I was not initially onboard with the idea of rebooting the Spider-Man franchise so soon after its quality bombed out in 2007 with Spider-Man 3. It just seemed far too soon to reboot the series, even if its third installment sucked so bad. However, director Marc Webb and company have hit all the right notes thus far. The casting has been absolutely spot-on, with The Social Network star Andrew Garfield filling the role of Peter Parker, and Superbad/Zombieland star Emma Stone set to play Gwen Stacy. This by itself is a good sign; Stacy was a fixture in the early comics before Mary-Jane Watson was. Sam Raimi's choice to save Stacy until the third film was not a good one.
Today, we get our first look at Garfield in costume as Spidey. It's a slightly different take on the suit than we saw in Raimi's trilogy, but it's not a radical departure. Most notably, many on the Interwebs today have noticed that Garfield appears to have metal objects on his wrists. After all the webshooter vs. organic web controversy that surrounded the first Spider-Man film, it looks like purists will finally be happy.
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