My Personal Reasons for not being in Favor of the Spider-Man Reboot

First off, I want to start this article by officially saying that anything said in this article is in now way meant to be derogatory towards Marc Webb or Andrew Garfield, mainly because I'm unfamiliar with either person's work. Now for the Article...

Editorial Opinion
By BobGarlen - Sep 02, 2010 07:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man

#1 Reason why I am not in favor of this reboot is, well to put it simply I'm pissed that Bruce Campbell won't be in it, at all. I love Bruce, in many peoples opinion he's just a B-Movie actor, but he's my personal favorite actor, and inspired me to enter screenwriting and film making. So for me to see a Spider-Man movie without Bruce, well, dammit, it's like Superman not having the Yellow "S" on his cape, sure it can work without it, but it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside just to see it.

It had to be said...

(Actual reasons that make sense) First off, i have to say, to can a movie, where Raimi was doing an honest job to make a good Spider-Man movie, by casting John Malckovich as the Vulture, BOO. Taking away a sure fire chance of seeing a HOT, 20-30 year old actress in tight leather, BOO! Instead we're more than likely going to see Green Goblin again, and if we're even close to lucky the Lizard in no.2 Raimi when he truly has time to make art makes good fun movies (for me personally ignoring Spidey 2) Knowing that his dedication to the series is gone for a director who's publicly known to only like the Ultimate Comics, and is already doing a half ass adaptation by making Pete a College Boy(I Mean seriously, are they even trying, by the time he would be in college he would know how to properly grieve and not put on colorful tights) now personally i don't want another high/college school teen whine pick, I'm in high school and personally i hear this shit all day, so why would i go pay like 8.50 just to sit through more of that, just with more tights. I'm sorry but does anyone really want this? High School or College it annoys me, especially since Garfield doesn't seem like a geek or a nerd to me, and looks thirty, I'm sorry but the only way i would believe this guy would be in college would be if this guy was married with a kid on the way and going to Ivy Tech for machine classes. Not to mention, through opening credits or not, we got to see the origin again, and personally i don't want to see that. i really don't. Let franchises like Fantastic Four get the sudo ultimate reboot, those kinda sucked. Spider-Man had a fantastic origin movie, why why why replace that with a half ass adaptation of Ultimate Spider-Man vol.1? well i don't and yeah there are the silver linings of getting the Peter Gwen Relationship. and i even thought of how the web-shooters could actually be made for the movie (Pete's dad leaves him notes and a half assembled prototype, which began as some military weapon which Pete finishes and use.) But I'm not sure we need this movie, if they had just decided to Batman Forever this i would be more forgiving of the change of cast just as long as it was established as a continuation. But we're out of luck, I'm not a fan, and chances are I'll still throw my money at it just to see whether or not it's as pointless as i think it is, i know I'm not alone in many cases, but when you had Maguire's Spidey who was going through college and you reformat the story so he gets bit in college, what's the [frick]ing point really?

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oghalfrican232
oghalfrican232 - 9/2/2010, 7:18 PM
Dude this article was for no reason I for one want the reboot.
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 9/2/2010, 7:38 PM
i want a reboot but i will miss the hell out of Bruce Campbell cameos and i want to know what role he would have had in spidey 4
sweetre15
sweetre15 - 9/2/2010, 9:01 PM
The college thing was not confirmed,hell The Hollywood Reporter recently stated that it's STILL grounded in high school when they revealed the contenders for Gwen Stacy.
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 9/2/2010, 9:19 PM
Regarding them canning Spider-Man 4, I am not bothered by it, personally. Vulture? Vulturess and/or Black Cat? No thanks. I guess we may never know for sure if all of it was true, specifically the Vulturess bit but Vulture was confirmed, and Vulture is a lame villain IMO, even though Malkovich is great. And it definitely looked like they were looking for a Felicia Hardy or something, and I'm no Black Cat fan, so not bothered that we didn't get to see that. Everyone has different tastes, though, so I respect the opinions of those who are disappointed that they didn't get to see Vulture or whoever.

And right now, all signs point to Lizard being the main villain. So that is good news, and, hopefully they save GG for the sequel so he can kill Gwen and give Peter that major emotional punch.

"who's publicly known to only like the Ultimate Comics"

Since when did he say he ONLY likes the Ultimate Spidey comics? He has said he's a fan, but never has he said that he's ONLY a fan of Ultimate.

"doing a half ass adaptation by making Pete a College Boy"

Apparently they're still going with high school.

