The Spider-Man Movie Retrospect - PART 2: The Amazing Spider-Man Duology + Venom

On last post we been through the Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy, and how it changes everything since that terrible day on the 11th of September, which I forgot to mention in the last post, also after Spider-Man bomb and the cancellation of two plan sequels, there’s no choice, but to reboot the entire series, hired director, Marc Webb, who previous movie were some movie about summer or something with a big number like 500 maybe? But in a way he also mostly directed music videos, too. Now who will played Peter Parker/Spider-Man for this new reboot Spider-Man, since you can’t used Tobey again, that point he been too old to played Spider-Man at this time, believe some did auditions for not just Spider-Man, but his new love interest, Gwen Stacy who been in a strange take of the character in the last movie, and Curt Connors who be this time around play a role as the main villain, the Lizard, so Sony ever cast roles for Peter’s Aunt May and Uncle Ben, but also he’s parents, a element that was missing in the first era of Spidey films, also they cast Flash Thompson, too with that talk about Danny Glover take of the character of Lando…I mean some fat cat named Garfield thinks that he is a spider, and he is fighting reptile Jon or something also his father is a tiger, released on July 3, 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man is the first of the duology of Spider-man movies that have the Dark Knight Trilogy meets Ultimate Spider-Man, so with that let go see: Peter Parker played by Andrew Garfield is a mid-class teenager, going to high school everyday and going home to his Aunt May played by Sally Fields and Uncle Ben played by Martin Sheen, when he discovers the mystery behind the disappears and death of his parents, he go to Oscorp there’s he meets Doctor Curt Connors played by Rhys Ifans, a scientist who used to work with Peter’s father, Richard, soon he was later been bitten by genetic spider, that give him spider powers, soon after have storm off to a store, that result the death of Uncle Ben by the Burglar, man we got the crying Tobey meme a lot, but never got a crying Andrew meme of this movie, soon he become the Amazing Spider-Man while didn’t get caught by Captain George Stacy played by Denis Leary while Doctor Connors after discover a serum that transforms him into the monstrous Lizard, now is up Spider-Man and Captain Stacy’s Gwen played by Emma Stone to save many people from reject humanity and the return to the reptile, after years having the same cast and crew for the past three movies, the movie still hold up after almost 9 years, unlike Tobey’s Peter which is faithful for the comics, Andrew’s Peter is different beast, this portrayed want to know of what happened to his parents, who in the comics where SHIELD Agents, and Peter also got a “sister”, too that was cool, and he is both a genus and skater is something different from what come before, but Andrew’s Spider-Man the other hand is down right perfect, he gets quips, he got the mechanical Web-Shooters this time, he’s costume is different from the Rami suit, first there’s no silver webs and lens, replace by black webs and gold lens, second there’s a pinstripes on the legs of the suit something that isn’t there in any previous and future suits, and thirdly we actually see Peter made this costume, something that the previous Spider-Man movies any show lack of, another it’s the spider emblem is unique from the previous ones from the last movies, with the legs being small parts thought, with some of the shots in the movie, you get Peter’s point-in-view as he is climbing, and the end as he spun out a web, those shots were made in 3-D back when 3-D films was big, now talk about the movie’s main villain, The Lizard, for start this take of Doctor Connors is different from the previous version, he work in Oscorp as the head of genetic engineering depart, his research for the serum by used reptile DNA, and Peter have the missing part because his father’s research has it, soon as he is transforms into the Lizard, he is very monstrous in design, unlike Spidey, Lizard used brutal tactics, because he is well a lizard, the only flaw about this take of the character is that Lizard’s plan to all of New York’s citizen into lizard people is something that those conspiracy theories would been shocked of, but however instead killed him, like what happened to every other Spider-Man in the previous ones, minus Sandman, Dr. Connors was cured and though into jail in a mid-credits scene where he is talking to a mysterious man in the shadows, who is actually characters from a Spider-Man novel about the actual truth about Peter’s parents’ deaths, also as Lizard many people