Hello everyone... I hope you are having a wonderful day. As you can see from a new post from me that I have something nerdy/useless to comment on. Now I know what your thinking " Shouldn't you be doing homework ?" "Finals are coming up" and to that I say...........
I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to start a new series. This new series arised from someone bad mouthing a certain Scientolgists acting work based on his religious choice, this of course made me kind of angry. So it got me thinking about things I like that need defending, things that when I bring up seem to get unfairly trashed. So I decided who better to defend them then yours truley.
And I decided to start out with one of my favorite movies of the year. Those of you who did not read my Batman post (Go read it now fool!!) might not know that Spiderman is one of my favorite comic book characters of all time ( right next to Batman). I'm not sure why he stood out to me as a kid, maybe it was his saracasm, maybe it was the fact that he had Spider Powers, I'm not sure. But as a semi-adult, the character really speaks to me. Besides Batman, Spiderman is the only other main superhero who to me is defined by the tragic events that happen to him, and for some reason that intrests me. No matter what Spiderman does, he always seems to lose what he wants the most... but yet keeps on fighting. Not only does he keep on fighting, he fights with this sense of confidence of someone who has never lost anyone. I like the duality of the character as well, Spiderman and Peter Parker are two very different people to me, even more than Batman and Bruce Wayne. Too me the identity of Peter Parker is still an existing identity, were as Bruce Wayne doesn't really excist to me, he is just Batman's mask. Peter on the other hand is still that dorky, awkward kid that we all know is inside us, Spiderman is just the mask of confidence he puts on to do the right thing.
I am going to start out by telling you things I did not like about the movie:
1. The Lizard. So one other thing that has always attracted me to Spiderman is his Rogue's Gallery. Besides Batman, Spiderman probably has the most known Rogue's Gallery. I mean while doing a movie you could pick from any number of amazing villains, Spiderman has so many that it would take an eight season show to not only get them all used, but use them to their potential. It made me extremely excited when I heard that The Lizard was going to be the main villain in The Amazing Spiderman. I love The Lizard a lot and the idea of a live action version of him got me excited in a very nerdy way. But after seeing the movie I was very disapointed. First off The Lizard looks awful, Marc Webb seemed to want to make everything look different then the movies before him and put his own Mark ( haha pun) on things. While I don't mind that, to make the Lizard look like...... I don't even know how to describe it, if you have ever seen what the dinosaur soldiers were supposed to look like in the planned Jurassic Park 4 movie.... he looked like those ... and they looked awful. Not only that they didn't do the character very well. The character didn't really show his duality that makes him such a good villian for Spiderman. It looked like Conners was in control a lot of the time and that really bothers me.
2. The Reboot factor: So as you may know, these were not the first Spiderman films made. In Hollywoods constant need to reboot everything since Batman became successful, and Spiderman 3's constant need to suck, it was almost a for sure thing that Spiderman was going to be rebooted. But the problem is that Spiderman 3 didn't suck as hard as Batman and Robin. Add that along with the hatred of reboots and you got a problem. My problem with the reboot is Spiderman's origin story. While Spiderman's origin story is very important to character as a whole, is it really that important for the movie ? I mean don't we all know Spiderman's backstory about as much as we know our own backstory ? Just a thought.
3 Taking off the mask. This movie did what annoys me the most about a lot of superhero films. It seems that every five seconds Garfield was taking off his mask or getting his mask taken off. I understand that the mask kind of limits our to have empathy with a characte since faical expressions is ver key in this, but he took it off a lot.
Now time for some defending:
1. The Movie is just plain better than Spiderman 1. As much as I thought the origin story was redundent, they defintley did the best Spiderman origin story ever. If you go back and watch Spiderman 1 you will realize, much like I did, that it does not hold up in many parts. While I loved it as a kid, now as a semi-adult I am starting to see many of the cracks in it. I found myself not caring throughout a lot of Spiderman 1. A lot of the origin story seems to be glossed over, I didn't even feel that bad when Uncle Ben died this time around in Spiderman 1, I can not say the same for The Amazing Spiderman. I felt for Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker all the way through, when Uncle Ben died I started to tear up. When he started to look at Dr.Conners as a father figure I could relate to that, when his father figure started to betray him I started to relate to that, the ending scene were (spolier alert)............ Captian Stacy dies.... I started to tear up. I felt that the script was better as well, the movie felt more realsitic to me, but not too realistic. It was almost as if it was taking what made The Dark Knight and The Avengers great and morphing it to fit Spiderman. I really feel like this is Spiderman's first go at being a superhero, he's not that good at doing it, he's still learning to be the Spiderman we all know he can be.
