The big differences and what's that about topic

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2012)

I've been a fan of the spider man series since I was a kid, and I know most of what happens, though some things are different in the movies than they are in the movies.
/** Things I think are different First of I believe in the television series spidey goes into a free fighting competition and there he encounters his uncles killer, correct me if I'm wrong. Also his uncle doesn't get killed right away after Peter doesn't do the right thing; putting him away for his crimes. Nevertheless the out coming is the same, his uncle dies because he didn't do the right thing as the words are said in several episodes in the comic series.
What I also missed big time in the movie is the one and utmost important quote from uncle Ben. This is the one thing every spider man fan will have imprinted into his mind and it's "With great power, comes great responsibility" either I missed this or it wasn't in the movie, which should have been, because thought it was obvious this was meant by the words spoken, it wasn't literally there as I can recall? There were the quotes from his uncle which did inspire him, but not that one.
Also his aunt seemed pretty young, but this could be due to the fact that this movie was also based on the beginning of the time line, however in the television series Peter's aunt already seemed quite old from the beginning.
One other thing is Peter revealing his identity, I know in the series he reveals his identity to Gwen, that's known, but I don't know about her dad, and even if he did, it's pretty darn fast in just a couple of weeks. I believe in the series the only one knowing is Gwen, and his aunt not knowing for a fact but being pretty sure, whereas Mary Jane struggles between her relationship between spider man and Peter, because she doesn't know they are the same, but she loves both I think. Maybe a villain or two also know his identity but not sure there.
Also the lizard has a pretty common human looking face in the movies whereas in the series he has pretty much a lizard face and I don't know about his morphing abilities from human to lizard.
Another thing I couldn't place was the time setting. At first I thought it was based around the 90's because of Parkers camera, which seemed a little old school however in the rest of the movie new age science played a pretty big role, so I am still wonder what the intended time space in the movie was.
One more thing. In the movie at about the end of it we see flash wearing a spider man t-shirt, which I think wouldn't have happened in the series. I thought of flash as an anti spider man person, never to wear a pro spidey t-shirt.
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//* Review All in all I have to say I really enjoyed this spider man movie. I always thought the previous spider man movies to be a little weak and lack some sort of emotion. With this movie I really felt every single emotion there was. I really felt it when Ben died. It hit me, and the relationship between spidey and Gwen was so emotional, though I always felt more for Gwen than for Mary even in the series. His relation with Gwen is much more passionate. Mary Jane seems more like a subject to spidey whereas Gwen seems like a fiery lover with her own capabilities, and this was reflected very well in the movie.
Also the part where the crane operators moves their cranes to support spidey was really cool. We did miss out on the great spidey hating Jameson, but I guess that is something for the sequels.
Nevertheless I thought it was a great movie and surpassed the earlier spider man movies by miles. I liked Tobey, but this guy just did a better job even though the skateboarding part brought Peter totally out of character comparing to the series.
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Point of the post.
Eventually Gwen creates the antidote/serum to get the lizard man back to his original form, but what confuses me is the fact that I think this serum should have also canceled out sideman's powers, seeing that it turns a person back to his or her original form. So shouldn't spider man have lost his powers there aswel?
After the antiserum explosion spider man and lizard fall down to the side of the building and lizard helps spider man get back up to the building, this is where I thought that spidey indeed lost his powers, because he seemed to need lizards hands to climb back onto the building, because if he did have powers he would have just climbed back up himself right? But then at the end of the movie we still see he has his powers, so what's going on there? Did he re infuse his powers somehow, or didn't he lose his powers and was the antidote/serum just fixed on the lizard serum, but then again why couldn't he climb the building by himself? This is the most confusing part for me.
I work as a cinema operator and I see lots and lots of movies coming by every year, but just a few really grasp my attention and this was one of them. Kudos for this spider man movie. It was really great!