And that's what they did. They re-did it. But this time Peter shopwed some emotion beyond two tears.
There is a big difference between Re-do and completely change
Okay, but what's the real need of this?
Umm, how about staying true to the actual story? The whole thing with the wrestling match was a major part of the guilt Peter felt over Ben's death. That whole scenario was what made Peter drop the idea of using his powers for his own gain and become a superhero. He lied to him and wasn't where he said he'd be. He wasn't being a 3 year old and storming out of the house in a temper tantrum. The fact that he let who he thought killed Ben go could have been accomplished in a million ways, but not the part about him accepting his responsibilty to do what's right. And, Peter found the guy in the comics and took care of him. He didn't even find the killer in this one. He just let it go.
You mean Uncle Ben was actually killed by Sand Man, not the muggler (so it didn't matter if Peter let him escape to begin with), he commited a lot of other crimes but peter let him off?
No. I mean the origin of Spidey's powers. True, the radioactive spider aspect of the original comic is now known to be pretty well debunked, but Raimi's spider origin was more, if not understandable, at least defined.
It didn't help progress the story, for one. There was so much hype about Connors knowing Pete's father and maybe having some info on what really happened with his parents, then he falls off a building to his death. So, what was the point? Besides having a different villain than the original trilogy? Are they going to keep the Green Goblin out of this series just because he was in the Raimi movies (twice)?
So? This is an adaptation. In every adaptation of a comic book that has been out there for decades they choose elements from different eras.
Beacuse Peter Parker grew as a person and a hero in the comics, and even in Raimi's movies. As he learned to control his abilities, he got more and more cocky. This Peter instantly had the cockiness and swagger of a more adult version. He is supposed to be a nerdy kid that is used to getting his butt kicked daily, after all. There was no meekness to this Peter. He was a cocky prick right from the get-go. The shy, weak, awkward nerd that Peter starts out as is one thing that made Spider-Man such a successful story.
I don't remember web shooters being organic or spiders being genetically altered in the first comics either. Or any comics if I'm not mistaken.
Actually, after Spidey was turned into the Human Spider, he retained the ability to produce web in one story.
And acquired fantastic balance and strenght too.
But not a black belt in Judo. Peter had to learn to fight and how to control his strength, etc in the comics. This version had complete control of his powers 5 minutes after he was bitten. He instantly became a baddass. That's unrealistic, even for a movie or comic.
You mean subjective camera? How so? Because it made you look the swinging through Spider-man eyes? That is stupid?
The way it was put into the movie, yes. The scenes were just slapped in there. If they would have had a more defined cinematic blending into the scenes, they could have been wonderful. Say, panning the camera from a 3rd person view around to a 1st person view. There are about a hundred video games that have done that right, why not a multi-million dollar movie?
You mean like dozens of people in a train did in SM2, along with MJ and Dr. Octopus (because Peter decided to show his face to the villiain there)?
That was part 2. This is the first movie. And the mask was pulled off. He didn't just walk onto the train and take off his mask, yelling "Look! It's me!" Is that going to be a theme? Everyone in every movie will know Peter's identity by the end? And noone in that train knew who Peter was.
Basically everyone in the movie is people from the city. That said, what else needed to be shown. We saw one of those people being so grateful because Spider-man saved his son he later helped the hero back.
If you've ever read a Spider-Man comic, you know that there is a huge divide between the citizens of the city. Some believe Spidey is a real hero and others believe him to be a real menace. And that is related in how he is treated on a daily basis while doing his "job" in both the comics and (to a lesser degree) in the original trilogy. One guy helping out with some cranes doesnt really reflect that.
Again. Sam Raimi. Sand man. You know. Or do you have to wait untill the third movie to butcher the origin?
I know that Hollywood will change things in any story. Noone is ever going to make a movie 100% true to a book or comic or short story or whatever. But, to blatantly ignore aspects of the legend just so they can be so different from the originals just hurts the story. TDK changed some things in the original comic story, but they didnt shy away from redoing things that were in Michael Keaton's first Batman movie. They tweaked some stuff and made it even better. Bruce's parents were still murdered and he still became Batman to seek vengence on injustice.
All I'm saying is that they should have included some things that Raimi did so right in his first Spidey movie and made them better. Not change the original story around just to ty to be completely different.
It's my belief that if you're going to redo a well known story, you should make it 100% better than the original, or as close to that as possible. That didn't happen here.
