The Amazing Spider Man trailer

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

This movie looks awesome.

(Reasons)

I agree with you about some things. The Sandman/Uncle Ben idea was a horrible one - if you can't make that monstrosity intimidating without completely sabotaging the main character's motivation, you're not worthy of being a Hollywood writer - but the cinematic universe can survive Venom's death. If nothing else, they can just have another blob of the material show up, maybe resulting in Carnage, which I'm sure the Spider-Man fans of the world would love to see.

But even that aside, there are things about this movie that really make me think it's going to be a stinker. They're changing the whole backstory, adding in the "Daddy Issues" which worked so poorly when they were crammed into the first Hulk movie, and replacing Jameson and MJ with the much less interesting George and Gwen Stacy. Bleh.

Lizard looks to be the high point, but I'm even apprehensive about that, seeing the obviously-fakeness of, for example, the claw-raking effects. It just screams a movie that's Green Lantern bad.