I'm excited for this reboot. Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel character and the one character I wanted to be growing up because I loved both his powers and the mood of his books and character.
I hated the Raimi films. It was too much camp and tried to hit the big points of the character without doing justice to the depth and minute detail that make him so great and so lasting. The villains were the best part of that trilogy (sans Venom) and when that's the statement those films make with two leading actors in all three its just not a good trilogy.
Though I do wish Marvel was running this film I think Sony learned some valuable lessons from Nolan's Batman and the recent Marvel films and you can see alot of that in the feel and setting of this one. Raimi, by comparison, made a film under the old concepts of superhero movies and I think that especially is why they don't hold up well today even for those that may have raved about them then (sans Spider-Man 3).
My hesitation at this point is how dark will the film be? We obviously have a more wise-cracking Spider-Man, but I don't think this should devolve into Batman Begins or the Dark Knight in terms of mood. The trailers seem to indicate that but hopefully the entire movie will still have a light enough feel that they don't damper what is generally a lighter character (though we all know Spidey does have his dark moments, especially in the 90's). But still going to be disappointed by what will probably be zero easter eggs or references to other heroes or movies because of Sony's production. Its such a rich world that Marvel has built that its just sad this couldn't be a part of it (honestly I don't care that X-Men: First Class wasn't cause they still can't get that team right nor bring a film with them up to the same level as Marvel movies right now......if Charles was so against killing why didn't he just free Shaw when he knew what Eric was going to do and then re-freeze him after Eric's attack failed???? Just some bad plot holes in that film).
What am I most excited about......<spoilers><spoilers><spoilers>....at least I'm guessing these are spoilers though really its just speculation at this point.........the prospect that the Lizard may not die by the end. I've got the Amazing Spider-Man game on pre-order and I'm going to try very hard not to play it but from some stuff that's dropped about the game it sounds like Conners is still around after this film. That will be an awesome change for a superhero flick cause too often the films make great villains (like Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2) and then snuff them out at the end, forever dashing our hopes of reprisal roles (oh why did Nolan kill Two-Face, a future cameo would have been awesome). So hopefully this film changes that formula.
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