Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The Amazing Spiderman
Your opinion of The Amazing Spiderman will depend on whether you buy the
gangling Andrew Garfield of the over-sized Adam's Apple and big head of
hair in the role. I will say that it did my heart good to see the puny
runt grab the big jock by the armpits and slam him up against the
locker. Score one for underdogs everywhere. The movie takes way too long
establishing the back-story but when Peter finally gets his powers it
becomes a special FX extravaganza. I realize that this is the movies but
regrowing an arm and hand is one thing, doing so in a couple hours is
quite another. Strange to see Denis Leary as an officer of the law. The
ultimate battle is a scenery chewing CGI-ridden extravaganza the leaves
me with a queasy feeling of vertigo. Going home to Mama after all that
seems very juvenile.
gangling Andrew Garfield of the over-sized Adam's Apple and big head of
hair in the role. I will say that it did my heart good to see the puny
runt grab the big jock by the armpits and slam him up against the
locker. Score one for underdogs everywhere. The movie takes way too long
establishing the back-story but when Peter finally gets his powers it
becomes a special FX extravaganza. I realize that this is the movies but
regrowing an arm and hand is one thing, doing so in a couple hours is
quite another. Strange to see Denis Leary as an officer of the law. The
ultimate battle is a scenery chewing CGI-ridden extravaganza the leaves
me with a queasy feeling of vertigo. Going home to Mama after all that
seems very juvenile.
# posted by garthmailman@gmail.com @ 10:43 pm 
