The Amazing Spider-Man
Jul. 17th, 2012 13:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyThe Amazing Spider-Man. Dir. Marc Webb, 2012.
I went to see this movie with my roommate B and we both enjoyed it a lot. Although I have very clear memories of watching the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire ten years ago - we went to an opening day screening - and I had no real intention of shelling out more money until I read a bunch of reviews that said that the movie is pretty fun. Well, they were right.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are both pretty good actors, and they're cute and good together as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacey (I am universally informed that they are also dating in real life). Althoughcleolinda posted that there was a whole other movie that got overwritten, I didn't actually notice any of the plot holes that she points out while I was watching the movie. The CG is mostly well done, I liked the supporting actors (particularly Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Peter's uncle and aunt), and overall it was just really enjoyable.
I also really liked that in this one (perhaps befitting Garfield, or rather, the other way 'round) Spider-Man is much more of a nerd, and his powers are mostly technological (he builds the web-shooters himself) rather than biological, with the concomitant weaknesses that entails. Also, Gwen Stacey does not spend any time suspended in midair screaming! No, she and her boots are pretty badass. I will say that Dennis Leary looks disconcertingly like Willem Dafoe, but is very well-cast as Gwen Stacey's dad. I was sort of put out that not only are Spider-Man's parents dead (murdered by OsCorp, apparently) in this version, but his uncle has to die too, although at least Uncle Ben's murder is not played in some way that is totally inconsistent with actual New York City crime patterns. And Peter's aunt has one of the best lines of the film: "I can't sleep." And I liked the way Gwen figures out what her father told Peter, and the way that Peter realizes he can't keep that promise, and I also liked that he clearly hasn't really learned his lesson with the whole secrets and lies thing. That, presumably, will be in the sequel.
The Lizard's endless ableism was pretty annoying, though. I didn't actually think it was weird when he switched to "humans are a weaker species!" because the ableism was so endless and tiring.sasha_feather has a really good post about that.
I went to see this movie with my roommate B and we both enjoyed it a lot. Although I have very clear memories of watching the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire ten years ago - we went to an opening day screening - and I had no real intention of shelling out more money until I read a bunch of reviews that said that the movie is pretty fun. Well, they were right.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are both pretty good actors, and they're cute and good together as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacey (I am universally informed that they are also dating in real life). Although
cleolinda posted that there was a whole other movie that got overwritten, I didn't actually notice any of the plot holes that she points out while I was watching the movie. The CG is mostly well done, I liked the supporting actors (particularly Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Peter's uncle and aunt), and overall it was just really enjoyable. I also really liked that in this one (perhaps befitting Garfield, or rather, the other way 'round) Spider-Man is much more of a nerd, and his powers are mostly technological (he builds the web-shooters himself) rather than biological, with the concomitant weaknesses that entails. Also, Gwen Stacey does not spend any time suspended in midair screaming! No, she and her boots are pretty badass. I will say that Dennis Leary looks disconcertingly like Willem Dafoe, but is very well-cast as Gwen Stacey's dad. I was sort of put out that not only are Spider-Man's parents dead (murdered by OsCorp, apparently) in this version, but his uncle has to die too, although at least Uncle Ben's murder is not played in some way that is totally inconsistent with actual New York City crime patterns. And Peter's aunt has one of the best lines of the film: "I can't sleep." And I liked the way Gwen figures out what her father told Peter, and the way that Peter realizes he can't keep that promise, and I also liked that he clearly hasn't really learned his lesson with the whole secrets and lies thing. That, presumably, will be in the sequel.
The Lizard's endless ableism was pretty annoying, though. I didn't actually think it was weird when he switched to "humans are a weaker species!" because the ableism was so endless and tiring.
sasha_feather has a really good post about that.
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Date: 2012-07-17 20:48 (UTC)I really liked Gwen-- how she kept insisting on fighting and being part of the action even as Peter kept wanting to protect her. I could have used a little less of the male protectiveness, but at least Gwen seemed to let it roll off her.
I liked the casting and acting a lot.