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The Amazing Spider-Man
Directed by Marc Webb
Written by James Vanderbilt
Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary
Sony | Columbia Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 138 Minutes
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Who would have thought a Spider-Man film without Mary Jane Watson, Norman Osborn, and J. Jonah Jameson would end up being the web-slinger's definitive adventure? With Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler is taken “back to formula” with a spectacular reboot.
When Joel Schumacher's 1997 film Batman & Robin completely destroyed the Batman franchise, it took Warner Bros. eight years to resurrect the caped crusader. It took a colossal, rubber-nippled failure to give birth to Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, and I think we can all agree it was worth revisiting the Batman mythos.
Similarly, Sam Raimi's 2007 movie Spider-Man 3 ruined Marvel's most popular (and profitable) superhero series beyond repair. The reason comic book characters like Batman and Spider-Man have survived for decades is because they are constantly re-imagined by new writers and artists. It took Ang Lee's underwhelming Hulk to bring us The Incredible Hulk, which ultimately led to Mark Ruffalo's excellent portrayal of the character in The Avengers [...]
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