It seems like the only reason Sony remade Spider-Man was so that they could recast it, since it was basically the same origin story, but with different actors and worse writing. And the only explanation I hear from people who liked it is that they hated Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield was way better. I imagine trading Kirsten Dunst for Shailene Woodley will have similar appeal. Here she is on the set of Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York yesterday, with Marc Webb back to direct and a release date in 2014. I barely recognize her without the bikini, but it’s nice to know that she’s 21 now (phew). Though I’ll be honest, very few of my superhero fantasies involved a love interest wearing a skirt over leggings. Can’t we send Spider-Man to Hawaii or something? Though I guess his powers are much more effective in areas with tall buildings. That’s the curse of Spider-Man’s powers that no one ever talks about – high real estate prices. With great power comes exorbitant price per square foot.
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She was really good in The Descendants. I’m surprised that she hasn’t been in more stuff since then.
I’m giving this 2 out of 4 inches.
I really need them to stop making these movies. I’ll hate it. I know that. But I’ll be goddamned if they won’t still get my twelve bucks.
It’s interesting to me how many people dislike retelling the origin story in a slightly different way. The comics themselves basically retell Spider-Man’s origin story about once every ten years anyway, changing it slightly for their purposes or to make it slightly more modern. Or else they retroactively retell a certain aspect of their history, or (as this example is much more relavent) they create a new line of comics with different stories and modified origins.
In 2000, Marvel started Ultimate Marvel with Ultimate Spider-Man, a completely different universe than its existing line of comics most people are familiar with. Here, they retold the origin story, adding more mystery about Peter’s parents’ death, bringing back Gwen Stacy AND Mary Jane in a big way, and generally making it an awesome read for teens and the like.
These new movies follow much more along the lines of Ultimate Spider-Man, whereas the originals were much more classically influenced. Hopefully, more differences will begin to crop up and set the two apart even further. I don’t know where I’m going with this…
I guess my point is, comics fans are used to seeing a similar story retold in a different way pretty often. And I like that. But I totally get why a mainstream audience would be put off by that aspect of it. Still, the original Spider-Man trilogy ended on a baaaaad note, and a reboot was completely necessary. Hopefully when they make a new Batman movie, they’ll figure out how to reboot something without retelling the origin, which is a far superior way to go about it.
Yes, a big part of pushing the movie out was to keep the rights, but I’m glad they at least had the balls to go for something completely new instead of dribbling out a Spider-Man 4. And yes, there was some lameness, though I do think that was more of an editorial issue than a writing one… I remember the preview clips well, and in the feature there was a punchline entirely missing the setup from one of the preview clips. Absurd. I just think it’s a shame that “unnecessary reboot” is what most people associate with it.
Queef.
I do the same thing with my posts. Ten years later I go back and edit my posts, changing whatever bright-eyed young starlet I was discussing at the time to Hollywood’s new it-girl and changing the plot slightly. I’m rebooting my myspace page with Jennifer Lawrence next week.
Man, they are adding Channing Tatum to everything these days.
Wake me when Gwen Stacy dies.
I guess that is the point of the new spiderman 3?
They’ll pussy out.
They should have dyed J-Law’s hair red and broke the universe
I didn’t feel like the movie told the same story, and it obviously set things up to down a very different path than the last trilogy. I mean, the last trilogy was mainly about Peter and Harry’s relationship, and Harry wasn’t even in the new movie.
Also, they actually wrote Spider Man correctly, which helps. I much prefer the cocky, smart mouth of Andrew Garfield to the whimpering nerd of Toby.
They wrote Spider-Man correctly?
Huh. I must have missed those issues where he was an unlikable, self-pitying douche who navel gazes/skateboards solemnly to Coldplay.
What you’re describing sounds far more like Toby’s Spider-Man. Y’know, the one who literally walks around while “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” plays.
Greed is not good. Greed is fucking stupid.
Too late for “0/10, would not bang” ?
Hopefully this one won’t revolve around Electro trying to turn everyone into lightning bolt people.
He better make electricity puns, though.
I would be absolutely shocked if they didn’t.
POSITIVEly shocked…. DAMN IT
Some one should tell Jamie Fox… I’m sure he’d think it was… COOL.
Aww damnit
All I can say is I find Jamie Foxx’s on-screen presence to be simply… ELECTRIFYING.
TALK ABOUT A GIRL ON FIRE #HUNGERGAMESJOKES
No, no, no, I’ll just show myself out
What in the high heavens is she wearing? Is that a birth control outfit or what? Back in my day girls who desperately wanted to never have sex with a man joined a nunnery…or went the Wellesley.
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I think Kirsten Dunst actually might be a better fit.
You may actually be right. I can’t imagine we’re going to be asked to believe that she’s competition for Emma Stone.
I’m wondering if those are unflaterring photos of her, or if they did something in The Decendants to clean her up, because she looked very pretty in that movie
the fuck is up with people hating on shailene woodley?
Some people here just really hated Amazing Spider-man so they will hate on everything about it.
Buzz! Your girlfriend! WOOF!
It’s still an improvement over hot body but weird face queen Kristen Dunst.
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The new costume ruined everything.