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Lenovo Vibe Shot : Hands-On

At the MWC 2015, Lenovo has presented a host of new devices, but there is one device of them that waiting for us, that is Lenovo Vibe Shot. The new smartphone from Lenovo have the powerful camera  and surprisingly promising proposition for the camera phone market. On the back side of the phone is  resembling a nice point-and-shoot camera. Here in this article, read our hands-on first impression…

Just got back from The Amazing Spiderman, and although I liked the movie I felt kind of disappointed. I've got a theory as to why though. The first Spiderman movie, with Tobby Mcguire (who I disliked in that role very much) played to the idealism and awe of the comicbook world very well. The cliche line of the film has become "With great power comes great responsibility.", and though the line is a bit cheesy, I think it was received well because the audience was given the environment with enough of a grain of salt that they could accept these slight exaggerations in morality. We had characters like J. Jameson to provide the comic relief while the moral conundrum came from the deceased Uncle Ben. It might have been a bit cheesy, but the thrilling action sequences supported the naive morality and made the whole film generally enjoyable. All this coming at a point where comicbook films had yet to be defined so heavily in the vogue. 

But with The Amazing Spiderman the border between gritty realism and comicbook flair starts to become fuzzy. The brutality of each physical endeavor keeps much of the action grounded in reality, to the point where some of the more intense physical choreography almost breaks the world that has been set up for the audience. Additionally, the characters take on much more depth in their personalities which brings the basis of each character away from simply "This character is comedic, this character is a moral cornerstone" to a point where each character is an individual person. While it's great to see comicbook hero films playing towards the more fleshed out, less tropic aspects of superhero plots, what is lost in the process is characters which we can easily grapple on to and run with. With the original Spiderman we know quickly that Aunt May is the doting, grandmotherly type who doles out modern day nuggets of wisdom. We see, without much more than a single line of dialogue, J. Jameson is the semi-rude, no nonsense newspaper editor whose over-the-top performance is going to keep us smiling. We even see early-on that Mary Jane is your typical damsel-in-distress/high-school-hottie half breed. These characters don't have to be established and they make for a more readily accessible reality in which idealistic anecdotes and superheroes are just as common as needing to pay the rent or living with your aunt and uncle.

The Amazing Spiderman shirks these tropes. It drops much of the moral idealism as well. In exchange we get authentic characters who we feel truly inclined to sympathize with. We can grapple onto Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker not because he's that nerdy, downtrodden typical 90s trope character, but because we see his character's real life struggles and we feel his real life pain. Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) doesn't just appear as a cliche comicbook girl. She's a smart, attractive, and occasionally awkward teenage girl who forms a real connection with Parker over the things that matter to her. We can see that there is a genuine relationship between the characters rather than a contrived connection based on trope roles.

This trope riddled comicbook vs. naturalistic film depiction dichotomy between the two movies is especially apparent when one stops to consider the things that the two films have in common. Much of the new film feels almost lifted straight out of the brainstorming session for the original Spiderman film. And while this is hard to avoid in a remake of a much loved series (minus Spiderman 3), it almost appears that The Amazing Spiderman was written to highlight the differences in style between the two. Some scenes come off as particularly orchestrated to create a sense of reminiscence with the earlier film. A particular example is the dinner conversation between Peter and Gwen Stacy's father. The scene bears a striking resemblance to the holiday dinner in Spiderman, even to the point where one might question if Denis Leary (who plays Qwen's father) was cast solely for his comparative likeness to Willum Dufoe (Norman Osborne from Spiderman). Where in the original the scene is riddled with tension, the scene between Leary and Garfield is much more about the relationship between Peter and Gwen as well as the Spiderman-vigilante aspects.