The Amazing Spider-Man

Whether you were replying to me or not, IHTC, trun is right. I was referring to the subtlty of the trailer, how it didn't exploit the comic book imagery until the end, allowing us to see them as people, as characters to be identified with, rather than crazy people flying around in costumes. As cool as a superhero movie is, a character piece is always better.

But I like your parkour comparison regarding that final sequence, that was a fine observation.

from: http://paintmyart.weebly.com/my-preview-re-viewing-blog.html

\"The premise: ...Uhmm.. well.. it\'s ****ing Spider-Man. You have Peter Parker, a mild-mannered teenager / twenty something / middle aged - student / scientist / teacher, who fights crime after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Not much else to it. Oh! Except that absolutely nothing ever goes his way. He\'s just a terrible magnet.. and I don\'t mean that in the way that Peter Parker is terrible at being a magnet, he\'s actually pretty good at it. I mean it in the way that he attracts terrible like Sarah Palin attracts crazy white women.

In a classic beginning to any great story, we see our hero as a young child.. still new and unwise in the ways of the world. His parents leaving him for \"just a little while.\" A little while, indeed. Much the same way that Harry Potter, or even better, Star Wars did, (Spider-man did it first.. and even though Spider-man did it before either, for the sake of the joke, we\'ll ignore that) we have a child left in the care of his Aunt and Uncle. This always turns out well (amiright?). I am assuming that the director chose not to show the deleted scene where Voldemort kills Peter Parker\'s parents, and leaves that to the imaginations of the wide eyed masses.

In a transition that I hope they use in the movie, there\'s a reflection in a window, we see little Parker staring at nothing in particular and then turn into that guy who didn\'t know how to use Facebook, but was co-responsible for Facebook in that Facebook movie about Facebook (Andrew Garfield). He seems like he\'s going to be a fish out of water, but he looks like the coolest kid in the school, so I assume Flash Thompson is going to be a pro wrestler, or I\'m just not buying Andrew Garfield as the bookish, super smart Peter Parker.

The trailer then takes us to the Gwen Stacy\'s. I like pretending that Gwen Stacy is actually named Gwendolyn Gwendy Gwen Stacy, and that \"Gwen Stacy\" is her last name and people call her that because it\'s more chummy and familial. Right, din-din with the Stacys.. I am assuming, as no one at the dinner table knows who Peter Parker is or what he does except Gwen Stacy. Good ol\' G.S. is played by Emma Stone, who is back to blonde instead of Superbad red, but that\'s more than ok because she still looks good. (I assume you\'re not supposed to mention Emma Stone in a review and not mention how good she looks. Because she does. Look good.)

There seems to be an importance placed on a dusty old doctor-looking bag, as they show it off in the trailer as an important link to Peter\'s father.. but Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen, who\'s not a dusty old bag, I love this guy) forgot he had it! Which seems kind of like a gross oversight as they kind of make it seem like he\'s been parent-less for 10 years and a memoir of his father should have come up at some point in the past decade. Also, (SPOILER ALERT) this will probably be the reason Peter allows him to be killed later. \"With great power comes great responsibility.. and with your brother in law\'s duffel bag comes \'**** Peter Parker.\'\" But then they don\'t show us anything except a pager, an old photo and Peter looking sullen, so I guess it wasn\'t THAT important.

Spontaneously, in a bout of reverse super powers, Peter starts sporting his glasses instead of what I assume were contacts, and runs into Gwen Stacy at the lab. Which lab? only THE lab. Only the lab with all the genetically enhanced super animals.. rhinos, scorpions, sand people, electricians.. oh and Rhys ****ing Ifans (probably his real middle name.. further investigation needed) as Curt Connors. Sorry, I mean DOCTOR Curt Connors. Gwen Stacy tells Peter to not get her into trouble, so what does he do? This guy runs around like a mo\' (as in moron), going into places that look like rejected ideas for Cerebro from X-Men, covered in cobwebs, and then gets himself all bit up by a mutant spider with super powers for venom.

