Originally the word on the street was that the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man wasn’t supposed to hit the web (ha!) until Thursday. Conventional wisdom placed it ahead of Captain America: The First Avengers when it launches in theaters on Friday.
But lo-and-behold! It’s here a day early! Enjoy!
I’ll say that the trailer hits a couple of different notes with me. Some work, some don’t.
Meeting the young Peter Parker at the beginning plays a little too much like Harry Potter to me. Then, fast forwarding a few years to the present day, we’re confronted by Andrew Garfield’s wild haystack of hair and I get a distinct Twilight vibe.
But after that, I think the trailer shapes up very nicely. Right away, you can tell that Marc Webb’s version is grounded a little more in reality. At least in terms of casting Peter as the outsider. Garfield barely even utters a line of dialogue. Mostly he keeps his head down like a beat dog. I find that kind of endearing. It’s certainly a stark contrast from widdle Tobey Maguire’s wounded puppy-dog routine in Sam Raimi’s original.
I’ll also give credit to Webb’s use of the first-person in Spider-Man’s sprint across the city rooftops.
The cynic in me could honestly have done without everything leading up to that moment in the trailer. I think if we were only give the first person shot, it would have taken the audience to catch on that we were actually seeing the city through the eyes of Spider-Man. Then, when his reflection is revealed, I think people would have gone through the roof. But maybe that’s just me.
What’s your take on this trailer?
I think the mirror’s edge first person view section was kind of gimmicky. Also, i would have liked to see Garfield crack some wise. But I am interested in how they are going to explain/use the suit, webshooters and webbing.
the whole think screams of aping Nolan’s Dark Knight franchise to me, with touches of the raimi spiderman thrown in in the style of speaking that is the narration at the end of the trailer. I think it was you, Tom who said that spidey is the last character that needs a “gritty reboot” and even if it wasn’t I couldn’t agree more.
I think the PoV shot is great in theory, but my eye immediately went to the uncanny valley every time a limb flashed into view. good concept, but the tech just doesn’t seem to be up to the job… unless they can tighten it up a lot more than this between now and curtain up.
Do we really need ANOTHER origin story movie? Come on.
But the actor seems endearingly dorky! I like it.
Unfortunately, that kinda ruins the bulk of the plot for me. Looks like they’re doing that whole arc where Peter searches for his parents. Only remember bits and pieces from the 90s era TV show, but I wonder who will do Kingpin for this movie…
I agree. I think if it had just been the rooftop run, the trailer would have been more compelling. Or maybe that’s just my feeling because the rest of the trailer looks… kinda bad to me.
The whole parent angle — interesting, since I’ve never much followed Spiderman to hear much about his parents. But yeah, ANOTHER origin movie??
And frankly, the punk take on Peter is a little much for me to stomach. I guess I always thought he was supposed to be more of a lovable (if forgettable) nerd.
Was on ‘Captain America’. I gotta say that on the computer screen, it is not that impressive, but on the big screen, the first person stuff is amazing
Meh, I thought the first person stuff looked like a video game running at medium details… I’m hoping they don’t put that viewpoint in the movie too too much as it’ll take away from the whole “grounded in reality” thing they’re doing with comic book movies these days.