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The "new" "Amazing" "Spiderman"
Last year, there was a Spiderman reboot. Did you hear about it? Maybe not, because the Broadway Spidermusical was still grabbing headlines with its string of unfortunately disasters and general crappiness. This new movie has that cute girl from 21 Jumpstreet, and Dennis Leary, and some kid I'd never seen before. There was also a fun appearance by C Thomas "Ponyboy" "The Reaper" Howell. That was unexpected.
This movie was not too sucky. I wouldn't say it was great, but I've surely seen worse comic book movies. Daredevil, GhostRider, Green Lantern, and Catwoman all come to mind. The Lizard was the main bad guy, and was played by Xenophilius Lovegood. Neat, eh? He was like Doc Ock, in that his own technology ran away with him. Gwen Stacy is smart in addition to being pretty. Aunt May was Sally Field, and Uncle Ben is Martin Sheen. And he never actually says that stupid line the other Spiderman movies say over and over.
Stan Lee did cameo, but didn't appear to have much other involvement. In the Tobey MacGuire series, Lee gave them drawings of all the important, memorable Spiderman poses to make sure they all made it in to the movies. That clearly did not happen here. I'm not sure I saw any of the Spiderman poses I remember--not that I was ever a giant fan of the comics. But I was WAY into the cartoons when I was a kid.
There's a sequel coming wherein Chris Cooper will be playing Norman Osborne. That should be wicked cool. I won't quite agree that it was Amazing, but it was entertaining enough.
This movie was not too sucky. I wouldn't say it was great, but I've surely seen worse comic book movies. Daredevil, GhostRider, Green Lantern, and Catwoman all come to mind. The Lizard was the main bad guy, and was played by Xenophilius Lovegood. Neat, eh? He was like Doc Ock, in that his own technology ran away with him. Gwen Stacy is smart in addition to being pretty. Aunt May was Sally Field, and Uncle Ben is Martin Sheen. And he never actually says that stupid line the other Spiderman movies say over and over.
Stan Lee did cameo, but didn't appear to have much other involvement. In the Tobey MacGuire series, Lee gave them drawings of all the important, memorable Spiderman poses to make sure they all made it in to the movies. That clearly did not happen here. I'm not sure I saw any of the Spiderman poses I remember--not that I was ever a giant fan of the comics. But I was WAY into the cartoons when I was a kid.
There's a sequel coming wherein Chris Cooper will be playing Norman Osborne. That should be wicked cool. I won't quite agree that it was Amazing, but it was entertaining enough.