07-16-2017, 11:12 AM
(07-15-2017, 09:47 PM)Benton Wrote: First Spider-Man movie I've really, really enjoyed.
Toby McGuires first one was ok, second meh and the third was horrible. Garfields movies were alright but he looked about 30 and, as mentioned, was way too cool. This one actually felt like Spider-Man.
My only complaint was the suit. It was distracting, although the Karen part was funny. But one thing they did so right was no origin story. They summed it up in a couple words.
That's been my biggest complaint with all the reboots (Spider-Man, batsman, super man). We don't need an origin story every time you change actors.
Spoiler below in a question:
Probably just a coincidence but harry Osborne (the green goblin) had a wife named Liz.
In the comics she is Liz Allen, girlfriend of Flash and an initial love interest of Peter. It's the same Liz that marries Harry. We briefly saw Betty Brandt as one of the school news anchors. In the comics, she is Jameson's secretary at the Bugle (played by Elizabeth Banks in the first trilogy) and dates Peter. After they break up, she marries Ned (who is another employee at the Bugle, not a high school friend). He eventually becomes one of the Hobgoblins. MJ didn't go to school with Peter, she was his next door neighbor's niece who Aunt May kept trying to set him up with.
Harry and Gwen are the two biggest ones missing from this social circle, but they don't pop up until college.