"The Amazing Spider-Man" take two

I like how what was supposed to be a quick comment by moi on another blog - but got longer - about the "stop pre-judging!!!!!" response to negative reactions to the awful-looking "Spider-Man" trailer, so I'm reposting it here:

Oh ENOUGH with the "wait-and-see" comments - geez! It's not like this is someone's bootlegged out-of-context set footage, it's the official trailer! This is what the studio felt was their BEST set of selling points right now. It looks like shit, you KNOW it looks not only like shit but "like shit" in EXACTLY the same way you imagined it would when this whole asinine project started up. OWN your negative reaction - after all, the near-universal insta-revulsion for "Green Lantern" after the FIRST costume shot turned out to be wholly-predictive.


For fuck's sake, howzabout we save the "benefit of the doubt" for something "iffy-looking" that's taking an actual risk or doing something new or original; not for what is easily the most cynically-mounted, passionless, made-SOLELY-to-retain-a-licensing-contract cinematic undertaking of the 21st Century so far. Even if it turns out halfway-decent, this is the LAST movie that deserve ANYONE bending over backwards to give it a "fair shake," especially if we're just trying to avoid looking like "fanboys" who're mad that the costume is blue in the wrong places."


Egh. Exhale...


Anyway...


So after all the hype about all the "awesome" practical-effects jumping and swinging scenes the stunt guys were doing, and how that was going to make it soooooooooo much better than Raimi's because he used too much of the CGI Spidey... their big reveal-trailer "money shot" looks like gameplay footage from a Wii port of "Mirror's Edge?"