Oh, is it me, or was the line in the trailer like “my dad has 50 men looking for you. That’s a little excessive…” not in the movie?
I noticed that too. Also the “football is too rough” line.
Saw it and I found it just Okay. The origin took way too long to get off the ground. I kept waiting for them to get to the fireworks factory…er…I mean to the lab where the mutant spider makes Peter into a hero. And once he became Spider-Man I wanted more web slinging and crime busting.
I also thought the villain just wasn’t very compelling. At the end of the day he was just another CGI monster.
I definitely prefer the original one from 2002. That one had more energy, chemistry and a sense of fun (although admittedly I liked how this Spidey was much more of wise cracker. That was something the other movies lacked.).
Movie wasn’t bad but not as good as I was hoping.
Finally had a chance to see the film yesterday.
It was truly horrible.
- Far, far too long.
- Took forever to get through how Spiderman becomes Spiderman, plus we have all seen that before, so most certainly a “been there, done that” waste of time.
- Dumbass lizard was the lamest villain in a superhuman film in ages…not scary, not fun, not particularly well designed either.
- High school story lines were even stupider than what they slap on GLEE. Actually, they should have thrown a slushee somewhere to make this film even have a plot.
- Did I mention that at 2 hours 17 minutes, this was far, far too long - about 2 hours too long as far as I was concerned.
The other most recent Spiderman films were pretty good, but I cannot image anyone over the age of 12 finding this mess worth spending the time and money to watch.
If you have not seen this film and are not sure if you want to see it, my advice is to save your money and wait until this is on TV for free…and even then, I will be surprised it you watch it all the way through and don’t switch channels for something far more interesting - like maybe watching C-Span instead.
Boring, insipid waste of time and money to see in a theater.
Well, I’m glad I didn’t read this before I saw the movie. I just got home from it, and I had a great time. I liked the Peter and Gwen interaction, I liked that Gwen was not a helpless damsel in distress, and I liked the early fighting against mooks in alleys sequences.
I agree that another origin was not necessary. I like the organic webshooters better than the mechanical ones. I kinda got the impression he *stole *the web-juice from Oscorp labs–it was just lying around. And when Spidey and The Lizard are fighting it is too obviously pure CGI.
However, I liked it a lot.
Liked it a lot.
If this was the very first Spider-Man movie, I think it would have been very highly regarded. But between Spidey 1 and 2 with Dr. Octopus, it did feel like familar territory. Still… I really like how they covered the territory.
My biggest beef was how easy it was for random teenagers to slip in and out and lurk around OsCorp.
I saw the movie with my family and we all enjoyed it quite a but. I think it stands quite a but above the Raimi movies. The special effects were worlds better and I prefer Garfield’s Parker to McGuire’s. Those that hated it…well, de gustibus but I sure didn’t see the same movie they did.
I saw it last night and thought it was pretty great. I was a little disappointed that the whole story about looking for the guy who shot Uncle Ben was just abruptly dropped, but I can write that off to Capt Stacy pointing out how obvious he was being and Peter deciding to lay off that for a while.
I couldn’t help but feel like the Lizard’s plot was more than a little similar to Magneto’s in the first X-Men movie, but it’s not a huge deal.
Quite a BIT, not but. Damned autocorrect.
My husband and I just saw it. Shouldn’t Gwen just have broken the spread-the-lizard-gas device? She had fire, plus plenty of heavy looking objects to break it with. Maybe she could have tossed it out the window, even. Yeah, yeah, then the police wouldn’t have been cured, but still.
My husband liked the movie, but I didn’t.
If he ever is in an Avengers sequel, get Joss Whedon to write his dialogue.
You might as well ask why they had bothered keeping the machine around in working condition all those years, if they had decided they weren’t going to use it. Even if they had decided to keep it just in case, you’d think they’d have it mothballed in pieces in storage somewhere, rather than keeping it ready to run in a corner of their lab.
I’m just wondering how can the police be looking for spider-man, yet not analyze the webs and see where he got them from.
But it’s one thing to keep a machine around in a (theoretically) secure lab after you’ve decided it has too many problems to be worth using; it’s quite another to pass up the opportunity to destroy it when you know a psycho is on his way to use it.
Finally saw it last night. Overall, it was what I expected, which is fine. Lots of familiar territory, but I was in the mood for a *Spiderman *movie.
Small things:
Given that Peter had brought up the idea that radical changes in temperature could affect the Lizard, way before the final fight, it was stupid not to arm himself with fire extinguishers and tell everybody he could to find supplies of liquid nitrogen or whatever.
One thing I really liked - small point, but I think it was intentional - after Peter first gets home after being bitten, he catches a fly by plucking it out of the air. After he lets it go - he smells and almost licks his fingers. Disgusting, but cool. Having spider DNA has bad side effects as well as good ones.
I saw this today and I wasn’t very impressed.
First of all, I enjoyed Raimi’s Spider-Men and so didn’t see any point in a reboot that doesn’t take a fundamentally different approach, as Nolan did with Batman. But I wasn’t thinking about that when I went into the cinema; I expected to enjoy the film.
I suppose my biggest problem with the film is I just didn’t like this Peter Parker. He seems to be trying to look like Robert Pattinson’s character in Twilight. Also his pre- and post-bite characters aren’t as radically different as I felt they should be. Peter is already confident and has some physical ability/daring (inferred from his skateboard) and almost no attempt is made to make him come across as any kind of nerd. We’re told he’s smart but it’s just not convincing. I didn’t really care about Gwen Stacy either. As for Curt Connors, how many times will we see the “well-meaning-genius-experiments-on-himself-and-goes-crazy-about-his-technology” antagonist in these superhero films?
Apart from the characters, I also found the action a little disappointing. The rules for what Spider-Man can do seem to be “what would a 10 year old think is cool?”. Dodging bullets is too much. A football bending a metal post is also ridiculous. A few other things I can’t think of right now also seemed over the top.
Very disappointing.
It just felt like a generic superhero movie. Like they were going down a checklist. Hero discovers new powers? Check. Mutant villain whose alter ego is a friend of the hero? Check. Girlfriend in peril? Check.
Boring.
The score was repeatedly used as a crutch for a lifeless script. There must have been at least five extended segments with no dialogue and just a cloying score telling us how we are supposed to feel.
I loved how the lizard gas bomb kept announcing “Lizard gas bomb will explode in T minus three minutes…” Good of them to include a handy loudspeaker on the device.
And how can you have a Spider-Man movie without his comic foil J. Jonah Jameson? How???
The ONLY way in which this movie was superior to even the least of the Raimi films is that Emma Stone is a far superior actress to Kirsten Dunst.
(Well, OK, maybe the FX are better, too, but the filmmakers can’t take credit for advances in technology.)
I noticed a wedding ring on the villain’s hand. I remember he had a wife and son from the cartoon, but don’t remember if he had them in the comic book. They weren’t mentioned in the movie, anyway.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this. Big mistake!
In the comics, his webs evaporate completely after either an hour or 24 hours, depending on the requirements of the plot. I can totally see them disappearing before some poor overworked CSU tech gets around to analyzing them.
In the comics, JJJ didn’t appear until Spider-Man’s second appearance. They already had quite a bit crammed into this.
For all the praise I’ve read and heard, this really isn’t as great as the first Raimi film (although I too prefer Emma Stone to Kirsten Dunst). Andrew Garfield just doesn’t sell me that he’s Peter Parker the way Tobey Maguire did, and I thought he got too chummy with Flash Thompson a little too quickly. And a skateboard before getting his spider-bite? Not the guy I remember.
Yeah, that bugged the hell out of me, too.