THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Rant on haters, discussion on Actors and LIZARD.

@Teabag: I hope you know I was talking to TheAmazingHipsterMan, and not you.

lol only reason why I want this to flop is so the rights can come back to marvel studios. and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one thinking this

@marvelstudios NOPE! :)

@Just1Superguy: Where do I begin ?


"Garfield is terribly annoying in this movie"

What gives you that assumption ? He doesn't appear annoying at all to me. He does smile several times in the trailer. I used to know a kid that I befriended during school that would only smile and be himself around the people he trusted. He was a terribly nervous guy and was pretty much an outcast. It sounds to me like he is having fun when he is Spider-Man and to be honest if a thug pulled a knife out on me and I was Spider-Man I would act in a similar way. I would completely mock him because I know he does not stand a chance. The humour is fine.

"He doesn't wear a lab coat at all"

Actually yeah he does. If you have seen the new trailer and the new still of The Lizard he is clearly wearing the lab coat in more than one sequence. There is a shot in the trailer where the swat has shot him by the looks of it and his lab coat is in tatters. That is when I assume he will lose the lab coat. It is still a shout out to the fans so I don't see it as a problem. When the Green Goblin in Spider-Man 2002, wore his mask it really hampered the experience in my opinion because it acted like a barricade. You could not tell what the character was feeling in those moments and made it very detaching. My favourite moments of Willem Defoe's performance are when he is not wearing the mask because you can see the wide variety of emotions he is portraying. One, second he is a snivelling wreck the next he is psychotic. My point is, the Green Goblin was the most interesting when you could see his face because it gave Defoe the opportunity to portray his full acting capabilities. This is why I think it is very important for The Lizard to have a humanised face.

"It is aimed towards the Twilight crowd"

Just because it is based in high school does not mean the themes are immature. Chronicle was set in high school and many of the themes in that film were very adult. What people take for granted, is that even though the film may be directed towards a younger demographic, it doesn't mean it is going to only have themes based on that demographic. We have all been in high school, so in my view that makes the film relatable to any audience range.

"Tobey was comedic but you wanted him to make corny jokes"

Let's look at this for a moment

"You're out Gobbie.... out of your mind"

" I'm the sheriff in these parts"

" Let mumma and pappa talk for a minute"

" That's a nice outfit, did your husband give it you"

If you didn't think these jokes were corny then your point is completely invalid. Spider-Man is meant to be slightly corny that is a part of his character. Also, Andrew Garfield is not joking in the knife scene he is being sarcastic. There is a big difference between the two.

I am cool with both versions of Spider-Man. I liked Tobey Maguire and I will like Andrew Garfield. They are both very different actors and I think that is why the change is jarring for some people. I believe in liking both but you are clearly just as bad as you are claiming TheAmazingHipsterMan to be. You are not even giving this new film a chance. You have already made up your mind which is a shame because this film is looking more and more promising.

@Just1Superguy: Did you like Spider-Man 2 because that inner monologue you were referring to, was very apparent in that film.

I think people are also forgetting probably the most important part of the CONNORS character :his family i dont see any traces of his wive and kid in the movie and that would be taking a lot from the character since those two are really connected to Connors and are what helped him not lose his touch with hummanity

@Thanos005: It is very important you read this article then. It is over on Superhero Hype. It is an interview with Marc Webb :

Q: In the comics, Uncle Ben's death is really the catalyst for Peter becoming Spider-Man. From the trailer it seems the search for the truth about his parents is the catalyst.
Webb: The first domino in the story is the parents. He goes out looking for his father and finds himself. That's my tagline. But Uncle Ben, of course, and his death... well, you have to see the movie! But, there's three elements that Marvel was very protective of and I think are very important parts of the Spider-Man origin story. Uncle Ben's death transforms him and has a huge impact on him. That's an incredibly important part of the mythology. I would never subvert that. That's all I'll say about that.


Q: Can you talk a little bit about bringing the Lizard to life and how, technically, you accomplished it?
Webb: There’s a lot that goes into it. I mean, when we shot those sequences, we actually shot a human. There was a combination of things. A guy, Big John, who was this guy who was literally a big guy named John, who did a lot of the interactive stuff. When you're trying to interact with Andrew or with Peter, you need someone grabbing him and doing those things so we would replace him with computer-generated Lizard. Then the performance capture was done with Rhys and, for that, we would shoot Rhys in a similar environment and get his facial composure. We're still working on it. I actually just came from SPI [Sony Pictures Imageworks] where we're trying to incorporate his performance into the Lizard itself. That takes an enormous amount of time. It's tricky, you know? In the comics there are different incarnations of the Lizard. There's the MacFarlane one, which has the snout, but I was interested more in finding something that could relate human emotions. I wanted to keep Rhys's performance in that creature. Performance -- Pixar does it extremely well, creating those emotional qualities within characters that are, essentially, computer generated. So Rhys's performance is giving that nuance, getting the eyebrow tics and the looks. Creating an armature that can actually speak and lips that make sounds. It's a very detailed and, frankly, tedious process. I really wanted to capture emotion. I wanted him to have a face, have a feeling and that's the way I chose to do that. Then there are the physical components of it. I wanted to make him very powerful. I wanted to make him stronger than Spider-Man. That was a really important part.

@Just1Superguy: I'm pretty sure everyone knows that your statement "most human character in comics" is wrong. I know alot of people bash on here on who's right and wrong based off of opinions. But that statement you made was wrong because I'm pretty sure he's an alien and yes he has problems but his weakness is a [frick]ing rock that is super hard to find. Spider-Man and Batman are the most relatable and most human of the superheros in comics. EVERYONE (apparently except for you) knows that Spidey and Batman are the most relatable.

Not trying to hate, but I'm sorry to burst your bubble with facts.

What's wrong with liking both portrayals of the character? So many people bitch and whine about Tobey's version of Spider-Man. It's so [frick]ing annoying, everyone has been on his shit ever since the reboot was announced. For me I thought he was a pretty good Peter Parker and I'm looking forward to this new interpretation of the character. Don't understand why Tobey keeps getting called a bitch like any of you could play a better Spider-Man, bet you wouldn't have the balls to say it to his face.

Good to know that someone else agrees