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The first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man is out. Anyone have thoughts on the movie in general?
Because here are mine! I...don't know about this...I really think it has a high chance of being terrible...Firstly, it's another fucking reboot, which.....we just don't need...I'm also tired of that word, period, being overly-used...It almost has no meaning anymore, other than 'Hollywood Unoriginality™'. Now, before anyone says after Spider-Man 3, they 'had no choice', well, of course they did. SM3 left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, but that doesn't mean there was 'no other choice' that to just start all over again. Besides, they weren't going to do that anyway. Sam Raim and crew were all ready to make Spider-Man 4. For reasons that are still ambiguous and uncertain, Raimi quit the project, and well, since Maguire and Dunst were pretty much onboard only because Raimi was, they were gone, too. So Sony then gives everyone a kick in the balls and says, 'Fuck it, we're starting all over again'. I just don't think that was necessary.
Secondly, I think the movie is just completely miscast. Martin Sheen as...Uncle Ben?? Sally Field is...Aunt May?? Wow. It's like they felt the need to have 'superstar power' to drive the movie because it might suck otherwise (although I doubt Sheen and Field are exactly huge box office draws anymore). Then there's Garfield as Peter. I just...don't buy it. And I don't mean from just this trailer, but elsewhere I have seen him. I don't think he can do it. Also, his hair is terrible and looks like shit in this movie, but that's not a real reason I fear for this movie.
Another thing I think might inhibit this movie is an actual introduction to Peter's parents, Richard and Mary Parker. [thpoilerith text] In the funnybooks, they worked in the CIA, but were killed when an assassin sabotaged their plane. Peter's parents are never mentioned at all in Raimi's movies. Did it matter? No, it didn't. The issue was completely irrelevant to the story. Also, May and Ben, to Peter, were his parents. Isn't that good enough? I'm not saying that getting a glimpse at Peter's parents will automatically be or make the movie 'bad', but again, it's a detail that wasn't important before. Also, in the trailer, you see Peter with a bag that Ben says belonged to Richard, and it makes me think, is Peter going to now start being emo because [Batman voice] his parents are dead?? Again, May and Ben become his parents, effectively, so it just seems weird to me, and makes me wonder how much time are they going to spend having Peter go over something like this when he has parents? I don't think that would be the right way to....'reboot' the series. I just have a bad feeling about it, is my point.
Otherwise, there isn't much else to say about the trailer, anyway. It doesn't give me more hope than I already had, or rather, didn't have, for the movie. The outfit itself, which we've already had glimpses of, also...just looks weird. It looks like a sports uniform, or something. The overall redesign just doesn't really do much of anything. It's not overly 'bad', but I don't see the point of it. Also note they are going with mechanical web-shooters, just like when Spider-Man first started with in the comics. Curiously though, there has to be something to this that we don't know yet. In the trailer, you can see Peter pull some...webbing out of his spider bite? That's what it looks like, anyway. So....can he produce real webbing or not?? I'm not sure what to make of those two pieces that don't add up...
So, in general, I just...have a bad feeling about this movie. I'm afraid it'll suck...I'll reserve judgement, but still...I can't say I'm overly excited about it.
