So in true geek form I went to see this movie on opening day. Not a midnight showing. I did not really feel like wasting my time to go see another origin story of Spiderman. Seriously, the origins are over done enough as it is. Regardless I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie. I think they learned a few things from the past and were able to tell a better story for it.

For instance, they rewrote all the quotes in the movie. We all know them, and they took the time and rephrased them. That way they could have a different meaning yet remain the same. That is one of the things that gets really annoying. When people just spit out famous quotes here and there and everywhere. It makes the movie move really slow.

Speaking of slow-moving, my main gripe was how the movie took too long to get to Parker being Spiderman. I feel that there was too much time wasted on him learning how to use his powers. Yeah the discovery and test phases are always funny and hilarious. However, not when you have to rush other parts of the story so that you can fit the entire movie into less than three hours. That is what really ruined the whole villain part of the movie.

Rarely do we see superheros learning their powers. We might get a page or two of it. However, the rest is implied practice. That way we can move onto the real story about how the superhero is going to stop the villain or what the villian's plan is. The meat of the story resides in the conflict between good and evil. Not in how the good guy figured out that swinging would be useful or how he figured out how to control his super wall-climbing ability.

I am just splitting hairs here though. That does not mean the movie is not enjoyable. It just means there are little things that I did not like. I think they did a good job or keeping extra preview crap out of the movie. As well as keeping the story moving, even if it was slow at times. I have never read the original comic so I am not sure how it stacks up to the movie... plus I really do not care either.