The Amazing Spider-Man Are You Happy About The Reboot?

[spidermanfreak]

Sony are idiots for scrapping Spiderman 4 and going down the reboot path like what good would the reboot do ah well bye Tobey and Sam.

 

[Frodo]

I have no problem whatsoever with a dark subject matter but the hero HIMSELF should be light and if not exactly carefree he should be homourous.
everytime spidey HIMSELF gets dark I shake my head, the the 'back in black' storyline it just doesn't suit the character

Lol, and that's a masterpiece compared to One More Day! The ironic things is, if Peter Parker were a really person, he'd be on the couch for years and probably wouldn't be the most likeable, stable guy. He'd be a bit like Dr.House with powers..

I agree that Spidey shouldn't be dark but he is a tortured person in the form of Peter Parker. He is haunted and guilt ridden and I can see how adding with that the normal angst of a teenager , would seem dark but ,again I don't know what they mean by dark.

I think Spidey needs to be a wise a** . That's one of the things that was lacking. I think Raimi got Parker down , but as Spiderman, there wasn't the swagger or cockiness that's always been apart of the character in the suit. I hope that's something they add in the new films.

 

[©KAW]

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe the dark and gritty elements will come from the villain(s) and not Spider-Man himself.

 

[spider-neil]

I imagine it like spidey being picked up and placed in the world of TDK. he'd go up against the joker but he would use different methods to take the joker down. imagine the interrogation scene but with spidey instead of batman with joker trying to get under spidey's skin but spidey driving joker nuts with his incessant wise cracks

 

[Venom'sDad]

I dunno... I don't think Sam got Peter Parker right either. Sam portrayed Peter as a dweeb and a dope; and Peter were never either one, nor a nerd. Peter was just a regular, good kid... a smart ass; but, really, a good kid, that had to deal with the situations pressed upon him. Be it the death of his uncle, powers, education, friends & foes, relationships, finance, job, college, Aunt May, important decision & choices, and of course villains, and the threats they impose on him and the city.

Sam tried to make him more than what he is; and that's why I think he failed for one of many reasons.

 

[spider-neil]

I dunno... I don't think Sam got Peter Parker right either. Sam portrayed Peter as a dweeb and a dope; and Peter were never either one, nor a nerd. Peter was just a regular, good kid... a smart ass; but, really, a good kid, that had to deal with the situations pressed upon him. Be it the death of his uncle, powers, education, friends & foes, relationships, finance, job, college, Aunt May, important decision & choices, and of course villains, and the threats they impose on him and the city.

Sam tried to make him more than what he is; and that's why I think he failed for one of many reasons.

as a spidey reader for YEARS

ASM
PPtSSM
WoSM
USM
MTU

I had no problems whatsoever with raimi's portral of spidey, NONE (well, maybe SM3).

 

[Wylie Times]

I think the main reason people cringe at seeing the words "dark and gritty" is that over the years there's been so much info leaked about studios trying to make other franchises "dark and gritty" and the ideas have god awful.....If it had been said the tone of the films would be more serious nobody would balk at that but dark and gritty is a big red flag to many people.

 

[spidermanfreak]

It doesn't have to be TDK like

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

as a spidey reader for YEARS

ASM
PPtSSM
WoSM
USM
MTU

I had no problems whatsoever with raimi's portral of spidey, NONE

Neither did I. It was great, if you ask me.

 

[The Snake Eye]

For the record I loved the first two films, however the third film fell well below my expectations. It should have ended with Eddie Brock confronting Spider-Man for the first time after bonding with the symbiote, leaving Venom and the Lizard as the villains for the fourth movie. Yes the reboot has come early considering the first film was released in 2002, but i'll take it over what sounds like a disastrous fourth film. The Vulture working at the Daily Bugle? The Vultress? I guess i'm happy in the sense that a reboot is better than a poor fourth movie/having no Spidey films for the next five years or so!

 

[Timstuff]

This was my reaction to the reboot announcement.

 

[Pythagoras]

Hell yeah!

 

[Timstuff]

Interesting... Looking at the official poll on SHH's front page, it looks like this move is not going over with fans nearly as well as Sony was probably hoping. Only about 25% actually had a positive opinion about it, over 50% were openly negative about it, and about 20% chose "I'm not so sure about this yet" which sounds like skeptical indifference.

To play the devil's advocate a bit, I think it'd be nice if the Spider-Man reboot was the movie that showed Hollywood that rebooting is not a cure-all solution for when you make a disappointing sequel to something. I just hope that if this movie is going to bomb that it comes out after Warner Bros. has already put a new Superman movie into production, because pretty much the only way to escape Superman Returns will be a hard reboot.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'd say it's about 50/50 actually. Seriously...you guys make it sound like this thing has a severe chance of flopping and coming up with excuses for it. And if it is a bad film, one thing is for certain, it has the Spider-Man name on it and it will not flop.

 

[sdc10]

Interesting... Looking at the official poll on SHH's front page, it looks like this move is not going over with fans nearly as well as Sony was probably hoping. Only about 25% actually had a positive opinion about it, over 50% were openly negative about it, and about 20% chose "I'm not so sure about this yet" which sounds like skeptical indifference.

To play the devil's advocate a bit, I think it'd be nice if the Spider-Man reboot was the movie that showed Hollywood that rebooting is not a cure-all solution for when you make a disappointing sequel to something. I just hope that if this movie is going to bomb that it comes out after Warner Bros. has already put a new Superman movie into production, because pretty much the only way to escape Superman Returns will be a hard reboot.

