Spiderman reboot. For those who live on Mars, High School loser gets bit by radioactive spider which gives him super powers. Right out of the box on this one they start exploring new avenues, most notably the fate of Peter's parents. Casting Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben does nothing to garner sympathy when he is killed (they change it so he dies for being a knucklehead, not hard to believe with Martin Sheen.. lol). Everything else is 'updated' to today's sort of wishy-washy Twilight like societal norms. This movie would be better titled The Amazing Peter Parker as the vast majority of the movie is told through the eyes of Peter and not Spiderman. I really really wanted to like this movie, the inclusion of the web shooters and the fact they left him small and skinny all pointed in a direction I was liking. Unfortunately it didn't come to amount to much as I was fairly bored through the lions share of 2 hours worth of film (you have seen all the good stuff in the trailers). The Lizard CGI was sorely lacking during the close-ups and they had too many of those. I think this may have been a committee movie.. too much material and not enough direction, lots of ideas and no convictions. A huge disappointing 'meh'.
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