Post by EyeofTyr on Jan 4, 2019 3:03:42 GMT -5
For me the biggest issue with the original trilogy are the leads. Which pretty much spoil the movies for me admittedly. Toby and KD were not good fits for their characters. MJ in general was weirdly handled as a character and more a melting pot of equal parts Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane from the comics in a way I've never fully understood why they did it that way. Especially since in 3 Gwen is introduced and she now is a melting pot of what's left over from the first pot.
I only ever really get the itch to watch them in the same way I get for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, to watch with friends and laugh at them. The embarrassment of being comic book movies, the miscast leads, the odd choices for how some of the villains play out, 3 by in large, it makes for a fascinating watch when you and your buds are riffing on it.
I've often said that X's performance "deserved a better movie" about any given actor that gave it their all for a role. There's a lot of those in the supporting cast of the trilogy.
Amazing Spider-man had a lot of that too. Andrew was a fantastic Spidey, a so-so Peter that was made up for by the chemistry Emma as Gwen and him had. A lot of their supporting cast in the first movie was strong too. They helped elevate a mediocre script. For all its warts, I feel Amazing 1 has a charm to it and an energy to it that the trilogy lacks. It's by no means a perfect movie or even a perfect Spider-man movie either though.
Honestly as strange as it is to say, I don't think a definitive Peter Parker as Spider-man movie has been made yet. I think Homecoming is heading in the right direction, and I think both Peter's in Spiderverse had definitive endings to a Peter Parker Spider-man story. But bizarrely Miles has had a definitive Spider-man movie/story before Peter has now, despite Peter having been given six different movies to hit it. In part because I've always felt the Spider-man scripts outside of Spiderverse have been weirdly lackluster and missing elements that just make Spider-man Spider-man.
For me, the rankings go...
Spiderverse
Homecoming
Amazing Spider-man
SM1
SM2
SM3
Amazing Spider-man 2
I only ever really get the itch to watch them in the same way I get for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, to watch with friends and laugh at them. The embarrassment of being comic book movies, the miscast leads, the odd choices for how some of the villains play out, 3 by in large, it makes for a fascinating watch when you and your buds are riffing on it.
I've often said that X's performance "deserved a better movie" about any given actor that gave it their all for a role. There's a lot of those in the supporting cast of the trilogy.
Amazing Spider-man had a lot of that too. Andrew was a fantastic Spidey, a so-so Peter that was made up for by the chemistry Emma as Gwen and him had. A lot of their supporting cast in the first movie was strong too. They helped elevate a mediocre script. For all its warts, I feel Amazing 1 has a charm to it and an energy to it that the trilogy lacks. It's by no means a perfect movie or even a perfect Spider-man movie either though.
Honestly as strange as it is to say, I don't think a definitive Peter Parker as Spider-man movie has been made yet. I think Homecoming is heading in the right direction, and I think both Peter's in Spiderverse had definitive endings to a Peter Parker Spider-man story. But bizarrely Miles has had a definitive Spider-man movie/story before Peter has now, despite Peter having been given six different movies to hit it. In part because I've always felt the Spider-man scripts outside of Spiderverse have been weirdly lackluster and missing elements that just make Spider-man Spider-man.
For me, the rankings go...
Spiderverse
Homecoming
Amazing Spider-man
SM1
SM2
SM3
Amazing Spider-man 2