Mr. Cinema

2nd trailer was solid. I'm really looking forward to this one.

bluetoast

I see a 3D option on Youtube....did I miss a memo about glasses for the computer, or is that aimed at television displays?

Sonic

That is a bad ass trailer better than the 1st.

I do agree about Garfield too...and it's that sick afro he's got going on. Amazing with the Spider-Man mask on he manages it hide and sandwich it down very well.

fumanstan

I think that trailer made it look far better.

Paul_SD

His hang up about his parents- while a valid component for a serious re-interpretation- might be the only thing about this that's hard for me to embrace. That's simply not the spirit of the character as I know him. But I'm willing to put my prejudices aside and see if the film uses this aspect well, or if it is just shoe-horned in to be different. Probably more of the latter, since it's a reboot so soon on the heels of the original series.

Otherwise, I'm liking what I'm seeing- a lot!
While it would have been nice and iconic to see the lab coat on the lizard for the whole movie- would it have made much sense for a character to keep something on that restricts his movement even slightly? The character in the trailer moves dynamically, so the absence of the coat is not unwarranted.

Also, have to give the trailer/film props for being as colorful as it is, despite the 'dark' aesthetic. This is one of the few big films that seems to be eschewing the uber-cliched TEAL & ORANGE color grading that infects everything nowadays. If for no other reason, I would like to see this film succeed so that other filmmakers can see how beautiful a film full of pure, unmolested hues is.
And from what I can see in the trailer, the film looks like every cent is on the screen.

Hope the final product is as invigorating as the trailer, but so far my enthusiasm for the movie is definitely on the upswing and will be even more so come July 4.

Mike86

I don't get all these complaints I've been reading lately about teal and orange in movies these days. It seems like just another thing to bitch about just for the sake of doing so..

kgrogers1979

Peter is supposed to be a nerd, and Garfield with his goofy hair looks like a nerd to me.

Artman

Good comments Paul, I pretty much agree. For me the actors and dialogue alone are a huge improvement, just from the trailers. And of course 10yrs of technology and fx have helped to improve things visually that much more. Like others I would've preferred the slithering, smart, lean Lizard from the old cartoon, but, I guess we'll take what we can get at this point. Better than a Power Rangers suit...

Alan Smithee

Not too sure about on a computer, though many videos have a red/blue option. On a 3D TV, you can take the side-by-side format and the TV will unsqueeze it and display it in 3D, looks pretty good most of the time.

Paul_SD

T&O may be valid in certain circumstances, to get a cross a particular mood- but that's not how it used these days. EVERYTHING, from serious dramas to cheap ass sci-fi and horror b-movies is labored with this restricted, one note, palate across the entire run time.
And what's even worse to me is, catalog titles being remastered and released on Bd are being retrofitted with T&O grading. Ridley Scott's films are one of the worst examples of this revisionism. This is something that subtly, but fundamentally alters the feel of a favorite film.

Maybe I'm more tuned in to this because I'm in the visual arts, but it's not a subtle trend and it's not just a nit pick. Not when it's part and parcel of nearly every film released these days.
Not enough bitching about this practice, imo.
I would love to see movies go back to being warm, colorful, and not so phony, artificial and hyper stylized looking all the time.

All we need is one blockbuster to buck this trend and we might start seeing a little more visual variety in the marketplace.

Supermallet

Not to derail the thread, but perhaps you could provide us with some comparison screenshots, Paul, so we can better understand what you mean when you say teal and orange grading, because I am not seeing this in movies where you claim it to be prevalent, so I'd love to know exactly what you're referring to.

Paul_SD

I'll grab some comparative caps and post them in a separate thread sometime this weekend.

I'm passionate about this, but don't want to derail any threads getting all worked up about it.

JTH182

Try the crossed-eyes method, lol

BambooLounge

After seeing the latest trailer pre-Avengers, I am more excited about the film than I was previously. I initially was writing it off as a too-soon reboot, but I've since embraced comic book movies as now a replacement for actual comic books, so the multiple series (or reboots) of the same character thing doesn't really bug me. But, the parent or more specifically father plot-line highlighted in the trailer reminded me a little too much of the Tony-Howard Stark dynamic and would wish they didn't go that route.

But, as much as I don't want to reward Hollywood for becoming a comic book factory, I cannot help it. Comic books were fun to read as a kid and comic book movies are fun to watch as an adult. So, I'll be there to reward the quick on the trigger franchise reboot with a ticket purchase when this comes out.

Dragon Tattoo

"You've found my weakness. It's small knives"

That's the jokester Spidey I know.

Supermallet

Yeah, for all this talk about the movie being more serious, it seems like Spidey himself is a lot funnier, between the small knives and the bit in the back of the car from the last trailer.

argh923

Agreed. And honestly, the CG looks horrible. That collapse at the end, Spiderman jumping around...it just looks BAD. Completely took me out of it.

Also, my point stands - there's nothing really in that trailer that tells Joe Public that this is a reboot. The ONLY thing is the brief shot of him walking in high school. People are going to think this is Spider-Man 4 and be terribly confused.

I hold to my opinion that this will be by far the least successful of the movies.

Kal-El

I'm still in. and I agree about this being more "colorful" than most "dark" movies. It doesn't look drab at like Superman Returns was. It also seems like this Spidey behaves more spider-like than Toby Maguire's version. There were a lot of shots in that trailer that showed him actually crawling even during fights with the lizard, which I kinda liked.

Groucho

The trailer seems to imply that his powers are, at least in part, genetic. Great idea, guys, because that worked so well for the Ang Lee Hulk movie.

Sonic

http://latino-review.com/2012/05/04/spider-man-amazing/

Groucho

Wow, even the "placed there by his father" is right out of Hulk. Ugh.

islandclaws

I caught this trailer again last nigt in front of The Avengers, but this time in 3D. Gotta say, this thing will at least be impressive in IMAX. That final scene of the building tower collapse, however CGI it may be, looked far superior in 3D.

God, I feel like such a tool for saying that since I generally deride 3D, but I can't deny what I saw.

Dragon Tattoo

Oh please, if this is your complaint then you must think the CGI in the original Spider-man movie looks like an episode of Gumby.

DaveyJoe

I don't remember the CGI in Spider-Man(2002) but the CGI in the sequels was very good. With all of the issues of Spider-Man 3 you could never complain about the special effects. Sandman looked amazing. The CGI in the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man does not look seamless, it needs a lot more work. One of the downsides of cutting a budget from over $200 million down to $80 million. It's not like there was one or two bad shots in the trailer, but the majority of the special effects shots look bad to me. Spider-Man is ten years old so it's understandable that the effects look a bit dated but with TASM it's obvious that the studio is cutting corners on the budget.

Sonic

The other day I was watching Spider-Man 3 on the spanish channel...and I too was saying to myself how did they a great job with the Sandman. Special effects were done very nice. I felt a bit sad that they did not continue with a 4th.