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Parker is more evidently scientific and intelligent here. It's well acted by all the principals, has good effects, a scary and menacing villain, some nice action sequences and web swinging effects that are generally slightly more realistic than the Rami version. First things first: this is not a bad film. Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) is the damsel in distress/love interest and plays a role in trying to stop the crazed beast. Spider-Man is then forced into action to stop him from spreading this contagion throughout the city of New York. In desperation, he injects himself with an untested self-generating lizard vaccine and becomes a half man/half lizard thing. Meanwhile, a doctor (Rhys Ifans) working at the same facility, is being forced to close down his research into tissue regeneration. He gets super powers and becomes Spider-Man. Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) sneaks into a research facility and gets bitten by a radioactive/genetically enhanced spider. Which brings us to what we have here: while not a beat for beat remake, you get the same story more or less with a different love interest and villain. It also lead to a superior sequel and the much maligned, though underrated, third episode. If Singer had paved the way, then Rami provided the icing on the cake: a faithful, smart, well-acted super hero flick that had as much heart and sincerity packed in as it had all those set pieces. That included a certain super hero movie made by Sami Rami in 2002 where a nerdy guy (Tobey Maguire) gets bitten by a radioactive spider and inherits superhuman powers. With the success of the first X-Men movie in 2000, Bryan Singer pretty much paved the way for all the comic book movies we see today.
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