There are lots of reasons to love the new Spiderman movie.

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This is essentially what my post today is about listening to the people and taking their words to heart.

I reluctantly ventured out this weekend to go and see the latest offering of Spiderman (or Raboobie for my Xhosa fan base). I say reluctantly because I waited with eager anticipation when the first film adaptation of Spiderman came out and Toby Maguire just sucked ass! But in all fairness to Maguire, there was not much he could have done with a weak story line and sucky directing.

If there is one thing The Amazing Spiderman shows is how awesome one of the weaker superheros in the Marvel Universe can be with a strong story line and awesome directing.

Below is my personal quintessential list as to why The Amazing Spiderman is so awesome:

- There is a good backstory. It is human nature to connect better with a person who is experiencing loneliness and social embattlement when we know WHY the person is feels the way that they do. The fact that at the beginning of the movie we see why Peter Parker is so amazingly clever actually gives you this sense of not being able to do anything but like the guy.

- There is a good current story which interweaves with the good backstory. This was the main weakness of the previous Spiderman offerings. I think that because the previous directors were so focused on drawing in a young audience they alienated the masses who were actually looking forward to the movie. It seems as if the new story writers have taken a leaf out of the Dark Knights page and have developed the story in such a way that it will attract an old and young audience alike.

- Real life shit happens in the movie. The days of the classical ending of everybody being alive and happy at the end of the movie are gone. Sometimes the hero doesn't always save the day. Killing off Cptn Stacy at the end of the movie was a stroke of genius because it all of a sudden takes the story and makes it so adaptable that it transcends the barrier between fantasy and reality.

- The antagonist has a internal battle between good and evil. In Islam there is a greater and a lesser Jihad (Jihad is a noun which translates into struggle). The lesser Jihad is the holy war which we have seen on the TV many times, but the  greater Jihad is the fight between good and evil WITHIN ONES SELF. If there is one aspect of Islam that i as a Christian embrace it is this. No person is 100% good and neither is one person 100% evil. This is the truth about human nature. So when an antagonist is 100% bad he is unbelievable. The fact that Dr Curt Connors is constantly battling with himself and his morality over the things he has done makes his actions justifiable and believable. Where does he show his struggle? Well throughout the film, when he questions the timing of human testing of the serum, when he initially believes that the serum will help those who want a second chance at life as a normal human, and finally when he saves Spiderman at the end instead of letting him fall to his death.

These my friends are the four main reasons why the new Spiderman is better tan the older ones.

Emma Stone is also more believable in her role as Spiderman's love interest then Kirsten Dunst. Granted, Stone will not be Spidermans love interest for long (she doesn't play Mary Jane) but she is just move believable then Dunst ever was

If I had to be critical. There is only one point of the movie which is inaccurate. In the original Spiderman comics, Spiderman gained the ability to shoot webs which his body manufactured. In The Amazing Spiderman, Spidy builds machines that do that. Directors need to learn to stick to the original stories. Its like making Pegasus black. Who does that?

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