Spiderman goes back to school.

That is ridiculous! There is no need for an origin movie. Just make the films centre around him as an adult fighhting crime. I would love to see an older version of Spiderman in his 30's as an experienced crime fighter. But i guess they want little kiddies to fill up the cinema, so it aint guna happen.
 
I also have no interest in another origin movie. Especially with them trying to be more dark and realistic with a moody tone similar to Twilight. I'll be giving this one a miss.
 
You wish this was going to play out like Buffy, OP, then there'd be a chance of a good flick. But the studios want stacks of dollar bills, and I can't blame them when the seventh art is so beleaguered. So we'll get an anodyne affair with no attendant spider bite, and the CGI Spidey bouncing about the urban corridors of NYC will remain unconvincing at best.

But as much as we might decry the venal motivations of studio execs, this seems more than a case of accumulating lucre. After all, Spiderman 3 did make shiploaRAB of lolly, and in order to keep the mojo going Sony could've just let Raimi continue to have his way. Alas, folks with coats with 100-dollar bill padding fancied themselves visionaries during the negotiations, and insisted that the ungodly mess of the third film not be repeated. Me, I liked the threequel (!), but respect the consensus that it was rubbish, and even those whose job it is to disinterestedly spool money found themselves taking a stand.
 
Most of the 3rd film wasn't his choice though. He was forced to have certain characters and storylines in it so I don't think the blame can lie with him solely. It was an absolute overcrowded mess though.
 
Trust me I so don't wish the film was like Buffy. I have nothing against Buffy. What I don' want from an Superhero film is teen angst and all that stuff.
I agree with you about the CGI Spidey bouncing about looking unrealistic. It's one of the downfalls of these kinRAB of films. It's easy to see what is real and waht isn't.

The point I was making is what 007fusion picked up on. Why do we need another origin story? The story is well known via the comics and cartoons and the the first Raimi Spidey film isn't so old people won't remember how he got his powers.

When they recast James Bond they don't keep remaking how he got his Licence to Kill status. They just make a film with the attitude. Yes it's a different actor playing Bond, get over it!
When Burton made Batman, nobody said well I didn't get it. I didn't get to see properly why or how he became Batman. They just accepted. Oh that's Batman. Fair enough!
If they have to reboot the franchise, which they didn't. Then just do it. I don't care if it's darker, lighter, a musical or glove puppets. There is no need to once again go back and do an origin story.
What happens in 10-15 years time and they want to reboot again. Will we have to have an origin a third time?

All they needed to do was cast the film, ditch the teenage year as that has been and gone with the Raimi films and make the film.

I also quite like the third one but do agree it is rubbish thanks to Venom
 
its a reboot,so not surprised its back in school,alot of good comics are centered around young peter parker

but yeh i would have preffered spiderman 4 with different characters

buffy was alot more than teen angst btw
 
I quite liked Spiderman 3, aside from all the Venom rubbish with Peter turning 'bad'. I personally would have preferred it if they had just learnt from their mistakes and carried on with the same continuity- as realistically as if they wouldn't have made shed-loaRAB of money by doing that anyway. An origins story is just not needed again. This also makes me think, I remember reading somewhere that the plan was to make three trilogies- are they going to reboot again after the next lot are done?
 
You'd think after the amazing Spiderman 2 that the studio would have let Sam Raimi do what he wanted with the 3rd but noooo... So we ended up with a shit movie that I swear I never want to see ever again! and now they're bloody rebooting it for no reason at all (apart from money, of course).
 
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