The Amazing Spider-Man’s New Lizard Poster May Upset Your Inner Fanboy
"Here's a character our target audience has enjoyed for decades. Let's change him!"
April 29, 2012 - 1:10 pm
As a comic book fanboy, it always irritates me when Hollywood thinks they can improve on something that has worked for decades. Take this poster for The Amazing Spider-Man:
What logic puts a human face on The Lizard? So he looks more like a human? He’s a super-human monster in a comic book movie, for Pete’s sake! And where’s the lab coat?
I do like the international poster, though:
And I like that they went with a skinny kid. Truer to the book.
Another thing they are getting right in this one: The web-shooters look awesome!
I see the Spidey costume suffers the same problems as the previous movie version. The original was supposed to be something Peter Parket sewed by hand in his bedroom, not something created by a team of professionals in the costume department of a movie studio.
Plus, the web pattern on the mask is all wrong, and what’s with all of that “ribby” looking stuff? And the only time the gloves looked remotely like that was when Ben Reilley, the “Scarlet Spider” clone, briefly took over as Spider-Man back in the 90s (a misbegotten effort to return the characters to his roots after ruining him by marrying him to Mary Jane, the super-model & famous actress).
I’m not excited by this movie at all. I don’t see why a movie “reboot” was necessary in the first place. If it’s anywhere near as bad as the Star Trek reboot, we’re in for an abortion of a movie.
Yeah, I’m getting sick of these idiotic rubber costumes with “ribbing” and patterns stamped all over them. In that unforgiveably bad “Superman Returns” Supe had little bumps on his suit like it was cut from a rubber bath-mat. What the hell?
Why does Tinseltown constantly try to fix what isn’t broken? Check out this quotation by Thomas Sowell:
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Get it now? Hollywood is chock-a-block with liberals; that’s the problem.
All those little bumps – could be bubble-wrap? Or so he won’t slip when he’s in the shower? I don’t know. I figure the designers just want something that looks more interesting visually. Less like Spandex. So they added more details, like they did with the Enterprise’s hide in the movies.
I don’t mind the lizard. And a reptilian monster wearing a white lab coat would just look stupid. What next? Nerd glasses and a sliderule? Penny-loafers and argyll socks? Come on, people: he’s a monster, not the Nutty Professor. My only question is, what happened to his wedding tackle? I guess they got absorbed in the lizardization process. No wonder he’s feeling a bit angry at the world.
Unless they have changed the origin of The Lizard, he was a lab coat, glasses, slide-rule wearing nerd. The Lizard came about because a scientist played around with lizard DNA to help others (and himself) regenerate limbs, ect. You see the scientist who was to become The Lizard in the Sam Raimi’s Spiderman movies played by Dylan Baker (he was the scientist missing his right arm in the movie).