Spiderfan pleased with spider-man

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 2012)

First off I'd like to say a lot of reviews here are missing points or focusing on way wrong things or must be still butt-hurt and scared about it being a reboot because as a pretty big spider-man fan, seen every show (most episodes of some, all episodes on the 90's and onwards) watched every movie several times, played almost every game (that n64 one ruled) and have digital copies of every single issue. Spiderman is my morally compass, I often stop and ask myself when faced with a challenge or adversity, what would spider-man do? So when I say I loved this film, know that it's coming from a pretty passionate fan. And now I'll get on with it. Basically I found this movie felt like the first 2, but done better to more what spider-man is like in the comics and Andrew did a great job as spider-man/Peter and was way more convincing visually as a nerdy teenager. The acting was all around good, effects were great (especially loved how good lizard looked) and from what I read the director wanted to use as little cgi as possible and one of the results of this was filming somebody actually swinging and followed him with a specially rigged camera, which looked great in the movie. The story may actually be the weakest part but largely just because a lot about his parents was left in the air, however what they didn't answer is suppose to carry on into the next film. And with every adaptation ones changes, for the most part I prefer this over the first movie. Web shooters are awesome and he never actually does catch the guy that killed Ben which is different but I like how they transitioned spider-man originally starting the crime fighting just solely to catch (and probably kill) the guy that killed his uncle to stopping lizard. There was a big change in the origin with him never starting as an entertainer (though it is sort of included to be the inspiration for the mask) where in the comics it was TV and wrestling, he was already a celebrity by the time he started crime fighting which you're probably realizing now they already greatly downplayed his entertainer career from being a lengthy exploit to a 2 minute fight, too falling into a ring from the roof. This was all good IMO.
Next is the villain, I've read some complaints about lizard's appearance and motivations being less than reputable quality but lizard looked very much like that (face wise in particular) in his first appearance, while the plot of wanting to turn the whole city into lizards, well he's tried it at least once for sure so no stretch there from source. As for his motivations, he's a mutated giant lizard, he pretty much went insane and animalistic while maintaining his intelligence and parts of himself, that's the bloody point of the character, he attacks Manhattan trying to make everyone better because Connors in him is a good guy trying to do good, but he attacks the city because he is the lizard and has suffered mentally from the changes, when somebody deteriorates mentally you don't really need a logical explanation (no he wasn't really helping people or making them better but he thought he was) and this is made quite obvious through the movie even going as far as him like immediately having this "oh sh!t" moment about what he did immediately after saving peter's life which was immediately after he was cured and no longer had the lizard eating at his mind. I'd also like to note I was very impressed with the combat also, very, very acrobatic and filled with witty remarks which vividly reminded me of spidey from the comics. The spider- sense was well done too and shown a lot more and if I remember correctly during the training scene it shows him using it to web swing (which is made almost entirely possible by his spider sense) All and all I'm happy with it and will likely consider it my favourite (have to re-watch 2 to be sure) with the only real disappointment being the backlash I've read on this film and that lizard (while cool) isn't one of spidey's all time greats