The hand-cam trailer previously posted was removed at the request of the studio. Again, not sure where this came from or why, but if it’s in HD and has yet to be yanked by the powers that be at Youtube, then it gives me the impression that this is officially sanctioned by Sony until told otherwise.
I notice the darker tone of this movie and, with the previously released images of a badly bruised Parker, I get the feeling that this will be a much grimmer look at the ‘ol webhead.
I like the inclusion of Peter’s parents and the implication of their, surprisingly adventurous, story as they leave a young Peter in the care of his aunt and uncle.
I still have some reservations about this movie. It looks great but my mind is still accepting the fact that the entire storyline of the Raimi trilogy is being trashed and replaced. But, make no mistake, I will undoubtedly see this movie opening day at a midnight showing at the first available theater in my area willing to take my money for a seat. Yes, Spider-Man is my all-time, unequivocal favorite superhero ever.
I don’t need to sit through another Spiderman origin story. Ugh
And you don’t have to. No one is going to make you go see this.
Of course retelling the origin story to set the pace of an entirely new franchise is going to be such a bad idea? What if its done better? What if its not better but you still like it?
Seems a little early to bury a film because you assume its all going to be just the same origin story.
Nah, it’s a step backwards. It’s not like it’s been 20 years since the last Spiderman franchise. We just watched it. High school kid gets bit by a radioactive spider, not much else
you can do with that. I’d rather them just get on with it, and spend the screen time telling another story. I’ll see it, but I’ll surprised if I don’t find it tiresome.
Spiderman is a great character. Unfortunately his villains are all lame.
Truth.
Actually, come to think of it… Marvel doesn’t really have many good villians at all. Whereas DC has really cool villains. Unfortunately, DC has lame heroes (aside from Batman).
What we really need is for DC and Marvel to get together, let Marvel right all the heroes, and DC write all the villains. Solved!
Actually DC has Lamer villans IMO especially Supes and Bats!!!!(Joker aside)
Ummmmm….I think there’s “other” versions of Spidey out there in print if anyone cares to take notice…..Films shouldn’t be any exception..
Shit! Spidey 2099 is probally around the corner my friends….
My personal take is that I don’t think that this movie should be classified as a reboot, but instead as a remake, because of all the blindingly obvious similarities between this film and the 2002 Sam Raimi film. I remember an early interview confirming that they were not going to tell the origin story in great detail again, instead it would be grazed over in a few minutes, very similar to how they handled the Hulk origin story in the 2008 reboot. I’m not a fan of the dark tone of the movie, and I personally thought that they missed the point of Peter Parker’s character. Peter Parker is SUPPOSED to be a nerd who is not very liked, yet has a semi-optimistic look on life. In the trailer, he was shown as being so dark, I actually expected him to start listenting to Crawling by Linkin Park while cutting his wrists. (And people complained about emo-Spidey in Spider-Man 3.) I don’t like the dark and brooding aspects of Marc Webb’s interpretation of the Peter Parker character (this is Spider-Man, not Batman) and this makes no sense to me, because Marc Webb directed (500) Days of Summer, which was overall bright and happy in tone compared to this movie. He should be capable of giving us the Peter Parker from the comics, not a teenage Bruce Wayne.
You are just splitting hairs. It only resembles Raimi’s Spider-Man because that film series resembled the COMIC BOOK.
Both of these franchises are adapting the same source material. They are not remaking Raimi’s Spider-Man, they are adapting the comic books – AGAIN.
This is what by the very definition of the word REBOOT means. They are restarting the effort to adapt the source material to a feature film.
No, I have to disagree with you there, Rodney. I classify this as a remake because this movie is basically just going to be the same as Spider-Man 1 all over again, except we have Lizard instead of Green Goblin, Gwen Stacey instead of Mary-Jane Watson, and web shooters instead of organic webbing. Yippee. From the trailer, it basically looks like it is an 80% remake of the first film, and not a reboot. I refuse to call this film a reboot because of my personal observations.
Of course, it looks like we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
This movie is not basically the same as Raimi’s Spider-Man… except for the parts that are just like the comic book.
It looks more like they are trying to be anything BUT what Raimi did with Spider-Man.
Everytime you say “except” and illustrate a difference that you saw in a very brief TEASER trailer, you just further prove that point.
No Norman Oswald, no Goblin, No MJ, no organic webslingers, nothing at all that Raimi’s Spider-Man had.
Completely different tone, different look, different story. The only thing that is the same as Raimi’s Spider-Man is that Parker gets bit by a radioactive spider and gains Spidey Powers.
Sounds to me like the only common ground here are the things in the comicbook therefore proving that this is another adaptation of the source material, and not at all an attempt to Remake Raimi’s Spider-Man.
You can “agree to disagree”, but it sounds more like you agree that this is another adaptation of the source material. They are not at all copying Raimi’s Spider-Man even by your own “personal observations”
I’ll reserve judgment on this movie until I have seen it entirely. But its looks grim and dark. The Spidey costume that I have seen so far isn’t up to par with Tobey Maguire’s. Personally, I like the Raimi version more.
I don’t know what you guys are all talking about. The first person scene in the trailer looked pretty clear, fluid and fun to me. Does it really need to be tweeked or improved???
“It looks like a video game cine-matic”!!!!
Is that so bad, especially with everyone saying how great some game visuals are these days!!! As far as I’m concerned all CGI looks unreal to an extent. Without practical effects you simply can’t get the feel of reality (whether it be with character or environmental interaction).
Even when watching Avatar a small part of me still knew I was watching human actors playing to blue animated alien characters. CGI is there to create visuals that are otherwise impossible to recreate in our practical, physics based world. However I and most of the movie going audience (I hope) should be able to look past that and simply enjoy the film.
