The Amazing Spider-Man swung into theatres in July of last year, the film wads greeted with much success from critics and fans alike, but then there were the bunch of people who felt the film was missing something, heart? Compassion? A purpose?. Now let me explain this first and foremost, I am a huge
The Amazing Spider-Man fan, I saw the movie at midnight and have loved the film ever since, this is just my take on why it could have been so much more, let us begin:
Back in early 2010, Sony released a statement, which claimed that the Spider-Man franchise would be rebooted and started all over again, fans were outraged but some like myself saw the bright side of it. Sony a couple of weeks later released a press release explaining that the film would be “darker and more edgy, similar to Batman Begins” this statement got me so pumped, I was over the moon, finally we would have a awesome Spider-Man movie. A week later Sony announced that Marc Webb would be directing, me being 12 at the time had no idea who he was and didn’t care, I was just happy we were seeing a new Spider-Man movie. Sony later released another statement saying the series would be a younger take on the series sending the hero back to high school, this got me even more excited. Now if any one know me they would know that the next article will be very tough for me to talk about, Why you ask? Because in this next article I will criticize
The Amazing Spider-Man… Oh god I sound like Grif already.
With
The Amazing Spider-Man being confirmed to be a new take on Spider-Man and sending the hero back to high school this got me thinking, who will be the new Spider-Man? Will it be Logan Lerman? Will it be Taylor Lautner? These questions all came to my mind. Sony released a list with 5 actors who were in final talks to play the role. Those actors were Logan Lerman, Aaron Johnson, Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell and Josh Hutcherson. Garfield was cast. I was very annoyed I mean I still am. I have a man-crush on Andrew Garfield, trust me we all have one, whether it’s Stan Lee’s man crush on Robert Downey Jr or
Levitikuz’s man crush on Ron Perlman and the entire Hellboy series, we all have a man crush and I’m about to criticize mine.
When Sony said they would be taking a much younger take on Spider-Man, casting 27 year old was not how I thought they would do it. I honestly thought Logan Lerman was the PERFECT choice for Peter Parker, he had the look down and the awkwardness that Parker needed, I was all for Lerman to play him, and a little other thing had me excited for Lerman as well, the fact that he was 19 at the time. So instead of casting a young actor to portray a young Peter Parker what do Sony do? They cast a 27 year old to play a 19-year-old Peter Parker, thumbs up Sony! Thumbs up! Now I loved Andrew’s performance in
The Amazing Spider-Man, but that does not mean I wouldn’t have loved to see a different movie. Now like many other on CBM, I thought we would finally get a high school Spider-Man movie we could be proud of, we would maybe get shots of Peter sitting alone in the lunch hall, but no what do we get? We get a good looking, skate boarding, well-dressed, teenage loser. I’m sorry stuff like that doesn’t happen. If Andrew were going to appear in the new Spider-Man series, I would have loved him to play Harry Osborn. He has the rich boy looks to play Osborn. Imagine a dream world where we would have Logan Lerman as Peter Parker, Andrew Garfield as Harry Osborn, Emma Stone as Mary Jane Watson. It would’ve been perfect! So now I’m going to explain one of the worse parts of TASM. The origin and villain
What was the point of rebooting Spider-Man 10 years after the first one came out? I mean
Batman Begins was a reboot nearly 20 years after the first Batman movie came out,
Man Of Steel is a reboot almost 40 years after the first Superman movie came out. Those reboots? I’m cool with but when you reboot a franchise 10 years after the first you better make some drastic differences. Personally I thought they were doing a good job, having Gwen Stacy the love interest, Lizard as the baddie I was liking it. Then I saw the movie.. Now after almost 40 views of
The Amazing Spider-Man, I am one to agree with my opinion, the origin was pointless, like dear god was it pointless. They introduced pointless characters like the Indian man, instead of having important characters like Martha Conners or Billy Conners. The film seriously missed the mark.
With the story, when Richard Parker and Mary Parker were announced I was so pumped, I thought they would do a
Hulk (2003) style origin, where Richard needs to use a thing on Peter and Peter has the spider thing inside him the whole time, but what do we get? An origin story literally shot for shot from the original. Now I understand how
Spider-Man (2002) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) are based on comic books that came decades before the films so in the end they are copying the books. But when you (Sony) say you are doing a new take on the character, retelling the same origin with different characters is not the way to do it. A lot of people hate the Ultimate series, but me I love it. And that retold the origin of Spider-Man from
Amazing Fantasy #15, but it captured the high school hell that is being a teenage loser. So why didn’t
TASM copy that? Why didn’t they go the Ultimate route? Sure there are some scenes that are the exact same (Uncle Ben’s speech to Peter) but then there are scenes and shots that are the exact same (Uncle Ben tries to stop a man with a gun). In The Ultimate version of Uncle Ben’s death, Uncle Ben is killed in his own home, that would have made for a much more emotional story and more emotional confrontation between Spidey and his uncle’s killer as appose to what
TASM gave us, a dropped storyline.
Let me touch on the villain, was it just me or did The Lizard feel really butchered in this movie? I mean I love The Lizard, and I thought Rhys Ifans did a marvelous job with what he was given (what he was given was Norman Osborn rewrites) why didn’t Conners have his family in it? Why was the Indian man in it instead of Norman Osborn? When Lizard was announced for the movie I thought of an origin where Norman demands Conners create the Lizard formula before a certain date, after failing the date Norman fires him, Conners then could have used the formula on himself and had a vendetta against Osborn, making out like he was the bad guy and going to Oscorp Tower to kill Osborn not turn the city into Lizards. It would have been a much more mature storyline rather than a cartoon story that is “turn the city into lizards”, if Lizard got to Osborn I think the audience would have actually gave a shit about Lizard and seen his side of the story as appose to the wooden character we seen in
TASM
Sorry for going on for so long but that’s all the complaining I have to do with
The Amazing Spider-Man, I love the movie but this is what I would have done had I been given the chance.