Comments on: Watch: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Presents A Not So Amazing Origin Story & Wonky POV Web Work

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Did SONY yank the trialer down? It won\’t play for me, anywhere. Anyone have a link???

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

this looks boring….the lab set looks just like the raimi movie….

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

I think it looked pretty good. I don\’t know about tailoring to a younger audience though. Wasn\’t one of the points of the reboot to make it darker and grittier? The cast alone should make it better than the previous trilogy. Those films contain some of the worst acting ever.

By: BuntyHoven

BuntyHoven — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

MOOOOOOOODY. I thought Webb was gonna give it a light touch? Looks emo as hell. Does seem pointless to go over the origin again. That said, people do like that sort of thing. Designing the costume,etc.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

For the record, this Playlist writer likes it too. I like the darker mood and don\’t mind the emo-ness. I\’m not really down with the gimmicky POV thing and hope it doesn\’t permeate the entire film.

By: BuntyHoven

BuntyHoven — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

The POV thing reminds me a LOT of the 3D Spider-Man ride they have at Universal Studios in Florida.

By: Adam Siennica

Adam Siennica — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

I think that someone posted it a little too early on movie list 🙂 Because it has been deleted 0_o It looks ok. Waiting for HD.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

No, it\’s not deleted. It just takes a billion years to load. Patience.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Looks much better than the tacky Raimi movies. I\’m in.

By: rotch

rotch — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it really boring that it\’s an origin story again. Reboot- wise, they could\’ve taken the Incredible Hulk rout and not re-tell the origin.

And yes, I was also hoping for a lighter tone.

By: chaz bono

chaz bono — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

wow, this looks….awful.

interesting choice to just show the rehash of the origin and then a CGI POV shot, especially since the spin about this movie was that they use live stunts and less CGI.

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Someone needs to put this character to rest. Hasn\’t the world had enough Spiderman for a lifetime?

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

I will watch… but I don\’t think will be that bigger. And this POV looks like a game. Looks little boring. I like Emma Stone, I like Andrew Garfield….

By: PapushiSun

PapushiSun — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

So they\’ve decided to darker and edgier?
That\’s disappointing.

By: hmm

hmm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

How the hell can someone hate on this yet like Raimi\’s film?

POV is badass

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

I\’m gonna bawl like a baby when Sheen\’s Uncle Ben dies. Perfect casting.

That being said, cinematic origin stories are tedious. Raimi\’s series has its flaws, but its origin story was fresh and engaging enough to not be tedious. Hell, if everyone\’s going to retroactively knock Raimi\’s series, feel free. Spider-Man 2\’s arguably the best live-action superhero film thus far.

By: adm g

adm g — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

they couldn\’t have waited another ten years? i\’m bored already.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

YouTube version now added

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

coming from a major spidey-fan, this looks dreadful. Andrew garfield, as good as he was in \”the social network\”, looks like an absolute miscast. Truly just a terrible choice, I literally cringed during the trailer. And maybe the POV shot would have been cool like 10 years ago. And to think the screenwriters were aiming for a realistic movie with real dialogue…

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Hmmm spider-biters.
If you say this looks bad and you say you love Raimi\’s, you are lying to yourself one way or the other.

This looks by any standard, perfectly good. I agree the \’serious origin story\’ has become de rigueur for superhero films, but, especially in comparison to hokey disaster of Spiderman 3, I\’ll take it.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

I like it. I don\’t understood people who are saying they wanted a lighter tone……I mean, Spiderman traditionally has a light tone, and its been done in the Raimi movies, so why not try something different? Plus, I suspect the POV stuff might play a lot better in 3D on the big screen. Too early to say, obviously, but i think at the very least I\’m going to like Garfield a lot more than McGuire.

By: seth

seth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Why waste a film of these reboot sereis on another origin? It\’s going to be the same origin since Spider-Man debuted. Do an origin montage in the credits and hit the ground running.

Treat these reboots like the James Bond films or like a new creative team coming onto the comics. More continuing adventures with a rotating cast & direction every few films instead of starting from scratch every trilogy.

They don\’t have to contradict or even acknowledge the previous movies but at the very least, they don\’t have to keep doing the origin. Just tack \”Amazing/Spectacular/Sensational\” on the title to differentiate from the previous series.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Right on, Seth. Who wouldn\’t enjoy seeing a standalone cold open with Spidey foiling a bank robbery by a set of lesser-known villains, like Rhino or Scorpion, for instance. It seems like the James Bond template would fit comic book adaptations like a glove (Spielberg and Lucas refined the formula with the first two Indy flicks).

You could argue that the Joker/bank sequence from TDK operates in a similar manner, but it\’s not a cold open and works directly into the narrative of the film.

By: chaz bono

chaz bono — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

\”Hmmm spider-biters.
If you say this looks bad and you say you love Raimi’s, you are lying to yourself one way or the other.\”

actually, you are way off. The fact that this already exists in Raimi\’s version is what makes this so irrelevant and lame. When Raimi\’s came out, it was new, different, and original.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:10:45 +0000

Hmm, I think the POV thing works really well when he leaps off a building, but when he\’s running? It feels like a stupid video game. I really hope they don\’t overuse it. Fingers crossed they just used an extended cut ofit for the trailer, and we\’ll only get one shot like that in the finished movie.