The Amazing Spider-Man, Now With 100% More Defenestration

I dunno. From these trailers, it seems like PP is much more of a dick in this reboot. Kinda off-putting.

I can’t figure out why he would throw her out the window. It didn’t make any sense, other than just to show off, which I can’t really imagine her being interested in. 

“You’ve found my weakness… it’s small knives!”

I still absolutely love that line.

Why did he throw her out the window?  To get her safely three stories down before he goes and deals with whatever reason he’s in the damn spider costume.

And he seems more like the wise-cracking wise-ass spider-man that I love, that the I’m always sad Peter Parker.  

I think it’s just a bad cut out of context.

He’s supposed to be a dick. The costume is supposed to be freeing and his attitude should be antagonistic. I’m surprised anyone would complain about this after three films of whiny, crying, baby-man, Toby Maguire.

“Whiny, crying, baby-man”? 

Gads. I hope the voice you’re writing in is an ironic and intentional commentary on cultural constructs of masculinity and developmental stasis.

The voice I’m writing in is the voice that grew up with a Spider-Man that didn’t spend three quarters of every film with his mask off, his face scrunched up, tears welling in his eyes. If the movie series was called The Sentimental Spider-man then fine, but it wasn’t. It was quite the disappointment.

Also, I never said that Spider-Man was particularly masculine…fairly, he’s usually played for laughs, the Xander Harris of the Marvel Universe, lanky, sensitive, quick with the funny, and generally disrespected unless someone is looking for an altruistic patriot and Captain America isn’t available.

For the record, one representation of a human being does not an archetype for an entire half of the human population make.

I’d like to add that the “How It Should Have Ended” for Spider-Man 3 particularly nails my complaints with the representation of the character.

I’m more excited for this film than I was/am for Avengers and DKR since I *really* want live-action Spidey to be good again. I practically yelled at the screen during S3 since Topher Grace’s portrayal of Eddie Brock was closer to the authentic Peter Parker (IMO) than Raimi’s soft-spoken interpretation. Thank goodness for the brilliant Spectacular cartoon, which thankfully stayed away from the Clark Kent-in-a-Spidey-costume malarkey.

Yes, I loved the first two like everyone else (minus the Hallmark “what it means to be a hero” monologues from Aunt May in every installment), but that’s kind of because similar to the X-Men films, it was all there was at the time (for me, anyways).

Just like I adored seeing the First Class in proper costumes–unabashedly afraid of its comic book origins–I’m going to love having witty Spidey, a “real” Gwen Stacy (instead of giving her a red wing, an acting gig, and naming her Mary Jane *leers at Raimi-era writers*) and actually dealing w/the fascinating history of Parker’s parents.

Yeah, that is totally how a high school kid looks. I really wish these things would just alter the story in this aspect. I don’t think anyone reads a comic because the character was in highschool. “Batman looks cool but I wan’t a hero that is in high school.” Nope

I hope this is good, but I don’t have a good feeling about this. It is okay if the character screams “look at me!”, but not the script.

I want to give you so many internets.

I really liked Topher Grace’s potrayal of Eddie Brock – even though it wasn’t true to the comics, I think he provided a refreshing change of pace from Maguire. I do think he would have been a brilliant Spiderman, but that lies with the fact that Topher Grace can actually act quite well. 

I did like the first two, but I am dying to see the reboot. It looks like the Spiderman I grew up with – and thank goodness for Gwen Stacy! I think Stone was brilliantly cast. 

Whenever I watch a super hero movie I always evaluate it by the adaptation’s take on the character.  I am fine with the origin or the stories being changed, Whether it’s being adapted to a modern age (Iron Man) or abridged to fit within the movie’s time frame or narrative (The Punisher…The first one…)  Just as long as the CHARACTER is right.

Raimi’s character was off.  It got more off with each movie that came out until the Spider-man in the third movie was hardly connected with the comics (IMO).

In costume, Spider-man is supposed to be the snarky pun machine.  Out of costume Peter loses as much as he wins.  He’s deep, he’s in pain, and he makes sacrifice after sacrifice to be Spider-man.  It makes sense that Peter is a Mets fan; no matter how much he cares or how hard he tries, he just can’t win.

Raimi tried to work with these two, but he ended up cheapening both.

 Foreshadowing?

For those who what happens to Gwen in the comics, I thought it was very interesting in how they did that. They showed Peter’s willingness to web people and to bring them towards him on a few occasions.

When Gwen’s head jerked back after Peter tossed her out a second story window and webbed her just made me imagine imagine her head and neck after falling at terminal velocity. If that’s the route they would want to go.