by Ryan Rigley

The newest "Amazing Spider-Man" trailer looks... well, amazing. It gives us a better feel for what the movie will be about and also what villain our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man will be up against this time around.

Die-hard fans have long been waiting for the one-armed Dr. Curt Connors to accidentally transform himself into the reptilian rogue known only as The Lizard. And if this movie does as well as we hope, it could mean we're in for a slew of new Spider-Man films in the next couple of years. Which means more awesome villains for Spidey to fight! Excelsior!

Here's my list of the top five Spider-Man villains that deserve some screen time.

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We now have the trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man" that we've been waiting for, one that actually fulfills some of the promises of a reboot. The web shooters shoot. Spidey verbally berates carjackers and, more importantly, acts like Spider-Man. Surprising, huh?

As much as I enjoy the new trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man," I have to question the use of the tagline "The Untold Story," because I'm pretty sure they told this story already. For all of its new additions and fixes, the sinking feeling that we've already seen this story and this movie may prove too difficult to escape. Perhaps they mean "untold" as if they're taking back the first three movies. Any way we can just un-tell "Spider-Man 3"?

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The first trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man" didn't exactly leave us dying to see the film when it comes out in July. It was too emotional. The first-person perspective didn't buy fans. For a film that was supposed to reinvigorate the series, there wasn't enough Spider-Man, none of the action, none of the attitude. The series reboot wasn't looking like anything we wanted to see.

Man, were we wrong!

The second trailer is now available for the world to see, and it has everything that was missing from the first and more. We get Spidey berating a car thief for, well, dressing like a car thief. He swings. He fights. He makes fun of criminals. For the first time, we get a real sense of Andrew Garfield's take on the wall crawler — and we like what we see!

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Chronicle

What would high school kids do with super powers? The answer "Chronicle" gives is that they'd just screw around, and that, for the most part, is very true.

Not everyone who gets the ability to fly or super strength is going to go around saving the world. Quite frankly, most people wouldn't do anything spectacular at all if they could sling web all of the sudden. Most people would slightly alter the life they're currently living. Superheroing is just too much work.

Here is what normal folks would do with the abilities of five famous heroes!

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"The Amazing Spider-Man" movie tie-in game is actually looking pretty decent – based on the little bit Beenox and Activision have shown so far. We've previously seen concept art and a brief trailer, but now there's an in-game screenshot. A single, solitary, in-game screenshot.

A wealth of info it's not, but I suppose you can stare longingly at it, making up what the rest of the game looks like.

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Before it was a crossover hit, you may remember the production challenges involving the "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" Broadway musical. The opening date was pushed back, the script was rewritten, songs were swapped in and out, and eventually, director Julie Taymor was relieved of her duties. The show opened to some success (including a record-breaking week at the end of 2011) and everything's been fine since -- it might not win a truck load of Tonys, but it won't be disinvited from the award ceremony, either.

But behind the curtain, not everything was so even keel: back in November, Taymor filed a lawsuit against the show's producers asking for full royalties. Not to be outdone, the producers have now filed a countersuit.

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Cap

The life of a superhero is relatively simple. Sure, you have to fight bad guys, take care of your loved ones, and maintain a complicated secret identity. But you’re privy to so many cool tricks and toys that all of that is a small price to pay. We can’t all be Captain America or Iron Man or Batman, but if their gadgets were real, here’s what I’d want for Christmas -- for myself and for everyone else in my family.

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Before Marc Webb swung into action, there were several other notable directors circling Sony's "Spider-Man" reboot — including David Fincher, at one point. But if the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" filmmaker had tangled himself up with the "Amazing" comic book flick, he would have come at it very differently than previous attempts at sticking Spidey to the big screen.

Speaking with io9, Fincher revealed that his vision of "Spider-Man" was "very different from what Sam [Raimi] did or what Sam wanted to do. I think the reason he directed that movie was because he wanted to do the Marvel comic superhero. I was never interested in the genesis story."

Of course, Fincher couldn't completely ignore Spider-Man's origin. So how did he plan to deal with that series of events? Three words: operatic music video. (Naturally!)

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Green Goblin

Depending on how you feel about remakes on top of remakes, “The Amazing Spider-Man," while looking promising, might be wholly unnecessary. Those Sam Raimi “Spider-Man" films were pretty good, weren’t they? But in less than a year, they’ll be left to the annals of history, or perhaps Netflix. “Amazing" sequels will follow, and the only memory we’ll have of Tobey Maguire’s goofy grin will be in our cumbersome DVD collections.

Today, you can relive the good times by watching the first film’s screen test for the Green Goblin, in which an unnamed actor wears a very different mask, along with the traditional purple cap. His ears are long, his eyes are yellow, his teeth are quite real -- he resembles the Goblin of the comic books, or at least, some kind of Orc-ish derivative.

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Last week, we showed you the teaser trailer for Activision and Beenox's upcoming "Amazing Spider-Man" game. As is custom among teasers, the video didn't reveal a whole lot, but Saturday night during the Spike Video Game Awards, a full-length trailer for the movie tie-in game premiered. There's robots, Oscorp, and of course a web-slinging Spidey, so be sure to check the trailer out below.

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