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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 299306" data-attributes="member: 23">The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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My first visit. I&#039;ve been meaning to check out Andrew Garfield&#039;s interpretation for a while. Visually he&#039;s far closer to my image of Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire ever was, and he also seems to be a better actor. Before watching I&#039;d had my doubts about other casting (Sally Field as Aunt May), but in the context of the film it all worked well. Emma Stone was a great 21st Century take on Gwen Stacy and it was good to see Captain Stacy appear, even though his death wasn&#039;t used as effectively as it was in the source material. Rhys Ifans was good as Curt Connors, but the Lizard was a bit too CGI for my tastes, and where on earth were Martha and Billy. One thing that&#039;s long made Curt stand out for me is the fact that he&#039;s a family man. Here he was presented as too much of a loner.

I wasn&#039;t expecting the origin to be re-told and I suppose it&#039;s inevitable it would take some more revisionist liberties with the origin story and continuity. None of this bothered me, partly because I&#039;d determined to view it as a blank slate, but I think it helped that this film is already non-canon thanks to the MCU&#039;s Spider-Man.

The film&#039;s long running time (it&#039;s the best part of two and a half hours) mostly worked in its favour. I especially appreciated the fact that we spent so much time with Peter Parker before he was even bitten.

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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 299306, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Amazing Spider-Man[/SIZE][/B] (2012) [IMG width="527px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heyuguys.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F05%2FThe-Amazing-Spider-Man-poster-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1[/IMG] My first visit. I've been meaning to check out Andrew Garfield's interpretation for a while. Visually he's far closer to my image of Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire ever was, and he also seems to be a better actor. Before watching I'd had my doubts about other casting (Sally Field as Aunt May), but in the context of the film it all worked well. Emma Stone was a great 21st Century take on Gwen Stacy and it was good to see Captain Stacy appear, even though his death wasn't used as effectively as it was in the source material. Rhys Ifans was good as Curt Connors, but the Lizard was a bit too CGI for my tastes, and where on earth were Martha and Billy. One thing that's long made Curt stand out for me is the fact that he's a family man. Here he was presented as too much of a loner. I wasn't expecting the origin to be re-told and I suppose it's inevitable it would take some more revisionist liberties with the origin story and continuity. None of this bothered me, partly because I'd determined to view it as a blank slate, but I think it helped that this film is already non-canon thanks to the MCU's Spider-Man. The film's long running time (it's the best part of two and a half hours) mostly worked in its favour. I especially appreciated the fact that we spent so much time with Peter Parker before he was even bitten. [MEDIA=youtube]upwf8RsyNqQ[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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