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Ha, see what I did with the title there?
Yay Midnight showing! Okay, it wasn't like a crowd of super geeks who all dressed up or anything, but it was a fun crowd... it's more fun when there are multiple people laughing at the jokes. Turns out I didn't really need to arrive an hour and a half early, tho. At least not at the smaller local theater.
As for the actual movie... well, I don't know where to begin? Or I do, but that would be spoiler-y. Sufice to say, I thought it was a great movie, and it had some really great moments in it that the first trilogy lacked. It also had some slow moments, but they were more awkward teenager moments than mopey emo moments. And it did tell a lot of back story on Peter, which helped build his character (and of Uncle Ben, who was much cooler this time around.) I guess the biggest problem was that it felt like a lot was left unresolved... like we have to wait for the next movie to solve the mystery! 
How devious of those movie makers.
But yeah, action scenes were great, and had a somewhat more realistic approach. (Also, Spidey built his web launchers this time... which is awesome because I thought that was a cheap move in the early movies having him shoot them naturally.) The acting was decent, for a super hero movie, anyway. It wasn't as amazing as Avengers, but that's a hard one to beat. I think it's better than the other Spiderman movies tho. (At least II and III... I seem to remember the first one being enjoyable, but the new one still excelled in some areas.)
Also, Gwen Stacy > Mary Jane. 
So, yeah, I'd recomend seeing it. And fair warning; there is a teaser scene after the main ending credits, but not one at the very, very end of the credits. Half the people stayed behind just in case, and we were all disappointed.
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