A lil Andrew Garfield for ya.Ok, I get the appeal to remaking the superhero movie, but it seems a little obnoxious to do it this closely together. "The Amazing Spider Man", trailer here, seems to be geared towards exactly what Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" did for the Batman series, providing a darker, more mature image of the story. To me, it seems odd to kickstart the series when the third Spiderman came out less then 4 years ago.
Also, is anyone else getting sick of reliance on superhero films as a guaranteed blockbuster? I feel like we're going to see the trailer for "Ant-Man" any day now.
I'm 100% against the Spider-man reboot. It's completely redundant; I would argue that Spider-man's origins are more well-known than any other Marvel character, and nearly every other character in comic history outside of Batman. I'm interested to see the Lizard in the film, and I'm all for Andrew Garfield, but I don't understand why they really need to start from square one. I get that it's separate from the Raimi trilogy, but really, we all get how he became Spider-man.
ReplyDeleteAs for "Ant-Man:" Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim) has been working on the script for a few years, actually. No lie. I don't know anything about the character, but I know that if he's doing it, I'm on board. I think there was some hesitation over it after "Scott Pilgrim" bombed so hard at the box office, so it seems to be in limbo right now.
I agree re: Spiderman. Opportunistic imitative filmmaking for sure. But I think this is indicative of the sort of short-sighted thinking that can't see past the superhero as a commodity, as though a superhero in and of itself is a guarantee of box office returns. I think this is why I tend to like little movies more than the big kind.
ReplyDeleteI heart pretty much everything Edgar Wright has done thus far--although I think S.P. is the weakest project of his (that I know) out there. I kept meaning to netflix Spaced but then we canceled our physical DVD membership so I'm screwed on that one. My TV displayed way too much football all weekend. I think I will have to have it DVR some Big Bang Theory to even things out. Anyway, Wright (and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) have that awesome Fail aesthetic I love so much. Plus I still think Shaun and Hot Fuzz have genuinely scary or action moments amid the funny.
Bad Boys II...
From my perspective as a comic lover, the only redeeming aspect of the new Spiderman is that it seems to place a lot more emphasis upon embodying one particular 'universe' of the Spiderman ethos. There are several different ongoing Marvel continuities and the previous Raimi films amalgamated the most exciting aspects of the Amazing and Ultimate Spiderman lines. This approach to superhero film making has been incredibly successful in the box office and I could point out specific examples in the movies I've seen. Like how Dr. Doom in the 2004 Fantastic Four movie became a being made of metal (an aspect of Ultimate FF) instead of being flesh and blood.
ReplyDeleteI guess my point here is that these amalgamated movies tend to lose crucial aspects of the separate lines. The Amazing and Ultimate Spidermans are very different beings (Ultimate Peter Parker Spiderman recently just died and has been replaced with a young black-Hispanic named Miles Moralles). Simply by labeling the movie 'The Amazing Spiderman' seems to be an attempt to stick with one universe, which would be pretty cool to see.
Personally I think an Ant-Man movie would be pretty awesome. What most people don't realize is that Henry Pym (the original Ant-Man, there have been three total) has an incredibly versatile (as a superhero he has been known as Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, and the new Wasp) and morally complicated persona. A movie with him could highlight his Mister Fantastic-level intelligence with potent sci-fi aspects as well as his turbulent and (literally) abusive relationship with his wife (Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp, now dead). Pym is a incredibly flawed hero that has a lot of potential for a screen adaption.