Update: Will Electro be explosive and visually stunning?

I don't get why everybody has a problem with TASM Lizard. Besides the labcoat and purple pants he looks exactly like ditko originally drew him. He's perfect. You all complain about not staying true to the source material but when they actually do you still bitch and moan.

Still no pants.

In an unbiased opinion, The Lizard is the second best Spider-Man villain in the franchise only behind Green Goblin. The reason for that is cause Willem Dafoe was outstanding in the role. In TASM, you understand Dr.Connors' character and his motives. The Lizard stuck to the original design minus the labcoat and pants. He looked like a giant humanoid lizard. CGI wasn't the best but, people keep hammering him for the look and his "plot". Um, hello! He's a fricking giant lizard, what other "master plan" would he have? No, the Dr.Connor/Lizard and Spider-Man complicaties (sorry if I misspelled) wasn't really put into the film, although it would have been a plus. You got enough information to understand his character. The Lizard alter ego is pretty simple to understand. He wants to rid the world of weaknesses and feels the best way to do so is turn everyone into giant lizards cause he feels reptiles are smarter creatures. Anyone who doesn't like the portrayal obviously wasn't much of a fan of the character anyways (in my opinion).

@imadick: The way I look at it, they'll improve on Electro. He was always a shit villain with retarded powers. The way Jamie Foxx talked about this version for the movie, it sounds like they greatly improved upon the character.

I like the fact that Electro in TASM 2 is loosely based on the Electro character in the comics cause as I said, the comicbook version sucks. The Lizard in TASM was the one we know from the comics. Just a little less depth, a lizard without pants and a coat and the defeat the enemy/save my friend scenerio. Sure, the general audience may think that he's going crazy. Which works. But, anyone who read the comics knows that The Lizard is developing his own personality and is taking over Dr.Connors' mind. Things aren't going to look perfect in the translation from page to screen. Especially when your character is a giant lizard. It worked so, get over it.

I just don't understand the hate for The Lizard but love for Doc Ock in film. They have the same level of depth, you understand their motives and the characters themselves. The only difference is Doc Ock has for mechanical arms and The Lizard is a giant humanoid lizard. Lizards' "plot" is comicbook-y, that's really the only main difference besides the look of the character and their motives. Hell, if you ask me. The high school fight beats the clocktower/subway fight as the best fight in a Spider-Man movie.

I hope to god that, Rhino isn't a villain in the movie and that Giamatti just plays J.Jonah Jameson.

@imadick

I wasn't "lumping" the entire Internet into one category. I was talking people like you. And how exactly does a man covered in scales not look reptilian? And it looks almost exactly like the original lizard did! Are we not seeing the same picture here? Granted he had a stupid cliche plan, but I was talking the look, which you were originally complaining about. We weren't talking about the story behind the villain we were talking his appearence. Which is damn near the original comic book design.
And yes I am a fan of TASM
And I am also fan of Raimis films.
And the comics which I have been reading for more than 15 years.

@Bazinga85
Yeah but we were talking the appearence not the characters story.

Whoa this is a lot more comments than I care to read. Anyway, I agree with you Spidatrav. I've been hoping for a good 3D fight between Spider-man and Electro since the beginning . And after the high school fight in ASM 1, I'm pretty confident in Webb.

Hope electro will be cool like this. With this many bad guys, I'm hoping there is a Kingpin-like mastermind behind them all.

Lizard was a horrible villain. He had a cheezy scheme and as breakUBatman said already, he didn't even seem to realize that Peter was the succesful outcome of a cross-species experiment

Maybe so far yes. But if mysterio is portrayed correctly someday, that sir would be awesome and would probably be better than electro.

Interesting.

I also thought Blonsky lost his edge once he became full Abomination just like Connors who I only found sympathetic when he first regrew his arm. Outside of the fights I can't think of a good Lizard scene.

Only people I'd agree Lizard surpasses are Zola and Laufey