firstly i've got to say, i went into the pictures going with a bad review in mind, I saw on Ign that they gave the amazing spiderman a sloppy score. For most of the time IGN are pretty reliable in their reviews but that is if they are getting paid to give a good review and in this case they obviously didn't get paid. so expectation were a bit low but i've got to say this is possibly the 3rd best action movie of 2012, the first one being The avengers assemble and the second one that hasn't been released is the dark knight rises. It definitly lives up to the hype from the trailers and advertisements.
now what's everybodys mind is how does it compare to the toby mcguire spiderman well first all of there were a few hints and subtley that the andrew garfield didn't pick up on. Throughout the entire film, the memoriable quote 'With great power, comes great responcibty' was never brought to our ears except martin sheen who plays uncle ben brings the quote in a subtext form in a voicemail, we know what he's trying to say but honestly i would have rather him say 'With great power, comes great responcilbtly'. Speaking of uncle ben, I can't spoil anything because we all know his uncle dies because of his fault but in the amazing spiderman, it never felt that the spider could have stopped in sure peter and his uncle have an argument and it causes peter to leave and his uncle chasing after him but the guy who killed his uncle had virtually no paths with peter. These are just 2 of the few comparisons i have and i could talk about it for ages. One more change that they made was that the toby mcguire spiderman, he had naturally forming web coming out of his wrist that was built into his DNA just like a spider but in the amazing spiderman, Peter parker developed the web stringer himself using advanced science and formulas to create this web substance.
The amazing spiderman is predictable but i'm not talking about where predictable is bad, everything that happens in the film is strung together to create a immessive experience. From the items that peter parker asks to Dr curtis connars, one item in particular he points to is a formula accelerator and if a formula is placed is this a projectile will shoot up in the sky and cast a big rain cloud releasing the formula on the public.
With any marvel films, you've always got Stan lee who is the founder and creator of most of the marvel franchises and if you haven't noticed, he's made cameos in most of the marvel comic book film adaptations. well the amazing spiderman doesn't differ, Stan lee is the school library receptionist and he's got his headphones in listening to classical music, and gathering the books together and what's going on behind is the fight between spiderman and Lizard doctor connars.
The music was really well made, not sure who composed it but whoever it is, i'm sure they put in their 100% but at times the music didn't quite fit in with the action scene, it was the right tempo but it just didn't feel like the music suited with that scene and speaking of music there's a scene where spiderman is running across building and grabbing onto cranes via is web and i swear to god they've robbed some tones from titanic. It was like the james horner's titanic music merged with the likes of Inception. One more scene that had weird music is one of the final scenes where the lizard is roaming round the oscorp floor and i'll be honest it sounds like somebody was just bashing the piano every 5 seconds, it doesn't break away from the action but it's still quite an inconvience to the ears.
I'm not quite sure that they've set it up for a sequel, it's very hard to tell, before i went in, i was expecting a tie in for the avengers two that is rumoured to come out once all the other films have been established. Iron man 3, captain america 2 and thor 2 are being produced and you've got the new ones like hawk eye that's going to get his own back story and tie in with the avengers.
they hit very nice camera angles, a Very good feature from a first person perspective which wasn't used too much, they only used the first person view for like 10 seconds and the stuff from the trailer was cut up into bits, i don't know if that was trying to simulate blinking or they just decided to it up into bits i'm not sure.
This might sound cheesy but the amazing spiderman was utterly amazing, it's no avengers but we all know how stunning and heart throbbing the avenges was, lots of funny moments, not just in the action but in the script too.
I'm going to give this film an 8 out of 10, There were a few moments that felt a bit rushed and the music just wasn't in the right place and the music seemed like it was stolen. It's a fun thrilling experience that will be enjoyable even with these down sides.
Thanks for reading.
New: I was looking at the IMDB page of the amazing Spiderman and I came across the person who composed the music for the film and it turns out it's James horner. He's the same guy that composed the music for titanic so he didn't steal anything but it still doesn't fix that it sounds like titanic.
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