In an interview with Total Film, former Green Goblin Willem Dafoe has spoken out against Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man movies.
I saw a trailer for the first Spider-Man reboot and I thought, 'This is crazy! It's not shot for shot, but it's the same story [as Raimi's films]'," the actor commented. "I thought, 'This is sort of a cynical approach to making money!'"
Dafoe went on to suggest that the rebooted Spider-Man series lacks the purity of Raimi's 2002 comic book adaptation.
"I like Spider-Man, the first one that I was involved in, because although you can argue all sorts of things, from my perspective it was very pure, it really was. The way Sam Raimi approached it, it was pure in its intentions and I think he captured, particularly, Tobey at that particular moment.
This real, genuine innocence; it wasn't indicated. Then after that it became more difficult because it's hard to achieve that when it's gotten some kind of attention and a certain level of success."
Willem Dafoe: A fan of purity, Sam Raimi and epic facial hair
It's hard to disagree with him in many ways (although the "purity" stuff is a bit odd) - Webb's first Spider-Man movie was very enjoyable for the final third, but up until then it did all feel a bit pointless. Hopefully now that the set-up is out of the way, the sequel can go on to be far more entertaining from the off.
Speaking of the sequel, Dafoe did want to make it clear that he has no problem with Chris Cooper playing Norman in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, saying: "You know, in the theatre, people play the same role all the time."
Also starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Sally Field, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan and Paul Giamatti, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in the UK on April 18, 2014 and May 2, 2014 in the US.
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