REVIEW: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
An appropriate "Wait, what?" was expressed by all when it was announced a Spider-Man reboot was getting a release this summer. "Spider-Man 3," the one movie every one seems to hate but I kind of liked back in 2007. 5 years? Is that all the time they're waiting to restart? Where's Mary Jane? And then, once the cast was revealed, I gained a lot of faith. In 2010 Andrew Garfield (Peter Parker) and Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy) both released movies that showed they were ready if not overqualified to take on big Hollywood roles, in "The Social Network" and "Easy A" respectively. These roles earned them Golden Globe nominations and an established part of young Hollywood, or whatever they want to call themselves these days. And then the million dollar question still remained: would it go in the direction of "The Avengers," or southbound, a la "Green Lantern." I'm not sure if the box office success will match it, but th...