By Sean Favager
Hello and welcome back to the (at the moment in time weekly) Comic Asylum brought to you by the good folks at Inter-Comics and myself. It has been quite an eventful week since #002, yeah I ended up getting a free taxi home from the police Saturday night for being very drunk. Luckily for me I’m a nice drunk, waking up in the cells wouldn’t have been ideal but hey you learn from your mistakes. Mine is don’t go out drinking on an empty stomach, and don’t go out with your cash card, its always going to end with you being skint the next morning but I’m sure I’ll break them two rules again in the near future. On the plus side I found out my local cinema will be having a Dark Knight Trilogy day 29th of July so it would be highly rude if I didn’t show up. Its Batman season I have a right to turn into a nerd! Plus it’s like they are challenging me to do it so because I’m an idiot I’m going to treat it like a runner would treat a marathon.
What also caught my eye this week was a twit pic circulating the internet. I’m sure you have all seen it! We are about to get the return of everyone’s favourite clown prince of crime in Synder and Capullo’s Batman #13. Now I’m a Detective Comics boy but you can bet your life I’ll be jumping on that series after missing out on the Court of Owls. Now in-between the being a silly drunk and playing with myself over Batman I have been annoying the shit out of work colleagues with a new favourite quote. “Ma-Ma’s not the Law! I’m the Law!” Yeah I caught the Dredd trailer, not sure what to think just yet but if you haven’t seen it check it out and let’s hear what you think? Now I think I’ve cleared up my week in brief so let’s jump straight into #003 and what I thought of the Web-Heads latest assault on the box office in Marc Webb’s the Amazing Spider-Man.
The return of everyone's favourite clown prince of crime in Synder and Capullo's Batman #13
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My first thoughts going in to see Spider-Man was Jesus this pint is expensive! I’m just joking (EDITORS NOTE: he’s not joking, i actually saw his tweet and to quote him “£3.75 for a pint in the flicks robbing bastards!”) I’m detoxing, but seriously my first thought going in was do we really need a reboot this close to the last trilogy? We definitely needed something after the shite-fest that was Spider-Man 3 (just mentioning that film upsets me). There was rumours in 2010 that Toby was coming back for a fourth with the Vulture as the villain but that just evaporated and Mr Webb was employed to reboot the franchise. Although I hate 3, the first two films are brilliant from start to finish the second being my favourite. So when the reboot was announced I was really “meh Fox beating a dead donkey again”. But then they started casting and my interest picked up. I’m a huge fan of Emma Stone (not just for obvious reasons) and I was really impressed with Garfield in the Social Network. Then little snippets of the plot come out online and the trailers and viral videos and my interest increased dramatically. I understand the beef fan boys have with the Lizard that we have seen in the short footage but I don’t think Connors looks bad. It’s tough to please everyone, they tried with Spidey 3 and well we all know how that turned out. So here is what I thought of the 2012 film; The Amazing Spider-Man.
Who turned the channel over to Staying Alive...oh wait its Spider-Man 3
First we are introduced to a more confident Peter Parker then we saw in his last outings on the big screen. Yeah he is still a geek but you have the feeling you can connect a lot more to Andrew’s, Peter Parker then you ever could to Toby’s. I connected with this character so much I found myself really rooting for Spider-Man and I have never done that in a film before. To anyone else you know the good guy always wins and gets the girl but for a second you actually doubt Peter Parker in this film. Garfield actually shows you Parker’s flaws as the 17 year old science nerd whose parents and uncle died and he has these abilities thrown at him. He actually makes you want to revisit Spider-Man 1 and slap Toby Maguire for being such a cry baby bitch. In this film it digs a bit deeper into Parker’s parents albeit not a lot, and this is where we are introduced to Dr Curt Connors. Rhys Ifans pretty much steals the show as the mad doctor trying to cure human weakness. Let me clear something up for those who have bitched and cried about how the Lizard looks like a Goomba, go drink a can of red bull and jump off a bridge. The Lizard looked awesome! He was a well-cast villain against the teenage superhero still getting to grips with life and the paths he must choose.
Rhys Ifans pretty much steals the show as the mad doctor trying to cure human weakness.
In a film like this the hero needs a love interest (step up Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey). I’m not a huge fan of the romance story lines but this one was brilliant. It helped that she has the looks and she CAN actually act. Another stand out in this film was Captain Stacey the man making it his mission to capture our favourite Web-Head. You probably have guessed I haven’t found a flaw in this movie nor will I go looking for one. The feeling I got leaving the cinema was that which matched my feeling after walking out after the Dark Knight. Simply speechless at what I just saw. What I and @Pete_the_Red did discuss after a 5 minute silence was if ever 3D was invented for our eyes to feast upon it was for one man and one man only, Peter Parker. I was never a fan of 3D becoming mainstream but I don’t see any other way this film can be viewed. To literally hang on to the edge of your seat as Spider-Man swings through New York is such an amazing feeling. Plus this might be Stan Lee’s best cameo and will never be beaten.
So I’m giving this film a full 5 out of 5 and all I can say is by God Nolan you have some topping to do. I want to finish this by leaving you with a quote from @Pete_the_Red that had me laughing all the way home. Until next week folks be good and go F+*@#!? see The Amazing Spider-Man.
@Pete_the_Red “At least Toby Maguire has Sea Biscuit to be proud off!”
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Posted on July 5th, 2012
Category: REVIEWS, THE COMIC ASYLUM
Tags: amazing spider-man, Andrew Garfield, Comic Asylum, Emma Stone, Lizard, Marc Webb, marvel comics, Movie review, Rhys Ifans, Sean Favager, Stan Lee