The New Spider-Man Movie Is Amazing, and I Mean That in a Couple Different Ways
The first way: The movie has officially switched names to The Amazing Spider-Man. I approve. It’s nice, classic, kinda classy. Now for the second way it’s amazing: Sony released the first official pic of Andrew Garfield in the full Spidey costume, and holy fucking shit.
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?Now, say all you want about the inaccuracies of the costume, or Garfield’s massive hair, or whatever (lord knows I do), but how fucking awesome is this pic? Yeah, I know it’s all studio lighting and posed and probably isn’t representative of what we’ll actually get in the movie, but I don’t goddamn care! This is amazing. It looks like he’s leaping right out of a fucking Marvel comic. Can you think of a promo shot from any of the first three Spider-Man movies that looked half as badass as this? Yeah, me neither.
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