Hey kids! Based on box-office receipts it seems you’re really enjoying the new Spider-Man film, but did you know there were other Spider-Man movies before The Amazing Spider-Man? It’s true! Way back in the sepia-toned early 2000s there was an entire trilogy of Spider-Man movies! They were pretty different than the Spider-Man adventures you enjoy today — the love interest was a redhead instead of a blonde, aunt May had gone totally grey, and Peter Parker had a side part. Hmm, I guess the differences were mostly hair-related, but boy was that hair crazy and different!
Well, for those who haven’t seen Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, a helpful Youtuber has cut this forgotten relic of a trilogy together into a concise six-minute video. Hit the jump to check it out…
Not bad, they even managed to make Spider-Man 3 look pretty passable. Also, I like how the old Spider-Man movies actually have some scenes that take place in daylight.
via /Film
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Really, all this does is confirm exactly how much better the new Spider-Man movie is compared to any of the old ones. Answer: overwhelmingly.
I kinda thought the opposite.
We’ll have to wait and see if “The amazing spiderman 3: spider boogaloo” is as bad as the original
woah buddy are you serious, it was only one movie compared to the three, calm that down. The new movie is great but it still has too much room to fail or succeed.
Mm, yeah, the consensus has been pretty mixed it seems. To me, this just seemed closer to the feel I would want for a Spider-Man movie: younger (looking), sleeker, updated designs, cute awkward romance and good sense of humor, etc. I understand a lot of the criticisms, and admittedly the execution could have been better. The only criticism I don’t understand at all is that a reboot wasn’t needed… I think a lot of that stems from non-comics fans who aren’t used to the frequent continuity adjustments and refreshes that nerds are.
I think it’s a step in the right direction.
My objection to the new one is that it was rushed and simply made to hold the rights to a character that Marvel Studios would use about 100x better than Sony.
I do enjoy how much people are like “Reboot? Already?”
Sure it has been 5 years since the steaming pile of crap that was Spider-Man 3. But its not like reboots haven’t been done before. Batman begins was only 8 years after Batman & Robin. X-Men 1st Class was 5 years after the 3rd X-Men movie (is it a prequel when the Last Stand did the backstory of some character that had Xavier still walking when he went to see Jean?). Friday the 13th remake came 6 years after Freddy vs Jason.
Why all the hate for the new Spidey?
Because Batman Begins and X-Men First Class told different stories. The Amazing Spider-Man is the same story as Spider-Man 10-years-ago with surface changes and a different green guy as a villain.
Agreed, Batman Begins was light years apart in every aspect from the steaming campy turd that Joel Shcumacher pooped out.
Batman Begins was rebooting from a series-killing bomb.
Amazing Spider-Man is rebooting from almost a billion worldwide.
I’m kinda confused as of how to see a reboot of a comic book movie. From a movie point of view all remakes sucks in concept, remaking a movie is just a cheap/lazy way of making movies. But on a comic book point of view, this things keep happening all the time, in comic books there is 900 billiong different universes so it kinda makes sence
This is where a line gets kind of blurred I think. The fact that we’ve decided to adapt movies from a source material with MANY iterations of the same character over decades of storytelling makes it a unique thing. Movies do not share all the qualities of the medium of comic books. This is a reason for the huge amounts of fanboy-bitching; you’re most likely never going to have YOUR Batman/Spider-man on film- in character or costume, but for some of us the movie characters have actually become our favorite adaptation (like Nolan’s Batman) and I am really liking this new Spider-Man.
I think if the general comic/non-comic reading audience could look at movies the same way the comic readers look at comics, then there would be less “confusion” and could actually change the way comic movies/universes are made in the future, but that’s the thing. Movies just don’t produce the volume that comic books do, and they probably shouldn’t (although in the future we could see more re imaginings but the way the movie industry is, I doubt it. And I wouldn’t want it) It’s just a completely different medium that’s motivated differently. It makes me tired thinking about it.
