The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Official Trailer (HD) Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx - YouTube

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Official Trailer (HD) Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx - YouTube

One of the Best Spider-Man Scenes....Ever.

The Many Looks of Spiderman Over the Past 50 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]

Spider-Man debuted August 10, 1962! It's been 50 years!




The Many Looks of Spiderman Over the Past 50 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]

This Made The Amazing Spider-Man Completely Unrealistic [Image]

Of course, no one uses Bing!

This Made The Amazing Spider-Man Completely Unrealistic [Image]

The Amazing Spider-Man And The Gospel - Review and Opinion

I've got to admit that I did like the movie. It was a reboot, but it also changed a few details to make the movie's story unique. I don't agree with all the criticism about the way Andrew Garfield portrayed Peter Parker. I think that Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone were excellent in their roles. I think that a newer spin was put on Parker. I think it fit the current culture much more to portray Parker as more confident and less socially awkward that the way he has been depicted in the past (especially from the 2002 film). If you haven't seen it, I suggest that you might like it and it's worth go seeing.  If you have seen it, here are some other articles that may be interesting to you.

Who Was That In The Amazing Spider-Man's Credits Scene?

Here are a good break down comparing the original Spider-Man trilogy with the latest movie

TR Review/Comparison: The Amazingly (Unnecessary) Spider-Man 

If the reports are true that perhaps the footage that was cut out the movie so that they can go into the sequels then I don't think it was unnecessary. A lot of loose ends were left tangling but it was set up for those to be tied up later. 

One of the best things about the character is that Spider-Man is selfless. He doesn't try to judge anyone such that they are are undeserving of his help or protection. He also grows as  a person. His getting powers doesn't just solve all his problems it adds to them. His Uncle Ben does not utter the famous line  "With great power comes great responsibility" in this movie. Instead the message is that if there is something you can do to help someone else, you should. I think this is the central message of the character. Is it a part of the Christian Gospel?

Yes, but it's a more watered down version of what Jesus said.


⁴⁷ “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. - Luke 12:47-48

Notice that in both formulations, responsibility and talent are tied together. Jesus' words are in context of explaining a parable of a manager who has been put in charge of a task and how bad it looks if the master returns and the task is not being carried out. Go back and read the parable. It's not that the manager could not do the job. Like us, God does not give us stuff to do that we can't do. Instead God gives us talents and opportunities to do the things that he has commanded us to do and we are judged by what we do because it's not that we don't know.  If we are faithful carrying out what we know and can do, more power and responsibility is added to us and if we are not faithful we will loose what we have. Look at the context and notice that its not about salvation it's about rewards and just life here. The biggest difference I see between the ethics the Spider-man character is built around and the commands of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ is that Jesus is clearly not pointing to just responsibility but also our accountability to the one who gives us our powers and responsibilities.  It's not a minor difference. One one hand to do good but no real reason given for why. Jesus tells us why: We owe it to God.

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Amazing Spider-Man: What’s With The Cut Scenes? | ComicBook.com

I like this article about the missing scenes in the Amazing Spider-Man. How we know that they are missing? They were in the trailers but they were not the theatrical cut I saw. I have a fuller review with links to other reviews. One scene I was hoping to see that was cut when we Peter was asked to join the football team and he shook his head and quipped "Too Dangerous!" I do hope that there will be an extended director's cut.

Amazing Spider-Man: What’s With The Cut Scenes? | ComicBook.com

Walmart Rolls Out The Red Carpet For The Amazing Spider-Man™ Fans Nationwide

I tried out the new Augmented Reality(AR) app for promoting the Amazing Spider-Man movie at Walmart. It's like the Avengers' Superhero AR app that came out last April in conjunction with that movie. This app was designed by the same company that did that Avengers app and although it shares some similarities it's also different. One difference is that when you use the AR photos, Spider-Man is not in a pose where it's simple to take a picture with him. The poses are more action-oriented and now there is interaction in that Spider-Man speaks to you when you click on him.  I think there are four pictures that give you this experience. There is also a comic book you can buy from Walmart that gives a short battle sequence of Spider-Man fighting the Lizard. And there is a promise for a Spider-Man themed truck that will come to various Walmart locations and give people a chance to test out the new console video game and other goodies associated with the film. If you point the app at the truck you get to see another AR scene. I haven't seen it yet.

The app does give you access to see which Walmarts the truck(s) will visit. There are few compared to the total number of Walmarts in my area: one or two compared to the seven that are within a 30 mile radius of my residence. I notice that not all of the Walmarts are also taking part in the promotion. For example not all of them have the AR posters at all. The Walmart closest to my residence doesn't even have the AR posters. It reminds me of how I never did find a Walmart in my area that  had the Black Widow character poster during the Avengers promotion. I'd like to know more about how the Walmart handles these things. It's almost like if the local managers don't care, we miss out on whatever corporate is doing...or corporate doesn't care about certain neighborhoods. I wonder which it is.

Oh...well, here are some of the AR Pictures I shot.

The game in this case, is the option to go around the store and build a webshooter starting June 26th. If you try to do it now, you get an AR of first-person Spider-Man arms that shoots wads of webbing wherever you want.  Again, it is available for Android and iOS.

Walmart Rolls Out The Red Carpet For The Amazing Spider-Man™ Fans Nationwide

Spider-Man's Web-Slinger - Google Play

Spider-Man's Web-Slinger - iTunes

Andrew Garfield on Spider-Man as Metaphor for Internet Trolling - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

This particular article brings up a very interesting point about anonymity and how it can be abused.

Obviously Peter Parker is going to behave differently as Spider-Man than he will in his nerdy, unmasked idiom, but the Amazing Spider-Man sizzle previewed for the press last month featured a wall-crawler whose behavior went beyond the typical boundaries of vigilante bravado; something I described as "epic spider trolling." I was referencing a scene that's since surfaced of Spider-Man giving some foolish criminal a bit of the business, but a new interview with Amazing star Andrew Garfield confirms that the darker(/funnier) nature of internet anonymity is something he built into his performance as Spider-Man.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/04/04/amazing-spider-man-andrew-garfield-internet-trolling-anonymity/#ixzz1r8ddvCfU