
Where to watch it: The Amazing Spider-Man is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, and also available to stream on Starz, which costs $8.99 per month.Īs someone who is deathly afraid of spiders, I held out on watching this for the longest time, but despite some moments where the arachnophobia got its fangs into me, it's well worth the watch. Garfield is underrated and I hope he gets another chance via the multiverse in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man 3. If only there weren't so many depressing deaths. If only its comedy wasn't so cringe and forced. Andrew Garfield's stutter, jazz hands and general endearing weirdness. 'Til Kingdom Come, originally written by Coldplay to be performed with Johnny Cash, playing over the skateboard scene.Īnd then there's Peter's Spider-Man movements actually mirroring skateboarding moves, as well as being more spider-like than his counterparts. Peter goggling at Gwen from across the classroom.

The fittingly named Marc Webb, who directed (500) Days of Summer, made the whole first third of this movie feel like a small independent film. The result of that negotiation we do know: Spider-Man would end up looking like a trilogy of his own, although debuting somewhat earlier, in Captain America: Civil War, added to Avengers Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.I'm here to tell you that this movie's rap for being a fairly mediocre film is - well, it's only somewhat fair. After that two-day retreat, Kevin Feige went to the offices of the production company of the tremamuros, Amy Pascal, in a complicated negotiation that ended up bearing fruit. It was in that closed room where two fundamental issues were put on the table: how the agreement between Sony and Marvel Studios would work and, on the other hand, if the agreement of five movies, what stories would be told. “No one else at Marvel Studios was informed what they were doing, only that it was a ‘reunion.’

“With no time to lose, Feige announced that they were ‘getting down to business’: every Marvel Studios executive producer was to be part of a secret two-day retreat held at a rented hotel in Santa Monica,” says the book.

That plan was carried out with the utmost discretion, as if it were a secret. A secret meeting between Marvel Studios producers
