Amazing Spider-Man 2 - The Rocky Review
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Rocky Miavia
First of all, THANK GOD I had the foresight to use a free ticket to see this movie. In a nutshell, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a very so-so movie. It wasn't great and it wasn't terrible. It just felt kind of...hollow.
Yes, the movie has some great casting. The acting for the most part is good...EXCEPT for some overly CHEESY choices for dialogue. That cheesy dialogue I would expect from Spider-Man all day long while fighting a villain. But when the villains are over-acting and coming off like a living Saturday Morning cartoon character that's a real problem for me (Paul Giamatti/Rhino). Harry Osborne, I felt, was portrayed really well given his situation in the film. He is in fact his father's son. And Jamie Foxx as Electro was cool and menacing...BUT...who this dude was before he got changed was some bullshit. And his whole reason for turning evil...bullshit. You'd have to be seriously messed up in the head or a borderline retard to agree with his reasons for going bad. It was like watching The Soloist become a super villain. It just came off very lazy and silly. At least Harry's reasons seemed more rooted in reality and desperation...plus he already had some darkness within his personality (father's son after all).
Expect a lot, a whole lot, of the Peter and Gwen love story. I understand why, but didn't they establish enough of this in the first film? It didn't really make anything in this film anymore impactful. Sure, the director tried to use Captain Stacey as a element of foreshadowing and it had its purpose. But do you need to telegraph this shit multiple times in the film? We get it! Peter loves Gwen, but he made a promise to her father to stay away because he lives a dangerous life. Peter becomes obsessed with protecting Gwen and at the same time longing to be with her against his better
The action sequences in the movie were decent and what you'd expect from a CGI-heavy Spider-Man action film. Things explode and objects and main characters move fast and even in slow motion whenever Spidey uses his spider-sense to make quick decisions. The problem with this is that ALL...yes ALL...of the action scenes in this film have been spoiled by the trailers. There's not one action sequence in this whole film that isn't in one of the trailers in some part. They even spoiled the ending in the trailers. WTF Sony?! And the cardinal sin here? A Spider-Man film with the Green Goblin in it and you only get 5 minutes or less of him in action.
So at the end of the day, Amazing Spider-Man 2 spun a very thin and fragile web IMO. Yes, it incorporates one of the greatest Spider-Man comic book storylines in history into the film. But it just doesn't pack a punch. At 2 hours and 41 minutes I really expected a lot more than what I got here. The movie felt unfocused and suffered from too many characters being featured. As stated before, it suffered from the constant need to reinforce this love story between Peter and Gwen. Even the very important (possibly to the whole franchise) story elements about Peter's father's research are given the rush treatment. In the end the goblin felt rushed and Electro's personality was too flawed to take seriously. And apparently Sony is going to start shooting a standalone SINISTER SIX film in early 2015 in-between the next Spider-Man film. Who knows what that'll end up looking like. But I'll say this much, Amazing Spider-Man 2 is NOT a better film than the first film in this new franchise. And one other strange note of interest for the after-the-movie credits people. There's no Spider-Man extra scene. For some strange reason they showed a whole new action sequence from the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past film during the credits. WTF, is Sony and Fox trying to join forces now?
Marvel Studios/Disney needs to get this franchise back badly. Sony is about to fuck this shit up bigtime in the next few installments.
by
Rocky Miavia
First of all, THANK GOD I had the foresight to use a free ticket to see this movie. In a nutshell, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a very so-so movie. It wasn't great and it wasn't terrible. It just felt kind of...hollow.
Yes, the movie has some great casting. The acting for the most part is good...EXCEPT for some overly CHEESY choices for dialogue. That cheesy dialogue I would expect from Spider-Man all day long while fighting a villain. But when the villains are over-acting and coming off like a living Saturday Morning cartoon character that's a real problem for me (Paul Giamatti/Rhino). Harry Osborne, I felt, was portrayed really well given his situation in the film. He is in fact his father's son. And Jamie Foxx as Electro was cool and menacing...BUT...who this dude was before he got changed was some bullshit. And his whole reason for turning evil...bullshit. You'd have to be seriously messed up in the head or a borderline retard to agree with his reasons for going bad. It was like watching The Soloist become a super villain. It just came off very lazy and silly. At least Harry's reasons seemed more rooted in reality and desperation...plus he already had some darkness within his personality (father's son after all).
Expect a lot, a whole lot, of the Peter and Gwen love story. I understand why, but didn't they establish enough of this in the first film? It didn't really make anything in this film anymore impactful. Sure, the director tried to use Captain Stacey as a element of foreshadowing and it had its purpose. But do you need to telegraph this shit multiple times in the film? We get it! Peter loves Gwen, but he made a promise to her father to stay away because he lives a dangerous life. Peter becomes obsessed with protecting Gwen and at the same time longing to be with her against his better
The action sequences in the movie were decent and what you'd expect from a CGI-heavy Spider-Man action film. Things explode and objects and main characters move fast and even in slow motion whenever Spidey uses his spider-sense to make quick decisions. The problem with this is that ALL...yes ALL...of the action scenes in this film have been spoiled by the trailers. There's not one action sequence in this whole film that isn't in one of the trailers in some part. They even spoiled the ending in the trailers. WTF Sony?! And the cardinal sin here? A Spider-Man film with the Green Goblin in it and you only get 5 minutes or less of him in action.
So at the end of the day, Amazing Spider-Man 2 spun a very thin and fragile web IMO. Yes, it incorporates one of the greatest Spider-Man comic book storylines in history into the film. But it just doesn't pack a punch. At 2 hours and 41 minutes I really expected a lot more than what I got here. The movie felt unfocused and suffered from too many characters being featured. As stated before, it suffered from the constant need to reinforce this love story between Peter and Gwen. Even the very important (possibly to the whole franchise) story elements about Peter's father's research are given the rush treatment. In the end the goblin felt rushed and Electro's personality was too flawed to take seriously. And apparently Sony is going to start shooting a standalone SINISTER SIX film in early 2015 in-between the next Spider-Man film. Who knows what that'll end up looking like. But I'll say this much, Amazing Spider-Man 2 is NOT a better film than the first film in this new franchise. And one other strange note of interest for the after-the-movie credits people. There's no Spider-Man extra scene. For some strange reason they showed a whole new action sequence from the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past film during the credits. WTF, is Sony and Fox trying to join forces now?
Marvel Studios/Disney needs to get this franchise back badly. Sony is about to fuck this shit up bigtime in the next few installments.
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How the fuck does Dane DeHaan keep getting work? what a terrible actor. he makes casper van dian seem like Marlon fucking Brando
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