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enchantedlokii · 4 years

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Amazing Home

Prologue

Rating: PG

Warnings: none

Characters: Peter Parker, Ned Leeds, Gwen Stacy, Liz Toomes, Curtis Connors, Michelle Jones, Flash Thompson, Rajit Ratha

Mentioned: Richard Parker, Mary Parker

Peter stood near the back of the group beside Ned. When he first heard that they would be taking a trip to Oscorp, the idea made him nervous. This was the company that his parents had worked for before their death years ago. There were several conspiracies that the company had been responsible for their deaths on the plane crash, and part of him believed that. Still, he had agreed to come.

“Welcome to Oscorp.” Peter looked up at the familiar voice. He knew the girl who was speaking. They weren’t friends, exactly, but they did have some classes together. Honestly, he had a crush on her at one point, but now he had a thing for Liz Toomes, a junior from his academic decathlon team. She was their too, standing with her friends at the other side of the group. He glanced over at her before the blonde started speaking again.

“My name is Gwen Stacy. As most of you know, I’m a freshman at Midtown Science,” she said. “I’m also head intern to Dr. Connors, so I’ll be with you for the duration of your visit. Where I go, you go. That’s the basic rule. If you forget that, then. . .” Gwen trailed off as they hear a man screaming as he is dragged out of the building by security. “Well, I guess I don’t need to tell you what happens if you forget that. Shall we.”

Gwen led the group of students through the building until they reach a lab and join one of the doctors inside. “Welcome,” he started. “My name is Dr. Curtis Connors. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I’m a southpaw.”

Peter chuckled along as the man held up his stub of an arm. He had heard of the man before; he was one of the head scientists for Oscorp, but he knew little about him. He silently wondered if he had known his parents when they were alive.

“I’m not a cripple,” Dr. Connors continued. “I’m a former scientist and I’m the world’s foremost authority on herpetology. That’s reptiles, for those of you who don’t know. But like the Parkinson’s patient who watches on in horror as her body slowly betrays her, or the man with macular degeneration who’s eyes grow dimer each day, I long to fix myself. I want to create a world without weakness. Anyone care to venture a guess just how?”

Peter watched as Michelle, one of his classmates, raised her hand. “Stem cells?” she asked. It was a great idea, he thought, but he knew it wasn’t the answer he was looking for.

“Promising,” the doctor replied. “But the solution I’m thinking of us more radical. No one?”

“Cross-species genetics,” Peter spoke up. He could feel his skin grow hot as those in front of him moved aside so Dr. Connors could see him. “A person gets Parkinson’s when the brain cells that produce dopamine start to disappear. But the zebrafish has the ability to regenerate cells on command. If you can somehow give this ability to the woman you’re talking about, that’s that. She’s. . . She’s curing herself.”

“Yeah, you just have to look past the gills on her neck,” Flash snorted, causing the others to laugh. Dr. Connors ignored him, looking at Peter as if he should know him.

“And you are?”

“He’s one of Midtown Science’s best and brightest,” Gwen told him, glancing over at Peter with a small smile.

“Really?” Dr. Connors asked, seeming intrigued.

“He’s second in his class,” Gwen continued.

Before either could reply, Dr. Connor’s phone started to ring. The man excused himself to reply and Gwen gathered the students around a display, talking about the details of the holographic image that appeared. Peter took that as a chance to turn to Ned. “I’m going to go look for a bathroom,” he whispered. “Cover for me?”

Ned nodded. “Yeah, don’t worry,” his friend replied, holding out his hand so the two could do their handshake. “Don’t get yourself in trouble.”

Peter rolled his eyes before turning and leaving the group. Distracted, he found himself bumping into a man and causing him to drop his files. “Oh, I’m sorry, Sir!” he replied, reaching down to pick the file up only to notice a familiar pattern on the paper; the same pattern that he had seen on a file his father had in his office years ago. He stared at the man as the file was taken from him.

As the man walked off, Peter found his curiosity getting the best of him. He slipped after the man, careful to make sure he wasn’t seen. He stopped when he saw the man putting a pattern into a scanner. He waited for the man to enter the room and return before he slipped over and put the pattern in himself, entering the room.