thought that he is a dinosaur, ever Captain Stacy mistake him for Godzilla, despise that Lizard don’t have dorsal fins, isn’t 50”-100” tall, or got Atomic Breath, than again Spider-Man was once been a Toku hero, and Marvel did made Godzilla comics back in the day, well now we talked about the both Stacies, for a love interest, Gwen Stacy is a pretty good character for her right unlike the last movie when she was out of nowhere, here she is used very effect, that she is a genus of her right, ever work in Oscorp, and knows that Peter is Spider-Man is a nice touch unlike how Mary Jane founds that Peter is Spider-Man in Spider-Man 2, for the other Stacy, Captain Stacy is a really good take of the character, who is want to captured Spider-Man, though the movie he meets Peter in that fish scene, soon as he finally caught Spidey while shocked that is Peter, Captain Stacy actually let him go so he can go to Oscorp to fight Lizard, later on as his daughter, Gwen give him the cure and actually help out Spider-Man fight Lizard and get the cure, unformely Lizard stabs him though the chest, unlike in the comics where is Doctor Octopus that killed Captain Stacy, here made Lizard end his life is a good choice by the filmmakers, after that Peter made promise to Captain Stacy to stay away from Gwen any trouble, how long will he keep that promise, it’s a wait and see, as for the other characters, they are good takes of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Flash Thompson, the Burglar, & mostly of them all are Peter’s parents, Richard and Mary Parker, a element of the comics that wasn’t there’s in Raimi’s take of the series, which say the movie did really well and warren a sequel, that being the one that killed this series of movies, released on May 2, 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was meant to be a start of a cinematic universe of their one, since the parent company, Marvel and it’s studio, Marvel Studio have their great success with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after all the first Amazing film was in the same year as the first Avengers movie, and this film is smack dab into Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, also 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, and ever Paramount's reboot of the live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which it’s kind of similar pilot to the first Amazing film, but with Turtles instead a guy that was bitten by super powered spider, regardless the second Amazing film, is going to this epic feel, there are new characters for this sequel, but for one, Mary Jane Waston was going to be appear in the movie and was going to be played by Shailene Woodley, but the actress pick filming the Divergent film series, before that series went down the toilet, also the character of Mary Jane was cut, with that let’s get starting: Years after the defeat of the Lizard, Spider-Man becomes a hero to all of New York, at the same time to keep his promise from Captain Stacy, evenly he saves a Oscorp electrician named Maxwell Dillon played by Jamie Foxx, who is have a obsession for Spidey, soon as Peter gets his life straight with Gwen Stacy despise see her father’s ghost, his old friend, Harry Osborn played by Dean DeHaan, returns from boarding school, and becomes head of Oscorp after his father Norman dies, while Max is try to fixed a elected problem, it has turns him into Electro, and battles against Spider-Man for in his eyes lying to him, soon Peter discovers that actually truth behind his parents’ disappearances and the real reason of his father’s experiments on spiders, so he will face only Electro, but the new menace called the Green Goblin who is actually Harry after Spider-Man rejects of the idea of used his blood, to cured Harry’s family illness, but used the spider venom instead, also there’s the Rhino played by Paul Giamatti, who is just there in the beginning and end of the movie, and is for set up for a Sinister Six movie that made come to pass, Overall the movie is not the massing bad, like many people say, it was there to starting up a cinematic universe, and fail because it shows that Spider-Man himself in a cinematic universe were the only characters to made movies are his many friends and foes, you can’t make a cinematic universe where Spider-Man have to team-up with Hobgoblin it easy don’t work, However Peter is this movie is more likable as he is haunting by the ghost of Captain Stacy, which it is weird and pointless, but then again Spider-Man comics have there weird moments too, as Spider-Man he still fits of how the character portrays, plus he’s costume got updating goodbye to gold lens and pinstripes, and hello more classics look and completed with white lens look, how there’s scenes with he have briefs moments with