At this point, Peter looks like he\'s having a bad day. He becomes a freak in every sense of the word: He goes back to not having glasses. He has spiderwebs growing out of his neck. He hangs out in dark alleys. He climbs and bounces off of walls like he\'s Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle in District B13 part 3. He catches flies and blows off questions from Norma Rae herself, Sally Field (Aunt May). Oh and in a final shot of his tomfoolery, he\'s chillaxing on the ceiling in a subway car. Which is probably fine, because that is actually the most inconspicuous place to be a freak in (I lived in the Bronx for a week, I think that makes me an expert). There is a quick cut to Gwen Stacy in a \"Truffaut-ian\" (yeah, i make up words, what of it?) shot holding an umbrella, staring into the sky. Cut equally quick to a shot of Peter and Dr. Connors getting ready to \"play god.\" At this point I get chills because I know how awesome Rhys Ifans is at being crazy. (see: Formula 51)

There is a hint at the coming romance between Gwen and Peter, but it\'s a split second of what looks to be one of them consoling the other. Probably Peter, because he likes to whine. And then a relatively ripped Peter Parker sewing up what we can only assume is going to be THE suit. Oh, by the way, he must be a master of blind-hem stitching because that thing we see in the trailers and promo shoots is tight as **** in regards to its craftsmanship. So, I\'m adding sewing to the list of things Spider-man can do well: he can jump, react to danger, have super strength, and is a pin-tucking genius. (look it up, it\'s a thing)

After the sewing bee, we are treated to cars flying through the air on a freeway. I assume the Lizard is at play here. Yeah, if the Lizard knows one thing, it\'s how to regrow body parts. And if it\'s 2 things, he knows how to throw a car.

We are then given a sneak peak at Mirror\'s Edge 2: Spider-man. If this isn\'t footage from the upcoming parkour based Spider-man game, I am disappointed. Based entirely on the footage in the trailer, it is either that, or another \"attempt\" at pleasing the 3d loving masses. Did I say \"pleasing\"? I meant \"pandering.\" Either way, I\'ve seen good and bad first person in movies, and I\'ve seen good and bad first person in video games. This looks like a combo of good from video games and bad from movies. This is also the only part of the trailer that made me cringe. The rest of it was AMAZING! (pun intended) It felt like they built up the trailer for this moment with the goose-bump-promising final line, \"We all have secrets, the ones we keep.. and the ones that are kept from us.\" And oh my God, if Garfield\'s delivery doesn\'t give you goosebumps, you are either dead, or you may have accidentally had your eyes open during that first person running sequence that led up to it. Go ahead, go back and watch that part again with your eyes closed. I\'ll wait.

...I know, right?! Goosebumps!

Is The Amazing Spider-man a necessary reboot? Not at all. But hey, they did it. It\'s done. I mean, The Hulk was so god-awfully slow, and filled with WTF?! moments (monster poodle? And I know there was a story arc about hulk dogs in the comics, but that doesn\'t mean use it!) that people couldn\'t praise Jennifer Connolly for being great as Betty. So, it got an unnecessary remake, luckily it was a nice example of the unnecessary remake that was for the best. It just sucks Ed Norton can\'t play well with others. His loss, Mark Ruffalo\'s gain. Or, and I\'m saying it, I don\'t care if Hugh Jackman was in it as Wolverine, I am calling it a reboot.. but the X-Men got an unnecessary reboot as well with Saved by the Bell: the New Class.. almost right after Wolverine Origins and less than 5 years after X3. This time, despite the amazing efforts of Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, this unnecessary reboot was just a complete letdown. So this Spider-man business could go either way.

Now, is The Amazing Spider-man going to be a well done piece of cinema and entertainment? I\'m willing to bet my ten to thirteen dollars on it and check this out once or twice. Fingers crossed!

