Good Old Days: I remember the good old days when I was 7, where eating fun-dip candies, stealing Bazooka gum, and having a movie remade 3 decades after the original was normal. We live in a different world now, where reality TV screws up the minds of younger generations, Bazooka is still being stolen by 7 year olds, and movies are being remade only a couple years after the originals; the olden days were better, but I don’t steal gum anymore.
God Bless you Sam Raimi: As a simple Scottish-Mormon living in the upper-middle class of San Francisco my life was filled with many exciting things, and one of those was the first “Spiderman” movie. I LOVED THAT FILM! It may have been a bit cheesier than other comic book adaptations, but that’s exactly what the comic was like. Sam Raimi brought his B-Movie agenda/rub, applied it to the comic-book brisket, and then slow roasted it till the perfect tenderness and taste was reached (you must forgive me, C and I have been watching the “Food Network”). Following the first film were two sequels, and even those movies were not that bad. “Spiderman 2” was even better than the first one, by emphasizing the conflict between Peter Parker and Spiderman even more. Excusing parts of “Spiderman 3” (which I liked by the way), that was a solid summer flick that was still fun to watch, and it brought the trilogy to an agreeable conclusion. All should be fine in Spidey’s world right? Well apparently not, because my Spidey senses are tingling but not in a good way, this is more like an itch.
Hollywood you’ve done it again: What in the name of Oprah Whinfrey is going on in Hollywood right now? It’s been roughly 3-4 years since the last “Spiderman” movie and they’re already doing a reboot? I can see this being a good thing if the previous 3 films were utter failures, BUT THEY WEREN’T! Someone once said to me, and I quote “They’re making a reboot because the last films weren’t good enough.” Oh really? Because what I remembered about those films is that they were some of the biggest blockbuster hits of ALL TIME, and each and every one of them (yes that includes the 3rd one) received rave review from critics and audiences alike. This is a dangereous move on Hollywood’s part.
Why what I say means nothing: People are going to see this movie anyways, because their curiosity will get the best of them, just like the cat’s right before being put in the washing machine. There is no doubt this movie will be successful, but there is also a high chance of it being forgettable. This premature reboot would have been received with open arms in about 20 years, but since it’s only been a couple years it’ll just sound like the same old song that no one cares about… like the “With arms wide open” song by Creed.
