Spider-Man (2012) Reboot

[JOE SOAP]

Spider-man trailer has leaked (seems like all the superhero trailers are doing that these days).

Check it out here while it's up:

http://home.comcast.net/~tankrizz0/Superhero%20Shows%20%20Watch%20the%20Leaked%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%20Trailer%20Now.mov

Quite impressive. Very '70's' in feel, look and attitude and a nice departure from the Raimi films. This could surprise us.

[Goaty]

I think I'll be giving this a miss as I can't be arsed watching a reboot of a very profitable series, that isn't even ten years old. I feel that watching the origins, AGAIN, will be a complete waste of my time and effort and probably won't even bother downloading it, when it's available. What is up with the movie industry these days. It's not as if the films we have just watched bombed, say 20 years ago and they are having another go to try and improve the whole thing!

You maybe be GLAD they did, or it wont be new Dredd film???

[COMMANDO FORCES]

In my post I did mention that the Spiderman series was a profitable series and was only ten years old. I suppose we could just have the same few films made every ten years. I look forward to Iron Man being rebooted soon!
Dredd failed at the box office and that was 17 years ago!

[radiator]

Looks ok, not sure about the POV shot - don't think I've ever seen that done well in a film. Always seems terribly gimmicky.

Enjoyed the raimi spiderman films, but never really felt the need to revisit them. Keeping an open mind for this. A little curious that from the trailer it looks like this very much will be an origin story - wasn't the producer quoted recently as saying that this wasn't strictly a reboot and could actually slot into the existing series?

[SmallBlueThing]

I thought that looked bloody brilliant! Okay, so it had no sound here- but that last sequence from Spidey's point of view was exactly what was missing from all three of Raimi's movies. If I wasn't obviously going to see this anyway- being a lifelong Spidey-fan with two Spidey-obsessed kids, this has just jumped right to the number one spot in my "films I'm champing at the bit to see" list.

SBT

[Colin YNWA]

Yeah up until the POV shot I was all Mah! Big woo seen it all before. Then the POV stuff really kicked ass, even with the low quality available on this. That said a cool POV thing will to sustain a film alone so maybe my initial thoughts might be right?

[the shutdown man]

I like the Spidey/ Mirror's Edge bit (as one internet wit has already called it, Peter Parkour), but the rest of it seems pretty similar to the first Spiderman film. It's got the origin, Parker voice-over, and Rhys Ifans seems to be in Willem Defoe's position as the mad scientist. I still want to see it, but I was hoping it would be a bit more of a departure.

[JOE SOAP]

Looks ok, not sure about the POV shot - don't think I've ever seen that done well in a film. Always seems terribly gimmicky.

Not sure what you expect from a 'P.O.V.' shot?  In this case it's entirely appropriate. Leaping, climbing and swinging from successive skyscrapers like a giant arachnid is not something a normal human can experience in everyday life so I'd argue that in this case it's not a gimmick. It's an insight into the physical experience of the character which sets him apart from everyone else and how his perspective changes. As was stated earlier, visually, the previous films could have benefitted from such a shot. It's done pretty well too.

[Mardroid]

it looks like this very much will be an origin story - wasn't the producer quoted recently as saying that this wasn't strictly a reboot and could actually slot into the existing series?

That's what I thought too. The excerpt of the scene where he becomes [spoiler]seemed reminiscent of The Fly.[/spoiler]

I've been feeling rather cynical about a reboot too, but the whole tone of that trailer was very interesting! It looks like they'll be going with the [spoiler]parents secret history angle[/spoiler] too, something I believe they did in the comics.

[SmallBlueThing]

I take it everybody else got sound with it then? Wonder why i didnt. Yes, my soundcard is working, and no my speakers werent low or muted.
SBT

[Goaty]

I take it everybody else got sound with it then? Wonder why i didnt. Yes, my soundcard is working, and no my speakers werent low or muted.
SBT

Or like me, you gone Deaf!

[TordelBack]

Okay, I'm in - that was great.  Great sense of atmosphere, nice to see the Parkers' story making an appearance, sufficiently different in tone to the Raimi flicks to be worth the effort.

I actually can't wait to experience that POV stuff in 3D, and I don't generally care for 3D.  Well played.

[Richmond Clements]

I really loved the final shot in the first Raimi movie, but the POV scene here seems to have topped that- looks great.

Also- anybody have any idea who the villain in this is? I'm assuming it's either the Goblin or the Lizard judging by the Mad Scientist vibe.

[JOE SOAP]

d'Lizard.

[Radbacker]

That POV shot is like something Rami would do surely?
Looking forward to this more than i was now.

CU Radbacker