Matthew Chmiel

Uh, no. "Contractual obligations" are a nice, corporate way of saying he's not invited back.

Solid Snake

It's not impossible to think that Fox got him contracted to do a movie for them after Summer. It happens at times.

Supermallet

If Sony really wanted him back, they'd work that out with Fox.

whotony

It wasn't a clone saga in the 70's until they introduced all the ridiculous clone stuff in the 90's.

Matthew Chmiel

Then explain to us how did he get to direct The Amazing Spider-Man? Webb signed on the dotted line to direct Spidey in January 2010. Five months after 500 Days of Summer was officially released into theaters and nearly a year after Webb signed his deal with Fox.

If Sony wanted Webb back, they'd get Webb back into the director's chair for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Hell, if Webb was great to work with, they'd work on getting him an executive producer credit to allow him to have some input or say with the sequel.

It's clear as day that he's no longer needed by Sony.

And I'd bet money Webb's next film may not even be a Fox release.

Solid Snake

Ah. That i didn't know.

sauce07

I finally got around to seeing this last night, guess I was entertained. A kid behind me asked "why is Spider-Man so depressed?", wish I had an answer.

All I kept thinking during the first act was why are we seeing the origin again? Who is running security at Oscorp? Andrew Garfield is way to old to be playing a high schooler and wow, Emma Stone is hot as a blonde.

The entire look of the movie was boring, I saw it in 2D and it seemed very flat, couldn't even see how this was shot for 3D.

I thought the movie was okay, I did enjoy the second and third acts but the plot holes and moping drag it down.

Hokeyboy

I walked out of "Amazing Spider-Man" thinking to myself, "That was a good Spider-Man movie." It was well-made, it was fun, it entertained, but it was hardly superlative entertainment. 3.5 out of 5 seemed reasonable. It just really didn't provide anything new, distinctive, or innovative.

JimRochester

I saw it in 3D and couldn't figure out why it was in 3D either. It wasn't a problem since I don't really like 3D anyway

total agreement

OutRun2

Just watched it yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Certainly much more than The Avengers. Not sure what everyone's problem is with The LizardMan. I thought he was very formidable and menacing.

Solid Snake

It's just The Lizard.

He's a big ass cliche villain in the film. His motivation is weak and expected. As an adaptation of the character it's pretty bad too. While becoming the creature is an unexpected affect of the regeneration process for him, there was always a clear distinction between the two personalities. A Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde type of thing. Here it was pretty much the same guy. Which weakens the drama inherent in the character from the comics and is weak in the film as well.

Also as visual image, his look is pretty boring. The comic's look w/ the Labcoat (usally along with some pants) is extremely iconic for him and was there for a small as fuck bit. Though I did like the color hues on him.

A thing that bothers me personally is that he loses his dick. Like...he grows a tail. Fine. We have tail bones for that. He grows an arm back, ok. Physically gets a lizard type of structure and ability akin to lizards. Alright. His head still being humanish makes more sense in a scientific manner but I do miss his iconic look. So that doesn't bother me too much while being a dull design still. How the fuck does he lose a dick? He gains a tail and transforms into the lizard. His arms, legs, neck, and I'm assuming other human structures work the same..but somehow he loses his dick? All the other human parts are there..but his dick. That's weird as fuck.

Now...I like the film. It gets a lot of stuff right but also a lot of stuff wrong. And a good chunk of the Parker stuff. The Spider-Man stuff is great fpr the most part. Gwen Stacy is sooooo much better than MJ from the Raimi films. You can also feel that stuff was cut out of the film and we know what was cut as well. This was felt early on too. Some plot holes here and there. It modernizes Parker, which is good. But it also gives him some weird ass character traits that aren't Parker. I like Garfield being Parker though. He's a good Spidey. Aunt May and Uncle Ben were also poorly developed. Script was weak though. Visuals were fucking nice. Really loved how the production design didn't always feel like a set (Raimi's always felt like that) and very cool color palette in this film.

The biggest offender in this reboot is that...well...it's an origin story again. And it doesn't even make it feel fresh which makes it worse.

RocShemp

I glanced at your post and did a double take because I thought you were being serious. Damn you for only making a joke and not stating actual Shane Black news.

d2cheer

It wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be but it was ruined by The Lizard. They did a terrible job on him.

I would give it 2 1/2 out of 5. Average nothing more. Nothing I would watch again.

RichC2

There is so much awesome in that potential that it's a shame it's not real. Robert Downey Jr would make a great addition.

Jules Winfield

Hey, I would love to be able to have access to Shane Black news. Give me access to Shane Black and I'll post all the Shane Black news I can find out. I'll try to use more smiley faces when I'm joking and none when I'm not.

P.S.-Shit, I already messed up.

RocShemp

He could play a young Agent J.

GatorDeb

I found it by searching on TASM thanks to the part 2 thread

Finally got around to watching this yesterday. Question:

JasonF

I finally got around to seeing this today. My opinion: worse than the Raimi/Maguire movies (the first two, anyway) in just about every conceivable way. The plot was jumbled, the characterizations were inconsistent, both internally and with respect to their fidelity to the source material, the action set pieces were mediocre, and the lead was poorly cast.

I liked Emma Stone, though I don't think her character bore any resemblance to Gwen Stacy.

Mike86

Yeah I didn't really care for it much the first time I saw it and the more times I've seen it since I actually like it less. The film to me just feels overall forgettable and I don't really have any ambitions to see a sequel or anything more. I also didn't care much for Garfield's portrayal of Parker/Spidey and The Lizard was just weak as a villain in it if you ask me. Also wasn't a big fan of the way Uncle Ben gets killed by the same guy who "helped" Peter out when he was being all emo over not having enough cash for a chocolate milk . The one thing it had going for it that I really liked was Emma Stone as Gwen. She's not only pretty to look at but I actually enjoyed the character a lot too.