Yes because a poll on SHH is definitely can totally be applied to how the mainstream audience as well feels about it

 

[Crook]

Heh, sometimes fans think they're the center of the universe.

 

[DACMAN]

To play the devil's advocate a bit, I think it'd be nice if the Spider-Man reboot was the movie that showed Hollywood that rebooting is not a cure-all solution for when you make a disappointing sequel to something. I just hope that if this movie is going to bomb that it comes out after Warner Bros. has already put a new Superman movie into production, because pretty much the only way to escape Superman Returns will be a hard reboot.

Are you kidding me? This has to be the biggest self-defeating statement I've ever read.

 

[Wylie Times]

Are you kidding me? This has to be the biggest self-defeating statement I've ever read.

Indeed it is

 

[TheSlag]

Heh, sometimes fans think they're the center of the universe.

*Gasp*.. You mean... we're not!?!?!?!?! t:

 

[DACMAN]

I think the main reason people cringe at seeing the words "dark and gritty" is that over the years there's been so much info leaked about studios trying to make other franchises "dark and gritty" and the ideas have god awful.....If it had been said the tone of the films would be more serious nobody would balk at that but dark and gritty is a big red flag to many people.

I'm just happy that the studio is looking at the Dark Knight and saying "it raised the bar." They are at least trying to give us a Spider-Man that takes itself as seriously as TDK did. If they really enter in to this trying to meet, or even out do TDK, I so go for it.

And to be fair, they never said "dark" just gritty and realistic. Both of which are fine for Spidey and I think in the long run will make for a better Spider-Man film.

 

[Project862006]

SM is'nt dark tho and the sm films were as grounded as can be and it did take itself serious imo

 

[Wylie Times]

SM is'nt dark tho and the sm films were as grounded as can be and it did take itself serious imo

I agree with you saying SM shouldn't be too dark, but how can you say the other films took themselves serious? they were purposefully campy at times, it just didn't become too much of a problem till the 3rd film.

 

[S_H_F_4839]

Im on the fence at this point in time, though I do agree with the consensus that vulturess was a bad idea. The vulture taking over the bugle could have went either good or bad, meaning good we would have hopefully gotten alot more jj time where he is fighting legal battles to try and get the bugle back. Or they could have messed it up by making jameson idk run for mayor (thats a joke).

I think when the talk was about black cat and vulture it had potential, although I was pulling for the lizard to finally get his shot on film. Im not anti raimi, but im not pro raimi either, hes a good film maker and made one bad, one decent and one good spiderman film.

I also agree with the idea that maybe we do need some new blood, I just could not buy toby as peter, I think there are several other roles out there that suit him, but I just could not get behind his casting from the beginning. Dunst would have played a better gwen imo also than a mary jane. I will give credit where its due he nailed jameson with casting simmons, but he undid any good he did when he under played robbies importance, if your going to use jameson you have to let robbie be his rudder he should be in almost every conversation mixing it up the only one in the office with the stones to get in jamesons face. I mean everyone else should be too scared to do that, because of his tendency to fire people for the smallest insubordination.

I like certain aspects of the ultimate storyline and think certain parts would work better for reboot continuity. I may get flamed for this but I would rather see peter take on the daily bugles website job rather than the photographer job. I am pro web shooters especially if they say its based on a design his father came up with but was never able to get a patent on or find a actual use for. I liked the origin of spidey in the ultimates also where they are saying its the latest in a generation of formulas trying to recreate a super soldier. Where the spider had been exposed to the formula and that is the reason peter takes on the spiders attributes.

Personally the ultimate arc I think would best be suited to start off a reboot isnt the first one but the 2nd one, where peter looking into his uncles killers criminal alliances and follow his way back to a mob boss, and since fox has a lock on kingpin I would get behind silvermane or (dont let me get struck by a lighting bolt) hammerhead even. Never been a big tombstone fan even when he was the big man on spectacular spider man.

Thats actually one of the few complaints I had with the original spiderman movie, was after the killer died by falling out a window, peter just starts wallowing in his guilt over his part that lead to his uncles death, I mean why wouldnt he dig a little deeper and find out who he was connected to if it was just some random robbery and carjacking or if he was actually working for someone.

 

[DACMAN]

SM is'nt dark tho and the sm films were as grounded as can be and it did take itself serious imo

Well, again, they never said dark. And second, they did take themselves seriously...sometimes. The rest of the time it was as cheesy as the day is long.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Interesting... Looking at the official poll on SHH's front page, it looks like this move is not going over with fans nearly as well as Sony was probably hoping. Only about 25% actually had a positive opinion about it, over 50% were openly negative about it, and about 20% chose "I'm not so sure about this yet" which sounds like skeptical indifference.

To play the devil's advocate a bit, I think it'd be nice if the Spider-Man reboot was the movie that showed Hollywood that rebooting is not a cure-all solution for when you make a disappointing sequel to something. I just hope that if this movie is going to bomb that it comes out after Warner Bros. has already put a new Superman movie into production, because pretty much the only way to escape Superman Returns will be a hard reboot.

Again, I honestly can't understand why anyone would have this opinion. Spider-man is one of my favorite characters. I've loved him since I was four years old. Never would I ever hope for a movie based on my favorite character to bomb.

And I honestly can't understand why someone who calls themselves a fan would wish it either. It's beyond me.