2. Emma Stone aka chemistry. So as many of you might know.....I have a major celebrity crush on Emma Stone. I feel that that the woman is not only beautiful, but also an amazing actress. I am still kind of angry that she did not get the Oscar nomination for her work in The Help ( that is a debate for another day.) With Emma Stone, came not only an amazing female actress, but also came chemistry. To me Gwen Stacy is an amazing character in the Spiderman Universe. She is Peter's first love and a big part of who Spiderman is today, she loves Peter for who he is, not for who he pretends to be, which is always something I questioned with Mary Jane. I felt that the chemistry between the two actors was amazing and one of the highlights of the film. I'm sure them being an actual couple in real life doesn't hurt anything, but it just seemed that this is one of the few times in my many years of movie going wheere I truley believed that the two were a couple.
3. The Casting in General. The one thing that I think made this movie as good as it was, is the casting. I feel that everyone in this film is perfect for the role they are in. Martin Sheen was an amazing Uncle Ben who was everything that Uncle Ben should be, Salley Field a great Aunt May... and lets not forget Rhys Ifans. As much as I disliked how they used The Lizard, Rhys Ifans as Doctor Connors is just great. He portays a desprate man, while still being this father figure to Peter, I believed that a inner darkness could be behind this great man.
4. Comic Book Spiderman/Andrew Garfield. One thing that made me want to do The Amazing Spiderman for my first In Defense was looking at fourms. One thing that I am a fan of is talking about Geeky/Nerdy things with fellow nerds, usually I like to do it in a nice way. Usually when I talk to someone about something we both love I try not to hurt their feelings over a different opinion, apparently most fourms do not have the same philosophy as me. What I got was so many people giving not unintelligent post, but mean and hateful posts. One clearly was about Andrew Garfield. So here is my opinion about Andrew Garfield as Spidermam, if you do not like Andrew Garfield over Tobey Maguire as Spiderman, I honestly do not think you like the comic book version of Spiderman. Andrew Garfield not only pulled of the look of Peter Parker to me, but he made me believe that Spiderman was in while also adding in the new kind of nerdness to him. He was socially awkward while he was Peter, but as soon as he became Spiderman he was the wise cracking Spiderman we all know and love. This is also a complement to the writing, clearly the writers understood who Spiderman is. Adding Peter's science knowledge also added just that little bit of comicness that I know I love and I hope others loved.
Here is my dream cast for the Spiderman franchise..... yes I love Dream Casts, clearly some of these will have already been cast being that I have made this after The Amazing Spiderman. I use a lot of the same actors from Batman:
Peter Parker/Spiderman : Andrew Garfield
Gwen Stacy: Emma Stone
Mary Jane Watson: Shailene Woodley
Dr. Curt Conners: Rhys Ifans
May Parker: Salley Fields
Ben Parker: Martin Sheen
George Stacy: Dennis Leary
Black Cat/ Felica Hardy: Ashley Green ot Summer Glau
Dr. Otto Octavius: Michael Emerson
J.Jonah Jameson: J.K. Simmons
Betty Brant: Mila Kunis or Miriam Shor
Joe Robinson: Ernie Huddson
Harry Osborn:Anton Yelchin
Kingpin/ Wilson Fisk: Mickey Rourke or James Gandolfini
Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin: Ralph Finnes or James Marsters
Shocker/ Herman Schultz: Jon Bernthal
Adrian Toomes/ The Vulture: John Malkovich or Tobin Bell
Morbius/ Michael Morbius: Bencio Del Toro
Kraven The Hunter: Javier Bardem
Eddie Brock/ Venom: Alex Pettyfer
Sandman/ Flint Marko: Henry Rollins
Quentin Beck/ Mysterio: Sam Trammell
Marc Gargan/ The Scorpin: Timothy Olyphant
Carnage/Cletus Kasady: Ben Foster
Electro/ Maxwell Dillion: Casey Affleck.
Flash Thompson: Chris Zylka
Liz Allen: Amanda Seyfried
Chameleon/ Dmitri Smerdyakov: Stanley Tucci
Hammerhead: Michael Rooker
Hobgoblin/ Roderick Kingsley: Patrick Wilson
Tombstone: Djimon Hounson'
Jackal: Jackie Earle Haley
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