No billboard outside so this poster in the cinema had to suffice!

My good lady and myself decided to take a trip to the cinema in Kilmarnock a couple of nights ago and since we did not plan it ahead we choose the film to watch upon arrival.  After ruling out all of the children’s films (the gods know that I will have to watch these endlessly should the little one’s get a taste for any of them!) that left just TWO choices in a cinema with a dozen screens!  So given the choice of two different superheroes I chose  The Amazing Spiderman over Batman.  After handing over what I think is quite a lot of money for two tickets in I went!

To be honest I was not keen on either film.  Batman did not appeal as I think (and seem to be alone in this) that Bale makes a poor Dark Knight and his constant growling tone voice gets on my nerves plus aside from the Joker in the last film it is very dark and miserable.  On the other hand did I want to watch the origin story of Spiderman yet again either….

Well I enjoyed Spiderman it was a very well cast and shot movie much better than the last version of the origin story from the last decade.  Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben was superb and Andrew Garfield nailed the tall and geeky Peter Parker nailed the character.  As normal Spiderman as a hero seems unable to deal with anything more than a petty cut purse and in the movie The Lizard had to defeat itself by a crisis of concious while all the time being splatted by endless globs of web spray from the wall crawler. Special mention to Denis Leary who played the police captain with just a hint of his usual intense and crazy self; great!

Overall if you do not want to see the origin of Spiderman again avoid this until DVD, but if you do and you love the character go right ahead to the cinema.  It had soul and a few laughs too.

GBS