[identity profile] secondlina.livejournal.com 2011-07-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I watch this and can't help but hear EXACTLY what the marketing department was thinking "Hey Nolan's dark knight totally cashe din. Let's make an uber dark spiderman! NO MORE WISECRACKING".

[identity profile] snapdragon76.livejournal.com 2011-07-23 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I tried embedding the vid, but for some reason my LJ client was being a dick to me...

One of the major things I find appealing about Spidey is his quippery in the face of action. He's a smart ass and it helps him to cope with the massive amounts of shit that goes on with his life. If they take that away from him, it's taking away a large part of who he is as a character and a person.

But then, this is only the teaser trailer, so there might be more of the humorous elements in the actual movie itself that we have yet to see. I hope so.

And Batman is a darker character, so they can get away with making his character dark and gritty because it works for him.

And sorry for the rambling! I guess I'm more of a Western comic book geek than I thought I was. I drifted away for a time when I discovered manga. I'm not back into it full force like I once was, but I still keep my feet in the waters as it were.