‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer: Another Origin Story?

It's varied over the years but I know at one point the explanation was something along the lines as he wasn't actually sticky but rather was physically bonding with things at a molecular level via comic book science.

Why do they make movies from comic books – if the writers don't bother to actually READ the comics they are ripping off?

Let's see, there's a new beginning for Spider-man–and Superman and, soon, enough, the Batman franchise is self-destruct and then there will be a new one there. It takes too long for Hollywood to make a move anything more. Viewers get old just waiting for the next installment.

So, to fill in the dead spaces, we have the Smurfs movie based on a thirty year cartoon that’s not on the air anymore and for good reason.

I'm don't see the difference between the first one that came out with Tobey Macguire. They could have released an extended addition with the sequences of his parents at the beginning and saved a bunch of money.

Jezuz H….

Can we please get off the comic books kick, Hollywood? The stories never made any sense – they didn't need to. So you can make a CGI-intense POS for pretty cheap. It's still a POS.

Finding it hard to get too excited for this one so far. As lackluster as Spider-Man 3 was in a lot of ways, I still feel they should have let Raimi continue his series, as he was willing to. Costs were expanding vs. diminishing returns, though, so they gambled a cheaper, teenified reboot would still bring in big audiences due to the name value of Spider-Man. And they may ultimately be right.

Covering the same origin ground as the first Raimi film seems kind of lazy to me (Is there anyone, except maybe young children at this point, who aren't at least familiar with that picture?), and certain details like the costume redesign don't really do anything for me. I like some of the casting. I liked Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer, so I'll probably want to see how he transitions from that to this. Not really feeling it, though.

Because most comic book characters, if they've been around long enough, have had their origins reworked and re-imagined a hundred times. There is no official canon that you can point to other than when these characters were first created. Wiki a character, and find out that everything you thought you knew was because what you read was the character on a parallel Earth, and all the adventures and struggles he had didn't really happen to the character presented to you now.

Cloudy, the Dark Side is. Cloudy, with a chance of Stupid.

Maybe it's because the last series of Spiderman movies just ended, but this doesn't look that interesting. They don't even show any hint of a villain. If this movie is just about teen angst and a brooding Peter Parker, it will bomb.

They've seem to have taken what was a science geek, very smart brilliant teenager and made him emo and Twilight angsty with no head on his shoulders. I'll take the previous version over this any day. All this because their previous star got too "old" for them.

"The Spider-Man entry in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" states that Spider-Man is able to enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself. "

Too much work.

Ultimate Spider-Man is coming soon, with Paul Dini doing his first Marvel work as the main creative force. Strong rumor is that his Peter Parker will be black. Guess they should have just gotten Donald Glover for the new move instead of Garfield.

I thought the first two movies were terrific. I thought the themes were great, such as "with great power, comes great respsonsibilty" and "to do the right thing sometimes we must give up our dreams" I thought Alfred Molina was great as Doc Ock and JK Simmons was pitch perfect Jameson. Tobey Maguire made a compelling Peter Parker/Spider Man.

While the third one wasn't as good (and even that one had some great themes, such as the power of forgiveness), I really was ticked off that the studio just decided to reboot. I thought there was plenty more story to tell with Raimi's Spider Man. I really feel bad for Dylan Baker,who spent the last two movies playing Curt Conners (who eventually becomes Lizard). He really got hosed out of a plum villain role that his character was building towards.

I think the answer was at one point "special fabric."

They already did, and it was awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSDU2tu7rpk

It's about a minute in.

Well said all the characters were set up I think and hope this movie tanks….

I like this bit better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-du9JZqzQ

It's about 50 seconds in.

Yeah, it's definitely a "make a movie or lose the rights" thing for Sony. Fox is pushing through a Fantastic Four movie for the same reason. And WB is rushing out another Superman film as well, although that one's a bit more complicated situation having to due with the Siegel and Shuster heirs.

Marvel is just kicking themselves right now…….