Absolutely. I liked it ten times better than the last version. Now if only the sequels will be up to snuff, too...
It's a lot closer to the comics and I love the cast and it's more show than tell, unlike the Toby Maguire version. They pretty much eliminated all my issues with the first set of movies.
Yeah, Emma Stone is awesome, although her role was a bit... flat, maybe? I don't know. She plays a seventeen-year-old girl who's absolutely smitten. It was probably meant to be that way.
But Andrew Garfield is my new favourite everything.
THIS FILM. Oh, it was gorgeous. And, yeah, Andrew Garfield could curl up all day long because, damn, he looks hot like that.:D I could imagine him saying lines from the comics as well, which was really cool.
I didn't see the other films, so I can't really say anything about them, but I absolutely loved this one, and Gwen Stacy is awesome. I actually felt sorry for the bad guy (whose name I can't remember right now).
And after the movie I totally outed myself as a super geek by rambling about comic story arcs and the Civil War and X-Men continuity for twenty minutes.
Are you me? I yapped about the comics (mainly Civil War, assorted Bucky stuff and some general 616 stuff) all the way down to the bus stop after we left the cinema! My friends don't read the comics, but I will make sure they know about them. :P
Apparently, yes, I am you. I yammered on all hte way to the car and my friends looked at me sideways, but they have to learn sometimes. Even if the revelation that there's a Natasha Stark almost made them trip. They're totally rooting for the Winter Soldier, though. :D
Exactly. One of my friends has only the Avengers movie as a frame of reference and the idea of the two of them married, or even comic canon besties, totally freaked her out. She bought the Civil War storyline a lot easier than the married one.
XD I saw it on Sunday, it was amazing. My movie geek and my comic geek clapped like harp seals and held hands in my head. This was one of those films where I was so proud of the people behind the script and production where even though it's a comic book movie, they did it with such good taste. The casting was wonderful, the pacing made sense, the reason behind the costume and the initial foray into heroism made sense and the origin story was lovely. I thought Emma did a fabulous job and Gwen and Peter's relationship had actual chemistry.
The only bit I had issue with was the webs. In the comics, Peter made them. In the Toby version, he physically produced them, which I thought was kind of epic. Dude got spider powers, it makes sense. In this, he bought the stuff from OzCorp, which... wouldn't they notice that the weird spider guy on tv was using their product? And then check their order list to see who was buying it regularly?
I thought he might have stolen them, personally, but yeah, that was a bit of an issue. Still, the Toby version where he makes them himself sort of freaked me out a little.
Apart form that, everything you said? Yes, yes, yes!
Bigger issue is the mask coming off so often. He was on a crowded street with a ton of police and probably people with cameras, and Captain Stacy takes the mask off. You think someone wasn't filming that with a camera in their phone or something more sophisticated? He was fighting and then just standing there in front of the Captain with his mask off. Boom, picture and headline of the century...
...It was dark? There were monsters in the street? All people who were filming had a spontaneous and simultaneous attack of conscience and deleted all their potential youtube-fame videos?
I saw it last night and it was gooooooood. Four movies I've been waiting for The Lizard and I finally got him.
But to me, that wasn't Gwen Stacy. That was Mary Jane Watson in a Gwen Stacy wig.
Garfield just totally nailed it to the wall. To. The. Wall. His whole reaction to Uncle Ben dying and then the next day at school... I had to spend a few minutes seriously fighting the urge to just burst into tears in the cinema.
Yeah, Gwen was a bit iffy, which annoyed me because I like Emma Stone. The two had chemistry, but I was missing some, I don't know, sass? She does create the antidote, which means she is 100 percent less useless than MJ, but still.
Oh I thought Emma Stone was awesome too. Everyone in the movie just totally gave it everything and it elevated the movie. Garfield and Stone do have great chemistry, which more than Maguire and Dunst ever had. That 100% applies to Stone's acting ability over Dunst as well...
But there is a problem with starting with Gwen. If they are sticking with the comics - and they sort of are - Osborn is going be the Goblin eventually, if he isn't halfway there already. And one of the major things the Goblin does is kill Gwen.
I can only hope that if they do that, and bring in MJ, that the actress that ends up playing her is as good an actress as Emma Stone.
Maybe they'll avoid the Goblin, since he was the major badguy in the very first movie? Sort of, done that, moving on.
And anyway, who was that guy with Connors in the cell at the end? My only guess was Doc Oc, because of the hat he had, but that's probably way off. Especially since Peter's parents had SHIELD connections?
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It's a lot closer to the comics and I love the cast and it's more show than tell, unlike the Toby Maguire version. They pretty much eliminated all my issues with the first set of movies.
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I'm thinking this weekend might be a good time to see it.
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But Andrew Garfield is my new favourite everything.
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THIS FILM. Oh, it was gorgeous. And, yeah, Andrew Garfield could curl up all day long because, damn, he looks hot like that.:D I could imagine him saying lines from the comics as well, which was really cool.
I didn't see the other films, so I can't really say anything about them, but I absolutely loved this one, and Gwen Stacy is awesome. I actually felt sorry for the bad guy (whose name I can't remember right now).
And after the movie I totally outed myself as a super geek by rambling about comic story arcs and the Civil War and X-Men continuity for twenty minutes.
Are you me? I yapped about the comics (mainly Civil War, assorted Bucky stuff and some general 616 stuff) all the way down to the bus stop after we left the cinema! My friends don't read the comics, but I will make sure they know about them. :P
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The only bit I had issue with was the webs. In the comics, Peter made them. In the Toby version, he physically produced them, which I thought was kind of epic. Dude got spider powers, it makes sense. In this, he bought the stuff from OzCorp, which... wouldn't they notice that the weird spider guy on tv was using their product? And then check their order list to see who was buying it regularly?
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Apart form that, everything you said? Yes, yes, yes!
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But to me, that wasn't Gwen Stacy. That was Mary Jane Watson in a Gwen Stacy wig.
Garfield just totally nailed it to the wall. To. The. Wall. His whole reaction to Uncle Ben dying and then the next day at school... I had to spend a few minutes seriously fighting the urge to just burst into tears in the cinema.
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But there is a problem with starting with Gwen. If they are sticking with the comics - and they sort of are - Osborn is going be the Goblin eventually, if he isn't halfway there already. And one of the major things the Goblin does is kill Gwen.
I can only hope that if they do that, and bring in MJ, that the actress that ends up playing her is as good an actress as Emma Stone.
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And anyway, who was that guy with Connors in the cell at the end? My only guess was Doc Oc, because of the hat he had, but that's probably way off. Especially since Peter's parents had SHIELD connections?
Or was that something else again?
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