‘To tell the truth, I wanted to make a film that my daughter could watch,’ explains Martin Scorsese, when interviewed about Hugo. This was the first 3-D movie he was directing, but he was quite sure that it was not the technology and special effects that motivated him; it was the story of the little boy. I felt as if history was unfolding in front of my eyes when I went to see The Amazing Spider-man - 3D. I felt very much like Martin Scorsese's 12 year old daughter, who is going to watch this movie as a grown up. It brought back memories of me growing excited watching ice creams coming close to me with my plastic 3-D glasses on, in "My dear Kutti Chattan." But first things first.We do know that there's not much story to maneuver around as far as the "Spider man" series is concerned. The movies were beaten by the comics, which we have all grown up reading. We know the characters, we know Peter Parker's secret, his girlfriend and his enemies. So wh
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