.

But this year, the summer was kicked off with The Avengers. The culmination of five movies since 2008, a big superhero crossover event like has never been done before, and pretty much the biggest, craziest, most bombastic superhero movie ever.

Then at the end of the summer, we've got The Dark Knight Rises. The end of a trilogy that started in 2005, and undoubtedly darker and grittier and more dramatic than The Avengers.

Avengers and Batman cover the beginning and the end of the summer, and they cover both extremes of the superhero movie spectrum. Whereas Spider-Man kinda falls in the middle, both in terms of release and in terms of tone. Plus it's a reboot going up against two big events that have been built up for years.

It's like the most unfortunate situation for any superhero movie to ever be in.
 
KevinCow said:
I think it's more because it was sandwiched by Avengers and Batman. If it was released any other summer, there would probably be a lot more hype.

But this year, the summer was kicked off with The Avengers. The culmination of five movies since 2008, a big superhero crossover event like has never been done before, and pretty much the biggest, craziest, most bombastic superhero movie ever.

Then at the end of the summer, we've got The Dark Knight Rises. The end of a trilogy that started in 2005, and undoubtedly darker and grittier and more dramatic than The Avengers.

Avengers and Batman cover the beginning and the end of the summer, and they cover both extremes of the superhero movie spectrum. Whereas Spider-Man kinda falls in the middle, both in terms of release and in terms of tone. Plus it's a reboot going up against two big events that have been built up for years.

It's like the most unfortunate situation for any superhero movie to ever be in.
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Or maybe because it's a rebooted franchise headed by a relatively untested director and fresh new cast? The bit about it being sandwiched by The Avengers and DKR doesn't mean much really.
 
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