Comments on: Comic-Con ’11: The Team Behind ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ On Why The Reboot Was Necessary

By: TimParker

TimParker — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

@PM
I agree 100% with your comment. And honestly even if this story had all the same elements as Raimi\’s first Spiderman movie–Green Goblin, etc.–I would still want to see it because it\’s a different take. I will say I am glad it\’s not the exact same story, but still.
Can\’t wait to see how The Lizard looks!

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

It\’s so unnecessary, and i am kind tired of Spider Man. But I will probably watch.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

All this moaning about retelling the origin story is bullshit. Virtually any superhero movie is basically a story you\’ve seen a hundred times before. Its all in the telling, and in the tale itself.

By: shark

shark — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

I think the reboots are necessary because Maguire and Dunst were terrible. And Garfield and Stone are terrific.Simple as that.

By: Reynard

Reynard — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

Come on. Better reporting please! The real reason they\’re doing a reboot is because the rights will revert back to Marvel if they don\’t keep the character in active development. Same with X-Men and Superman (to the original creators).

By: PM

PM — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

All this bitchin\’ and whinin\’ about this reboot. ARGH. I haven\’t commented once on this reboot, but now I have to (against the fact I thought I convinced myself I don\’t care – I suck at that, I guess).

I want to see this movie. I will go see it. I NEVER liked the Raimi movies. The scripts sucked (again, the second was the best of the three), the CGI sucked, the acting sucked, the tone was inconsistent, etc etc.

Webb (I think they chose him partially because of his name) brought some real gravitas to 500 Days of Summer, and I think he can bring it to Spider-Man. Like it\’s already been said, superhero stories are the same story told different ways. It\’s modern day myth. Greek Mythology was told different ways all the time in their heyday – I mean, even the Romans stole their stories and \”rebooted\” them for themselves!

So in the end, after my rambling, what am I saying? Yes, it\’s a fight to keep the rights for the STUDIOS, but let the artists work and enjoy the fruits of their labour.

By: TimParker

TimParker — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

I think I\’m pretty much alone on this but I\’ve never been a huge fan of the Sam Raimi Spidermans. Interesting, I guess, but kinda cheesy/overdramatic, even the beloved Spiderman 2 had moments of being too standard, going through the motions. So even if it wasn\’t Marc Webb who did an awesome job with (500) Days of Summer, I would still be excited to see a new take on the origin story. And how can you say it\’s the same movie just shot differently? Did Gwen Stacey figure into the movies at all in the same way as this one will? No. And there are 2 characters never filmed before–Proto-Goblin and The Lizard. So it\’s obviously got some new material…

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

They could talk till they\’re blue in the face about how there\’s so many other stories to tell that how could you NOT reboot it. IT\’S THE SAME STORY FROM 9 YEARS AGO, just shifted around and shot differently.

The lengths they\’re going to convince themselves this is important stuff and there\’s a little Peter Parker in all of us is hilarious. This movie is the defining example of the overload of superfluous franchise movies.

I know they need to convince themselves otherwise in order to keep working on it, but their interviews are pure empty blab, talking to themselves.

By: Jeff Otto

Jeff Otto — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:09:19 +0000

@tristan eldritch Truth