Spidey...

As you may know by know, I am a Spider-man fan and if you didn't know this, well now you know. Today they release the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-man movie and I must say that I am impressed. I was very skeptical when they decided to reboot the series but once details started coming out, the fog started to lift.

First of, this is not a reboot, it's a re-imagining and when you think about it, it's not even that. When you take a look at all the Spider-man comics, you will notice that there are many different ones, with different stories and different "universes". Same thing with Batman. The Batman movie doesn't have anything to do with Batman Begins. Why? Because its another universe. A darker, more serious Batman, even thought Micheal Keaton's Batman was dark. This Spider-man is a more down-to-earth, darker, real Spider-man. Sure it's the same "Peter gets bitten by a spider" story but now it will go more the route of Ultimate Spider-man. I really liked the decision to making the web-shooter mechanical instead of just being able to shoot web from his wrist and when you think about it, it was a little weird. This is a story I think you could relate to since here its more focused on the high-school student Peter as opposed to the hero Peter.

Second of all, the use of Lizard as the villain and that he is the only one (Spider-man 3 biggest flaw). This is a villain that everybody has been wanting to see in a Spider-man movie and now that they got it people are bitching about it. What is wrong with people? I think its well done.I would like to see a little bit more snout but this way you can actually see Connors and that's not all bad. We haven't seen a lot of it yet, but still looks good. Hell, it looks better than Venom did on the third one. They bulk him up (which they didn't do with Venom) and they chose an actor that you can really fit the whole Lizard\Connors personality. I could never see Topher Grace as Eddie Brock and I still can't. I don't think he is a bad actor or anything, but I would not give him the role of Venom. With Andrew Garfield you can believe that he is a high-schooler and is looks like the Peter from the Ultimate Spider-man series.

People need to stop judging a book by its cover. So many movies for which the trailer looks awesome and ends up being crap. You can't complaint about the movie if you haven't seen it yet. Same thing happened with Heath Ledger's Joker. Everybody complaint and said it was stupid (me included), but that lasted until they actually saw the movie. I know I am looking forward to this movie. All I can say now is "don't knock it 'till you try it"