If you want to....we can change.

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2012)

First if I may I would like to give you a good review over this film on both film and story wise. Both good and bad.
Fist i will start with the bad.
It was completely un-original. Now is that a bad thing. No not even a little bit. At least we know what to expect when we go into watch this film. But that in itself speaks for itself. We do need to come up with better ways to tell this story especially if we are going to reboot it every 5 years or so. Story line. Boy is in high school. Boy meets blonde, boy falls in love. boy gets a power, finds responsibility, has to grow up quickly. We have a good guy and a bad guy, with not a whole lot in between. Even the dad story is very vague. (However I do realize they will prolly make 7 of these movies. so that story will hopefully come later.) It was creepy predictable and anybody that knows anything about film was going to guess what was going to happen next and you knew that the stuff he was going to have to face through out the story. And even borrowed lines from not only previous Spiderman movies but other comic book movies as well. So we can't help but wonder why they couldn't come up with a story line that is somewhat original and needed to find a way to see the difference of old spidy and new spidy. Film wise. They had a bunch of mistakes that involved bad direction or just plain Ole forgetting backpacks, where your hand is placed on a cup when cut to a new angle. So needless to say the editing was not good when it came to jump cuts. Through out I counted a total of 8 out of focus shots and I know enuff to know when they are on purpose for effect. but when you have a pivot swing from a crane shot you have to do well enuff job to see you will go out of focus. Sure enuff. Now I know an amateur like myself won't even come close to being able to pull off that shot but I do expect them too. I absolutely hated the ending. Especially with the cranes and once you see it you will know what I am talking about. I do not like the bad guy story line. Its too simple and not good. And it ends awkwardly. We don't get enuff of the Aunt and Uncle in my opinion. We see them enuff to give them some good wisdom points to Peter but that is it.
So because of those things I would of given it a 4 out of 10.
But here is the good.
When it comes to the story I did enjoy the fact they finally touched on the parents. We have missed out on so much not knowing anything about the parents. What little we find out about them we finally see them. So I hope we see them come up more in the next few movies. Villain wise, we finally see a character that didn't just come out of no where. We see emotion and character. However not good, its finally good enuff to see on the screen to care about to follow along with his story. The idea to make his own webbing was cool. However originally that was apart of his powers when he was bitten. They just don't give it to him. But it is different. However brief it was I do like the Sally Field and Martin Sheen as the Aunt and Uncle and I love them as actors and they did such an amazing job. Which leads me into my next thought. The cast did a really good job. Andrew Garfield is a better spiderman and I have a small crush on Emma Stone so this was good to see her with blonde hair. The idea of bringing in Gwen instead of M.J. was better and if I am not mistaken, accurate to the comic book. (I haven't read spidy adventures. sorry fans) But I believe that is correct. Sorry if i am not. Editing from this aspect was really well done. There wasn't those awkward transitions, a little darker filter, and the last movement through New York, there is a shot that is slowed way down and it is absolutely fabulous. I can't stress that enuff how amazed I was when the frame rates went way down and it was the best shot in the entire movie. Major props to the editing crew Alan Edward Bell, Michael McCusker, Pietro Scalia for doing that move. The special effects in this movie were tons better. I can't express enuff how much better they were in this film. The score was good as well. Enticing and kept you interested in the action. Towards the end there is a scene where they use hard piano chords and it was great. I loved it. That was perfect
The director left big gaping holes in the story, but, we do have many more to come. One thing I do want to give him credit. The idea of Spidy/Peter Parker, finally, having wounds. He doesn't get hit and is miraculously healed instantly. He is bloodied up and bruised. And finally someone noticed it.
All of this is what made me give it a 6 out of 10 stars. It was good, could of been better. But it is a good start for something to be rebooted. Even tho it was just like the other movies. But still good to watch in theaters.
(I do want to apologize to all those who made it through this review and caught all of my mistakes grammar wise. I am not the best.)