An Amazing Night

The night has turned to dawn and the dawn to day.  I’ve bonded with the inside of my eyelids for a few brief hours and cleaned the homestead remembering with great fondness the night before in which the mess was made.

 Last night was the midnight showing of The Amazing Spider-Man.  I’m sure there will be some wild feedback on this entry because of what I’m about to put but I am behind it my view points on the movie.  Otherwise I would not be posting them in such a forum.

The night itself was awesome as normal.  Why wouldn’t be? I got to indulge my passions of cooking, talking movies, and being in the company of truly awesome people.  The meal turned out good.  It was my first attempt at what I cooked and I was pleased.  The crowd assembled was diverse in personality but everyone got along and always had something interesting to say.  It was a great lead in to a great movie and can not wait to assemble friends again for the next midnight movie.  (Inquiry within for details).

So we come now to the movie itself.  I loved it! Andrew Garfield gave an incredible performance as Peter Parker and his alter ego Spiderman.  It’s what I was hoping for from Tobey Mcguire, who portrayed the character in the first three.  The first person web slinging, which I had very high expectations, made the movie that much more enjoyable.  I saw it in 2d, as is my preference over 3d, but can imagine some of the sequences would be worth the 3d admission prices especially in an IMAX setting.  Does the movie have flaws and faults? Yes it does.  Am I going to put them on my blog? No I am not.  Why? because it’s my blog and I can be slandered that way.  I just wanted you to be aware they are there.

I guess the natural question is how does this one hold up in comparison to the previous three?  Personally I enjoyed it more then 1 and 3 but not 2.  Sam Raimi created an incredible movie with Spiderman 2 and as much as I liked this new one I yield to the greatness that was the first Spiderman sequel.  Fun side fact Spiderman 2 was the first midnight showing I attended.