Amazing Spiderman 2

[VidKid]

Will give people time to see this before I completely review it and possibly ruin any spoilers (for the people who don't read comics anyway).

I will only make a couple comments for now -

- enjoyed the perspective / bullet-time effects showcasing 'spider sense'
- actor chemistry was good (peter-gwen, peter-aunt may)
- so many plot holes and lack of motivation
- basic logic and real world scenario responses/actions completely ridiculous

Some would say, it was a 'pretty' movie but i felt it needed more substance. I still put it over Spiderman 3 and the dancing.

I think I would have enjoyed these performances better though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GLoDHZMZQ#t=172

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLBSoC_2IY8#t=425

Once people start seeing it and we're talking about it, we can get into details.

[Dave Gray]

I thought the movie was terrible and I'm usually pretty forgiving.

It's a huge step backwards for Superhero movies and feels like it was cut from the cloth of Batman Forever.

I disagree that it's pretty, even.  I think a lot of it feels really fake, specifically a scene where Spidey and Gwen are talking on the top of a bridge for no reason.  The action scenes look like a cartoon.

When the movie stops and lets the characters interact, it's great.  There's a great scene with Harry and Peter on a beach, a great scene with Gwen and Peter in the park, and a great scene with Aunt May and Peter in his room -- all of them are just two actors emoting and they work well and are grounded.  Outside of that, it's CG Jerkoff and Puns and multiple villains without adequate motivation.

[Phishfan]

These are not great reviews for a movie I was consdiering going to see. Maybe I'll just wait a while then.

[VidKid]

I did say 'some would say'.But I liked the focus on spider sense. Maybe they used it once or twice too many times, but it was different, I liked it. But yes, i forgot to mention the CG.

There was so much of it. What made Cap 2 so good was that it was real actors with great choreography.

[Sunstroke]

I'm looking forward to seeing this movie, but will wait until it streams in HD before checking it out. I just can't see paying money for it.

[Dave Gray]

Jamie Fox's Electro is Jim Carrey's Riddler.

If you think that kind of performance can hold up in a movie made in 2014, you may enjoy this movie.

[Dave Gray]

I can't stop thinking about how much I hate this movie.  It has no cohesive tone, at all.

It's a campy "Batman and Robin" style movie one second, and the very next, it tries to have these grounded emotional beats about loss.
There is a 2-movie long stretched-out subplot about Peter's Dad that doesn't matter at all.  It could've been cut out of both movies and it wouldn't have made one iota of difference.  In fact, the revelation about the Dad goes against the very nature of what makes Spiderman such a special character.

Ugh.  What a bloated, stupid mess.  I hope SONY loses the rights to this franchise.  I am mad at myself for even seeing it, because I knew better and did it anyway.

[VidKid]

I agree. The footage about Peter's dad should have either been in the first movie or removed from both. It had absolutely no impact on the story line at all.

Not to mention, the 'mystery' of it all is resolved in this quick montage as if the director is saying 'hey, here's the answer, stop criticizing the first movie'.

[CF DolFan]

I'm disappointed to hear this considering how much I liked the first one. Although it's kind of funny seeing Dave and his disgust, he usually is pretty friendly when it comes to super hero movies.

[Dave Gray]

^ I know.  I normally don't care.  It just feels like such a heartless cash-grab.  And I fell for it like an asshole.

[VidKid]

SPOILER ALERT




While this feature is kinda cool it's a shame that basically the climax of this movie didn't even contain a single human being.

http://geektyrant.com/news/the-amazing-spider-man-2-sfx-animation-featurette

[Tenshot13]

BUMP

I don't get the hate.  I enjoyed the movie and I feel like spiderman is finally portrayed correctly.  He's an incredible smart ass.  I see it less of a batman forever,  and more like a lighthearted Dark Knight. Rhino = Scarecrow,  Electro = Joker,  Green Goblin = Two Face.

[DZA]

woah

To Each opinion in its own.  This movie was in no way terrible. I thought i was pretty good. I enjoy these spiderman movies not like Toby McGuire's debacle.

I found a loose adaptation between the comic as I did read many of Spiderman comics back in the day.  Gwen Stacy death for those who have read the comics knew that her death was inevitable and it was a sudden shock for it to happen that quickly.

I was glad they brought back the Amazing version of the costume.
Rhino as a mech was  terrible but hey it was not bad.
And for them to slowly incorporate the sinister 6 was fantastic.

Dont be quick to fall into OH because this person say it sucked your not going to watch it. If your a comic Fan watch it and base your own thoughts

[mecadonzilla]

I'm glad someone else brought it up. I really liked the sequel to the Amazing Spiderman. I thought the first one sucked, but the second one was really good.  In fact, I thought it might've been the best of the entire lot of Spiderman movies. That third Sam Raimi pic was so awful it kind of ruined the first two for me.

[Sunstroke]

I watched this movie last night, and I thought it was a fairly decent movie. Nothing spectacular, but better than most of the Spiderman movies that came before it. I'm a little pissed off about the character that bit it, because I liked that character quite a bit, but overall, it was pretty entertaining.