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The Amazing Spider-Man
2012 · Film · 136 min
Part of The Amazing Spider-Man Collection
Directed by Marc Webb
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man.
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They seem to be relying heavily on the fact that Avi Arad is involved. Just take a glance at his IMDB, his role as producer seems to have very little bearing on the quality of a movie. Yeah, he worked on Spiderverse. He's also worked on Fantastic Four (2005), Elektra, Hulk, The Amazing Spider Man, Morbius. I picked out the bad ones, but the point his, he's worked on a lot of stuff, plenty of it is trash.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032696/
I've seen this take too many times. CGI can have the same level of artisanship as practical effects, you just need to put in the work. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a great example: Weta Digital was part of the entire filmmaking process, worked extremely closely with the art department, and was part of the same entity that made most of the props and practical effects. The digital effects in the trilogy hold up, even the ones that look a little janky today, not because of some amazing rendering software, but because they were integrated into the vision of the films from day 1.
I think this can be observed to a lesser extent on many more recent movies with strong vision behind them. For example, Sony's Amazing Spider-Man movies had generally generic CGI, but the Spiderman model and sequences were phenomenal. The studio and effects shops had a really strong idea about how Spidey should feel and move, and that drove his visualization.
tl;dr it's not the effects, it's the creative bankruptcy.
> Sony was simply constantly rebooting Spiderman because of his limited stories
That's not why they rebooted. Amazing Spider-Man came about because somebody at Sony realized the rights would revert back to Marvel if they didn't make another movie in a certain amount of time, and they didn't have the time to reassemble the old cast and find a point where everybody's schedule was clear, so they just went with an all-new cast.
Try to actually think about it. What movies fit that formula?
Iron man - no, an arrogant man built his own powers Thor - no, an entitled boy temporarily had to cope with the absence of his powers to earn them back The Hulk - no, he is not a great wizard, he is trying to cure himself Captain America - you could make an argument for it, but no, he auditioned for his powers Batman - no Guardians of the Galaxy - no Spider-man - OK, especially in "The Amazing Spider-man" they played the destiny card Superman - sort-of, but he grew up with his powers Green Lantern - yes Daredevil - sort-of, but his wizards power is "not actually blind" X-men - sort of, but their powers are a civil rights race analogy
Most comic book movies do not fit the boy-who-thinks-he-has-nothing-is-actually-a-great-wizard formula and those that do tend to be less successful.
> search quality is adequate to quite bad. Example: "amazing spiderman rotten" (I was looking for the rotten tomatoes page for that movie that just came out, entered a typo) gave the right page for google, while the right page is not amongst the 20 top results in ddg.
I tried this in DDG. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) for Rotten Tomatoes appears in the zero-click info box. I wonder if that was done in response to your comment, or if it's been like that all along. From using Google, it took me a long time to get used to the info box, as I'd somehow mentally ignore it even though it was always starting me right in the face.
How does MovieClips.com feel about CantWait's use of the trailers it has licensed and posted on YouTube?
For instance, here's CantWait's "Midnight in Paris" page on its website:
http://cantwa.it/movie/midnight-in-paris/first-trailer-117/
The YouTube movie that is embedded on that page is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_3gIxrcWK8&feature=player_embedded
Which happens to be posted by MovieClips.com, a company that pays the studios to license their trailer data. Is CantWait paying MovieClips.com? Does it pay YouTube? Does it pay the rights holders of the trailers?
Here's another example, CantWait's "Spider Man" trailer: http://cantwa.it/movie/the-amazing-spider-man/first-teaser-6/
It was posted by Sony Pictures on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=upwf8RsyNqQ
Is Sony Pictures cool with CantWait's use of its trailer within a commercial app and website?
I am curious if CantWait is at all concerned about being shut down for commercial redistribution of content from YouTube? Or is CantWait paying YouTube for the content and its bandwidth? What if CantWait scales and YouTube says, enough is enough?