review by Tim Portis Patron
The Amazing Spider-Man 2012
Watched Jun 18, 2012
Tim Portis’s review:
Marc Webb's reboot has much to enjoy. The relationship between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone is fleshed out and works well as you would expect from the director of (500) Days of Summer. The action sequences also sparkle and the film looks sensational. My only criticism remains that did we need another origin story so soon.
Not quite up there with the best of the Raimi films, this should still make your spidey senses tingle.
Question: How've you seen it already?
Part 2: Did you see it in 3D?
The film premiered tonight in London. The 3D is fine but nothing special. There is a mid end-credits sequence so make sure you stay for that.
Emma Stone is such a cute little thing, but I'm not sure I can imagine her in a film like this. Did it work?
Wow. Did not know that. It seems awfully early for a premiere, considering it's 2 weeks+ till release. I wasn't going to go 3D anyway, but I may have been swayed if it was amazing (no pun intended). I figured there probably would be a post-credits scene; it's sort of an expectation now from Marvel
Was Philip Seymour Hoffman's cameo as Mysterio any good?
Emma Stone looks stunning and has some good scenes with Andrew Garfield. I thought she did a fine job.
Sounds great. Is it at least better than the first Raimi Spider-Man? I recently revisited that and found it extremely lacking. My only requirements is that they go into Spidey's character and motivations, and that Spidey cracks a lot of jokes.
If it does that, then I'm happy.
There is definitely more comedy here than in the Sam Raimi films.
You sure this is allowed to be up yet? I've been hearing elsewhere that there is a pretty strict embargo up until June 29th, not sure just where the line for what you can and can't say about it is right now though...
No embargo in place at the premiere last night.
Wow it's nice that you got to see this already. I enjoyed Raimi's films with the exception of the 3rd one so I'm very skeptical about this reboot. With this being the first review I've seen at least it's off to a positive start.
Hearing good vibes about Andrew Garfield's portrayal of Peter Parker/Spiderman. Sounds like we may have a proper quippy Spiderman on our hands. Though heard mixed stuff about the overall film.
Dunno what to think. I, too, think it's clearly too soon to reboot this franchise. I'm reluctant to see something too similar to Raimi's film.
Don't embargo's only apply to paid, poncey, never actually pay their own money to see a film so have no objective judgement on a film's worth, professional critics?
I think anyone else can tell film companies to go screw and write whatever they want, when they want.
I should've loved the Raimi Spiderman movies......but didn't.
I'm really looking forward to this though, I loved (500) Days Of Summer so I'm hoping Mark Webb "spins" his quirky magic on this.
Saw it tonight. Thought Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone were fantastic in it. They have a chemistry that was missing from all the Raimi films (wich I loved by the way). It's going to be hard to go back and watch MacGuire and Dunst, even though Dunst doesn't play the same character.
I agree with you. I don't think this as good as Spider-Man 2 which is one of the great comic book movies but this is at least on par with the first Raimi and much better than Spider-Man 3.
I just got out as well. While not as good as Spider-Man 2 (then again, what is?) I thought it was MILES better than the first Raimi film, which I still think is a mediocre film. Gonna put up a review soon, but I really liked it.