TheRetroCritic

With the release of this new, slick Spidey reboot, there's been a lot of Sam Raimi bashing with people praising the new film for not being as silly as those early noughties efforts. I liked those movies! Well... the first two anyway. Then again the third one was pretty   lol... My point is these were fun comic-book flicks which, for the most part, got the cartoonish spirit of the comics and brought Spider-Man to us for the first time on the big screen. Sure those movies had their problems and there was a hell of a lot of shark-jumping going on in all of them but Spider-Man was never Marvel's darkest, moodiest character. One villain was a bird for crying out loud! An old man bird! That's freakin' ridiculous. Raimi delivered good old-fashioned popcorn entertainment. It was goofy but we loved it. Now comes The Amazing Spider-Man , a reboot with a brand new cast, a brand new approach and brand new everything. This time, we concern ourselves a bit more wit

New poster for the upcoming Andrew Garfield-starring reboot The Amazing Spider-Man courtesy of SuperheroHype.com. Weird wall but cool poster, admittedly.

After the Spiderman 3 misfire (which, to be fair, was pretty darn funny), could it be that we might be getting something very familiar but *gasp* good? Liking it so far. Looks like we'll be getting something closer to the comics. I'm thinking how good or rubbish Rhys Ifans' Lizardman will look will make or break the film. But yeah, surprisingly satisfied with the trailer for now. At least it won't be Turn Off The Dark ...

David Fincher directs this Dead Poets Society for the internet age with gusto and brings the controversial creation of the popular social networking site Facebook to life. Unfortunately, there's really not much to tell. Zuckerberg comes up with it (kinda), there are a few lawsuits...that's pretty much it. And there's nothing more boring than people sitting at their computer and going to meetings. That said, Fincher makes the story flow perfectly and there's never a dull moment, which is a huge achievement in itself. Unfortunately, at times the film attempts to make Harvard, rowing and typing on one's laptop way cooler and snappier than it really should be. He's Mark Zuckerberg not Beethoven! And no amount of babes, coke or...HTML can change that. In fact, what is most interesting about this whole story isn't so much the creation of the website or the lawsuits that followed but rather the deterioration of Zuckerberg's relationship with his best frie