- Spider-Man vs The Lizard
(The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man marked the return of the wall crawler to the big screen with a new face under the mask. Andrew Garfield gave our hero a younger countenance than his predecessor Toby Maguire, who basically drove the franchise off a cliff in Spider-Man 3. This movie also marked the entrance of a new villain.
Spider-Man and the Lizard waged an epic battle throughout Peter Parker’s high school. They destroyed the music room, the chemistry lab and utterly decimated a couple of toilets. The use of Spider-Man’s webs as weapons introduced another aspect of the character that was previously not highlighted. Opening him up for additional action scenes as the movie went on.
The effects that brought the Lizard to life were top notch, as the audience felt like DR. Connors really became a giant iguana. The battle goes back and forth and is actually believable in the way that the sequence flows. Too bad the second installment of the Garfield saga was so disjointed that they pulled the plug. This scene lands at #7.
