Spider-Man (2012) Reboot

[Judo]

I have only one question : Was spiderman funny?

cos the first word I would use to describe what I like about spiderman is funny. the last word i would use to describe Toby Maguire as spiderman is funny. WTFAIL. I still like the old films but will prob watch this one just cos its there. and they know that x

[brendan1]

$35m in its first day of release. Less than any of the Raimi films, but first week BO estimates still looking respectable at c.$120-130m.

[Buddy]

Seen it tonight with the boy and thought it was excellent.

Only bad point in it is some of the digital effects (especially the Lizard) were a bit duff... oh and Emma Stone looked like she was wearing false teeth that were too big for her mouth... but everything else was spot on, and despit everyone bangin on about watchin the origin again.. well, it's kinda different and part of the story so I didn't really mind that at all.

When I first seen the redesigned costume I really didn't see the point... but you don't really notice the difference in the costume too much when things get going.

Also... although I didn't stay (the boy bolted for the door as soon as the credits rolled)... I hear there is a post credit sequence, so stick around.

I just hope that in the third movie it doesn't turn out that it was really the Sand Man that killed uncle Ben.

[TordelBack]

... kind of unnecessary given that the first Raimi movie is only ten years old.

For the likes of you and I, I completely agree, it's daft -  but my eldest boy is 6, and as far as he's concerned some film that opened 10 years ago may as well be Arrival of Train at La Ciotat.  His only concern: Spiderman in the cinema!  That there's a chunk of origin story in there is a plus for that audience.  Not sure I'm looking forward to it much myself, but am I really the target for this sort of thing?

[dweezil2]

Good but not outstanding. Andrew Garfield is a talent to watch-even though he always reminds me of a young Anthony Perkins, even down to his mannerisms!

There's nothing new we havn't seen before sadly and I thought director Marc Webb didn't mesh the human drama with the more hokey superhero stuff that's required in this kind of movie as well as Raimi did.

Spiderman 2 remains the benchmark.

[Roger Godpleton]

More like The A-meh-zing Spider-Man.

[locustsofdeath!]

$35m in its first day of release. Less than any of the Raimi films, but first week BO estimates still looking respectable at c.$120-130m.

Respectable, yeah, but the cash flow is going to halt the minute the Dark Knight hits the cinema. The ceiling is already in place.

[judgefloyd]

I too liked it but not as much as the other three.  I think whatsisname is a better actor than Toby Maguire, but Maguire suits the character better.  The girl was okay, but I was distracted by an interview that was screened before the movie and after the previews in which she looked damned freaky.  I found the plot a bit crowded - the way there seemed to be only twenty people in all New York

[Link Prime]

Saw it last night. Amazingly average. 2/5 at best.
My mouth may also have a residual sour taste due to the two little pre-teen w@nk stains sitting 3 seats to my left who didn't stop talking / shouting / waving their iPhones around like f*cking lightsabres for the duration (while their O'Neills tracksuit wearing scumbag father said nothing).
Why they wasted €45 of their precious benefits money going to see something they had no interest in watching I'll never know.

Emma Stone was cute though.

[JOE SOAP]

My mouth may also have a residual sour taste due to the two little pre-teen w@nk

Reported.

[Richmond Clements]

Saw it today and really enjoyed it. It may have helped going in and expecting nothing from it though. Garfield is an astonishing actor - never seen him in anything before and was very impressed by him.
I assume that for the sequel we're going to get[spoiler] The Green Goblin[/spoiler], what with the mentions of [spoiler]Norman Osborne[/spoiler] being mysteriously [spoiler]near death[/spoiler] throughout this. And as for the post credits scene, it was [spoiler]Connors being visited by a mysterious shadowy figure in his jail cell.[/spoiler]

[Spaceghost]

I went to see this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Andrew Garfield makes a much better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than Tobey MacGuire. Spider-Man acts more 'spidery', [spoiler]spinning and waiting in an actual web to catch the Lizard, scurrying over The Lizard, spinning a web cocoon[/spoiler] and the web slinging looks much cooler and more realistic.

There's none of the cheesy dialogue of the Raimi film either and the romance between Peter and Gwen is much more believable compared to the 'they're in love because we told you they were' relationship with Mary Jane.

The Lizard looks a bit ropey and doesn't really resemble the comic version but the fight scenes were fast, kinetic and exciting.

I'm looking forward to seeing where the sequel will go.

PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.

[willthemightyW]

I really enjoyed it, it was a bit disjointed but good! Garfield and Stone were brilliant, far better than there other movie counterparts! One thing that really annoyed me the whole way through was the music, it seemed really overly slap-sticky in some places (if that makes sense!) and not... heroic enough! And the shrills in the music when Gwen is [spoiler]hiding from the Lizard[/spoiler] (guess that wasn't really a spoiler) I thought were laughable, otherwise that would have been a pretty cool scene. All in all, thought it was good, performances, comedy etc, 4/5 or maybe 3.5/5  , either way it loses marks for the cringe worthy crane scene 
I enjoyed it!
And the credits scene, I'm hoping it's [spoiler]the chameleon or mysterio, not Osborne yet[/spoiler] if they were his underlings that would be cool, as we already see how he's controlling everything in this movie, on IMDB it says that the [spoiler]shadowed man is Osborne (if you follow the link it takes you to Normans page, but the producers or someone to do with the film have come out an said it isn't him[/spoiler]
I heard a lot of the so-called "untold story" has been cut from this movie, and it's clear, the scene in the trailer where the Indian scientist guy [spoiler](righthand man of Osborne)[/spoiler] says "do you really think what happened to you was an accident" was cut out, but I hope they expand on that in the next movie, as it was all too coincidental as to how he got bitten, and they kind of didn't tie up what happened to the indian guy.
Will

[brendan1]

I went to see this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Andrew Garfield makes a much better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than Tobey MacGuire. Spider-Man acts more 'spidery', [spoiler]spinning and waiting in an actual web to catch the Lizard, scurrying over The Lizard, spinning a web cocoon[/spoiler] and the web slinging looks much cooler and more realistic.

There's none of the cheesy dialogue of the Raimi film either and the romance between Peter and Gwen is much more believable compared to the 'they're in love because we told you they were' relationship with Mary Jane.

The Lizard looks a bit ropey and doesn't really resemble the comic version but the fight scenes were fast, kinetic and exciting.

I'm looking forward to seeing where the sequel will go.

PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.

So, if it's a 12 certificate, but I'm (obviously) with him, can my 6 year old boy get in to watch it? He's Spiderman nuts.

[James Stacey]

I assume its a 12a as you don't get 12 in the cinema anymore, but yes you can