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

[Agent 194]

To address the title of this thread....no, I'm not ready for a reboot if it means going the "Ultimate" route. Seems we could find a happy medium.

 

[El Payaso]

Dawson Creek Spider-Man? NO THANKS.

Didn't you hear? They're re-booting that.

 

[Dangerous]

Heheheh, and by the sounds of it aiming to give us something even more Dawson Creeky.

 

[SuperFerret]

I think we learned a valuable lesson back in 2003 about "mature" NOT meaning "better".

That series gave us two good things though. One, it was the first animated Spider-Man that (in my opinion, at least) moved the way that Spider-Man should. Two, NPH as Spider-Man was one of the better voice acting choices for the character.

 

[Chris Wallace]

That series gave us two good things though. One, it was the first animated Spider-Man that (in my opinion, at least) moved the way that Spider-Man should. Two, NPH as Spider-Man was one of the better voice acting choices for the character.

Admittedly, action-wise, voice-wise & even animation-wise, it was entertaining enough to find a spot on my DVD shelf. But the stories were simply atrocious.

 

[El Payaso]

Heheheh, and by the sounds of it aiming to give us something even more Dawson Creeky.

In THAT case, this reboot is pointless.

 

[sdc10]

Heheheh, and by the sounds of it aiming to give us something even more Dawson Creeky.

By setting it in high school automatically is more "dawson creeky"? Imo all they are doing is bringing back spidey to what he originally was, a teenager with superpowers who also has problems in his civilian guise. Isn't that the aspect that made spidey so interesting as a character when he was first created in the first place?

 

[Chris Wallace]

I'm not gonna speculate either way. The reboot has equal potential to be epic or disastrous, or somewhere in-between. Much as I'm against it in principle, if they do a good job I'll never badmouth it again.

 

[sdc10]

has equal potential to be epic or disastrous, or somewhere in-between.

You mean like every movie?

 

[Tony Stark]

If they are really doing Ultimate Spider-man this thing is going to be worse than Superman the Quest for Peace.

 

[Sebastos]

I stopped reading Ultimate Spider-Man years ago.

 

[Ryudoz]

Not happy about a reboot, especially if they decide to be based mostly off the Ultimate universe. Would have preferred to see Raimi take another crack at it, regardless of what the script leaks are saying. If it turned out bad, then fine, I'd hate it. But this move just seems pedantic.

 

[Kurosawa]

No interest in Ultimate-Spider Man styled reboot. The previous series had it's flaws but it had it's great moments too. I wanted the reboot to be more faithful to the original comics, especially Ditko's version where Spidey was very much an individual who didn't quite fit in with society and walked his own path.

 

[©KAW]

I think we learned a valuable lesson back in 2003 about "mature" NOT meaning "better".

This cartoons made up villains and characters, not to mention, it followed the movies pretty closely. It had nothing to do with it being mature (which I happen to like). There's a way to do a mature/complex Spider-Man without copying element from the movies, making up villains and characters. You have to do it in a way that keeps Spider-Man and his cast of characters recognizable to the comics, you can't abandon the source material. This cartoon was a twisted version of the movies, and the movies themselves are already a twisted version of the comic books. So basically, you're only getting a small part of the vast world and greatness of Spider-Man.

Anytime you abandon the source material, and start making up characters/villains and distorting stories, you've already screwed yourself, all signs point to you entering the FAIL zone.

 

[spider-neil]

ultimate is spidey is the only spidey comic I read, I love the characterization of peter and the supporting cast, I can't say the villians are well done though.
I thought the ulitmate version of kingpin and venom was well done but I hated the goblin (hulk wannabe) and doc ock (magneto wannabe).

basically they could follow the ultimate formula and nail peter and friends and totally screw the villians.

another comic that nailed the character of peter and friends was 'spider-man loves MJ' (loved that comic)

 

[Rishi]

Ecstatic. I'm not sure about Marc Webb, but I hated Maguire and Raimi didn't mesh well with the franchise imo.

Spider-man used to be my favorite superhero, but I didn't like _any_ of the movies. So... I can't wait to see these.

 

[Chris Wallace]

You mean like every movie?

Yes, like every movie. Except here, people are setting their expectations way too early, with nothing to base them on.

 

[Leenie]

Webb being the director gives me a little glimmer of hope that this has the potential to not suck. As I said in another post, I absolutely loved 500 Days of Summer. I'm hesitant about Webb's skills as an action director (because we haven't seen them), but I guess we all just have to wait and see what happens.

 

[Chris Wallace]

This cartoons made up villains and characters, not to mention, it followed the movies pretty closely. It had nothing to do with it being mature (which I happen to like). There's a way to do a mature/complex Spider-Man without copying element from the movies, making up villains and characters. You have to do it in a way that keeps Spider-Man and his cast of characters recognizable to the comics, you can't abandon the source material. This cartoon was a twisted version of the movies, and the movies themselves are already a twisted version of the comic books. So basically, you're only getting a small part of the vast world and greatness of Spider-Man.

Anytime you abandon the source material, and start making up characters/villains and distorting stories, you've already screwed yourself, all signs point to you entering the FAIL zone.

I wasn't saying that making the show more adult-oriented is what caused it to suck. I was saying that the show wasn't good DESPITE being aimed at a more mature audience. Nor was the problem the fact that it was based off the movie (singular, as only one had been made at that time.) but rather it was done the wrong way. I generally think all cartoons based on movies suck anyway (The Real Ghostbusters being the one and only exception) because they just don't seem to understand what made the movie great in the first place. Or they take the good parts of the movie & run them into the ground. Spectacular has copied several elements from the movies & it's probably the best thing to happen to Spider-Man in quite some time.

 

[Green Goblin]

Lol some of you have calmed down quite a bit...

 

[Human Torch]

Well, are you?


I can't wait. We'll finally get a funny Spider-Man, they'll finally leave his mask on. No Power Ranger Green Goblin. Venom for more then 2 seconds. Sandman ISN'T Uncle Ben's killer. MJ doesn't look like an old lady. Peter will actually be in high school for more than the first 30 minutes of the film like Stan did it. We'll get a Peter that isn't monotoned! The list goes on and on.

Yeah....that worked out really well.....didn't it?

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Yeah....that worked out really well.....didn't it?

Yes, it did.

 

[Green Goblin]

Never saw the problem with the mask thing in this film or the Rami series

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Only time he was maskless where it didn't make sense was after the school fight with Lizard. A lingering student could see him.

Other than that he only remved it to help save the kid in the car. Had it removed against his will by the cops and tried to hide his face

 

[GuestStar2004]

Someone did make a point that his spidey sense would go off if a student was around, obviously that would be classed as important to his spidey sense

that was something i didn't like about the raimi films, when he would take his mask off in allys and stuff but i come to Realise that thats most likely gonna happen in a live action spidey film for actors face time