Tony Hawk has some issues with the skateboarding scene in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man.
Tony Hawk has been a master skateboarder for years and has witnessed and performed many stunts over the years. Recently, Hawk sat with GQ Sports and critiqued skateboard scenes from movies, including 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man.
For the scene in question, Hawk gave commentary about how the film's main protagonist, Peter Parker, played by Andrew Garfield, was performing on his skateboard. For this particular scene, Peter was in a dockyard performing skateboard tricks whilst utilizing his newly acquired spider powers. And Hawk had a lot to say.
Hawk's main gripe with the film was that the main character utilized his superhuman abilities to perform unnatural skateboarding stunts. Aside from Spider-Man's acrobatics, Hawk also took note of how the film's editing and stunt doubles may have contributed to the movie's odd skateboard antics.
"And right there [at that moment], he was goofy-footed, so he's definitely switching the stance up, which means we know there is more than one person stunt doubling him," said Hawk during his commentary on the scene. "That's a weird edit right there, with the 360 [spin] on the ground, but he tried to ollie, but kept his foot on the board. You can see his foot is attached to his board, in an unnatural way, so definitely his backfoot right there [in this scene] is stuck to the board somehow, with something other than gravity."
Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel tried changing up the web-slinger's world in subtle ways. Skateboarding was one of those them, along with taking creative liberties with the larger Spider-Man mythos.