Reports say the new film will be even more family friendly than the original trilogy, which featured Tobey Maguire as Parker and was directed all three times by Sam Raimi. James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) penned the script which will place a high school-aged Peter Parker in a more contemporary setting, as a teenager grappling with normal teen problems while also dealing with his superpowers. - RopeofSilicon.com's Brad Brevet (great fucking movie website, great critic, i check it multiple times daily)
wow. what, a, buzzkill. for those not in the know, the spiderman franchise has rebooted. at first, yeah, that's awful news. knee-jerk reaction is to be bummed. but then after i thought about it, i saw a slim glimmering piece of hope somewhere in the distance. marc webb is directing. his only feature is 500 days of summer, which is pretty good for what it is. he's a big music video director, a bunch of weezer, all the new green day ones after sam bayer. check his stuff out for the most part quality music videos. anyway, here we have a not so experienced director, but potentially pretty solid one, taking over the spiderman franchise. the studio cut the budget from sam raimi asking for more than 230 million to 80 million. that is a major fucking cut for a spiderman movie. we're talking huge, blockbuster spiderman. a "low" budget comic book movie? interesting. i was somewhat intrigued if all the positives of this mess worked out.
but no. of course not. spiderman is dead. long live spiderman.
"reports say the new film will be even more family friendly than the original trilogy". i feel like you need to read that again. more family friendly than the original? are you fucking serious? how low are we going with this. let's do a little simple math. to find out what we're gonna get with this new reboot spiderman bullshit.
A - B = new reboot spiderman bullshit. A, original spiderman trilogy. well. spiderman. willem freaking dafeo was norman osborn. i wanted more without a mask, but what are you gonna do. it was an orgin story. it a solid time at the movies, and did justice to the books. now spiderman 2? arguably one of the best of the super hero films. you can't say comic book films anymore, too broad a discussion. but spiderman 2, fantastic. the subway chase scene? i used to say for me top super hero movies, batman begins and then spiderman 2. batman is just cooler than spiderman, and he's being done by a way cooler director too. and of course now number 1 undisputed champ of super hero movies IS the dark knight. of course. not even a debate. i don't want to hear it. spiderman 3? fucking terrible. the movie was forced from the studio, the script went through like seven different people maybe explaining the simple problem with it we don't need 37(3) villians. so they fucked up. they fucked up hard. but sam raimi wanted to make spiderman 4. he totally would not have come within miles of it if he didn't want to. he wanted john malkovich as the vulture. yes. absofuckinglutely. when absolutely and fucking combine their powers of awesomeness, boom. and he wanted more than 230 million for it. they've got plenty of money sam raimi can be trusted. i don't want to hear it about the money, such a cop out.
so in total, A, as a whole? yes, pretty sweet trilogy. now B, what wasn't family friendly about the original trilogy? hm. it wasn't language, there wasn't really dark themes to the films they were pretty lighthearted. if i remember right he definitely never bangs mary jane(mary jane!). violence? violence. fight scenes. hijacking a subway and almost killing hundreds of people, while spiderman nearly kills himself saving them. definitely not family friendly.
= a spiderman where everything cool about spiderman doesn't happen.
why.
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