Release Date: July 3, 2012\"

Really excited for this! If anyone is pondering what the music is from 1:10 to 1:40, it's Emanation by Brand X Music.

What?...

That was an observation I made independently, by myself. I wasn't replying to Gaff1229.

Besides, that's why I included "for anyone who didn't know better" in the sentence, meaning someone who had missed that George Stacy called him "Mr. Parker" and then Gwen called him "Peter" AND also wasn't very familiar with the origin of Spider-Man, so that spider bite would not have clued them in [a small percentage of people].

Either way, I wasn't replying to Gaff1229 and I was basically saying only dolts wouldn't have known it was a Spider-Man trailer until the end. The reflection was a cool way to show the audience the suit.

"Also, for anyone who didn't know better, that final shot and the swing before it would have let them know it was a Spider-Man movie [some people aren't the brightest]. "

I think you misunderstood Gaff1229's comment. He said that were it not for the mention of Peter Parker's name, it might take people LONGER to realize it was a Spider-Man trailer. Meaning some might not realize it until later on in the trailer. Not that they'd watch the whole thing through and never realize it.

And I agree. If not for the mention of Peter's name, and had I seen in this the theater first, I probably wouldn't have realized it was a trailer for a Spider-Man film until the spider bite scene came along.

Sony should have stuck with Raimi and Maguire instead of a new cast. I enjoyed the previous 3, but Ill be skipping this one.

Well first off, all of you complaining about this being a reboot should just butt out in the first place because you obviously dont understand the character enough to see why this Character had to be rebooted.

I am going to say yes I am a Spider-man fan from since I was 8 years old and have been collecting Spider-man ever since for 26 years now and I did love the first "TWO" Raimi movies.
Yes they did have their flaws....Hardly any sign of Spidey's since of humor and banter while taunting his enemy , No Mechanical Web Shooters, MJ Before Gwen, but still these first two movies were fine.....BUT NOT PART 3....that movie basically ruined a good thing with two major ****ed up flaws....I am not talking about dancing or Emo Parker either, that was bad but not franchise/character crushing bad, not even (WHILE HORRIBLE) a watered down Venom, .....WHat really was the killer for any true Spider-man fan is the fact that Sandman was responsible for Uncle Bens death and it was of all things "AN ACCIDENT" and having Peter forgive...That basically bastardized the true essence of why Peter is Spider-man, that would be like messing with the fact that only one of Bruce Waynes parents were killed yet he still wanted to avenge one of them by being Batman ...Thats not the same feel to the character. So my friends that is exactly why "we" >>> TRUE SPIDER-MAN Fans (Not you noobs that just know the Raimi films) need a reboot.

Not to mention this new AMAZING SPIDEY FILM (Aside from the minor 3D gimmick which might be good once the CG is fully implemented and tweeked) looks like it took some ques from Batman Begins and is going to develope characters you truely care for, and that will lead to a powerful story in the sequel where you must assume Gwens going to die at the hands of Green Goblin....so stop fussing about having to see an origin again, I assure you it is going to be richer and deeper than Raimi's first film....as long as this franchise Spidey stops revealing his identity to every damn villain he fights (CHRIST)...Nuff said

NUFF SAID

Yeah, I watched a few clips on YouTube because I heard people making this comparison before. The reason the camera looks at the legs during the jump is so the audience can get a sense of actually jumping between two skyscrapers in 3D, as in they were really Spider-Man as dizzying heights. The industrial props is what you would find at the top of buildings [seeing as how both the game and this scene take place in similar settings, that makes sense]. The slide underneath the pipe is clearly stolen from baseball when they sliede into a plate [I can't believe they would steal from baseball of all places]. Kidding. I'm sure people doing parkour have used that technique before. He crawled on the bottom of the plank, she didn't, did she? I think the mirror shot at the end was the only cool way they could have really intorduced Spider-Man during a FPPOV sequence. Also, for anyone who didn't know better, that final shot and the swing before it would have let them know it was a Spider-Man movie [some people aren't the brightest].