a kid which is touching, and there is other which we don’t about until later, we also got more surprise secrets about Peter’s parents, we ever got a fight scene in a plane, and as well history between the Parkers and the Osborns, first we both fathers, Richard’s and Norman’s friendship sours because Richard’s research of spiders with human DNA, which is his own, it also explains why Peter was bit by one of this spiders, since it has his father’s DNA means that Peter since he is part of the Parker bloodline is gains the powers of a spider, also explains why Oscorp is a super shady company, other hand their sons, have the same problems, but only differences is that Harry first wants Spider-Man’s blood, so he asked Peter about ask Spider-Man for that want, later when as Spider-Man appears in the Osborn Manor, he told Harry that he don’t get his blood, this made Harry very angry, speaking of Harry, out the two actors that played the character, Dean DeHaan by far the best portrayed of Harry Osborn, he is everything that Harry, the son of Norman Osborn, should be unlike his father who didn’t become the Green Goblin instead dies for that illness which Harry have it, too, we actually sees this version of Norman looks on his deathbed and on video, believe during the movie some Oscorp heads kick Harry off of the company that his father founding, well at Tony Stark didn’t get kick off from his company, he just give it to his wife, Harry join forces with Electro to take control of Oscorp which reveals the secret projects that the company been hiding, we see Doctor Octopus’ tentacles, Vulture’s wing pack, Kraven’s spare, & Chameleon's mask, again leaning to that Sinister Six movie that never happened, soon the cure which is this universe’ version of the Goblin Serum, that turn Harry into the Green Goblin, concept art did featuring Harry more akin to the Ultimate Green Goblin than a more tradition one, as the Green Goblin is something different from the previous versions, having black instead the character’s iconic secondly color, purple is a bold move, there’s some green on him both skin tone and armor piece, also his hair got spiky, his teeth got pointy, so are his ears, too, and man if been nice if this version of Harry met Rami version Norman, than he would proud of this Harry do the one that his universe’s Harry couldn’t he made Spider-Man suffer hard, not have the girlfriend forced break-up Peter, or turn good and help him, now let’s talk about the other main villain, Electro, well this take of the character is a very strange one, first he is borderline creepy after Spider-Man saves him, believes to be friends with Spidey, also on his birthday he got becomes Electro, by eels, he is a dangerous threat for Spider-Man, while that hoodie kind make him going for a Darth Sidious look from Star Wars, you know both shoot lighting coming out from their hands, later he been sent to Ravencroft Institute basely the Marvel version of Arkham Asylum minus no game series on it, there he is used for testing, soon he got escape thanks to part of Harry Osborn, than we see Electro in a costume that is based on Ultimate Electro, instead the classic green and yellow suit with a mask, after he help Harry, he is off to New York’s power grid there he turn the power off, cause a blackout, soon Spider-Man fought Electro again, it’s a cool moment, we see Electro beating Spidey, before Gwen shows up, and Spider-Man used way of combining of webs, and electricity results overpower Electro and kill him, now for the other characters are good, returning from the first one are Aunt May, and Peter’s parents, also Gwen’s family, for the new characters for a evil company as Oscorp, you see characters who are villains/anti-heroes, like B.J. Novak’s Alistair Smythr or the Spider-Slayer, and Felicity Jones’ Felicia Hardy or Black Cat, hey she made it in a Spider-Man movie, minus didn’t got in the black suit with white fur, now let’s talk about Gwen because since the first Amazing film, she been the perfect love interest to this version’s Peter, in this thought out the film we see her be a help for Peter and also uncovers the secrets of Oscorp, as she also was going to London for collage, but things didn’t turn out to be, right after Electro’s defeated, both Spider-Man and Gwen encounters the Green Goblin, and this moment thing turn to the wrong, as Green Goblin kidnaps Gwen, instead of a bridge, it’s a clock tower, as Spider-Man and Green Goblin fought, Gwen hold now for dear light, than you knows it, Spider-Man saves Gwen, but she hit ground really hard, killing her, this made Spider-Man sad, the Death of Gwen Stacy is one of the darkness moments in comic history, and they translated it into film, gives great impacted, that Spider-Man fails to save the one that his