Did this come out earlier outside America or something?
It’s been in theatres in Mexico for the last 2 weeks. ACT LIKE YOU KNOW!
Just finished watching the movie…
7/10
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maybe 30 out of 125 mins is consist of action, shit was looking like a drama movie more than a action flick
Gwen does indeed get GGPO’d
Felicia is not a Blonde but I’d fuck regardless.
they made Harry annoying
Sinister six will be in the 3rd installment no doubt
Rhino is introduced at the VERY last scene
its ok, better than the 1st. The post-credit scene was hella random but neat at the same time.
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random clip of Days of future past
heard garfield wouldnt mind droppin spidey to give it to miles morales in the future…interesting.
I’d like to personally choke out each and every movie critic that said this movie had too many villains. Rhino was barely in it, and Goblin had a moment. Electro took up a majority of the time.
I just don’t get how Spiderman isn’t vaporized after Electro zaps his dumb ass. No I haven’t seen the movie, just that scene in the trailer where he gets electro-shocked through that police car.
To be perfectly fair, Electro doesn’t “vaporize” anyone in this movie (except when he “teleports”)…
Saw the movie yesterday and it’s easily my favourite Spider-man movie so far.
Early reviews complained about pacing issues but I think some people just wanted non-stop action with Spider-man when there’s a lot more to the character. The movie had a strong focus on characterization and the under lying mystery that was established in the first movie. I think the trailers also misrepresented the movie and gave people an expectation that there would be tons of action. The movie is slower paced than what the trailers depict but I think there was a good balance between story/character development and action.
The chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone is really good and it probably helps that the two are a couple in real life. It really translates well to the movie, as it makes the relationship between Peter and Gwen look more believable.
I didn’t really like the way Electro was portrayed. His dialogue and personality was bad and he wasn’t significant to the movie so it felt like a waste to cast Jamie Foxx as the character. That being said, Electro being a huge threat without having too much development allowed the movie to focus on developing other characters, as well as set up Harry Osborne as a central villain and lead into the Sinister Six.
I really enjoyed the amount of characterization in this movie. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Sally Field, and Dane DeHaan had really great performances in the movie. I was unsure about Dane DeHaan since I’m not familiar with his works but I think he did a good job as Harry Osborne. Paul Giamatti as the Rhino was unexpected but was hilarious and awesome at the same time.
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[details=Spoiler]The music was great and added a lot to several scenes. The theme to Electro was really fitting and having Itsy, Bitsy Spider played through the Tesla Coils was a nice touch.
Lots of great scenes in the movie and I particularly enjoyed the scene between Peter Parker and Aunt May when she was waiting in his room. The performance between Andrew and Sally in that scene was amazing and portrayed the stress and frustrations of both characters really well.
I noticed there was a scene shown in the trailers that got removed from the final movie. It’s a scene where Harry is showing Peter that Oscorp was monitoring Peter. I’ve also read that there were scenes with Mary Jane that were cut (and the actress casted for Mary Jane being removed) due to the director wanting to focus on the relationship between Gwen and Peter to emphasize the impact of Gwen’s death. I’m going to assume that more footage was cut from the final movie due to time constraints and direction, which might have created plot holes in the movie. For example, when Harry arrives as the Green Goblin he knows Peter is Spider-man but there weren’t any indications on how he put two-and-two together. I’m not sure whether I missed something, poor writing, or edited footage that caused this disconnect.
I’m wondering who they’re going to use for the Sinister Six aside from Rhino, Vulture, and Doctor Octopus. We can infer that the Green Goblin would be in it even though he wasn’t an original member. I’m wondering if Alistair Smythe would be in it since they did introduce the character in this movie (Electro’s boss).
I’m pretty surprised Rhino was introduced at the very end but it was actually pretty smart how they utilized him at the end of the movie. It would have felt somewhat unsatisfactory if they ended the movie with the funeral of Gwen. They could’ve potentially used a random criminal event to bring back Spider-man from his depression but it would have had the same impact or hype that the Rhino did even though you wanted to see that scene play out longer. It’s a good tease.[/details]
SInister six info
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Doing the credits it basically spoils who the sinister six are going to be
They show blueprints of kraven,green goblin,rhino,volture,doc ock,and i couldn’t make out the last one looked like a mask
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-spider-man-2-end-credits-sinister-six-2014-4
Mysterio
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I think with Harry putting 2 and 2 together he is a smart dude so early when Peter talks about Gwen, he remembers, then he also knows that parker was responsible for spider man paying him a visit. Lastly when he shows up to get Spidey as Goblin once he saw how protective Spidey was over Gwen he put it together right then that spider man was parker.
Being a huge Spider Man fan I felt the movie was outstanding. Andrew is not a actor playing those characters he is those characters etc. Music was perfect and fit every scene, This was one of the best films Ive seen in Imax it was just too hype.
