The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man General Discussion & Speculation Thread - Part 5

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Would've worked a lot better without the "OH DARN!" but I still laughed

 

[Troy_Parker]

 

[Victarion]

He sort of looks like Dylan Baker in Spidey II there.

 

[Marvel Spider]

You should do a version without the "Oh Darn". Just have Capt. Stacy's face like that. It would be even funnier.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Lol! Nice one, lol.

 

[SpaceWay2009]

Pwahaha!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Reminds me of the fishing net he wore in AF15

 

[Curmudgeon]

Hahahahahaha!!! Their faces kill me.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Hahahahahaha!!! Their faces kill me.

Ditto

 

[I Am The Knight]

Jeez what's wrong with his face t:

 

[TheWallCrawler]

You should do a version without the "Oh Darn". Just have Capt. Stacy's face like that. It would be even funnier.

Would've worked a lot better without the "OH DARN!" but I still laughed

thanks! yeah I'll try that

 

[TheWallCrawler]

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

 

[RealIrOnMaN]

Total Film: Andrew Garfield:

"We haven't gone for gritty, we've gone for grounded. If we try and make Batman, we'll fail. The new Batman is it's own thing - and also in terms of tone, Spider-Man is nothing like that character.

Spider-Man is witty, Spider-Man is a kid, Spider-Man wants to have fun, he's a teenager and he needs to go through first love and piss around. I don't give a frick about making money and all that: I care about the character being served, being treated with respect!"

Matt Tolmach (on the 2014 sequel):

"The movie's a full meal, but there are things and mysteries that won't get resolved until the next movie. I mean, there's too much to look at, in a good way!"

 

[Spidey_62]

Nice interview.

 

[Immortalfire]

"We haven't gone for gritty, we've gone for grounded. If we try and make Batman, we'll fail. The new Batman is it's own thing - and also in terms of tone, Spider-Man is nothing like that character.

Thank you. May the gritty/Batman/dark-movie talk cease.

 

[SpaceWay2009]

This interview should at least reduce the comparison between TASM and Nolan's Batman.

 

[AbsractPo3tic]

This interview should at least reduce the comparison between TASM and Nolan's Batman.

Awesome interview..it won't stop the comparisons though. I mean didn't Marc Webb come out and basically poo poo any idea that is similar to twilight especially since he hasn't even seen twilight, yet some guys are still stupid enough to toss the comparison out. People believe what they want to believe and hear what they want to hear as long as it forwards the argument they want to have. Marc Webb already came out and said that the film will have levity and really embrace spider-man's humor and that it's realistic more so than gritty or dark but the comparisons continued lol

 

[SpaceWay2009]

lol I guess what I should have said is complainers/haters can't just say that TASM is copying Nolan's Batman. Well, they can say it, but Garfield confirmed that it won't be gritty like Batman. But yeah, you're right. There will always be comparison.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I wonder what things won't be answered unti lthe sequel?

 

[AbsractPo3tic]

lol I guess what I should have said is complainers/haters can't just say that TASM is copying Nolan's Batman. Well, they can say it, but Garfield confirmed that it won't be gritty like Batman. But yeah, you're right. There will always be comparison.

Of course, whether justified or not but on the real, if it's a quality flick like Batman Begins that's a comparison any film would love to have. Just based on the trailer, the tone will shift around, it won't be all dark or all funny, it will be a mix of different things just like life and that's what a good movie, especially a good comic book movie, should be if it's going for realism and a grounded reality; it has to portray all aspects of life and for Peter, his life isn't all peaches and cream so there will be some darker elements in it because that's his life. It seems that guys on the internet would rather have definite answers or black and white answers than complex ones

 

[AbsractPo3tic]

I wonder what things won't be answered unti lthe sequel?

probably something to do with Oscorp, Norman, maybe a bit more about his parents and of course the answer that is always with a comic book flick yet batman begins put it perfectly: escalation. If this guy is out solving crimes with the power of a spider, what kind of bad guys can we expect to be able to beat him. There are a lot of ways James Vanderbilt can go with it

 

[elsewhere]

"I don't give a frick about making money and all that: I care about the character being served, being treated with respect!"

I remember Bale saying something similar about Batman. Though I certainly think Raimi was a lot more respectful than Schumacher.

 

[AbsractPo3tic]

There are some quotes from Avi in the blurb also, saying that the films are like night and day in regards to Sam and Marc and they really picked Marc because of his ability to handle characters and relationships

 

[Godzilla2014]

Okay, like I said over in another thread on a similar topic, if the idea is to show that Peter is fighting crime before his Uncle Ben gets murdered as means of getting revenge and challenging his anger after years of being bullied and feeling abandoned, I think it's understandable and wouldn't have much of a problem with it--if it was depicted right, that is. However, what was great about Stan Lee's origin, and what Sam Raimi clearly understood with his Spider-Man film, was that once Peter Parker got his powers, the last thing on his mind was fighting crime. He was so caught up in having these great powers that he only thought about how they would benefit himself rather than how they could be used to help other people. And the best way to illustrate this is for Peter not to be fighting any crime at all until after his Uncle Ben gets murdered. Because if you have him fighting crime before his Uncle Ben gets murdered and the circumstances that led up to that murder, then the tragic lesson of "with great power comes great responsibility" get diluted because he, technically, is already using his powers responsibly.



Exactly.



This is an excellent point. Not to say its impossible to show something internal through a visual narrative, but certainly the idea of Peter using his powers recklessly or selfishly prior to learning with his Uncle's death the value of personal responsibility comes across much more effectively by having him not be a full-blown crime fighting superhero before his Uncle's death.

I completely agree.