loves, so this movie did that moment with Spider-Man, Gwen, & Harry Osborn’s Green Goblin instead of Norman Osborn’s Green Goblin, is really awesome, but sadly do to poor Box Office numbers, the movie flops, and planned sequels and spin-offs where cancelled, than the great Sony hack happened than in late 2014, news of Spider-Man join the MCU broke, and everyone feel joy of this happiness day, around 2015, Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man, this version of Spider-Man first appear in Captain America: Civil War, this was the first time seeing good old Webhead appear in a Marvel with Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, & other Avengers, than in the fellow year he got his first solo movie in Spider-Man: Homecoming, where Peter Parker is in high school, while battling against Micheal Keaton’s Vulture, this was the first time that Marvel beings Peter to his high school roots since both Rami and Amazing films rather skipped it, than 2018 he made a appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, were he was part of team space with Iron Man, fellow Lee/Ditko creation Doctor Strange, & the Guardians of the Galaxy, before he was snapped away, but in late 2018 first non-Spider-Man movie happened part of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, released on October 8, 2018 Venom is perfect choice to introduce your new universe, since Venom is the Wario to Spider-Man’s Mario, since Venom already appeared in Spider-Man 3 back in 2007, but we got appearance that is strangely inaccuracy to the character that first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #300, the character of Venom was created by David Michelinie and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, but the symbiote itself first appearance in Secret Wars #8 as Spider-Man’s new “Alien Costume” or black costume as it is commonly known as   which he wore it until he riddled it do to being alien symbiote before bond it to former Daily Globe journalist, Eddie Brock, over the years the Venom symbiote was bonded will many hosts including Mac Gargan aka the Scorpion and Peter’s former bully turn friend, Flash Thompson,  but Eddie Brock is the famous host for Venom, do by the nature that he is before becoming Venom, he was believe it, investigating the Sin-Eater case that ravaged at the time of the comics, he evenly got a lead by a man named Emil Gregg claimed that he is the infamous  villain, and was going to write a story about it quickie before Spider-Man caught the real deal, another man named Stanley Carter, no relations to Peggy and Sharon Carter, then Brock was fired and got buff to get revenge on Spider-Man, and a alien symbiote is the answer for that kind of act, much later the character got popular with fans that ultimately made him as  the third tier of Spider-Man’s villains alongside his arch-nemesis, The Green Goblin, and his arch-rival, Doctor Octopus, this make Venom as Spider-Man’s doppelganger, many how didn’t know what is a doppelganger is based a evil twin, who looks like the same people, but evil, in fiction this means other ways, I already mention Mario and Wario, there’s Godzilla and Mechagodzilla, Optimus Prime and Nemesis Prime, Sonic the Hedgehog and Metal Sonic, Superman and Bizarro, point this Venom having same traits as Spider-Man, but different, first their size well Spider-Man is normal male height of 5’10, but Venom’s height is 7’6, well Spider-Man is semi-muscular or something draw as muscular, but Venom is very muscular, to compare Spider-Man is your standard muscular that you see in publicly and Venom is a bodybuilder, alright it we been talking about the brief backstory behind the Venom character, but one more thing, that are Venom isn’t only symbiote in the comics and this movie, too there’s range from Scream, Lasher, Phage, Agony, and one we will come to later, to most popular like Carnage, Toxin, and their god, Knull, so yeah on to the backstory behind Venom’s movie creation, for years Sony try to make a Venom movie from being a spin-off to Spider-Man 3 beside both Brock and symbiote died by sound and Pumpkin Bomb, to be a spin-off to the dead Amazing films, since Spider-Man is in the MCU, but Venom is in his own universe, where Spider-Man is a mystery to anyone, now with that we finally get to movie itself: When Eddie Brock played by Tom Hardy lose his career after making a report on Carlton Drake played by Riz Ahmed, the head of the LIFE Foundation, than later after the love of his life, Anne Weying played by Michelle Williams, soon he encounters a symbiote named Venom from a homeless woman that he know of, where he acting strange while another symboite named Riot appears after a shuttle belong to the LIFE Foundation crashed to Malaysia, now Eddie is not only on the run from