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Spider-Man Paintings by Paolo Rivera
These are really nice. I love that Rivera’s style is deceptively simple.
Disaster Du Jour #3: The Swarm
The 1970s were a time chock full of real-life terrors; from communist world domination fears, to nuclear proliferation around the globe, oil embargoes, terrorism… And all these fears were translated into a golden age of disaster films throughout that decade. Back then there were disaster films about runaway planes, earthquakes and global ecological catastrophes to name a few. But one of the most bizarre of these disaster films has to be The Swarm (1978).
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The Amazing Spider-Man Movie Review
Grade C: I’m not sure there was a need for the movie The Amazing Spider-Man. Not that I don’t think there should ever be another Spider-Man film or that the first trilogy of movies were so good they were untouchable. Just that since much of what happens in The Amazing Spider-Man was already covered in previous films there really wasn’t much need for this one.
In The Amazing Spider-Man, teen Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is bitten by a genetically enhanced spider and is given spider-like powers of strength, climbing and knowing when danger is about. Parker must protect his girlfriend in the making Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) along with the citizens of NYC from the evil Lizard/Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) who’s out to transform everyone in the city into lizards too.
And if that’s all there was to The Amazing Spider-Man, I’d be perfectly fine with it. Instead, though, much of this movie is an origin story of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, almost all of which was covered before in the three previous movies, the live-action TV series, comic books, cartoons, etc., etc., etc. I can’t imagine there’s anyone out there who doesn’t know the origin to Peter Parker/Spider-Man, so much of The Amazing Spider-Man is a waste in that respect.
The creators of The Amazing Spider-Man did try to differentiate their film from the previous Spider-Man movies by having their NYC be dark and gloomy and rainy. In fact, the NYC of The Amazing Spider-Man feels a whole lot like the Gotham City of The Dark Knight, and I get the sense that this was intentional. But while “dark and gloomy” might work for a “dark and gloomy” character like Batman, it really didn’t work all that well for The Amazing Spider-Man.
I hate to say this, but I found the relatively weak Spider-Man 3 (2007) film more enjoyable than The Amazing Spider-Man.