Quite a cool and new Peter Parker but not quite a Peter Parker

Rating: 6/10 (9 July 2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man is not the movie that I had expected at all. Yes of course I wanted Spider-Man 4 or something with Tobey as a Spider-Man and Kirsten Dunst in it. They made the Spider-Man series look so good and classic except for the Spider-Man 3 which could not go with the flow of the former two prequels. In this movie, Emma Stone looked like Andrew Garfield's older sister. She looked amazing and did good job though.
When I heard about it first months ago, I wasn't even interested at all. Then before its release I watched the trailer on you-tube and some scenes of the movie (car thief and the basketball scene to be precise). I had some urge to watch it and got curious, well at least for the special effects and for the whole newness of it; my hate for somebody's effort at overwriting the original Spider-Man was still there and it is still there. There are some scenes which are quite amazing and quite a treat to watch but again there are many scenes that reminded as if you are watching a spoof movie. One particular scene reminded me of that famous scene from the movie Psycho. It seems a deliberate attempt but it felt odd. And probably spoof film makers will find a lot to spoof.
Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. I always in a way relate to Peter Parker, the older Peter Parker of Spider-Man series; this one felt a lot different, not in a bad sense though but it feels the older one was more a Peter Parker than this one. But it's definitely new and people like watching new. However people may criticize it, at least Spider-Man fans will watch it anyway. I'm happy that I watched it and might even watch it once again to reconsider my doubts. Like I said there are a lot of downsides, it's got its good sides as well.