(Repost. Update: I did watch it but again failed to review it. I suck... I know. But in my defense, I guess it's because there is nothing to write home about)
I can
understand watching movies for a number of times... again and again ...if you
really, really, really liked it. For me,
I do it because I'm going to see the same characters, particularly the actors
that played them, whom I liked; because I want to hear the same lines that made
me laugh or fall in love and see the same scenes that made me
cry...etc...etc... But seeing a movie, of (typically) the same story but with
different set of actors and different script, just made a little bit different
by making it in 3D? I'm not so sure.
I'm not
really a Spider-Man fan, per se. I watched all the other Spider-Man movies
because I like superhero and action movies and I like Tobey Maguire (partly because
I dated someone who looked like him years ago :) ) But would I want to see it again with
different actors, probably a slightly different plot and now in 3D? Hmm....
Still not so sure.
So I did a
little research to know more about this film. It has to be noted that I'm not a
Marvel Comics subscriber and so not an expert on any of their characters and
stories. Everything I know just came from what has been shown in movies.
Anyway, here are a few of the things I learned:
1. Same as the previous movie, this one
also starts back in Peter Parker’s high school days. Peter, as this teenage
social outcast, trying to learn some things about his past (particularly about
his dad).
2. Mary Jane does not appear in this
movie. The love interest here is Gwen Stacy. (photo source)
3. Mary Jane is NOT Peter’s first love!
It’s actually Gwen Stacy, the blonde that Parker dated and danced with in a bar
to make MJ jealous in Tobey Maguire’s version. I didn't know that! And
certainly that's not what the other movie told us. Makes me wonder, “Who does
Peter love more?” Or “Who is Peter’s greatest love?”
4. The nemesis here is Dr. Curtis
Connor, a.ka. “The Lizard”. He was the former partner of Peter’s father, who
was genetically changed into a lizard by his own experiment.
5. The film follows the original comics
story, wherein Peter invents artificial webs for his climbing, spinning and
swinging stunts, instead of the organic web Maguire acquired from the spider
bite.
6. Andrew Garfield plays Peter
Parker. (photo source) You’d probably remember him from movies
like “The Other Boleyn Girl”, “Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” or “The Social
Network”. Or probably not – I don’t :)
7. Emma Stone plays Gwen Stacy. She was the star of “Easy A” and one of the
three admirable women in “The Help”. I
especially liked her in “Ghost of Girlfriends Past” as the funny and funky
metal mouth teenage girlfriend of Connor Mead.
(photo source) But she's a lot
more beautiful in Spider-Man. That's for sure!
8. Rhys Ifans plays The Lizard.
Remember Spike from Notting Hill? The impossibly irritating but funny friend of
Hugh Grant’s character? (photo
source) Well, that’s him. I think
that’s his only movie that I’ve seen. So I can’t imagine him as a villain.
Especially, a villain that was named the IGN’s 62nd Greatest Comic Villain of
All Time!
Maybe…just
maybe, I’d watch this movie. If only to find out how Rhys Ifans would play the
role :)
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