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I don't agree at all, sorry to say. It wouldn't have made "more sense" to use Gwen Stacy, because Gwen Stacy doesn't have to exist at all. The goal here was not to recreate the comic book completely, but rather, just to tell the basic story. They HAD to change some things. Personally I think the organic webshooters are a LOT more believable. I don't see a high school kid inventing something like that, even if he is a science whiz. The feel of the movie early on was perfect: stuff just happens to him...he's wary, but he gets used to it. Wouldn't have worked as well, in my opinion, if he'd been ambitious enough about it to go building something advanced like that.
The MJ thing doesn't matter to me much...I'm much more concerned with how they handle Parker's side of things...and besides, she used the word "tiger." It's close enough. It's not going to be a direct translation, obviously.
Gwen Stacy was not, from what I've read, a very interesting character. She garners interest only because she dies...which tells me the character holds very little actual weight. Besides...
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Don't you think it'd feel like Uncle Ben all over again if we had another main character die? It'd feel like they were just trying to jerk more tears out of us.
Don't you think it'd feel like Uncle Ben all over again if we had another main character die? It'd feel like they were just trying to jerk more tears out of us.
Anyway, there was one part/theme I really, really liked...
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I dug the fact that they kept heroism realistic...it was the LOTR: FOTR style heroism, where it's not really fun. It's not a blessing, it's a curse. Sure, he has fun with it at first, but he learns the hard way that he can't handle himself in that manner with those kinds of powers in his possession.
I'm exceedingly glad that they didn't take the "easy" out of having him end up with MJ at the film's finale. It was much more consistent, and moving, in my opinion, to have him turn her away...it represents the life he knows he has to choose. I loved it.
I dug the fact that they kept heroism realistic...it was the LOTR: FOTR style heroism, where it's not really fun. It's not a blessing, it's a curse. Sure, he has fun with it at first, but he learns the hard way that he can't handle himself in that manner with those kinds of powers in his possession.
I'm exceedingly glad that they didn't take the "easy" out of having him end up with MJ at the film's finale. It was much more consistent, and moving, in my opinion, to have him turn her away...it represents the life he knows he has to choose. I loved it.
And, for the record, I thought Dunst was decent most of the time, but very good when crying/distraught...each time she cried, It was completely believable to me. My symbolic hat is off.