The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 superhero film directed by Marc Webb and based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man.

Plot
Abandoned by his parents and raised by his aunt and uncle, young Peter Parker (AKA Spider-Man) is trying to sort out who he is and exactly what his feelings are for his first crush, Gwen Stacy. When Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The movie does what Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies didn't, such as focusing on Peter's school life and giving us more details about the Spider-Man suit like how can he see from it.
 * 2) Great visuals, including the web-swinging scenes and the opening titles.
 * 3) Most of the characters were portrayed perfectly or decently, especially Peter Parker/Spider-Man, who is portrayed more accurately to the comics as he's more interesting with better character growth than Tobey Maguire from the Raimi films, and Gwen Stacy, who is much more of an interesting love interest for Peter than Mary Jane from the Raimi films.
 * 4) * Some of the other characters like Captain Stacy and Flash Thompson were well-portrayed, too, especially Flash, who's more in line with being a jerk with a big heart from the comics as it makes him more realistic, while his other portrayals in media like the 2002 Spider-Man movie and Spider-Man: Homecoming portray him as just another generic bully.
 * 5) The idea of Peter trying to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of his parents is very original and well-written.
 * 6) Peter and Gwen’s chemistry has been acclaimed (especially since the actors were actually dating at the time).
 * 7) Plenty of connections to the source material. For instance, Peter uses web-shooters like in the comics instead of shooting webs out of his wrists.
 * 8) The action scenes are well-shot and well-choreographed.
 * 9) Brilliant acting.
 * 10) The soundtrack by the late James Horner is very great.
 * 11) Solid mix of humor, action, suspense and drama. It also manages to feel like both a realistic and a classic superhero movie.
 * 12) Rhys Ifans was an excellent choice to play Dr Curt Connors/the Lizard and has a connection to Peter's parents, building a stronger connection between the two.
 * 13) George Stacy telling Peter to leave Gwen out of his battles before dying is a very emotional scene.
 * 14) The first-person point of view shots with Spider-Man makes the experience more fun and alive, as it can be seen as making the viewer look through Spider-Man's perspective.
 * 15) Like many Marvel movies it has a Stan Lee cameo and it is one of the funniest one.
 * 16) The theme of relationships and sacrifice is strongly represented in this film.
 * 17) The great scene on the bridge when Spider-Man gives the mask to a kid trapped in a car to give him hope to climb towards him so he can be saved before the web suspending the car he's in breaks.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Has some pacing problems.
 * 2) While Andrew Garfield is a good casting choice, he doesn't really look like Peter Parker as a young nerdy high schooler like in the comics and looks more like Peter when he's in college or maybe not even Peter, looking more like a football team captain or James Franco as Harry Osborn. Several critics have even pointed out that he would be a much more fitting casting choice if the events of the film took place when Peter was in college years after he got his powers and lost Uncle Ben. He also stutters a lot and adopts a shrill, shy vocal tone in an unconvincing attempt at imitating an introverted dork.
 * 3) Flash Thompson, the bully who used to pick on Peter Parker, barely gets any character development after not noticing that Peter's Uncle Ben died.
 * 4) Peter can be unlikable at times, such as when he ran away after not picking up Aunt May when he was going to Oscorp to meet with Dr Curt Connors. There's also a weird scene where Peter buys chocolate milk and he tries to take two pennies from a donation plate, while the thief in the store steals money and gives him the milk he was about to buy.
 * 5) * While it was nice for the film to depict his goofy, quippy side as Spider-Man, these traits come across as mean-spirited and racous and Spider-Man even threatens to really hurt the criminals if they were his uncle's killer.
 * 6) * Speaking of which, he spends most of the first half of his vigilantism trying to find his uncle's killer which is out of character for him to do so. Peter Parker would blame himself for his uncle's death regardless if the burglar got away unpunished or not.
 * 7) It also feels somewhat like a rehash of the 2002 film and another retelling of his origin story from the comics as it follows some similar aspects to the original, which makes it difficult for this film to stand on its own without making callbacks to the Sam Raimi films.
 * 8) * Speaking of rehashing the 2002 film, Uncle Ben's death is depicted for the second time, and it's much lamer here where Uncle Ben tries to grab gun from the burglar with a black star tattoo, but ends up getting shot.
 * 9) * The burglar is also a karma houdini as he gets away with killing Uncle Ben and is never seen again, forcing Peter to track him down on a dead-end murder mission. This somewhat undermines his character growth; in most media, even though he caught his uncle's killer, he realizes that it was the same burglar that he let escape during his irresponsible time as Spider-Man, therefore making him responsible for Ben's death, and causing him to uphold his motto, "with great power, comes great responsibility."
 * 10) Peter disrespecting Captain Stacy's dying wish by still dating his daughter will tick many people off, something the sequel at least improved by really making it a difficult choice.
 * 11) The Lizard, while decent, is a bit of a "generic doomsday villain" and his plan (turning all humans into lizards) is pretty ridiculous because he had a rivalry with another Oscorp scientist and businessman, Rajit Ratha, who thinks Connors' limb regeneration project and Richard Parker's spider project would help save their founder, Norman Osborn from dying.
 * 12) *His design is basically a CGI version of the ugly Goomba from the dreaded 1993 Super Mario Bros. film.
 * 13) *On top of that, many feel the Lizard is better off as a side or secondary villain than a main villain considering Rajit Ratha would have been.
 * 14) *In a deleted scene, The Lizard flirts with two high school girls in a bathroom, which is disturbing, pedophilic, and beastial since Connors is older than those girls and literally a mutated animal-human hybrid.
 * 15) Spider-Man spends sizable portions of the movie with his mask off and unlike most versions of the web-slinger, he takes the mask off on purpose most of the time.

Reception
It received a mostly positive reception, with critics praising Andrew Garfield's performance, the visual style, James Horner's musical score, and the realistic re-imagining and portrayal of the title character, but criticized the number of underdeveloped story-lines, noting the film's deleted scenes. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 72% based on 334 reviews, with an average rating of 6.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A well-chosen cast and sure-handed direction allows The Amazing Spider-Man to thrill despite revisiting many of the same plot points from 2002's Spider-Man." On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 66 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". According to Rotten Tomatoes' yearly lists (by using a weighted formula of the critics review in the site), it was placed number 32 on its list of the all-time best comic book films in 2012 and had fallen to 36th in 2013. CinemaScore's audience graded it an "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

Trivia

 * One reason this film was made was so that Sony Pictures could hold onto the Spider-Man film rights and not lose them to Marvel Studios. Coincidentally, after the disappointment of the sequel, Sony made a deal with Marvel to include Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Sony distributing the films.

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