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"Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has offered his thoughts on Marc Webb&amp;#039;s movie reboot. The filmmaker admitted that he is yet to see The Amazing Spider-Man, but praised his successor on the series and said that he believes the film will be &amp;quot;great&amp;quot;.   He told MTV: &amp;quot;I have not seen it yet but I hear it&amp;#039;s great. It&amp;#039;s not weird at all. I&amp;#039;ve spoken to him a number of times. I&amp;#039;ve run into him.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve commiserated together. I like him very much. I respect him as a filmmaker and I think the movie is going to be great.&amp;quot; Willem Dafoe, who starred as Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin in Raimi&amp;#039;s Spider-Man, previously said that he was &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; to learn that Webb had chosen to cover similar ground in his reboot. The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, was released in cinemas earlier this month. &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Spider-Man&amp;#039; revisited: A look back at the Sam Raimi trilogy Watch Andrew Garfield discuss The Amazing Spider-Man with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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