Well, I can
say that after watching this movie, I’ve decided to get bitten by a radioactive
spider.
I really did like this movie. I know that a lot of people gave it a bit of a bad
rep and I think that it’s a little unfair.
I really liked the previous Spiderman movies so when the mention of this
new one came about I was generally excited.
At first, I thought that I would be a bit bummed that Toby Maguire
wouldn’t be playing the role of Peter Parker but I was also eager to see who
would be the new face of Peter Parker.
Now I admit that when the movie
first started, I didn’t care much for, Andrew Garfield, the guy who now plays
Peter Parker. I’m not sure why, but there was just something about him that bothered me. In fact, not even half way
into the movie did I like him any better. I have to applaud the fact that he
did have Spiderman’s personality down to a T. I loved the playful, comical
attitude that felt either forced or absent all together with the previous Peter
Parker played by Maguire. However, by
the time the time the end credits rolled around, he had definitely grown on me
and I’m looking forward to the next installment with Garfield. Speaking of
actors and the roles they play, I loved Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. Honestly, I
don’t know much about Gwen from the comic books other than she was a love
interest. I just love Emma Stone in general so I may be a bit biased but her
performance was great. She was funny, cute, clever, charismatic, and smart and
I enjoyed every moment she was on screen. I didn’t care much about the other
characters or actors who played them which I know sounds shallow but I just
couldn’t get that into them.
All of Spiderman’s powers and
abilities were cool too. I liked his acrobatic abilities; they were really fun
and exciting to watch. The fight scenes were pretty good too even though it was
a bit disappointing how unless Spidey was going against your average car thief
or mugger, he seemed pretty weak and susceptible to getting his ass kicked.
There
was a scene where he descended into the sewer to fight The Lizard and he makes
a large web which I thought was pretty frickin cool.
The only complaint I have about
“Spiderman” was that he needed a mechanism that he made himself to shoot his
webs which technically weren’t really even his; they were artificial webs that
OSCORP had created and used. I thought this was pretty bogus considering he IS
Spiderman. The fact that he has his own webs that he can create and shoot only
makes sense since his name implies that. Even though I know that this is more
accurate according to the comic books it still bugs the hell out of me; I
really missed that aspect that was in the previous Spiderman movies. Last time
I checked, spiders didn’t have a little device they use to make their webs and
if Spiderman’s little web-shooting devices get smashed or wet (like they did in
the movie) then he’s pretty much screwed because other than his webs, he wasn’t
as impressive.
So all in all, I’d give this
movie 4.5 out of 5.Looks like the Amazing Spiderman is pretty amazing. Honestly those stupid web-shooters really killed it for me.
That and the fact that some of Spidey’s fighting skills were slightly lacking
and even that I could have easily overlooked because his web-shooting skills
were so impressive.
Well, that’s all I got-I’m done
rattling on about a movie you probably don’t care to read my opinions
about. Later.
