Amazed with The Amazing Spider-Man

For those who have watched the 2002 Spider-Man, I'm not sure if you'll agree with me if I say that the The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), which is a re-make, is better. In fact, it is amazing! The movie evokes more emotion. The action, element of surprise, romance, drama and humor were perfectly put together. There was no dull moment.

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Gwen Stacy, played by Emma Watson, is Peter's love interest. Mary Jane Watson didn't appear yet in the story--I don't know when in Peter's life she would come in. Gwen was his first high school crush who eventually got captured into his charming web. She was an intern in Oscorp, where Peter was led into in his quest of finding out the disappearance of his parents.

The Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) in this movie is more in touch with his emotion. He shows his vulnerability and his struggle in life and in love.

I won't be telling the whole story. Go ahead, watch the movie yourself and be the judge.

And just to feed my curiosity about Spider-Man's love interest, I briefly searched about Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane. I'm not a Marvel kid, and I honestly I don't know much about their story. I found out that in the comic books, Gwen was indeed Peter's first love. But their romance turn tragic as the Green Goblin captured her and was killed when Spider-Man tried to save her. Mary Jane was drawn to Peter after Gwen's death. Eventually their friendship turned to romance.

Here's some interesting trivia about the movie:

• This is the first "Spider-Man" film to not feature Spider-Man's perennial love interest Mary-Jane Watson (in the original three films played by Kirsten Dunst). Instead, Peter Parker's original girlfriend Gwen Stacy appears (who had been played by Bryce Dallas Howard in the third film). 

• In this film Spider-Man uses artificial devices to shoot webs, inspired from the original comics where he possessed similar devices for his webbing (only later would he gain his more famous superhuman ability to shoot webs). Marc Webb explained the web-shooters were a creative decision to showcase Peter's intellect: "We wanted to emphasize that these are things that Peter Parker made and that he is special himself even if he feels like he's an outsider." 

• It was a creative decision by the filmmakers to have most of the stunts performed practically on rigs by actors/stuntmen, rather than extensively use CGI animation. Marc Webb explained they wanted to make the film more physical and thus more realistic. While filming in New York the crew built a whole rig hundreds of feet long over Riverside Drive in Harlem, and Andy Armstrong built a car rig with a series of wires to help with VFX which required an incredible wealth of acrobatics

(source: IMDb)