Once inside, he snuck around, gazing at the displays around him. He stopped only when he felt something fall onto him. He looked up and his eyes widened as he saw dozens of spiders falling from a container overhead. Panicking, he started brushing the creatures off and ran out, heading back out the door from which he came.

“What are you doing?”

Peter froze, coming face to face with Gwen Stacy. The girl had an unamused look on her face. “I was looking for the bathroom,” he told her. “Sorry.”

“Get back to the group,” Gwen told him sternly. “You’re going to get me in trouble.”

“Sorry,” Peter repeated, shuffling back to the group. He stopped when he felt a stinging pain in the back of his neck. His heart started pounding as he reached up and touched the spot, finding a raised bump on his skin; a spider bite.

#marvel #mcu #avengers #the amazing spider man #peter parker #ned leeds #gwen stacy #liz toomes #curtis connors #michelle jones #flash thompson #rajit ratha #spider man #spider gwen #the lizard

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ninewheels · 2 years

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Hey Ninewheels, you think you’ll ever do the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films and The Amazing Spider-Man films? With No Way Home coming up, it’s got me curious

They'll be on my Master Screen Time List on IMDb but since it's taking me a long ass time to get that done, in the meantime...

SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker/Spider-Man - 62 Mary Jane Watson - 24 Norman Osborn/Green Goblin - 22:45 Harry Osborn - 11:15 May Parker - 8 Ben Parker - 4:45 J. Jonah Jameson - 3:15 Dr. Mendel Stromm - 2:30 Flash Thompson - 2:15 Bone Saw McGraw - 2:15 Ring Announcer (Bruce Campbell) - 1:45 Joseph "Robbie" Robertson - 1:15 Betty Brant - :30 Hoffman (Ted Raimi) - :30

SPIDER-MAN 2 Peter Parker/Spider-Man - 71 Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus - 22:45 Mary Jane Watson - 19:45 May Parker - 10:15 Harry Osborn - 9:15 J. Jonah Jameson - 4:45 John Jameson - 2:30 Rosalie Octavius - 1:45 Joseph "Robbie" Robertson - 1:45 Ursula Ditkovich - 1:30 Ben Parker - 1:30 Betty Brant - 1:15 Dr. Curt Connors - 1:15 Mr. Ditkovich - 1 Snooty Usher (Bruce Campbell) - 1 Hoffman - :45 Norman Osborn - :45

SPIDER-MAN 3 Peter Parker/Spider-Man - 67:45 Mary Jane Watson - 24:30 Harry Osborn/Green Goblin - 20 Flint Marko/Sandman - 14 Eddie Brock/Venom - 11 Venom Symbiote - 10:30 May Parker - 6:30 Gwen Stacy - 6:30 J. Jonah Jameson - 4:15 Capt. George Stacy - 1:30 Ursula Ditkovich - 1:30 Maître d' (Bruce Campbell) - 1:30 Jospeh "Robbie" Robertson - 1:15 Betty Brant - 1:15 Mr. Ditkovich - 1:15 Ben Parker - :45 Dr. Curt Connors - :45 Hoffman - :45 Flash Thompson - :30

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker/Spider-Man - 78:30 Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard - 23:30 Gwen Stacy - 19:15 Ben Parker - 8:30 Capt. George Stacy - 8 May Parker - 6:30 Rajit Ratha - 4 Flash Thompson - 3 Richard Parker - 1:15 Mary Parker - :30

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Peter Parker/Spider-Man - 60:45 Gwen Stacy - 25 Harry Osborn/Green Goblin - 24:30 Max Dillon/Electro - 19 May Parker - 9 Richard Parker - 5:30 Donald Menken - 5:15 Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino - 3 Norman Osborn - 2:15 Mary Parker - 1:45 Dr. Ashley Kafka - 1:45 George Stacy - :45 Ben Parker - :15

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jstaplesreviewsmovies · 2 years

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Out of interest spawned from Andrew Garfield’s return to the mantel of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and out of boredom, I watched Mark Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man this weekend for the first time. It’s the first live action Spidey reboot following Sam Raimi’s mostly successful trilogy in the early 2000s. We start over with a new Peter Parker, who gets bitten by a radioactive spider while searching for clues on his missing parents. He becomes Spider-Man, and must learn to use his new powers responsibly to protect New York City, and ends up clashing with his mentor Curt Connors, The Lizard.

