From filmschoolrejects [excerpt], The release of The Amazing Spider-Man this week has left some people scratching their heads. How can a movie that is billed as “The Untold Story” be so achingly repetitive? With the first hour of the film an alternate take on the first hour of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man from 2002, people have questioned the need to rehash essentially the same origin story of such a widely-known superhero.
As reported in Latino Review, director Marc Webb insists the reboot was necessary. (Spoiler: it wasn’t.) He continues to say it was to introduce the world to a new Spider-Man and, more importantly, a new Peter Parker. (Spoiler: It really doesn’t.) Whether Webb was pressured by the studio for the redux origin or if he just wanted to not have to follow any of the Raimi canon, it seems silly to tread such familiar ground so soon.
To help aid Hollywood in figuring this out, here’s a nifty flowchart to determine if it is really necessary to spit out another origin story or if we can just get a solid adventure film about characters that, frankly, everyone already knows. (Click on image for larger view.)
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3 comments:
has anyone seen it yet? we are going tonight with mr. ac's nephew.
I decided I'm gonna wait for the DVD. How was it AC?
fun to watch with a 10 year old, maybe 3.5 stars (i say 3, mr. ac says 3.75), jsp feel free to wait for dvd.
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