[Movie] The Amazing Spider Man

Spiderman used to be my favorite superhero when i was growing up, so i have watched every movie made about him, even the live action series from the ´80s, and while the previous trilogy of films in the series (directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst) was not bad by any means, "The Amazing Spider-Man" was definitely the best film of all times about this superhero, and there are many reasons for it.
For starters, this is the movie that closest resembles the original storyline of the character, particularly by making Gwen Stacy be Peter Parker´s first romance interest as opposed to Mary Jane Watson (which was the case in the Raimi movies). Also, the origin of his super powers are a tad bit less ludicrous than in previous films, and best of all, Parker is again a geeky science genius who builds his own web shooters instead of having them spun out from his body like Maguire's version did.



Apart from all that, Andrew Garfield is a way more convincing Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire ever was, and the overall tone of the film was more realistic and somber at the same time… almost like Christopher Nolan's version of Batman, which make the superhero appear more human and less of a totally fictional character. And needless to say, visual effects were the best ever for this series, making Spiderman look a lot more real when jumping from buildings and swinging to webs, which wasn't the case in the original trilogy, when the computer animations were a lot more obvious.

The movie is not entirely flawless, of course. The Lizard, being the only villain of the film, felt quite weak for being Spiderman's main menace (if you don't consider the NYPD as an actual threat), his goal of turning the entire city into lizards was just odd, and having him saving the superhero at the end of the movie was even more out of place. Also, the part where this construction worker, whose son's life just happened to be saved by the "web-slinger", decides to help our hero by setting all of New York's cranes to align so Spiderman could swing from them, felt way too forced into the plot and completely unnatural.



Other than that, and considering that those points are merely personal observations of something that didn't really hurt the plot, this was an outstanding superhero film and a really nice reboot of the Spiderman series, so i'll be looking forward to the sequel in 2014, a long time to wait, but i am already sure is going to be completely worth it.

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