Webb and the writers clearly had a lot of ideas going into this new Spider-Man franchise, and on their own, sound pretty intriguing. Exploring the roles that Peter’s parents made is an interesting new take. Investigations of conspiracies involving Oscorp sounds like a solid foundation for a storyline. Of course, there’s also the standard Spider-Man arcs, like learning to use his powers, losing Uncle Ben, falling in love, etc. However, as interesting as all of these ideas sound on their own, trying to cram all of these storylines into one 2-hour movie and not finishing ANY OF THEM, is absolutely not the way to execute them. Either Peter Parker has some severe ADHD, or the writers were just really bad at bringing their ideas to a close. Nothing was really learned about Peter’s parents. Oscorp was barely discussed. The standard Spider-Man stuff that we’ve gotten used to was probably the most developed aspect of the story, and even that felt slightly rushed since it had to fight with the other storylines for the spotlight. I get that they wanted to do something different from what Sam Raimi did in his films, but they could’ve done better.

The most redeemable aspect of the film is Andrew Garfield’s portrayal as Spider-Man. And yes, I intentionally didn’t say Spider-Man/Peter Parker, because I am a firm believer that, at least in the Amazing Spider-Man films, Garfield is a much better Spider-Man than he is Peter Parker. His acting in No Way Home is a different story, where he did a great portrayal as an older and mentally scarred Peter Parker, but that’s not what I’m talking about today. In this film and its sequel, Garfield (in my opinion), does a better job being snarky and witty as Spider-Man than being nerdy and awkward as Peter. He doesn’t do a bad job as Peter, but I honestly think that Andrew Garfield himself looks too much like an attractive actor than a nerdy high schooler. This is also more of a writing issue than something wrong with Garfield, but Peter was doing WAY too bad a job of keeping his identity a secret. He used his powers in public quite a lot, and he was constantly taking off his mask. I genuinely don’t understand how nobody saw him and identified him by his face with how often he went with his mask off.

The supporting cast was fairly hit-and-miss. I think Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy were the only supporting characters that were interesting. I thought Uncle Ben and Aunt May were a bit too dim-witted and... stupid(?). Flash Thompson I thought was too quick to switch from bullying Parker to being all friendly with him. Rajit Ratha seemed interesting, but then he just disappeared, never to be seen again with no justification for it. Most of the acting with the other characters was laughably bad.

The action was... okay. Spider-Man was solid enough. He was quick and nimble. I think most of the action was held back by sketchy CGI. Lizard honestly looked pretty bad, and a lot of his fight scenes just looked too fake. Spider-Man also seems to be just as bad at finishing his job as the writers, since he left like five cars hanging from a bridge, only saving the one with a single child in it. What? We saw no evidence that the other people were saved. Spider-Man just saved the one kid and dipped.

Overall, The Amazing Spider-Man is simply fine. It definitely does NOT hold up to at least the first two Spider-Man films, and definitely doesn’t hold up to the MCU’s Spider-Man installments. However, it’s fine. A decent superhero film.

Score: 3/5

Next: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

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ljones41 · 6 years

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"THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" (2012) Review

"THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" (2012) Review Five years after the release of 2007's "SPIDER-MAN 3", Sony Pictures and Marvel Films decided to release a new SPIDER-MAN movie. The latter proved not to be a third sequel to the 2002 movie, "SPIDER-MAN". Instead, it turned out to be a franchise re-boot featuring a new actor in the lead and the first of two films:

