BIN effing GO!
See, look at 500 days summer. Granted, it's not a superhero flick but the angst and the dilemma's being faced by the central characters were so masterfully conveyed and executed that one can't help admire, respect and find the movie worthy of watching. Imagine if 500 days of summer where Deshannel and Gordo are replaced by Dunst and Maguire as characteristically portrayed in the spidey films, 500 days of summer would be a crappy, bullet to the brain-inducing snoozefest.
That being said, I hope Gwen's character isn't overbearingly forced and used to serve as the main catalyst for every aspect and decision Peter makes in his life. Secondly, I want to give a damn about the characters. One of the problems I had with Raimi's mediocre movies were that, I just didn't give a bag of rat's piss about the central characters because everything just seemed so pathetic and artificial. The dialogue was horrendous, I mean, it's one thing to have bad dialogue but the dialogue was just atrocious and no attempt to save it by trying to execute a decent delivery of the lines were made (I'm talking about Peter and MJ here). Maguire looked like he was half asleep and crying at the same time for the majority of all 3 movies, Dunst just made me want to punch her lights out. MJ is supposed to get me hot under the collar and get me sexually aroused but something about Dunst in terms of her looks and ESPECIALLY the abomination that was her character portrayal just arouses violence and frustration within me. I cant stand her. I wanted her taken out by a painfully slow death. I didn't care how or by whom, I just wanted it done.
Now, I blame Raimi! You people can sing your songs of praise and come to his defence about how he didn't write the script and all that appeasing bullcrap but the fact of the matter remains is that he is the freaking director! Do your job. That being said, maybe he did his job extremely well, that depends on how in touch with society as a whole and the social dynamic of young people he's in tune with and I am of the belief that Raimi is quite simply out of touch with the way young people behave and interact, which is why his spidey films felt so off key to me. However, at the time, when you have about 4 decades worth of material at your disposal, I think it's quite an accomplishment to fail at conveying a realistic sense of social interaction and instead focus on the rather dated cliche angle of the relationship between a geek and the hot girl at school. I mean for crying out loud, I've seen better handling of this sort of situation on tv shows that predate spider-man 2002 and besides that, we have ample of material in the form of various medias that serve as a passage to get the characters right.
I don't know if Webb will do a better or worse job than Raimi but one thing we all know is, this film gives us the chance to potentially see something different and hopefully something better.
If the romance is handled really well and is something engaging and exciting and worthy of investing attention as an onlooker then to be honest, I wouldn't mind the romance playing a proportionately equal role to Raimi's but as mentioned, it has to be worth a damn and be that freaking good otherwise Webb can go sling his hook somewhere. For too long the spidey movies have bathed in rivers of mediocrity and now it's time to dry that crap off, baptize itself into a sea of heaven's nectar and emerge as something simply, amazing.
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