I def like the Sinister Six stuff cause I think that will be great showing that in a movie and how spidey has to handle all of that. Matter of fact Im going to see Spidey again great movie!!
Oh hey, this movie has a separate thread. Crosspost time!
Watched Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s one of those movies where the more you discuss it, the more you realize just HOW MUCH wrong there is about it.
However, I enjoyed it overall. The good stuff is actually very good. Just… expect to roll your eyes a lot. A LOT.
I’d say it’s worth seeing, but too long and too overstuffed. Not because of the number of villains, as some feared, but ironically because of everything else. The villains do fine. There are just too many other plotlines. And so. Much. Time. Spent. Talking about them.
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Peter talks about his parents to Mary. Mary talks about being stressed out over raising him and getting an extra job. Peter and Gwen talk SO VERY MUCH about their relationship and maybe they should be together and maybe not and she’s going to London and and and. Norman Osborn expositions to his son Harry. Harry Osborn talks to his lawyers in the board room. Peter and Harry talk about old times.
It got to the point that midway through the movie, a roughly ten-year-old kid behind me asked his dad what time it was. When your colorful designed-for-mass-appeal superhero movie has the kids downright BORED, you’re doing it wrong. And it’s not like these conversations have an adult appeal either. They’re just too much.
Which is a dang shame, because there’s a perfectly fun, entertaining movie buried in there. Electro looked dumb in the trailers, but he works both as a (comic-book-style) character and as a villain. I even don’t mind his super-cheesy soundtrack, because it feels… actually wonderfully comic-booky. Goblin works well too, and I get his motivations and his descent into crazy. The current Peter/Spidey incarnation I actually like a lot. He’s jokey and awkward, the suit looks awesome, he moves well. Gwen works as a character, even if their whole romance subplot gets too long and complicated for the number of subplots present in the movie.
The fights are pretty great, once you get used to the fact that they run on comic-book logic. Which they so very much do. But that’s okay, because this is an unabashed comic-book movie on the high points.
It’s just such a damn shame that Amazing Spider-Man 2 can be such a pretentious little shit at times. There is the length, yes, which smacks of the director not being allowed to cut away too many of the studio’s precious franchise-building babies.
The prime example being a bit of inheritance from the previous movie:
[details=Spoiler]The movie opens with a flashback of Peter’s parents recording a video, leaving Peter with his aunt and uncle, and then boarding a plane. While they’re in this plane, Peter’s dad sets about uploading this apparently vitally important file somewhere via satellite. They exchange this relieved glance. And of course there’s a killer on the plane, and they fight for their life, while also doing their damnedest to upload the file. Never mind the insane sturdiness of the laptop, which somehow manages to keep uploading while they’re having a zero-gravity fight in the middle of a plummeting plane, but there’s SO MUCH emphasis on this one file getting somewhere.
So this means Peter has to spend time trying to figure out what the hell his parents were up to. It’s a big part of the movie. He covers his room in a mind-map, has angsty talks with his aunt about it. And finally there’s this secret lab in a subway carriage that literally lifts out from beneath the train tracks. And the payoff?
They show no other stuff having been uploaded there, so literally the thing Peter’s dad fought tooth and nail for in that airplane was a video of him saying, without presenting any evidence for it, that Oscorp is up to no good (and by the way he loves his son). The ONLY - literally the ONLY piece of useful information in the video is that the spider-gene-healing-stuff they were working on at Oscorp won’t work on anyone without Parker DNA.
Congratulations, you big damn scientist genius. You fought so hard to upload a VIDEO just for that? No additional files? Like, documents to PROVE all this? Just a video of your halfassed testimony?[/details]
Extra stuff might turn up later, but so far this whole legacy plotline they’ve inserted into the “Amazing” franchise has been an utter fuckup.
And again, all this stuff takes up so much time and focus that should’ve been spent on the actual in-movie plot. Which leads us to the romance, and the “payoff” for all that:
[details=Spoiler]So this is the movie where they kill Gwen. This means they have to spend time making us invested in her, in case we didn’t see the previous movie and/or didn’t get invested in her then.
However, rather than presenting Gwen as Peter’s anchor, with some guilt on the side for not obeying her dad’s final request, they go back and forth and back and forth through the entire movie. It’s a will they/won’t they stretched out over the course of an entire movie, further distracting from the plot.
He’s all into her, but then he sees her dad all over the place, and then he angsts about it to her, and then she breaks up with him, and then they try to get back together as friends (and by the way he’s been stalking her the entire time as Spider-Man, to which her reaction is just “aww, that’s so cute”), but then she’s going to London, and then he can’t deal with that, and then he decides he can deal with that, and then they get back together properly just in time for Goblin to recognize that she’s his girlfriend and kill her.