With Andrew Garfield in the role of Peter Parker aka Spider-Man and Marc Webb directing, "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" commenced upon an entirely new saga about the web-slinger. In this film, Peter is a geeky high school student and science major who lives with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May in a suburb of Queens, New York. At least a decade earlier, he had witnessed the mysterious disappearance of his father and mother, scientist Richard Parker and his wife, Mary. After discovering his father's old briefcase, Peter makes the acquaintance of the latter's former lab partner, Dr. Curt Connors, who is now working as a geneticist at Oscorp. Dr. Connors is working on cross-breeding experiments in order to discover a formula based on lizard DNA in order to regenerate missing limbs. During his first trip to Oscorp's Manhattan offices, he discovers that the fellow Midtown High School student that he loves, Gwen Stacy, is working there as the chief intern. Peter is also bitten by a genetically engineered spider. During the subway ride home, Peter becomes aware of his new abilities. He also continues his visits to Dr. Connors at Oscorp. His new powers and visits to Oscorp lead to his growing neglect of his household duties. Peter also manages to help Dr. Connors by giving the latter Richard Parker's "decay rate algorithm", the missing piece in the scientist's experiments. After a quarrel with Uncle Ben, Peter storms out of the house and the latter hit the streets looking for him. Unfortunately for Uncle Ben, he encounters a thief who had just robbed a convenience store and is shot dead. Determined to find his uncle's murderer, Peter decides to assume the identity of the costumed vigilante, Spider-Man. When Oscorp executive Dr. Rajit Ratha decides to fire Dr. Connors and use the latter's formula at a VA hospital under the guise of a flue shot, Connors tries the formula on himself and becomes the human/lizard hybrid, the Lizard. Many Marvel and Spider-Man fans had complained about the lack of need for a Spider-Man re-boot so soon after the last Sam Rami film. What many did not know was that Sony Pictures had signed a deal, guaranteeing major control over the Spider-Man franchise as long as the studio releases a movie every five years or less. Sony originally had plans for a fourth Spider-Man movie with both Rami and actor Tobey Maguire. But the plans fell through and the studio decided to re-boot the franchise with a new actor, a new director and a new trilogy. Some fans and critics claimed that "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" was a lot closer to the original comics tale than the Rami films. I found this claim ironic, considering that the movie proved to be no more faithful to the comics than the films made between 2002-2007. Comic book fans know that Peter Parker's first love was Betty Brandt, whom he dated in high school and who eventually became J. Jonah Jamerson's secretary at The Daily Bugle. Peter met both Gwen Stacy (of this movie) and Mary Jane Watson (from the 2002-2007 films) in college, not high school. He was a lot younger when his parents died. But hey . . . I managed to enjoy both the Rami/Maguire trilogy and this film. That is correct. I enjoyed "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN". It had plenty of well choreographed action. The special effects team from the Pixomundo company did an excellent job with the action sequences featuring Spider-Man's battles with the Lizard. The company's efforts were ably supported by Marc Webb's direction and the three cinematographers - Alan Edward Bell, Michael McCusker and Pietro Scalia. One of my few complaints about "SPIDER-MAN" was that the film almost seemed like two separate stories. I could never accuse "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" of that flaw. Screenwriters James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves made sure that Peter's transformation into Spider-Man and Dr. Connors' transformation into the Lizard were connected plot-wise. After all, Peter's visit to Connor at the Oscorp labs led to his painful encounter with a genetically altered spider. And the visit, along with Peter's discovery of his father's notes, led to the creation of the formula that enabled Connors to become the Lizard. The movie also boasted some excellent performances by the cast. Andrew Garfield was outstanding as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man. He did an excellent job of portraying a fatherless boy in search of a father figure, who is forced to grow up on his own. Emma Stone portrayed Gwen Stacy, the girl whom Peter dated during his early years in college. Stone's Gwen was a smart, witty and earthy young woman who found herself torn between Peter and her father's opinion of Spider-Man and vigilantism. Another