The Amazing Spider-Man

[darklighter1]

Unreal....I'm looking forward to the Green Hornet now. That's how bad it's gotten.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Time to stick to the Comics methinks.

[darklighter1]

Yeah I got some stuff to throw on here for ya later today...stay tuned.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Oh cool!

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Spider-Man's first several years had no girlfriend. Holding hands with Betty Brant doesn't count. He never hit anything until he got to college when MJ & Gwen came into the picture. I think the main problem I had with the previous films was they focused too much on "Saving The Love Interest". All 3 damn movies. What was the final battle in all of 'em: Spidey saving MJ from <insert villain> who kidnapped her. Fail. This reboot promises to focus even more intently on girl drama as it is modeled after Brian Bendis' emo Ultimate Spider-Man. A series that took 6 issues just to crank out the origin story, which was done so masterfully by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko in 12 short pages. I'll not be seeing this @ the multiplex.

All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle. Even in the ultimate version there was drama. I've said this years ago on another board but the show Smallville should have been about Peter Parker. As in they cast the wrong hero that live action drama.


To me its doesn't seem contrived to have Gwen in there. Honestly thats all I want for the movies to justice to Pete.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle.

See if you can hunt the early Stan Lee Spidey stories. Either in trade paperback, online scanned versions or even in the oversized deluxe Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. They're all about Spidey fighting the bad guys & dealing with other problems. Lee himself admits that the only reason he started writing the MJ/Pete/Gwen triangle later on was he was hoping to capture a bigger slice of female readers by aping the Betty/Archie/Veronica formula.

To me its doesn't seem contrived to have Gwen in there. Honestly thats all I want for the movies to justice to Pete.

They can always bring the love interest in during sequels. Spider-Man won't get any kinda justice cinematically until they do a decent origin movie and hit the ground running after that.

[darklighter1]

All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle. Even in the ultimate version there was drama. I've said this years ago on another board but the show Smallville should have been about Peter Parker. As in they cast the wrong hero that live action drama. .

I don't think Peter lived in Smallville. I guess they coulda called the show Queens but then it mighta gotten the wrong audience entirely. Tee hee...

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All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle.

See if you can hunt the early Stan Lee Spidey stories. Either in trade paperback, online scanned versions or even in the oversized deluxe Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. They're all about Spidey fighting the bad guys & dealing with other problems. Lee himself admits that the only reason he started writing the MJ/Pete/Gwen triangle later on was he was hoping to capture a bigger slice of female readers by aping the Betty/Archie/Veronica formula.

To me its doesn't seem contrived to have Gwen in there. Honestly thats all I want for the movies to justice to Pete.

They can always bring the love interest in during sequels. Spider-Man won't get any kinda justice cinematically until they do a decent origin movie and hit the ground running after that.

I'm not debating your fandom of Peter Parker or saying you wrong.

What I'm trying to say is for me to go to theatre to pay 15 dollars for a Spiderman movie reboot it has to have gwen in there or I will not acknowledge its existance after the train wreck that was Spiderman 3. :|

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All I have ever read of has been with peter in a love triangle. Even in the ultimate version there was drama. I've said this years ago on another board but the show Smallville should have been about Peter Parker. As in they cast the wrong hero that live action drama. .

I don't think Peter lived in Smallville. I guess they coulda called the show Queens but then it mighta gotten the wrong audience entirely. Tee hee...

Or something cliche like Parker Manor.

[darklighter1]

Forrest Hills! That was the exact part of Queens he lived in right? That coulda been the name of the show. You're right he woulda been the better hero to make the show out of.