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The way her death plays out is clearly different, in that in the comics, the catch did break her neck, while in this movie, it's not the cause of death. At the same time, I agree with brandon (can't believe I'm saying that) that it's not really an important difference. In both cases, Gwen was dead regardless of what Peter did or didn't do. The fall would have killed her in the comics just as surely as the sudden stop on a highly elastic tether did. She was dead the minute she got knocked off the bridge. Peter only thinks it's directly his fault, which he honestly is often prone to do.
The important take-away from Gwen's death in any medium is that Spider-Man feels guilty and directly responsible for it. Movie Peter clearly does, just the same as comic Peter. From a storytelling point of view, it has done what it needs to do, and anyone who gets pedantic about that, of all the film's problems, is focusing on the wrong thing. And that's coming from me, who is about as top-tier Spidey nerd as you can get.
TBH I'm not really hung up on it, just commenting on how fast brandon switches gears to a different argument in order to further his stanning. Guy has no shame. I haven't read nearly as many Spidey comics as I have Batman so I can't really comment what's true or not (although I have a feeling that everyone who says "Raimi movies were nothing like the comics" probably didn't read Lee's run.)
The movie does a lot of things badly, but I don't think it actually mishandles any character beats with Peter as badly as the first movie did with Uncle Ben's death. That was a fundamental screw-up to the most important thing about the character. The worst thing in this movie character-wise is how badly Harry and Peter's friendship is established.
It's like Man of Steel where certain core elements of the character are pushed aside or glossed over. In Supes it was the Daily Bugle which he didn't even start at until the end of the movie, here they deliberately didn't put Harry or J Jonah in ASM1 which kneecaps them in the long run.
As an aside, Andy, for all the shade you're throwing about this 6.5/10 flick, you better hope your movie of choice ends up better than Singer's last few movies did, cuz it's still entirely possible for it to be just as bad of a clusterfuck as ASM2.
If I'm throwing a lot of shade it's because I knew this movie would be pap, got excited anyways, and am now pretty darn let down. I fucking love Spider-Man.
As for Days of Future Past, sure, could be crap. I'm still glad we're getting it though, at the very least it's going to un-fuck the X3 timeline and lay the groundwork for the First Class timeline to be pretty successful. Singer's also one of the few people able to manage a large cast of comic characters well.
I mean, you'll probably just do what you did last year and act like the X-Movie is better than the S-Man movie anyway, but the points and laughs will be far more severe.
The Wolverine
is a better movie than Man of Steel. Flat out. Check the RT, breh.
