Judging by the number of views on this video, there’s a decent chance you may have already seen it, but it hit while I was at Comic-Con and I was so busy taking pictures of Slave Leia sideboob and man gunt that I never got a chance to post it. Anyway, the story is, the trailer for the Amazing Spider-Man hit last week. It shows the movie retelling the origin story that the previous three (THREE!) Spider-Man movies already told for some reason, and the only thing that could be called even remotely new (aside from the additional hair Scarfield brings to the role) were the first-person shots of Spidey swinging through the city. Well apparently those weren’t new either. And in fact look quite a bit like Mirror’s Edge, a video game from 2008. Someone on YouTube took the time to recreate the Spider-Man trailer using footage from the game and posted a side-by-side comparison. They’re so similar that you forget which one you’re watching. A live-action movie scheduled to be released in summer 2012 and a videogame from 2008 are similar enough as to be nearly indistinguishable. At this point, the “amazing” in the title is starting to seem like sarcasm.
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Clearly the filmmakers were counting on Spiderman fans being unfamiliar with the gaming world.
A reboot movie based on a comic book ripping off a video game about extreme parkour. Yep, it’s Monday.
I figured it was a reference to the game rather than a direct rip-off; it’s not like Mirror’s Edge was some dinky little indy game.
On the other hand the real headline should that people expect a movie that is a remake of a movie about a storyline that has been around for a bajillion years. I feel like I should get “mono” and “myth” tattoed on my knuckles and go around punching hipsters and video geeks.
Veteran filmmakers like Michael Bay know that you’re supposed to rip off action sequences one of your previous films
“to be unique” should be at the end of the second sentence. I writes good!
*from one of your previous films
/fuck it’s Monday
Morally and creatively bankrupt?
*slow clap*
Are you telling me CGI parkour sometimes looks like VG parkour?! If this were a reputable newspaper I’d tell you to stop the presses! STOP THE WORDPRESSES
Come on, the reflection-in-the-building-window shot was pretty goddamn similar.
They skipped the part at the end where he lands on the window, but she crashes through it and bleeds everywhere because she’s not goddamn spiderman.
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