"High School or College it annoys me"

Then I guess all the Spidey movies annoyed you. And I guess the entire concept of the character does too, as he has pretty much always been portrayed as either a High Schooler or a college student.

"Garfield doesn't seem like a geek or a nerd to me, and looks thirty"

Respectfully disagreed on both accounts. I think Garfield looks much younger than Tobey did and he can pull off a meek and geeky character like Peter. It's part of acting, and Garfield certainly CAN act. I also think he looks far more like Peter than Tobey ever did (no offense to Tobey).

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"we got to see the origin again, and personally i don't want to see that"

Well, we might not. They might use the Spectacular Spidey cartoon as an influence and start off with a rookie hero Spider-Man. We won't know till we know.
sweetre15
sweetre15 - 9/2/2010, 9:22 PM
@InTylerWeTrust:Exactly,and so far it seems that it might be a bit of a cross between the SSM cartoon(which was a Sony Pictures cartoon,keep that in mind) and Ultimate Spider-Man.

Also here's another comparison pic of Garfield and Parker:
Deadshot
Deadshot - 9/2/2010, 9:36 PM
I think Sony showed alot of disrespect towards Sam Raimi, the man made them billions of dollars (2 billion I think) he wanted to be able to have full control over SM4, which Sony promised him originally when they negotiated the deal to direct...yet they didn't end up giving him full control over it.

""Regarding them canning Spider-Man 4, it might have been the right move to scrap it.""

Wow what an out of character thing to say Tyler, the man thats been defending the reboot for months in every article about it says scrapping SM4 might have been the right move.

Anyway, I'm trying to keep an open mind about the reboot now, people lets wait for the trailer to come out then if its bad we can say frick the reboot all we want.
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 9/2/2010, 10:00 PM
I know, but it's nowhere near as out of character as the people who say "frick the reboot" on every article about it, despite saying they have no interest in it :)

But I will say that maybe saying it was the "right move" to scrap SM 4 wasn't the best choice of words on my part. Now that I think about it, that's not taking into account any of the people who like the Vulture or Black Cat, etc. I think what I mean is that I, personally, am not bothered by the decision to scrap it, because I am not a fan of either of those characters. But, after all, different strokes and all that. So yeah, I'll probably edit that.
oghalfrican232
oghalfrican232 - 9/3/2010, 8:28 AM
@Sweetre15
They do look alike in that pic.
I bet you Andrew Garfield is going to be awesome!!
sweetre15
sweetre15 - 9/3/2010, 9:00 AM
@Soda9: If that battle ax Alvin Sargent doesnt ruin the script then he'll definitely be awesome in the role of Parker
Stumblin
Stumblin - 9/3/2010, 1:35 PM
I hope you're right soda9, and I really hope Spidey has a witty sense of humor and have the trauma that Spidey went through because I didn't see him tormented in the past movies like he was in the comics. He went through some hell and even took responsibility yet kept an optimistic view.

The movies gave us a watered down Spider-Man. I'm with Tyler on this one, the more I hear about this movie I get more positive over the outcome.
sweetre15
sweetre15 - 9/4/2010, 12:17 PM
@Spiderman2029: Of course and Ive kept that in consideration I was just talking broadly about the article itself but yeah it's a mix of MJ and Gwen but I'm still just hoping that old battle ax(Alvin Sargent) doesnt take the wisecracks out of the script.
thetrubatman14
thetrubatman14 - 9/5/2010, 9:34 AM
DUDE YOU DONT KNOW JACK SHIT!!! who hired you to write!!! spiderman deserves a reboot after what that Sam raimi guy did to the series.
this is a series that is near and dear to all comic book readers heart. and it deserves a reboot
CASE SETTLED!!!
Deadshot
Deadshot - 9/5/2010, 12:31 PM
""DUDE YOU DONT KNOW JACK SHIT!!! who hired you to write!!! spiderman deserves a reboot after what that Sam raimi guy did to the series.
this is a series that is near and dear to all comic book readers heart. and it deserves a reboot
CASE SETTLED!!!""

You're probably referring to the guy who wrote the article, but... what exactly did Sam Raimi do to the series? The franchise made colossal amounts of money, even Spider-man 3 the poorest received one broke box office records at the time, with Spider-man 2 being regarded by many as the greatest superhero film ever made (yes even above the Dark Knight). It's funny actually that you think the series needed a reboot so bad but your display picture is a poster from Spider-man 3.
BobGarlen
BobGarlen - 1/4/2011, 6:45 PM
The Pics you've shown me of Spider-Man where he and Garfield look alike are Him at his late 20's and early 30's not in his late teens. there is a difference
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