excellent performance came from Rhys Ifan, who did an excellent job in revealing the complex man whose disappointments in life led him to utilize the formula that transformed him into the Lizard. He also managed to convey Connor's darker personality through the CGI figure of the Lizard. Other first-rate performances came from Denis Leary, who portrayed Gwen's father - NYPD Captain George Stacy. The latter role seemed a slight cry from Leary's usual roles. Although he managed to utilize his usual rapid fire wit, Leary also conveyed the image of a stern and responsible man, who harbored concerns not only for his daughter, but also the citizens of New York City. Martin Sheen and Sally Field created excellent chemistry as Ben and May Parker, the couple left to raise Peter after his parents' death. It is a crime that the pair never worked together before, because I thought they really crackled with chemistry. I could say that both had great chemistry with Garfield, as well. But I feel that Sheen had more interesting scenes with the young actor than Field. Irrfan Khan had to be convinced by his children to take the role of Oscorp executive, Dr. Rajit Ratha (a character created for the movie). I am glad they did, for he proved to be very effective as a shadowy representative for the corporation's reclusive CEO, Norman Oscorp. The movie also boasted solid performances from Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson; and from Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz as Richard and Mary Parker, Peter's parents. I will not deny that "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" was a very entertaining movie for me. But it had its flaws. One, there seemed to be a minor lack of originality in the script. A good deal of the story seemed to be borrowed from the previous SPIDER-MAN movies. As with Maguire's Peter, Garfield's Peter started out with an unrequited crush with the leading female character. And Dr. Connors' career faced extinction, just as Dr. Otto Octavius did in "SPIDER-MAN 2". However, the movie also borrowed a subplot from the 2000 movie, "X-MEN". Just as Erik Lensherr plotted to transform the world's population into mutants via a machine, the Lizard in this movie, plotted to transform New York City's population into reptilian/human hybrids. In fact, his scheme struck me as lame. The main problem for me laid in the fact that Connors did not transform into the Lizard, until the second half of the movie. Speaking of the Lizard, as much as I had admired Ifans' performance, I was not that impressed by the villain's role as Spider-Man's foe. I mean, honestly . . . the idea of Spider-Man facing a giant lizard rampaging all over Manhattan did not do anything for me. Frankly, I saw dealing with the problem of the Lizard as a job for the Men in Black, not Spider-Man. Everyone seemed to be filled with praise for Emma Stone's portrayal of Gwen Stacy . . . including me. However, I had a problem with the screenwriters' portrayal of Gwen in this movie. Frankly, she seemed too perfect . . . too ideal. She lacked any real personal demons that could have made her interesting to me. I could never say the same about the comic book Gwen - even if she had a tendency to be a crybaby. Could someone explain why Peter suddenly decided to end his search for the thief who had killed his Uncle Ben? It seemed as if the entire subplot had been dropped. And what happened to Dr. Ratha after Peter saved him on the Williamsburg Bridge? I have one last complaint . . . and it has to do with C. Thomas Howell's character, a construction worker named Ray. In the Williamsburg Bridge sequence, Spider-Man saved Ray's son from falling into the East River. Ray reciprocated Spider-Man's actions during the latter's final battle with the Lizard by using several cranes to help convey the web slinger (who had been shot in the leg by the NYPD) to Oscorp's tower, in order to stop the Lizard from using the formula on New Yorkers. I found that minor scene so incredibly cheesy that I practically cringed with embarrassment. It seemed as if the screenwriters were trying to re-create those moments from two of Sam Rami's films in which New Yorkers came to Spider-Man's aid. Only in this movie, I found Ray's actions embarrassing, not inspirational. "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" had much for me to admire. It had excellent performances from the cast led by Andrew Garfield. Marc Webb's direction in the action sequences and intimate scenes was first-rate. And the screenwriters managed to avoid the mistake from the Sam Rami 2002 film of creating a fragmented plot. Unfortunately, I believe that "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" had some flaws - including a lack of originality - that made it difficult for me to embrace the idea that it was the best SPIDER-MAN movie ever made.

