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The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man (First Reactions: Critics, Fans) (Spoiler Alert) - - - Part 12

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flickchick, its subjective. everyones brains process things differently. leave it at that.
I realize it's subjective, I'm just surprised people aren't noting the marked difference between this score and recent superhero scores. The difference is staggering to me.
 
The Avengers theme is very hummable and memorable.

I only really remember the main theme. That was the one time I thought "Wow...this movie has music. Huh. Go figure."

I'm probably going to disappear for the better part of the next 24 hours. Due to work, I am unable to see the movie until 9 PM tomorrow. And I will never escape the spoiler-fest of ****age that will occur through out tomorrow if I visit this thread before that. I already know too much as it is.
 
That's because a lot of the critics they use are the same as the Top Critics.

Yeah, there's usually around 40 reviews for the movie on there.
The top critic average for this movie is a lot higher than it's regular average.
But maybe that's because some of these critics view the movie with less of a biased mindset?
 
as far as the MJ ****e issue, they painted her with a pretty ****y brush.

what was it that really made us as an audience like her? was it that she was with the coolest guy in the school? or that our hero felt like he needed a cool car in order to get her? the fact that she then went on to the richest guy in the school? how about how she kissed spiderman while in a relationship (which btw, makes her go apes#$% in sm3)? i mean, what about her made her attracted to peter? nothing in the movie told us she was concerned with ANYTHING outside of herself and things.

well, certainly it must be that she was a good person. ummm, but then she opines for peter WHILE she's engaged to be married? kisses another guy while in a relationship. and then leaves a genuinely decent character on the altar. so i guess she's not that good afterall.

so why would peter want this dbag again? i dont know. thats just the way it is cause the comic book said so.

there was absolutely nothing of value to her character.
 
The Avengers theme is very hummable and memorable.

I have seen the movie three times and I honestly don't remember it. The only themes that get me going are The Begins/TDK ones (Batman's theme, Joker's theme, etc.) and Thor's main/closing title music.
 
Yeah, there's usually around 40 reviews for the movie on there.
The top critic average for this movie is a lot higher than it's regular average.
But maybe that's because some of these critics view the movie with less of a biased mindset?

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Whatever helps you sleep at night. The only one showing extreme bias here is you.
 
as far as the MJ ****e issue, they painted her with a pretty ****y brush.

what was it that really made us as an audience like her? was it that she was with the coolest guy in the school? or that our hero felt like he needed a cool car in order to get her? the fact that she then went on to the richest guy in the school? how about how she kissed spiderman while in a relationship (which btw, makes her go apes#$% in sm3)? i mean, what about her made her attracted to peter? nothing in the movie told us she was concerned with ANYTHING outside of herself and things.

well, certainly it must be that she was a good person. ummm, but then she opines for peter WHILE she's engaged to be married? kisses another guy while in a relationship. and then leaves a genuinely decent character on the altar. so i guess she's not that good afterall.

so why would peter want this dbag again? i dont know. thats just the way it is cause the comic book said so.

there was absolutely nothing of value to her character.

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yikes!!

reading all of these negative reviews is starting to really get me worried........:(
 
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Whatever helps you sleep at night. The only one showing extreme bias here is you.

Uh, maybe because that's because I'm looking forward to the movie and I'm not a high ranking critic writing for a famous newspaper? And I'm on a thread dedicated to TASM and it's filled with people looking forward to the movie.
 
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It finally landed why Lizard didn't ork for me.

And also, I think that stuff about Webb not excising parts of the movie due to fan backlash is bull.

1 - There's a MASSIVE logic hole in this movie whereby Peter and Connors basically are 'bitten' by cross-species subjects. While we understand why Connors is looking at lizards, we are NEVER given one reason why Peter's father was -- for whatever reason -- experimenting with spiders. Either way, both are bitten and one mutates into a huge lizard, and the other just gets gifts. This makes me think -- as does the video game -- that there was more here about Peter having a gene blocker that lets him not turn into a massive monster-spider, especially since the spider he was bit by didn't resolve the decay equation.

2 - It made no sense for The Lizard to just want to turn all of New York because he dislikes 'weakness." The simpler stain would've been to have The Lizard NOT want to be the Lizard (could've used his family here to great effect and to hit the themes of Peter's parents). And since Peter created the equation that they thought fixed the Lizard serum, and only to have it fail, Connors would blame Peter -- which ties into ideas of responsibility. So Peter is dealing with the emotional impact of having turned this man into a monster, and also his new abilities -- and is learning a harsh lesson in terms of responsibility. Lizard demands he makes a cure, going after Peter, who can't figure it out -- and so Lizard decides to motivate him a little bit by holding all of New York hostage via gassing everyone. If Peter doesn't find a cure, it won't just be Connors who suffers -- it'll be all of New York City.

