Dang! It's been ages since I posted on here. Tonight seemed apt though as the last post I did was about Spider-Man, and this one is too. 'The Amazing Spider-Man', that is.
I just watched the Andrew Garfield version, dunno why it took me so long but it was on the Playstation store, in 3D, so I turned out the lights, (so no-one can see how dumb 3D glasses look, particularly if you have to wear them over regular glasses), got some popcorn and hit play.
It's pretty good, more 'serious' than the other ones and less choppy in the editing but 'cos of that it feels like it takes a while before you actually get to meet Spidey. There's the obligatory establishing of characters of course, great power, great responsibility, yadda yadda, and as this is 'The Amazing Spider-Man', not 'Spider-man', Mary-Jane is replaced with Gwen Stacy and Spidey has mechanical web-slingers not organic, all that takes ages to set up though. Despite that I enjoyed it, proper comic book action and that Garfield fella does a pukka Peter Parker.
But the best bit for me (don't worry this is no spoiler alert) is right at the very end, slo-mo, to freeze frame to fade to black. Credits.
Spidey slings his web, arcs high into the air and at his apogee he's framed by a full moon (apparently so close it would surely suck the ocean from the earth), he pulls that classic weightless Spidey move, all feet up by his ears, arms outstretched and head down. One hand is holding one web while the other swings round to sling another - now bear in mind I'm watching in 3D - his arm swings round, palm up, the motion slows to like slooooooow-mooooooww, he cocks his wrist and shoots a cord of sticky white Spidey-fat right at the camera.
Best money-shot I've seen this side of porn. Genius.
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