Friday, July 22, 2011

Origin Stories....OUT!

The teaser trailer for next year's Spiderman re-boot is out...can anyone say, "Spiderman meets Twilight"? Yes, I'm not a big fan of the look of the new movie, they're obviously going after the Twilight audience (why?). My real problem with this movie is the fact that it's a "re-boot" of the character and once again we're going to be subjected to half the movie being about the origin story of Spiderman. Come on Hollywood! We all know Spidermans origin story...geeky kid...bit by a radioactive spider...issues with Uncle Ben...ALL OF IT! We've been there, done that.

Why couldn't they have just made a movie about Spiderman, and some of the many other issues that the character has to deal with. This doesn't just apply to Spiderman either...Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Hulk...I think we all pretty much know the origins of any of the iconic superheroes. Let's get past these boring, repetitive origin stories and instead start exploring the characters and their interactions with the world and others. A few minutes worth of flash-backs done properly in a movie can replace forty-five minutes worth of origin story!

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