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lifejustgotawkward · 7 years

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #82: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - dir. Marc Webb

Did Marc Webb get the job of rebooting the Spider-Man franchise merely because of his last name? Surely his debut feature, the romantic dramedy (500) Days of Summer (2009), didn’t anticipate a future in superhero adventures for the filmmaker, but it’s nice work if you can get it, I guess.

Taking over for the Sam Raimi-directed, Tobey Maguire-starring trilogy of films released between 2002 and 2007, Marc Webb refashions the Spider-Man/Peter Parker origin story so that we see young Peter living with his parents, geneticists Richard and Mary Parker (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz), who are forced to go on the run for some mysterious reason (which I assume is explained in the sequel from 2014) and leave their child with Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen). Peter grows into a teenager (played by Andrew Garfield) who loves science and photography, passions that coincide with his crush on an equally intelligent classmate, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Gwen has an internship working for Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a scientist who we soon learn has a close connection to Richard Parker. Naturally, Peter is drawn to Connors and his unusual studies on herpetology.

Once Peter is bitten by a spider in Dr. Connors’ lab, the path to becoming Spider-Man is born. Gwen learns Peter’s secret and she tries to hide his identity from her father, Captain Stacy (Denis Leary), who has made it his mission to apprehend the arachnid crime-fighter. The cast’s performances are decent - including Irrfan Khan as Rajit Ratha, a corporate liaison who pressures Dr. Connors into doing increasingly more dangerous experiments; Ratha eventually disappears from the film without explanation - and there is chemistry to burn between Garfield and Stone, who started dating during production on the film (they split up in 2015). I also like how much Garfield reminds me of Anthony Perkins here, a tall, thin, gawky fellow with big brown eyes, a sweetly nervous smile and a tendency towards quiet intensity. But the humor and joie de vivre that fueled Sam Raimi’s Spidey saga (or at least the first two installments, since Spider-Man 3 is kind of a mess) is nearly nonexistent in The Amazing Spider-Man. Not only are the story self-serious and the action scenes fairly brief, but there is little sense that the film takes place in Queens and Manhattan. Raimi’s films took pride in the sights and sounds of NYC, but Marc Webb’s vision might as well have taken place in Anytown, U.S.A.

#365 day movie challenge 2017 #the amazing spider-man #the amazing spider man #2012 #2010s #marc webb #campbell scott #embeth davidtz #sally field #martin sheen #andrew garfield #emma stone #rhys ifans #denis leary #irrfan khan #spider-man #spider man #spiderman

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fuckyeahthelizard · 12 years

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Three deleted scenes from 'The Amazing Spider-Man' in HD, with a total run-time of around five minutes! To my knowledge, these are from the pre-purchase disc for those getting the Blu-Ray/DVD from Walmart, but will reportedly be on the actual release discs as well.

The three scenes are as follows --

Dr. Ratha sneaking around in Curt Connors' office at Oscorp and finding incriminating evidence. Possibly pre-CGI given the quality of the computer screen.

Peter Parker tracking Connors to his sewer lab. We've seen behind-the-scenes footage of this before on the B-roll and another video. The scenes seems to be an alternate take on the one in the final version of the film where Peter simply sees several small lizards crawling into the subway. It's also pre-CGI, given that Rhys Ifans' right arm in the green sock is still visible.

The confrontation scene in the sewer between Peter, Connors, and Ratha that appeared in the trailers, but not the final version of the film. In the theatrical release, Peter stumbled upon an empty sewer lab and found out about the Lizard's plans through a convenient video. Lots of great material here, even if some of it may be familiar because it was used in other parts of the final print, so I won't spoil it.

Thanks to ComicBookMovie.com for the heads-up and video links here!

EDIT: The video has since been removed, unfortunately. Now we just have to wait until November 9th for the Blu-Ray/DVD and all of the deleted scenes to be released!

#curt connors #the lizard #peter parker #spider-man #rajit ratha #rhys ifans #andrew garfield #irrfan khan #the amazing spider-man #the amazing spider-man (film)

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spider-xan · 12 years

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'The Amazing Spider-Man' takes place in the future? And other thoughts.

I remember someone on SuperHeroHype! mentioning putting together the viral materials and clues dropped in the film to figure out that ASM takes place two years in the future in 2014. But in case anyone was wondering how that conclusion was reached, all you need to do is take a look at this and this -- they're two documents referring to the incident where Richard Parker was pressured to start human trials early, but to which he said no. And then in the film itself, Dr Ratha mentions that said incident happened 15 years ago in the scene where he tries to get Connors to proceed to human testing. So 1999 + 15 = 2014.

However, that conclusion also gets complicated when one takes into account that Peter is supposed to be a high school senior in the film, making him around 18. According to the credits, he's 4 in the scene where he last sees his parents -- which would be only about 14 years ago. Then again, I admit I'm not the best at math, so maybe it still works out perfectly somehow. That, or we're just supposed to be handwavey about the time.

Also, the VA hospital where the testing was supposed to take place was apparently built with backing by Oscorp in 1998 according to this viral document. The first time I watched the film, my immediate thought was that it was a subtle reference to Curt's background from the comics -- he lost his arm to a war injury while serving in the army as a surgeon/medic -- and that in-universe, Ratha chose a VA hospital of all places to really rub it in Curt's face and push his buttons personally. But it seems like in the end, it was just a matter of Oscorp being shady and for all we know, it's coincidence the film went with veterans. Or maybe not. I still like thinking it was a sly comic book reference though.

#curt connors #marvel #peter parker #rajit ratha #richard parker #the amazing spider-man #the lizard #tl;dr #spider-man #xan's spidey meta #I WAS WRONG ABOUT THIS THOUGH

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