I watched it in good ol' fashioned 2D.

Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
I liked the smart arse Peter, but I never really got the feeling he was a nerdy underdog. That's what I liked about the Raimi Spiderman, the scene at the party in #2 where Peter ALWAYS just misses out on the drinks/snacks and stuff just showed how unlucky and dorky Peter was.
He's definitely not clumsy, but he's still a "nerd" -- member of the debating team, social outcast (he doesn't even socialise with other nerds), is still a whiz kid (check out that remote computer controlled lock on his bedroom door!) etc. They've still maintained the fundamental part about Peter being a highly intelligent but socially awkward/isolated school kid. Still the outsider.

Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
One thing that bugged me though was the webbing. I can handle mechanical webbing, but considering how he bought it from Ozcorp and in probably large amounts, would make it pretty easy to trace. If the cops really wanted him, they could get a sample (he leaves enough of it around) find out what it is, get some info on orders, which would look a bit like this:
  • Company A
  • Company B
  • Company C
  • Peter Parker
  • company D
  • Company E
  • Hang on a sec...

And trace him that way... Add to that, Ozcorp would probably have a way to dissolve it somehow as well, making his webbing a serious weakness eventually...
Hmmm... I guess. But if it's like real spider webbing then it's pretty hard to see (how often have you walked into a spider's web in low light!) and it may even decay after several hours or a day. Also -- he shoots the webs up pretty high. The police would need to expend considerable resources to get up to those places to collect samples, and further resources to have them scanned in a lab. These are kind of resources that police often will spend when there's been say, a homicide... but since Spider-Man isn't actually wanted for murder (the arrest warrant stipulates that he's wanted for questioning) then perhaps they're not willing to do it. But I think the webbing's best defence is the fact that it's hard to see... kinda like the perception filter on the TARDIS.

This actually makes me think of something else that seems odd in this movie -- the two cops who shot at Spider-Man. Cops shouldn't (wouldn't?) do that. In both instances Spider-Man was not presenting a threat to those cops. The first time he actually had his hands up and was just talking to the cop before he opened fire repeatedly! The cop who shot him did so when Spider-Man was fleeing (especially after Captain Stacy had let him go and told officers not to fire). Cops get in trouble if they so much as draw their firearm without just cause... heck, even when cops do fire at someone who's attacking, they sometimes get in trouble! But to open fire on a suspect who's not attacking anyone at the time??

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P.S.: RE: Web shooters
One change of the franchise to reinvent the hero for the film was to go back to the original source material in the mainstream comics of Spider-Man having artificial web-shooters. Writer Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times was skeptical of the change feeling that it's too hard to believe that a financially strapped young man to conceive a wrist-worn device that can instantly produce a strand of synthetic webbing. Even though there was skepticism of the change Webb himself felt that "the web-shooters were able to dramatize Peter's intellect". Webb paid attention to the question of "How would a kid make it?" And then took some license with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ama...282012_film%29
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/...#comment-76324
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/...t-but-do-they/