The Amazing Spider-Man - OPEN SPOILERS NOW

[Khev]

No JJJ, Mary Jane, Norman or Harry Osborn. Those are four massively important characters to the 2002 Raimi film. Not much of a remake without them. Any notion of ASM being a remake is purely cosmetic with regard to a small handful of scenes.

 

[karamazov80]

I haven't been reading this thread at all up until a few days ago (when I saw the movie), but I'm guessing folks are calling it a remake from the POV of the origin story only. Right? Here's one defense I can make--Spidey, like many superheroes, is interesting because of the character moreso than the powers. And the character is significantly defined by who he was before he was bitten by the spider. In rebooting Spider-Man, I think they did need to go there a bit and explore the roots of Peter Parker. And considering that, it kinda does make sense that they redo the origin, since non-super Peter exists first.

Again, I'm usually not a fan of redoing origins unnecessarily, but this movie establishes a different kind of Peter Parker, and a different style of Spider-Man movie with a different approach. From that point of view, understanding how the creation of Spidey differs for this version of Peter from Raimi's version of Peter is important. And of course they did some different things with it in this movie, such as Spidey initially going after all the guys who looked like Ben's killer.

 

[marker2037]

I think people will call it a remake because of how close it feels being on the heels of the Raimi films and how they needed to incorporate the Spider-Man origin again just to tell a new story. Kind of like if they did another Batman film now that Nolan is finished with his series but in order to tell it they needed to included how Batman became Batman, hence some would see a remake of Begins.

 

[Khev]

Technically the Roland Emmerich Godzilla is a remake of the 1954 classic when they have almost nothing in common so throwing that word around is to use one of the loosest of terms.

 

[BadMoon]

What does it matter if people think its a remake or not anyway?

Seriously who the **** cares?

 

[Khev]

What does it matter if people think its a remake or not anyway?

Seriously who the **** cares?

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

What does it matter if people think its a remake or not anyway?

Seriously who the **** cares?

All the people who keep crying about it...

... Even though it isn't

 

[Chapter 2099]

All of this bickering makes me like TASM that much more.

 

[Chapter 2099]

A neat link for those interested in the 'Easter Eggs' from the Blu-Ray/DVD release:

https://comicbook.com/blog/2012/11/...sequel-easter-eggs-hint-at-multiple-villains/

 

[Khev]

Just watched it. Pretty good flick.

Yeah I think this one slipped through the cracks for a lot of us because it was such a packed movie summer it was easy to pass on this one with critics calling it a "pointless remake" and those here who rushed out to see it opening weekend rushing back here just as quickly to trash this movie like everything else these days.

The previews didn't always help much either. My wife almost forbid me from ever allowing that movie to play in our house when she saw the clip of him supposedly shooting webs at the bad guy's pee pee and then declaring "now THAT is funny," which actually isn't quite how it played out in the film.

She begrudgingly watched the second half of it with me and had to admit that it wasn't actually half bad and actually improved on Raimi's original take in many ways.

 

[BadMoon]

 

[DGTWoodward]

How difficult is it to understand that the story is so easily identifiable and simplistic that it doesn't have to be told verbatum, again and again and again? Did you somehow forget it?

Not really sure what it is that you think I should have forgotten...

Did I forget they called this a reboot? Nope.
Did we actually need one? Nope
Accepting that we got one anyway, was it unwatchable? Nope.
Could this reboot be made but not use the same original material? Nope
So was there a way to do it that would not reproduce certain key scenes quite similarly? Nope
Is there any post where you don't pointlessly argue the toss? Nope

 

[Bullseye]

How are the extras on the BD?

 

[ironwez20]

Who knew Spider-Man would divide so many people. We've been argueing about this for a year lmao.

 

[CelticPredator]

It's not really divided.

 

[ironwez20]

You got fans of the movie and you got raimi movies fans. That's pretty divided. Considering we haven't had one decent discussion about this movie since it came out sounds pretty divided in terms of reboot vs no reboot .

 

[tomandshell]

How are the extras on the BD?

There are some amusing parts where they try to explain why a full reboot was so important. Things like, "Peter Parker needs to have a cell phone."

Also, some pretty (unintentionally) funny deleted scenes involving the Lizard--talking to his hand, licking teenage girls in the bathroom, etc.

 

[ironwez20]

Just saw that scene. Lol the lizard is a pervert.

 

[Chapter 2099]

How are the extras on the BD?

I have the iTunes version and the extras are good. There's actually quite a few short documentaries (8 in all) on casting choices, post-production, pre-film storyboards, etc. I wouldn't say it's anything mind-blowing, but nonetheless, it's neat to see.

The only thing that sucks is the iTunes version doesn't come with ALL of the deleted scenes so I missed out on some of those clips I was looking forward to.

 

[CelticPredator]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waW1m_qm6y0[/ame]



They cut it out, but the fact they even did it is a mystery to me. It's not funny, not creepy...just lame.