I can't believe people are suprised by this reboot. I thought it was old news. I loved the first and Second spider man movies to death, but they took the third one too far outa control. ...so wataya gna do. I think he looks just like Peter Parker

dog ****... the other trilogy is still fresh, and struck me with more style and comic book revelance... this looks like a chunk of poop...

Really.... the old spidey movies are still fresh in mind and now someone churns out this crap. You can't remake a movie that young. HOLLYWOOD Truely is dead.... no originality anymore. All rebooths and remakes. Definitly not paying for this one....smh

Well, the fact is that it's not *just* a first person angle. The camera looks at the legs right before the jump, the industrial props, the slide underneath the pipes, the plank where he climbs on... my goodness, even the mirror shot at the end.
Allow me: take a *good* look at this clip (http://tinyurl.com/3r7epuf) and tell me again that it's *just* another first person shot.

I was VERY skeptical at first, thought that 10 Years wasn't enough for a "REBOOT," and even though I like Tobey Maguire more than Andrew Garfield, I honestly think this was a good trailer, and it looks to be a good movie.

That "First Person Spidey Shot Sequence" was pretty good, reminds me of all those "CHUCKY" movies, what we use to call "CHUCKY VISION," nice touch Marc Webb.

Really? So, every first person angle shot from now on will be stolen from Mirror's Edge? Pull the video game out of your ass. Even if they did get the idea from that game and that game alone, who the **** cares? It worked pretty well.

I just hope that they show how much of a gab he is. He doesn't shut up, he talks to himself constantly .. that is the peter is. behind the mask I mean. :)

It looks awsome but why not a spiderman 4 movie with this actor and go on where it was ended with new enemy's and not again from the start!
Why is it that the movie's they make are reruns form a old 1 or why they make movies part 1,2,3 and then they go back to the "beginning"?....,cant they make no more an original movie!?
Look at X-Men for example...part 1,2,3 and now how it started.........!
I like the marvels that they turn in to movie's,but keep it up and keep going with that and not go start a title with Bla Bla the beginning!
Look at captain america or green lantern,all new and original real movies,because there are so mutch more marvels that are waiting to become a real movie!

Peace.

Interesting.

What I like is the fact that if you saw this playing in the previews, and they hadn't mentioned his name, it might take someone a little longer to realize that this trailer was for a Spider-Man movie. It looks like they went ahead and adopted the Ultimate Spidey plotline, which hopefully pays off.

And I'm glad they went with analog webshooters with this version. As long as it fits logically into the plot.

i kinda like the way they corrected a minor detail which was not in the first 3 movies. The web shooters! :P

The entire videogame Mirror’s Edge is like that. Check the link in my comment (or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N1TJP1cxmo and see for yourself).
And what an awesome game, I might add.
So, big companies like Sony are blatantly copying from videogames, now. Wow. How cheap.

No one has found a good Peter Parker.
But, theis movie looks better than the other ones, they were not they great.

I'm a soider-man fan ...man. and I have no choice but to hope for the best! THIS ...kinda excites me.

I hope it turns out well

This looks awesome. That first person sequence and the mirrored building reveal was genuis. It looks like this will be done right... and done seriously with reverance. Not like that campy Sam Raimi crap.

Why do they insist oin churning out the same rubbish again and again.

Mirror's Edge

Looks good, but kinda down that it is a complete reboot. I thought they would do a short intro for the origin and get on with a new story.
The first person Spidey with the CG hards make me think of the first person shooter scene in Doom. Thought yep this is a gimmick to sell the 3D tickets.
I'm a fan so I will see it anyway, and yes in IMAX3D.

im honestly impressed, the 1st person sequence was amazing n would probably be the only film i would pay for . Andrew Garfiled seems like a really suitable replacement to tobey and im really exicted to see more.

well done marc webb :D