LIFE Foundation’s agents, but also deals with the menace that what will comes from space, also there’s a mid-credits scene where Eddie is interviewing Cletus Kasady played by Woody Harrelson, overall Venom is a strange and weird film, with some charmed to it, make it feels something out of The Ultra Series, if you compare a symboite to a Ultra Warrior, with the location being San Francisco a actual location in Venom’s first solo comic series, rather in New York is a nice change of area, now with Eddie Brock and Venom, unlike Spider-Man 3’s take on the character, this version of both Eddie and Venom are a like a buddie duo like in the feel of Abbott and Costello, that Eddie of how he’s life comes felling off something that without Spider-Man is very different, but again Spider-Man was turn into dust after Thanos has won in the MCU, so yeah, Venom the other hand is very funny at some part, he possessed on other characters, beside Eddie, like a homeless woman, a chihuahua, ever Anna herself one time got the symbiote and brief becoming She-Venom, yes that was a thing in the comics, and weird we got her before She-Hulk, and somewhere She-Thing is crying, now for Drake and Riot, man for a main villain it was pretty boring, Drake is your standard evil businessman, which itself is overused in most media, but he’s plan is also dumb before he was bond with Riot, the symboite itself before bond with Drake, it was bonding with a LIFE astronaut, a EMT driver, a old lady, and a little girl, once they bond they are pretty scary duo, and Riot’s plan is to bring all the symbiotes to invades the Earth, yeah Riot’s plan is also dumb do to the symbiotes’ weaknesses in Earth too, so if a volcano erupts, or if wild fires appears, than it’s no go for the symbiotes as a hold, you see why Venom is in between a villain and a ant-hero, yeah that’s it on Venom other than he got Emmem to do he’s theme song, it’s no Spider-man theme, but it’s fits the character very well, also in 2018 it’s are very first Spider-Man animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, it’s mostly about Miles Morales Spider-Man, team up with various other Spider-People from the Spiderverse, like a middle age Peter Parker Spider-Man, Gwen Stacy Ghost Spider or Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker and her mecha SP // DR, & Spider-Ham battling the various villains like weird looking Kingpin, Mummy Returns Scorpion, Giant Green Goblin, the Prowler, and Lady Doctor Octopus, also we lost both Steve Ditko in the summer than Stan Lee in the fall, than in 2019 back to the MCU, Avengers: Endgame happen featuring Spider-Man back from bring dusted thanks to the Hulk’s help, and also see his mentor Tony Stark’s sacrifice he’s life by dusted 2014 Thanos and he’s army away, yeah but it also got Spider-Man: Far From Home where Peter try to have a vacation, but Talos-Fury comes knocking he’s door to join a phoney mission about Elemental beings or something, and teaming with the bad guy Jake Gyllenhaal Mysterio the fake hero, that ultimately revealed Peter’s secret to the world that he is Spider-Man, leaning in to this year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home featuring all the previous villains and Doctor Strange, maybe surprises if some of you in the most the world have already see it, please no spoilers in the comments section, plus earlier we got the sequel to Venom called Venom: Let There Be Carnage featuring everyone’s 2nd favorite symbiote, Carnage, and Shriek is there too, also in next month we getting Morbius featuring Jared Leto as title character of Morbius the Living Vampire, along with Spider-Man: Across into the Spider-Man part 1 featuring new Spider-People maybe some villains, as well as various other Sony’s Spider-Man Universe projects that are currently in developments like Aaron Tyler Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter movie, but with Sony partnership with Marvel, also got a new Collage Trilogy, hopefully we get Kingpin, Jackal, Black Cat, Ben Reilly, Kaine, maybe his sister, Harry Osborn based on Tom’s pick from that role, and Rodrick Kinglesy Hobgoblin with Ned being framed, now there’s something, also there’s a Disney+ Spider-Man: Freshman Year animated series that will featuring the origins of the MCU Spider-Man before Iron Man show up in Civil War, maybe the Chameleon being the villain in the show, I hope also Spider-Man was also in Marvel’s What If animation series, well a alter version of Peter, so yeah that is it of all things about the Spider-Man movies from Rami’s Trilogy to The Amazing duology to the current MCU and SSMU, Spider-Man got a amazing, spectacular, web of, ultimate, superior, savage, and fantastic movie history, so whatever comes next for this web-hero, he away been our Marvel of hero.