TGIS: Spider-Man vs 3 guys with sticks

The Amazing Spider-Man is coming out next month and the opinion of fans around the world seems to be "Meh." It's a reboot, but a lot of us feel that it's too soon for a reboot, although technically it's been ten years since Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" came out. Can you believe that?  Ten years? And Spider-Man 3 was five years ago. Still, a reboot just feels too soon.  No matter how much this movie may suck, though, we should be glad it wasn't made in the seventies.

In 1977, a pilot movie and television show called "The Amazing Spider-Man" was launched. Chris and I watched a clip of this a while back and... well see for yourself.  Do yourself a favor and skip to about 4 minutes in since most of the beginning is Spider-Man just crawling on the side of a building. He finally gets into the building though.

Did some extra wall crawlin to strengthen my core!

When suddenly... well I guess I shouldn't say suddenly since it's more like... gradually... he is confronted by three "samurai".  Apparently this was before the days of ninjas or maybe they simply underbid the ninja union.  Anyhow, Spider-Man is cornered by three stunt men with sticks.

Samurai1: Did you ever get around to telling them that we're
not real samurais, but a ska band called The Samurais?
Samurai2:  Shut up man!  We need this gig!

Hold on.  If these are samurai then why do they have sticks instead of swords?

Oh.  That's why.

Despite their sticks, Spider-Man beats the "samurais" up and then comes the coup de grace!  He's going to secure them down to the ground with his patented super strong webbing! He...

Are those... cobwebs?  I'm not... was Spider-Man dehydrated or something?  I just... *sigh*... anyhow.

Spider-Man runs away and hops out the window, the webbed "samurai" slowed only momentarily by confusion and possibly revulsion.

He climbs the side of the building to the top and...

Wait, did the "samurai" simply climb the stairs and almost beat him to the top? This uber superpower is canceled out by guys using an everyday thing? WTF? That's like 70's Thor having a vulnerability to polyester! So now they fight all over again but the "samurai" are no match for Spidey's Mule Kick Style.

You should see my Donkey Punch!

Spider-Man then webs a pole on a nearby building with a much less flaccid performance than in the hallway and swings over to it.

Peace out y'all!

While visually it's not impressive, the comments point out that this is not CGI and is a real guy. Kind of sucks to risk your life for such a lackluster effect though. I mean, compare it to the Spider-Man vs Doc Oc fight in the 2005 movie.  Even if the special effects begin to show their age, you have to admit that the 2005 Spider-Man is a lot more spidery than... Cobweb-Man here.