That’s why we have imaginations and the ability to suspend disbelief. With these even the worst visual effects can become acceptable. No movie should ever be called “Dated” as long as you have the ability to open your mind while watching it!!!!!
The trailer looks great in my opinion!
Now…..excuse me while I step down from my soapbox once again!!!
The fact is that, in a live action movie, the very second you realize something is not real you are taken out of the movie.
If we wanted to watch a cartoon, we’d watch a cartoon.
We are far enough along with CG that anytime it looks fake, you’ve failed. Either don’t use it at all or make it perfect.
“Taken out of the movie”!! Tell that to the millions of movie fans out there that spend their cash on Blu-ray versions of classic movies. Shaking sets, hand puppet monsters and filmed in black and white!! Does that take them out of the movie or ruin the experience??
Simply put there are people that are able to fully immerse themselves in a universe/setting created by a movie (even with the flaws). However some are unable to do so and are always on the look out for a reason to say its just a movie!!
Bar a member of the lighting crew walking on in the middle of a scene to replace a bulb. I would find it very difficult to be drawn out of a movie I enjoy!! I’m afraid it would take more than a CG “video game looking” cine-matic city scene to draw me out of this movie. Especially when its about a guy who can climb walls using his finger tips, spin webs and all while fighting a lab-coated lizard man!!
CG is fake by it’s very nature!! I know this while watching the movie yet it does not remove my eyes from the screen. Nor would I waste my time looking for the missing shadow of a CG character just so I could say the GC’s not up to scratch!! We all know its not real, but your not supposed to be repeating that over and over in your head during the picture!!!
Unless ofcorse its a scary movie then please feel free to do so!!!
the POV shit is embarrassing. looks like a video game cinematic.
I’m pretty positive that it is there for promotional filler. I can’t imagine that they would ruin such a high production quality with student grade FPS CGI.
But i’ve been wrong before….
The movie is a year out, you don’t honestly believe they won’t clean up the CGI if they use that in the movie at all. It was pretty clear to me that bit was promotional.
yeah guy, it is pretty obvious that the end scene was just filler. but whether you are a year or 2 weeks away from release…if shit looks bad, don’t show it. and that shit looked HORRIBLE.
on top of that scene looking bad, they spent the first 2 minutes setting up what appears to be a “serious” looking film, and then FART…they killed the entire tone of the piece with a lame gimmick.
Bob…dude how many “CGI films” have released teaser trailers with fully complete CGI??? I mean, I may be wrong (strongly dont believe I am), but last time I checked rendering a CGI image takes a looooong ass time. And there is obviously a time crunch to release this teaser in front of Cap America. And you cant release a teaser trailer for a comic book character without showing that character in uniform doing something (anything) in full super hero mode. I mean who CARES?? It’s just a teaser. It’s job is to TEASE you and to let you know this thing is coming, and to give you some sort of tone the movie will have. That’s it.
I don’t even know why I am responding to what you said (guess these sort of comments get to me) because you’re CLEARLY that tiny little percentage that is going to point out the lower quality CGI in a TEASER trailer. man…man oh man…
Don’t Call me Guy, Pal
Spider man was my baptism into the comic world. I need more of him and this looks to be a serious take on it. I love the first two Rami films but I don’t think 1 holds up well, 2 still holds its own in the top 5 of my comic movie list. I was extremely impressed with Garfeild in social network so I am very excited to see him play PP. People have this hesitation to this movie (i think its subcontiously because of the costume with people whether they want to admit it or not) but man its more spider man and how could that ever be a bad thing
Hit the nail on the head my friend, I dont care how soon, I’ll take as many as they wanna throw at me..Spidey fan for life.
I’m not gonna whine about CGI at this point being 1 full yr away.
Looking forward as well.
It’s really strange that only 9 year after Spider-Man, we have a reboot with the origin story again.
If the story was the same franchise, I could see no need for a retelling of the origin. But honestly, 9 years???? That’s as old as my youngest child. He wasn’t born when the first Spider-Man came out.
This is a while new franchise with a whole new feel and direction for the character. His origin is going to play into his character development – they can’t overlook it assuming everyone is a Spider-Man geek.
Not everyone is a Spider Man Geek but they don’t have to be to know the basics of his origin since he is such a popular pulp icon much like Superman or Batman. My nephew is seven and knows the premise of spiderman and who he is.I will say that the trailer does keep me interested as I am a huge Spidey fan. Still on hold with the whole Ben Reily version of the costume ( I know it isn’t but has similarities to his and May Parker Spider Girl froM MC2 universe). I still feel like there should have been a little bit more time before restarting the franchise. But I see if they are going to stick with him being a teenager then I’m fine with that. I will be waiting for this movie and will more than likely watch it at least three times in theaters.
What I mean is that it doesn’t seem too far away that we’ve seen these events. It’s like “yeah I remember this”.
I didn’t understand what you meant with the age of your son.
Look…bottom line, the 3rd spidey movie was absolutely 100% upsettingly a complete piece of garbage. Also, comic book movies have evolved sooooo much since the original spiderman franchise that (in my opinion) the originals just do not stand up against the rest. I still love them because i saw them when they came out so I have the pleasure of experiencing nostalgia when i watch 1 and 2. 3 actually pisses me off and I try to forget it but it was so bad that it’s impossible to forget (kind of like being sexually abused).
That being said, I am sooooo happy they are completely rebooting it because now they have the opportunity to right the wrongs and hopefully do venom some frickin justice in a later movie.
This trailer looks good to me.