Did anyone noticed that the newest one, despite being a “hit” still made less than the first one did 10 years ago? Despite having the advantage of increased ticket prices and 3D/IMAX screenings, the new one made 40 million less than Spider-Man.
Doc Oc is such a stupid villain, I mean besides his tentacles, he is essentially a normal human. If a cop shot him, he’s dead. If spider-man punched him once, he’s dead. Granted those tentacles are bad ass, but he is not super powered in any way
Correction, Doc Ock is the *best* villain. Best Spider-Man villain at least.
Correction, are you even remotely familiar with Venom?
The “why do we need a reboot so soon” argument isn’t a strong one at all. And people saying this didn’t tell any new story we haven’t already seen, I thought it did a pretty good job setting up it’s own trilogy/universe despite showing us another take on the origin. Yeah, it’s a reboot, so you’re going to have to sit through a bit of what seems like rehashing, although I thought it was fresh enough to be okay with it. Are there ways around that? Sure there are, but they are obviously going for a whole new franchise so it makes sense to show it from the ground up and not use assumptions (like The Incredible Hulk) because they want to show that character development. I think holding this against the film isn’t fair. If you don’t like the idea of reboots that’s one thing, but don’t complain about the basic architecture of telling a story just because “it’s been done before”. I admit I thought Sony promoting “the untold story” was BS. I’m pretty sure Spider-Man is still going to sell tickets even if you don’t go out of your way to try to convince people it’s “new”.
They went with Dr. Connors for the villain, which was “new” enough for me, and I thought they did it pretty well. I thought he looked really good also (people were bitching a fit that he looked like a goomba from SMB- not at all). I thought the character of Connors was a better good-guy-turned-bad than Doc Ock, way more menacing. And for people saying we’ve seen it before, when in Raimi’s movies have we seen Spider-Man fight against a huge reptile? The closest thing we got to this was Sandman and maybe Venom, but they were pretty terrible. And let’s be honest, most of Spider-man’s rogues’ gallery is crappy, and 90% of them are animal-based.
So being one of the people who actually enjoyed this new story, I look forward to the Norman Osborn? build-up for a sequel. I think we’ll actually get something better than a power ranger villain with a mask that happens to cover one of the most goblin-esque faces you could ask for.
I think a problem people are having is considering the new movie a “reboot” at all. I see it as just another version, regardless of the similarities, that, and so Sony can keep the rights.
Something has to be God-Aweful to require a reboot or, more appropriately, a second attempt. Spawn comes to mind, as does Green Lantern.
Man, those original movie are pretty fantastic, condensed and all. ASM is going to suffer thanks to being compare to Spider-Man: TOS and it could have all been solved by one word changed in the title. They should have called it Ultimate Spider-Man.
“Something has to be God-Aweful to require a reboot or, more appropriately, a second attempt. Spawn comes to mind, as does Green Lantern.”
Any word on the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reboot?
Seriously, I like the way the new Trek film started, with a parallel universe beginning…lotsa ways to keep the similarities we love, yet explore a different path. The thing that I noticed in the trailer for Amazing Spiderman is, aside from the Lizard, I saw the original Spiderman movie. So why bother with a remake? But I’ll go see it, and probably have a good time, reboot or not.
Good story but action scenes at night, weak CGI, different Spidey costume, Lizard sort of resembled The Scorpion, – below average. Even Sony thought it was bad. I much prefer Raimi’s.
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Same reporter panned Amazing Spider-man in Uproxx’s “Not So Sure About The Amazing Spider-Man? Sony’s With You — Rumor Is They Hate It” article.
I MISS THIS SPIDER MAN! I GREW UP WITH THESE MOVIES AND THE THEME IS IN MY HEAD EVERY TIME I SEE THIS SPIDER MAN! STUPID REEBOT : (
if you grew up with the comics, you’ll understand why a reboot is better