So I Went to See Spiderman

Dear Wal,

It was awesome. I'm being serious. The other movies (You notice how I call them the other movies. They don't deserve to be named.) were terrible. The first one was alright, but after that they just tanked. I've only seen the second and third movies once, and this is someone who has seen Daredevil three times that we're talking about here. The thing about superhero movies is that they should be good enough to drag you into not only the sequel but maybe even the comics if you're desperate enough, and the Amazing Spiderman does just that, whereas its predecessors did not. Not for me anyway.
The first part was a little tedious, considering it was just a retelling of the origin. Yes, they did do that but it honestly wasn't a turn off for me. I thought that it was handled much better. The flow of the story was much smoother, and more believable while still being ridiculous in a superhero kind of way. (We all know a lizard man couldn't really, happen? Right?) Andrew Garfield is a great Peter Parker, much better than Tobey Maguire. I'm not an expert on actors and the movies they've been in etc., so forgive me if I haven't seen Maguire at his best.
Peter's character was rendered so much better. He's actually funny! Finally! I haven't read any spidey comics, I have to admit, but I know from his appearance in one of my Daredevil books and from the Spectacular Spiderman TV show that he's hysterical. Or at least, he's supposed to be hysterical. I don't think he cracked one joke mid-battle in the old movies. There were funny parts, but he got serious in places he needed to be. All his acrobatics and uses of webbing were fantastic. Oh and by the way, the new suite was flipping awesome.
The movie was extremely predictable and completely classic as far as plot goes-but that's just fine with me. I've gotten used to superhero stories that get repeated over and over, and besides the classic defeat-the-evil-monster-and-save-the-girl plot was handled very well. Best of all, there was very little drama, and that drama surrounded a huge event, not just Peter having girl issues. I like Gwen much better than MJ, by the way. She was kinda useless in some bits, though.

I like the Lizard as a first villain better than Gobbie. It seems more relevant to the origin story to have the Lizard as a villian, considering Peter was bitten by a mutant spider and Dr. Conners injected himself with a lizard mutagen. There were some places where the Lizard's tail looked a little overdone and fake, but for the most part the CGI for him was awesome. Osborn was just a background presence in this movie, I won't say anything else. Other than you have to wait until the end of the credits if you go see this movie. I think at this point we as Marvel movie goers should just do this automatically, but most of the theater still left right when the movie ended. Amateurs.

/endrant

P.S. The Lizard could actually talk. O: I expected him to be all: RAAARARAAAAMAAAA D<