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It is probably not a coincidence that the trailer for the upcoming overhauled Spider-Man movie was released a few days before Comic-Con this year, but if Columbia Pictures intended to create positive buzz for the film with the timely release of the preview, the studio seems to have fallen short.
The motion picture, called The Amazing Spider-Man, stars relative newcomer – British actor Andrew Garfield – as a young angst-filled Peter Parker coping with adverse events and his newfound super-powered secret identity. The trailer is laced with a seemingly-forced artificially dark tone that is more apt for The Dark Knight than for the misfit web-slinger. Furthermore, as talented as Andrew Garfield is as an actor, he simply does not appear to personify Peter Parker or Spider-Man in the familiar way that comic book fans contemplate the character.
Presenting Spider-Man as a darker and more mysterious hero might be interesting to audiences who are unfamiliar with the wall-crawler, but this interpretation of the character seems less accessible to long-time Spider-Man fans.
Hopefully the film, expected to be in theatres on July 3rd, 2012, will be more impressive and catch some fans in its web…
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