I am all over Brave: I'm so looking forward to it.

Funny thing: I'm going to be in Spain with my niece when The Hunger Games opens, and the niece is a complete squeeing fangirl over the books & the movie. Too bad it's unlikely to be opening in Spain at the same time, so we could see it together.

I am angry they changed the name from A Princess of Mars

Mostly because Disney's fIlm from last year, Mars Needs Moms, was such a bomb. Hollywood is nothing if not superstitious.

I do like the mental image of unwitting parents dropping their 5 to 10 year old girls off at the movie thinking it's going to be a Disney-type fantasy. 5 years down the line, Taylor Kitsch might be the next DiCaprio!

Mostly because Disney's fIlm from last year, Mars Needs Moms, was such a bomb.

Are you sure? I figured it was because of the "Princess" in the title. Remember Tangled? IT WON'T APPEAL TO BOYS.

As far as I could tell from the trailer alone, the only thing making this movie any darker or edgier than Raimi's films is that more scenes were shot at night.

I agree with you there. I think there are some elements that have the potential to be a little darker, depending on how far they take the Spidey vs. the cops thing, but mostly it sure does seem to be a lot night scenes.

Too bad it's unlikely to be opening in Spain at the same time, so we could see it together.

IMDb says 20th April, though funnily enough Spain, Italy and South Africa are the only countries getting it later than the week it opens everywhere else.

As far as I could tell from the trailer alone, the only thing making this movie any darker or edgier than Raimi's films is that more scenes were shot at night.

I agree with you there. I think there are some elements that have the potential to be a little darker, depending on how far they take the Spidey vs. the cops thing, but mostly it sure does seem to be a lot night scenes.

It may wind up being awesome. The trailer didn't do it for me (certainly not the way the Avengers trailer does), but trailers are terribly unreliable for judging a movie. Still, for now I have no need to see this one in the theater.

It's been a few years since I watched the first Spider-man, but I seem to remember there being plenty of quippage in that one. It was the latter two movies that were sadly lacking (barring one really bad one in 2.)

If Amazing manages to be as enjoyable as the first Spider-man, I'll be happy. I'm liking they brought back the mechanical web shooters and I'm amused by Denis Leary playing Capt. Stacy (though as I mentioned on Facebook, he's starting look and sound more like Wilem Dafoe as he ages, which is disconcerting.)

Honestly, I think my favorite presentation of Spider-man outside of the comics was the short-lived Spectacular Spider-man cartoon.

I didn't like the art style at all, but the fight scenes were incredibly creative and dynamic, and there was quippage galore. Episode 7 introduced the Green Goblin and the banter and battles in that episode put the whole of Raimi's three movies to shame.

Holy shit, Chronicle is so fucking good, you guys. I thought all found-footage movies had to have thinly drawn characters, no discernible story beyond "run away from scary things," and large stretches of boring shit where nothing happens, but then Chronicle threw that all out the window.

It's a superpower story told from the POV of the villain, which makes it so deliciously disturbing and uncomfortable to watch at times, especially because he's actually a sympathetic character. Josh Trank comes up with a very clever tweaking of the found-footage conceit that lets him get away with all kinds of shots that make it feel more like a regular movie. The 10% that could be cheating is all at the end, although my favorite bit was having the cameras and cell phones circle Matt and Andrew in mid-air. And I didn't mind so much how the footage was shot, though I do wonder how the footage from the beginning of the movie was recovered since the camera was supposedly buried underground.

It's just so fucking good, and the finale is insane. There are great special effects and awesome action sequences, but in the end, it's a character-based story. The best thing I can say is that there is a scene where I honestly had to keep myself from bursting into tears, and that was totally unexpected.

I think part of the conceit isn't that the found footage was found--it was just that it was filmed by someone *in* the story, and then it was available. It was like the editor was omniscient, but the eye was third party.

Yeah, I saw one review take that interpretation, which works.