And here’s where the movie’s extra-super-pretentiousness goes into high gear. They have so many faux-artsy moments together. Him walking slowly and ignoring traffic as he thinks they’re getting back together with a navel-gazing pop song playing in the background, for instance.
And worst of all, when they finally DO have a really greatly done, touching variation on him catching her with a web line but her dying anyway, they ruin it with one. Fucking. Stupid. Thing.[/details]
Now let me play that scene out for you.
[details=Spoiler]So Goblin decides to drop Gwen into a clock tower. Spidey catches her, and she’s dangling down amongst the clockwork while the two guys are having a good, fast-paced fight further up. The web-line snaps, and she’s falling down amongst debris. Peter sends a desperate web-line after her. You feel the tension.
And then the end of the web-line turns into a goddamned tiny web-hand reaching out for her.
Let me repeat that. The end of the web-line turns into a goddamned tiny web-hand reaching out for her.
The web catches her by the waist, just in time to save her whole body from hitting the floor. But her head does, and it’s perfectly shot. You hear the nasty thump from it, and you know what’s happened before Peter, and his gradual realization is played out really, really well.
But it’s all ruined, because you’re still not done laughing incredulously at the tiny stupid-looking web-hand.[/details]
There’s other, relatively minor stupidity, but this is getting too long already. Suffice to say, I totally understand the haters of this movie. I know a lot of people whose movie experience would be utterly ruined by all this. Mine wasn’t. Because I enjoyed what was enjoyable, and there WAS a lot to enjoy. Roughly an hour and a half of well-played, well-shot goofy comic-book enjoyment, in fact. And then half an hour of “enh, okay”, and half an hour of “what why why why why moviemakers why”.
Oh, and finally, the mid-credits stinger. I’m not going to put it under a spoiler tag because it isn’t a spoiler. It’ has nothing at all to do with the movie. The mid-credits stinger is a scene from the coming X-Men movie. Even though the two universes aren’t connected, that I know of. I wonder if it hints at an eventual actual connection, but for now I’m gonna chalk it up to more dumb.
EDIT: Initial reports say something else appears in the end credits. However, in the movie I saw,
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the Sinister Six tease is actually put in BEFORE the end credits, and before the Rhino encounter at the very end. And at that, by the way, hilarious that they gave Rhino so much space in the trailer when he gets that little screen time in the actual movie.
Not only are the two universes not connected, they aren’t even done by the same studio which has me baffled as to why Sony would agree to put a scene from the competition’s movie?
It’s such a dumb thing to put there, you could actually argue it’s worse than putting nothing there. It’s just going to confuse people. Think of the non-enthusiast moviegoer seeing that scene. What are they supposed to think? That Spider-Man is going to get involved in the X-Men universe? But he’s apparently not. They’re making connections that, according to everything that’s been said, do not exist.
It’s just, so, dumb.
But, hey. If they DO connect the universes, all the better. Less franchise confusion.
While i agree with you(i really enjoyed the movie) this almost feels like it should ahve been 2 movies imho. The entire peter/harry plot was severly underdeveloped. I didn’t believe for one moment that they were best friends at one point.
after thinking about it i feel good settling on a 7.5 but that’s because my fanboy love is strong.
I really think the trailers misrepresent the movie, so I can understand some disappointment with it. However, I don’t think it’s wrong for comic book movies to spend time developing their characters and giving them depth that took years to establish in comic books. They could easily play to the crowd and go lowest common denominator with just campy action but I prefer time spent on developing the characters and story.
The problem is that the audience had to believe the friendship with limited information. We’re basically told that the two were childhood friends until Harry was shipped off to boarding school. Peter visiting Harry for the reasons he did followed by them catching up was a way to fast track the establishment of the friendship. I think that was the best they could do given movie time constraints, as well as the direction for future movies.
Coincidentally, the previous link to answer one of my questions also has a link to explain the X-Men trailer.
Well that’s interesting indeed.
Okaythen! So that puts it firmly in the “that was really dumb you guys” bracket.
Eh…it’s just business politics. Free publicity does’t really hurt either companies.
A contextless mid-credits stinger that seems to connect the Spider-Man and X-Men universes even though they don’t actually have anything to do with each other is going to hurt them in the long run. Again, it’s just going to confuse the moviegoers who don’t go online to research and discuss (i.e. pretty much every non-geek).
Hell, I had been reading the news on that stuff, and even I got uncertain at that. I had to explain it to the guy I watched it with. People expect this kinda thing to be a sign of connection between movies after all the Marvel stingers, so the natural reaction to that is “oh wow they’re going to put Spider-Man in X-Men or X-Men in Spider-Man at some point?” And then when they don’t, it’s one more disappointment.
Eh, I dunno. I might be overstating this. Maybe it’s an “all buzz is good buzz” kinda thing. It just feels like it’s going to backfire somehow.