New Set Video For The Amazing Spider-Man Further Showcases Practical Web-slinging!

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sweet! If i were an actor i think i would like to do at least some of my own stunts if i was in an action film. I would feel like i was cheating the audience in some ways if i didn't.

My god...that was horrible...

Black Pee Stained Crotch!!!!!!

@Dmon.... the fact that of the whole thing ...a men's genitall area catch all your attention ...say pretty mutch about your psicology xD....:s

there should be a progression of his skills obviously.

Looks like the dude is shitting bricks trying to dodge poles.

they don't call him the spectacular spider-man for nothing.

I, personally, love the fact that most of what we've seen involves practical effects.

For goodness' sake, people, give this film a chance.

You may like what you find...

Kewl. Now it will actually look him web-swinging, not bad CGI

@DoctorJamesWF, same thing can be said for you.

There is a limit to just how much you can tweak practical shots before it becomes something of an obviously bad composite. Technology changes every day and at a rate where sometimes CG is a lot more preferable (and in most cases safer for the actors and stunt doubles involved) than a live shot with limited resources. A good CG shot done right that doesn't look obvious is already a close certainty.

Just telling someone to just "stop" on this site is another mark of stupidity as no one cares anymore.

We all have opinions that others do not share, live with it.

That depends, Growler, as good as practical shots are, you already know that it has certain limitations regardless of just how much "in control" you are of the set and locations - a thousand things can go wrong if you are not careful. "Spider-man Turn Off the Dark" is a damn good example of just how much practicality can go wrong - they should never make a play/musical out of something requiring more than just practical stunts.

As much as I appreciate a practical approach to film and film making - since most of the independent fan films do just that due to limited budgets, etc - one can also appreciate the fact that if you have all kinds of resources at hand and within reach for such a project backed by a major studio at your beck and call, you use it. Though I agree that the use of CG is sometimes overdone when some things can be done the practical way and vice versa.

Only a fool would be stupid not to.

"Why are all you children, so spoilt on CG, so resistant to seeing something made cinematically and realistically created using real people at genuine risk?"

To answer that question: because sometimes, the alternative can also be downright horrifying. The real question here is control - how much you have or lack. I have no beef against the stuntmen/women in the business as I know they do a damn good, but thankless job of making the real actor look good despite the fact it ain't them - so their safety is also a concern.

The thing about a film like Spider-Man is fluidity. There is only so much you can fake with practical shots vs what is seen in CG. No matter how much you tweak it during editing, if a guy still LOOKS like he's being held by wires while "swinging" around as Spidey (no matter how much you clean that up) - then he obviously is. A good balance between the two is better than no balance at all.

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Wow, this is what this site has come to.

@ RacerREX - haven't you noticed the amount of spam on these pages? As much as we'd all like to think we can regulate these sites ourselves, actually we can't.

Are you an editor?

No, neither am I.

I, for one, would much rather we get on and gas about Comic Book Movies than have to suffer endless spammers trying to sell us last year's Reeboks.

is he just learning how to swing? if so, it's kinda passable

but if he has already coped with his powers...

Growler, actually, I'm sorry to say that doing "practical stunts" is not new... A case in point are the silent films at the dawn of film making - most especially Buster Keaton and his over the top shenanigans. But I get what you mean. :)



I admire what they are doing for the new Spider-Man film despite the fact that I dislike the costume - but while some people applaud the "practical" approach - it was the "practical" approach back then that kept stopping the film from being made back in the day. The extensive wire work and absolute control needed to do it even to this day is something no sane stunt crew would do 100 percent.... and that includes those professional lunatics (as I fondly call them) who do the wire work in most of the high flying Asian martial arts fantasy movies. You can't make it look natural no matter how hard you try acting it - even conditioned muscles will still give a twitch - one could exaggerate to compensate, but nothing will kill the split-second automatic twitch response.


@mok... see my paragraph above as a reply to your statement.