I like what I see. Garfield has a wiry quality that reminds me of the original Spider-Man comics and we all know the guy is a talented actor, so the performance side of things is not a concern. Yet there is a backlash mounting against this movie, people seem offended at the notion that someone other than Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire could make a Spider-Man movie. I imagine those people must be furious at all the Batman movies that came out after 1992 (unless they are even older, in that case they have lived in a state of perpetual rage since 1966).
Suddenly we have people questioning the realism of a Spider-Man movie, scrutinizing the likelihood of a high school student creating that costume or building mechanical web-shooters (they should have a battle royale with the people angry that the mechanical web-shooters were missing from Raimi's movies), but as the old proverb goes: Haters gonna hate.
Enjoy the images, or don't, but let's wait until the movie is actually in cinemas before we start declaring this movie the worst thing since Disco Tobey Maguire. Check out the images at Collider here, true believers.
