The movie is ok. There’s more bad than good but I don’t hate nor really dislike. Just some small things that annoyed me…
New Yorkers. These people are DUMB aholes. They crowd around when an electric firing monster and mech rhino are blowing up cars and murdering cops. Yuck
Spidey has the Mario superstar power up because the guy is invincible. In the first movie the lizard slices him up, he takes a bullet to the leg. Cool, a sense of danger. This movie, bullets fly right through him, little effort to dodge. Spidey tanks electricity bolts. You’d think a guy who controls electricity woupd zap spidey dead, nah, not really. Pumpkin bomb right next to him, pfftt child’s play
The Rhino and his MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA curl my stache level of cartoonish villainy. Eh, maybe more funny in a facepalm embarrassing way than annoying
Green Goblin tries to get in on the MUAHAHAHAHAHA bit, but it’s more I want to stab myself than funny
That sums it up better than anything else I’ve read.
I just got back and my few issues with it stem more from the practical side of things (being an elec engineer, so much was wrong). I like the guy cast for Osborn alot, though his fight just seemed…forced. I would have prefered Goblin simply being introduced and delayed until later. I understand WHY with the whole Sinister 6 thing - but him flying in to fight Spiderman just felt rushed to me.
That’s really about it. I like the developments. I like the casting. The acting fit. The special effects were what I expected (I hoped for a little better honestly, but it’s splitting hair). It just came out after Captain America…
not better then captain america 2, even though captain america 2 wasnt even all that to begin with. it wasnt bad, it just wasnt amazing, no pun intended. there were some spidey strength inconsistencies, but nothing crazy, questionable science, and still a lack of spidey sense. its like he has spidey sense obviously, but he kinda doesnt. to be quite honest, the scene between him and lizard at the high school in the first movie is still my favorite spiderman action sequence. they really got it down, how you would imagine spidey doing his thing in real life.
what else, um, goblin was so forced. i would have loved for him to have been presumed dead or something, and then at the end they show him in full goblin mode, putting together the 6. i still do not like rhino as a big robot, and that character in the movie was atrocious, the few minutes you saw pual giamatti. it would have been a million times more epic if they just went full “incredible hulk” with the rhino. that robot shit sucked cock, and will forever suck cock. maybe in part 3 they will go all out with rhino, and turn him into the beast he deserves to be.
i dont think amazing spiderman 2 missed a lot as a movie, it just didnt have that spark i wanted, but now that emma stone is finally gone, maybe things can get interesting. i also dont like how they downplayed peter parkers intelligence. they didnt heavily downplay it, but the dude is like one of the top 5 smartest people in the marvel universe if i remember correctly.
the amazing spiderman 2 has more replay value then the first one, but is still missing the mark. i think it may just be a severe lack of charisma from the cast surrounding spiderman, i dont know. i’ll cut it here to keep it short.
Not only that, but all of the women whom enter into his lives are a 10 out of 10 in terms of physical appeal (comic book terms of course) so if I was Spiderman the rebounding is never terrible. You go from eating Lobster to King Crab…I have No Sympathy Peter!
wow that was terribad. 4/10 and that’s being generous to the spidey falling from the sky and electro fight scenes.
Movie should have ended, but like Jurassic Park 2 and Return of the King, it just kept going. And kept force feeding me shit. I got to the point where there’s a crazy battle going on, and I’m checking what time it is.
Harry was forced. Norman was failed. Apparently SS is rushed as fuck. This is a clusterfuck that is both occuring, and waiting to happen.
Overall it was pretty good. I have a few gripes about it, but they’re minor. The biggest one being some of the scenes felt plain campy. Like, why did Electro actually have to declare himself “Electro” in such a campy way? Why Ghost Stacy? And why the fuck was Rhino so irritating?
Other than those things, I liked it a lot. Garfield still plays a solid Peter. Emma Stone was perfect for Gwen, and their chemistry was well done. It had a good balance of story content in regards to their relationship, but not too much to derail the movie entirely. Not sure I understand the complaints about it being too much on their romance, Spidey has always been about the numerous women Parker is with so that’s really nothing new in the slightest. In fact it’s a huge part of Spider-Man.
The action scenes were top notch. The captured how Spidey moves perfectly. That car catch scene when his web shooter broke was too sick. And
[details=Spoiler]the end fight with Electro was awesome. I love how Parker actually makes sensible use of his spider senses in this movie. You see him dodging shit with style and ease without even looking at it. It makes dodging lightning bolts actually make sense. Plus the car chase scene where he keeps all the vials from exploding was too great. He catches that shit with his foot.
I get why they picked Jamie Fox for this role. Definitely a better Electro than Max, but Max’s character development seemed kind of rushed…in contrast to Harry, which had the perfect amount of screen time until they just seemingly shoehorned Green Goblin in. Would have been cool to see Harry himself be responsible for Gwen’s death, which would lead into an awesome potential for conflict between Spidey and Goblin in the third movie. But oh well. At least Black Cat is hot. Also wasn’t expecting the Spider Slayer thing.
Also, that X Men tie in was kind of wtf. Was that Osborn tech they were lifting off that base? Is this supposed to tell us that Days of Future Past/ASM are in the same continuity?[/details]
The X-men scene apeared b/c Marc Webb was supposed to direct a film for Fox, but his commitment to Sony for this movie prevented him for doing so.
So, Fox said he can direct this movie, if Sony promotes DOFP for free by adding a scene.
there is no shared X-men/Spidey universe, just lawyers/businessmen at work.
It was an art ‘prototype’ direction thing. None of the stuff in Special Projects looked to go beyond ‘prototype’, and had a similar ‘look’ to it. I don’t have too much of an issue with it, and frankly that was the one scene in the whole movie where the emotions actually stung abit.
