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Originally Posted by synapse17

To all those hating on this film, I just can't understand why...? This movie had so much going for it. And was done so well. I went in thinking it would be a mixed bag of awesome and WTF... But it was all kinds of awesome beginning to end. Grittier, darker, more real and less campy . The ethos of the origin was so much richer and the way they went about updating it was done very-well. Also the casting was vastly better, the special effects much better, and style was so freaking cool.

Everyones entitled to their own opinion of course, but I loved it. I could nit-pick this and that, but instead I opted to sit back and enjoy. Can't wait to see where things go from here.

When I think of Spider-man, your points of "grittier, darker, more real and less campy" are not the ways I would describe it. My whole issue with the film was Peter Parker, the cocky, arrogant, mouthbreather who steals his ideas and doesn't have any respect for Aunt May.

That made other flaws that I was more than willing to forgive in the original story stand out. Some standouts that made me roll my eyes:

Let's get all of the crane operators to save spidey three extra feet of web fluid. It doesn't matter that everyone's evacuating the city; they're down and waiting by their cranes for Rick to call.

The omniscient news reporter on the really crappy Daily Bugle News Channel: "Looks like Spidey's heading to the bridge. And his leg is hurt. And he had chinese for dinner and might have to make a pit stop along the way. And it doesn't look like he remembered his keys, so he might be locked out later tonight. Oh, but don't forget the eggs, Spidey. Don't forget the eggggs!"

Turning the lizard from a complex character with a family to protect into a one-note mad scientist.

The Captain Stacy death scene that's exactly the opposite of what it was in the comics.

Don't worry, Gwen. Spidey's a liar now. He doesn't care about responsibility or respect. He's about mouthbreathing and skateboarding. Oh yeah! He'll still sneak into your window for a lil' something, death-bed promises be darned.

All that said, the special effects were better, the fight scenes were solid, and I liked the mask much better than the other spider-man movies. So there were some positives.