The Amazing Spider-Man

A pretty good movie with a cast that in many ways is better than the Raimi trilogy. Garfield's Spidey is much more quippy than McGuire's. And I say the chemistry seems better between him and Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey than the previous Parker/MJ thing. Rhys Ifans as Doc Conners/the Lizard doesn't quite measure up in the doomed scientist role the way Doc Ock did, but being the singular bad guy (even if he's not in most of the movie) is a definite improvement over the Venom/Sandman/Goblin 2 three-way from the last film. Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Uncle Ben and Aunt May were also pretty great. Though I could have easily done without having to go thru the whole origin and what-not again. And it was kind of weird how the movie did all it could to avoid just having Sheen use the "with great power comes great responsibility" line...

Really the only thing that really bothered me about the film, aside from the doing the origin again, was how kind of pointless it felt. Maybe it was just going into it knowing that it was made for the most part so that FOX wouldn't have the film rights to the character revert back to Marvel/Disney...

SaturDAAW: Duck