More and more, I realize this movie was slapped together to retain the rights and keep the money coffers full. Sony wasn't interested in making a good movie, or even one that made a great deal of sense. Thank God Webb, Garfield, and Stone were able to pull the emotion out of what was essentially a corporation pimping off a beloved hero for no other reason than to continue it.

So they invest 220Million dollar just to retain rights
Makes so much sense
 
Angie Han? I guess they're saving their main 3 for the /filmcast.
 
The Avengers theme is very hummable and memorable.

If there was one flaw it would be the theme. Eapcually how generic it was since it was the dude who did the much more hummable scores to Back to the Future, Predator and Forrest Gump.
 
as far as the MJ ****e issue, they painted her with a pretty ****y brush.

what was it that really made us as an audience like her? was it that she was with the coolest guy in the school? or that our hero felt like he needed a cool car in order to get her? the fact that she then went on to the richest guy in the school? how about how she kissed spiderman while in a relationship (which btw, makes her go apes#$% in sm3)? i mean, what about her made her attracted to peter? nothing in the movie told us she was concerned with ANYTHING outside of herself and things.

well, certainly it must be that she was a good person. ummm, but then she opines for peter WHILE she's engaged to be married? kisses another guy while in a relationship. and then leaves a genuinely decent character on the altar. so i guess she's not that good afterall.

so why would peter want this dbag again? i dont know. thats just the way it is cause the comic book said so.

there was absolutely nothing of value to her character.

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I have seen the movie three times and I honestly don't remember it. The only themes that get me going are The Begins/TDK ones (Batman's theme, Joker's theme, etc.) and Thor's main/closing title music.
You're telling me that as you sat in the theater, and the team assembled for the first time in the same shot, and this played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNdZFPitS1Q#t=64

It didn't resonate somehow?
 
The Top Critic/metacritic disparity between the general RT percentage is very telling imo. The more seasoned professional critics, even the ones who were skeptical of the reboot, still gave the movie a fair shake. if they had a bias, they acknowledged it up front, and then proceeded to review the movie fairly.

Many of the internet/fanboy-blog reviewers dont have this kind of professional integrity.

That said, there are some highly regarded critics for papers like the NY Times who will make no bones about being sick of all the superhero nonsense and will review accordingly. There are exceptions.

but we are talking trends, not hard rules. And i stand by my analysis.

And guys let's not start arguing over the Avengers theme. Sorry I brought it up.
 
The Score is good but I would not call it as "The best superhero theme in last decade". :o
I would. Obviously.

I LOVE the Zimmer/JNH Batman scores, but with them, it's not about "themes." It's about mood/tone. And I do think they are classics, in the same way that, say, the Blade Runner score is. But they aren't in the vein of the good ol' fashioned "hero themes" that John Williams made so desirable. I liked the Avengers score, and it worked well in the film (particularly in that one great "assemble" moment), but it's not particularly special/memorable to me. It still sounds a lot like very recent Silvestri scores like the A-Team. I enjoyed the scores for Thor, Captain America, and X-Men: First Class as well, and like to listen to them on their own, but they don't really stand out as classics to me either. This one is truly the only superhero theme of the last decade that grabs my attention and makes say, "hot damn, now that's a theme!"

This is the kind of superhero theme I thought everyone was looking for when they always say, "the theme was lackluster," hence my confusion.
 
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as far as the MJ ****e issue, they painted her with a pretty ****y brush.

what was it that really made us as an audience like her? was it that she was with the coolest guy in the school? or that our hero felt like he needed a cool car in order to get her? the fact that she then went on to the richest guy in the school? how about how she kissed spiderman while in a relationship (which btw, makes her go apes#$% in sm3)? i mean, what about her made her attracted to peter? nothing in the movie told us she was concerned with ANYTHING outside of herself and things.

well, certainly it must be that she was a good person. ummm, but then she opines for peter WHILE she's engaged to be married? kisses another guy while in a relationship. and then leaves a genuinely decent character on the altar. so i guess she's not that good afterall.

so why would peter want this dbag again? i dont know. thats just the way it is cause the comic book said so.

there was absolutely nothing of value to her character.

Someone clearly missed the rain scene. :o
 
So they invest 220Million dollar just to retain rights
Makes so much sense

Well they couldn't actually make a Spider-Man movie on that reduced they were thinking about awhile back without it looking like crap.
 
The Top Critic/metacritic disparity between the general RT percentage is very telling imo. The more seasoned professional critics, even the ones who were skeptical of the reboot, still gave the movie a fair shake. if they had a bias, they acknowledged it up front, and then proceeded to review the movie fairly.

Many of the internet/fanboy-blog reviewers dont have this kind of professional integrity.

That said, there are some highly regarded critics for papers like the NY Times who will make no bones about being sick of all the superhero nonsense and will review accordingly. There are exceptions.

but we are talking trends, not hard rules. And i stand by my analysis.
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