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So, I just saw The Amazing Spider-Man for the first time, on my usual has-a-small-child delay. And, no, I'm not going to do my usual that-was-idiotic-and-didn't-make-sense rant (though it was, and didn't). But I did come away with this troubled feeling due to the fact that, for some reason, they decided to make Spidey a real ****head this time around. Partly it might just be that I felt myself comparing Garfield to Tobey Maguire's performance in the 2001 film, where he was so damn adorable they would have had to swap him out for a chocolate lab puppy to do better. But, no, part of it was just the way he was written.
Old Spidey: Accidentally starts a fight with Flash, gets ganged up on, beats him in self-defense.
New Spidey: Deliberately humiliates Flash in public, purely for revenge.
Old Spidey: Refuses to catch a thief after his victim cheated him out of a heap of money.
New Spidey: Refuses to catch a thief after his victim refused to sell him a small bottle of milk. Which he then stole anyway.
Old Spidey: Starts helping people in general with his gifts.
New Spidey: Only goes after punks matching the description of the thief who killed his uncle. Seems much more interested in that than the "moral responsibility" thing said uncle's death was supposed to teach him in the first place.
Old Spidey: Awkwardly defends his honor against Jonah Jameson's irrational slur campaign.
New Spidey: Starts a fight with his girlfriend's dad, at a dinner where he's a guest, over his right to screw up police investigations with his personal vendetta.
Old Spidey: Saves Mary Jane from some scuzzy guys who were about to rape her.
New Spidey: Continues aggressively kissing Gwen Stacy while she is saying "no" over and over again. Like, eight times, no exaggeration. WTF?
The last part was the really icky bit for me. The rest, hey, he's just a self-centered teenager. But that frat-boy **** is nasty. Did anybody else think this incarnation of Spider-Man could use a good ass-whoopin'?
Old Spidey: Accidentally starts a fight with Flash, gets ganged up on, beats him in self-defense.
New Spidey: Deliberately humiliates Flash in public, purely for revenge.
Old Spidey: Refuses to catch a thief after his victim cheated him out of a heap of money.
New Spidey: Refuses to catch a thief after his victim refused to sell him a small bottle of milk. Which he then stole anyway.
Old Spidey: Starts helping people in general with his gifts.
New Spidey: Only goes after punks matching the description of the thief who killed his uncle. Seems much more interested in that than the "moral responsibility" thing said uncle's death was supposed to teach him in the first place.
Old Spidey: Awkwardly defends his honor against Jonah Jameson's irrational slur campaign.
New Spidey: Starts a fight with his girlfriend's dad, at a dinner where he's a guest, over his right to screw up police investigations with his personal vendetta.
Old Spidey: Saves Mary Jane from some scuzzy guys who were about to rape her.
New Spidey: Continues aggressively kissing Gwen Stacy while she is saying "no" over and over again. Like, eight times, no exaggeration. WTF?
The last part was the really icky bit for me. The rest, hey, he's just a self-centered teenager. But that frat-boy **** is nasty. Did anybody else think this incarnation of Spider-Man could use a good ass-whoopin'?
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