Really a Rant About the Movie
I'm really struggling to understand what people actually see in these graphic novels (though I should refer to them as comic books because graphic novels tend to have some sense of respectability about them – despite the fact that many people in society look down on people who read comic books as not having grown up, but then if growing up involves becoming some stuck-up snob that has no fun and has a twisted sense of 'responsibility' then honestly, I really do not want to grow up). Anyway, the only reason that I ended up borrowing this book from the Melbourne Library (and I will only ever borrow such books because I have much better things to spend my money on, such as Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance) was because I have just seen The Amazing Spider Man: The Rise of Electro and I wanted to make a few comments on the movie, as well as reading another Spiderman story (and I guess that is half the reason that they make these superhero movies: to try to get more people reading the comics, though it generally does not work on me because I end up reading one, or two, and discover that I really do not like them).
Anyway, the big issue that I have with this new movie is that it really confuses me. The reason that I say that is that the person who now plays Spiderman (Andrew Garfield) reminds me of the person who played Harry Osborn (James Franco) in the first Spiderman trilogy, and the guy that plays Spiderman in the original trilogy (Tobey Maguire) looks like the guy who plays Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) in the reboot. Anyway, just to add some visualisation to this, here is Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spiderman):
and here is James Franco (Spiderman):
and here is Tobey Maquire (Spiderman):
and here is Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spiderman):
Anyway, enough with that confusion because I should really start commenting on this particular story, which in itself is confusing because it seems to be a crossover between not two, or three, Spiderman comics, but four (and here I was thinking that the Spiderman comics were all set in different universes). Basically Norman Osborne (Harry's father – who I thought was dead, but that does not seem to be the case) has framed Spiderman and there is a $5 000 000 dollar bounty on his head, so while every two-bit crook is out to get him, Peter Parker (who is married to MJ) decides to take on four different personas so that he can continue being fighting supervillans but does not have to go out as Spiderman. The funny thing about the identity crisis is that this is a very comic book superhero thing because I was always under the impression that comic book superheroes had an identity crisis anyway - they are in one sense a normal person, and in another sense a superhero, and they cannot let those personalities cross for fear of their loved ones coming to harm.
However, as it turns out, from reading this graphic novel it appears that the Amazing Spiderman movies seem to be closer to the comics than the original Spiderman Movies (with Tobey Maguire). Also, it appears that the women in the comic books seem to be hugely overproportioned than they do in real life (and also in Hollywood movies). Take this character for instance:
Though there is also another question that seems to haunt me as well:
