The Amazing Spider-Man

Watched the Blu-Ray of The Amazing Spider-Man, and what a great movie it was.

I thought it was a bit weird making a remake so soon after the last Spider Man movie, but I figured if they can make Batman look bad-ass on Dark Knight, let's see what they could do for good old Spidey. Emma Stone was great, much better than Kirsten Dunst for the part of Peter's love interest. Then again, doesn't really take much to outperform Kirsten Dunst.

It follows the same story line obviously, with a few changes. Uncle Ben doesn't say "with great power comes great responsibility", but he does say that you have a "moral right" to help others if you are a position to do so, and it's your "responsibility" to do so. There's no Mary Jane, but there is still a chick that Peter is interested in. Uncle Ben still dies in his arms due to a robber that he could have stopped but didn't. In this movie however the webs don't come out of his own body, but rather from a canister that contains super strong spider webs, just like in the original comics designed by Stan Lee. Speaking of Stan Lee, as with every movie that was based off one of his comics, he has a little scene in this one too.

You know exactly what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, after all there has been so many other movies about Spider-Man before, but somehow this one managed to do it much better than its predecessors. It's a very moving movie, especially towards the last 30 minutes or so unlike its predecessors.

The movie was absolutely awesome. IMDB has it rated at 7.4 for some reason, but I give my own personal rating of 9.0.