New Gritty Spider-Man: Good or Bad?

Sadly I'm first only cause no one has commented yet...

Spiderman isn't meant to be dark. He's like the comic relief of the Marvel universe. If they try to make him dark, it just won't seem right. It will be like trying to make an orange be an apple, or it will just be like Spiderman trying to be the Dark knight. the reboot shouldn't be total campy, it should simply be an action comedy

Peter gets MJ preggers. Instead of fighting crime, he has to work a full-time shift at Pizza Hut to pay child support. Eddie Brock is his shift manager. The final battle is over working a double shift when Peter has tickets to the Mets.

I actually find myself agreeing with aroyalspider. I does make some amount of sense...

After the major [frick] up that was spidey 3 I had no interest in seeing any of the Raimi/McGuire crew coming back for a 4th.

I think a reboot is great but I don't want a 90210 spider-man, I want the 90's cartoon bad ass spider-man that I fell in love with

Yes 1 and 2 were awesome don't get me wrong but I think this is awesome and I am once again excited for spider-man to hit the big screen!

Gritty, yes. dark knight gritty, with snarky spidey humor. no more corny, crying, crap.

@ aroyalspider

isn't that what makes ANYONE first?? lol

thats like losing your keys, then finding them and saying, "damn, its always in the last place i look." of course its always in the last place you look, you stop looking for them after you found them. lol

GARY ROSS!!!

They seem to be making a lot of unnecessary reboots. I mean, even GOOD movies are being rebooted. Nothing was wrong with the first 2 Spider-man films. I still enjoyed the 3rd one too, even though a lot needed to be improved on it. But to actually reboot the whole thing because of one set back??? Why?? And a GRITTIER Spider-man? I'm sorry, but I've just never seen Spider-man as a gritty character. If anything, he's more light-hearted and is the light that balances the darkness of other characters who ARE in fact gritty.

@TimJude72- I remember Spidey from the 90's cartoon to be FAR from a badass; he pissed and cried about his love life ALMOST as much as Peter Parker emoed out and sucked in Spider-Man 4. Let's not have a repeat of that, shall we?
If the filmmakers want to use any animated series as a template, they need to look at the recent The Spectacular Spider-Man series. THAT is the closest that ANY adaptation of the webhead has come to being true to the source material. I know a lot of people haven't enjoyed the series, but it's been the best that we fans have been given to date.
@CorndogBurglar- Dude, total props to you for knowing your $hit; you have the character right on. A darker storyline without a darker main character could work extremely well. Maybe they should be consulting with Todd MacFarlane about a potential story for the next Spidey movie. Torment WAS pretty awesome. Actually, MacFarlanes' entire 14-16 issue run on Spider-Man was frickin' great. Whether it was Ghost Rider and Spidey against Hobgoblin, or Wolverine teaming up with Webs, or Spidey donning the black costume again to hunt down Morbius, that whole tenure rocked. Maybe they should look there for inspiration......
Here's my two cents for director: not Michael Bay. I'm jaded after Transformers 2. Maybe Stan Lee for director? Anything is possible...
Hope this one is better than the last one.
Peace. I'm outta' here.

Hello, I'm still new here. I am a big fan of Raimi's horror and I think that there is no better director to make a darker Spider-Man then him. Sony is only concerned with prophets, I fell that even though they might say they want gretty (The Dark Knight) really they only want more money and they say F*CK the fans.

dude, i for one am stoked about the reboot. i think it would be cool to take the darker approach, not too dark but i want to see goblin done in the classic creepy halloween costume and of course gwen stacey's demise at his hands! and i want Jake Gyllenhaal for Peter Parker! and some hot chick for mary jane, kirsten dunst was FUGLY in those movies ha ha i'm all for this!

I'm sorry but SONY just needs to make a better sequel!!!

Lose MJ = perfect!!

The reboot needs to be at MARVEL STUDIOS when they get it back, coz when it happens, it will be rebooted a THIRD [frick]ing time and i say a hell no to that!!

And so will the General Public too! ; )

at least make doc conners ,doc ock,and gwen stacy be more involved and even have eddy broc in the films beggining. i mean pepper the film with spidermans famous characters and have them grow as the films do.

i got it READ THIS.... kingpin forces Norman Osborn to build him the rhino suits for some hidden agenda involving illegal arms dealings with foreign countries[due to tony stark's resigning with the weapons industry]. as for the character orgin of rhino [frick] it take the comics orgin he's just a thug for hire that work hire kingpin and also guinea pig that pilots the suit yea i said "pilot" lets use the robotic rhino suit from ultimate spider-man..... What do you think so far. we also build up green goblin for movie 3

THE FORMULA WAS FINE THE WAY IT WAS. DON'T MAKE SPIDERMAN DARK..THATS LIKE MAKING SUPERMAN DARK..IT WON'T WORK. RAIMI MESSED UP ONE TIME SHOULD JUST LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS INSTEAD OF IMPOSING IDEAS ON HIM THAT WILL EFFECT HIS CREATIVITY.

If they use the same "Grit" as in Harry Potter, it could work. WB proved that you can still have a light hearted adventure in a gritty atmosphere. The thing is though... how the hell can you make high school gritty??? A magical academy is easy to pull off but a suburb high school in the state of New York is a tad harder to grit.