Man, this looks sooooo good. Had my doubts and just a trailer, but man it looks good.

Yay, ANOTHER origin story. I distinctly remember the excitement of the original Spidey teaser, where he catches the two helicopters between the World Trade Center towers (pre-9/11). This is more dark, morose muck, with none of the brightness and humor that make Peter Parker an enduring character.

I’m excited about Captain America, because it’s obviously focused on being FUN. The Amazing Spider-Man looks everything but amazing.

I don’t really know what to say. I was thinking we were going to see promoted a more up beat Spider-man story, but here we get dark and brooding, and a flashback to the horrific POV from the classic movie Doom. Ugh. I’m happy with Raimi’s trilogy, regardless of the 3rd not being all that because that was Sony’s fault for shoving Venom in there at the 11th hour! Thanks Sony!

I agree that it looks beautifully shot, and I thought the first-person web crawling/swinging was pretty unique. It’s a little darker than I would have preferred, but I still think it works. If the story is strong and the acting is good, the movie will succeed. I hardly think it could be worse than Green Lantern.

I agree that it look good but it is just ultimate spiderman the live action movie and there is no way I am going to watch that. I like the part about the parent since that is also part of the regular marvel comics but the other stuff no way

Ultimate Spider-Man is one of the best written comics in my opinion. What Bendis has done with Spider-Man has been fun and entertaining, more than the original version. Seeing Peter being Spider-Man and dealing with high school issues along with life and death stuff is gold. The fact that they’ve openly said they are taking cues from the Ultimate Spider-Man had me sold from the beginning. Spider-Man was good, Spider-Man 2 was great, but they lost me with Spider-Man 3. I’m ready for a fresh take with a younger Pete.

You can’t tell much from the trailer, but from what you can see it looks like they’re heading in a good direction. As good as Raimi’s movies were, you never got to see Pete’s great love and great loss of Gwen and how it’s effected him as he grows. Perhaps now they’ll be able to illustrate that.

Looks better then those other crape spiderman movie

Oh and why would anyone assume that they would make his parents spies?!?!? waay back in the original comics they did – but don’t u think they would change them to scientists ?!?!? which is where Peter would get the blueprints to build and improve on an invention his father started ?!?!? aka – the web shooters …… just a thought….

When this movie hits theaters, I’ll buy my ticket, get me a great seat and gorge myself on oversized popcorn, nachos, hotdogs, a bucket of syruppy soda until I’m a ghastly obese mess at the end of it all.
Thanks for bringing back the mechanical webshooters (the bio-organics were just stupid and gross), and if you haven’t quite guessed it yet… YES, I plan to enjoy the shit out of this one (with a little wiggle-room for disappointment).
Whine-on my ppls, whine-on!!!

@Freddyfred;
At least someone isn’t being an old stick in the mud! I’m right there with ya!

There are two ways to adapt a concept. The first is being loyal to the source material and making “the movie”. Spider-man, A-team, Star Trek: the Motion Picture. The second way is to take the source material and make a movie from it without really being loyal to anything. Just using some of the ideas. Mario Brothers, Dark Knight, Transformers. In essence, the second way makes it your own rather than pleasing the fanboys. We got one Spidy franchise more or less loyal to the comic and this is a create your own version. Its unclear what it will be like, but from this trailer I can tell you right off the bat it’s not a Spider-man movie but a creative piece. Lets treat it as such rather than saying this is what the others should have been like. This is a fun attempt at playing with the concept. The costume may look dumb but I was successfully teased.

The Amazing Emo Man!

Liked the music at the end and the first person view swinging through the city. Still not excited about the suit and I’m afraid there will be too much written into the origin with his parents.

A competent bit of been-there-done-that-already. All the beats of the trailer were things covered in Raimi’s version, making this seem even more utterly useless. A different girl, a different costume, a different villain. Which is more like simply juggling details than telling a vital new story.

That solemn musical score thing they do as they pan over a tracking shot of a cityscape was cliché twenty years ago.

Whatever. It’s just a trailer.

I’m wondering if this will be like that miniseries “With great Power” where they tell the story of Jim after he gets his powers but before uncle Ben dies. I think that would be a better way to go so that we can get a chance to get to know uncle Ben better and make it that much more heart breaking when Peter loses him and gives a better glimpse of why Peter does the thongs he does. I’m also interested to see the parents angle play out. It could be interesting to juxtapose Peter’s father figures which could include curt conner’s depending on how they portray that relationship….

So what if this is Sony’s version of Batman Begins? They’re taking a serious tone and that’s cool. Let’s wait and then make it a weekend winner because it’ll be good. So what? That’s what I want! A movie that’s very good and a different take on what went before.

Wow, that was… not good at all. I know people pretty much don’t care about this, considering that next summer will see Dark Knight Rises and Avengers, two much more anticipated films. But also… the existence of this movie is so totally unnecessary, and this trailer really drives that point home.

That first-person stuff… UGH. Looks like a video game, and I’m not talking about the POV. Everything in it just looked…. plastic-y and inauthentic.

They should have gone ahead with a Spider-man 4, or wait a few more years for the franchise to cool down (or both).

Not impressed!

I liked the first-person view part of the trailer. I would love to go see see the movie but I’m not sold yet. I’m not excited about another origin story and I don’t think it is necessary. It’s not been long since the last movie and everybody should be familiar with the character by now(I mean, to have done so well at the box office even ppl who don’t know the comic must have a general idea of him by now). I also think this thing with his parents is too big a topic for an origin flick so maybe it’s an idea they’ll expand on in a trilogy. Lastly but not least, for another time the full Spider-Man image we got here seems so cgi (AGAIN) that I feel disappointed. You’d think that after 10yrs since the fist movie cgi tech has done something to make him seem more real. Probably the Mirror’s Edge-style scene was done digitaly (something that could be used as part of a video-game, at least) but I hope that’s not the final product. The best parts of SM I remember were when the suit was getting torn and Peter’s face was partly shown. That was great ’cause it looked real. I hope It’s still a work in progress we’re seeing here.

I could have sworn they said this would be a continuation of the original trilogy sorta a Spider Man 1.5

At the end of the day though, this is all about Sony preserving the movie rights to Spider-Man. Same goes for Fox with the X-Men franchise. Having a potential blockbuster would be icing on the cake. If the movies fail they’ll keep making more so they can keep the rights. In a way this is like the Superman situation.