The Amazing Spider-Man ASM: Stuff You Didn't Like Thread

[Gianakin_]

No, I don't think they were dating.

 

[Gianakin_]

Mh, it's like human psyche didn't work based on intellectual or reasonable standards.

I get it with Pete's behavior throughout TASM, but not in that particular scene. They should've found another reason for Pete to get out of the house angry, or ommited the newspaper bits, which would've made most sense anyway.

 

[Just one more]

Yeah a little, but why would they breed these spiders (what are made to produce web for the biocables) so that they could produce venom? You can't honestly say that I don't have a good point

It's a valid point but not something the layman is going to think of. I see a bunch of spiders in a room with me and I think poisonous bite, getthe he'll out of there but maybe that's an Aussie thing haha.

Regardless, IMO it shows that this movie just doesnt gell with me. Too many little niggling things that just took me out of the story too much. I remember seeing spidey 1 at the cinema 6 times. Can't see that happening for this one.

Watched no 3 today and I really do feel it is underrated, for me Tobey was such a good choice. I absolutely love the line "what's the matter, is little goblin gonna cry?". Venom was massively rushed obviously (where was the tongue dammit!!) and the dancing scenes and making his hair emo in the alley made me think what a *****ebag but overall it's a good movie. I hope people on these boards will watch it again with an open mind.

I really do feel they still had interesting places to go in that universe.

Thanks for your time lol

 

[Project862006]

one thing this film lacked was overall charm and humor that raimi's films had imo

everything was at night in this film spiderman looks great in the day time and they never really showed it and i love how the citizens went out of their way for peter in the original trilogy

you really got the sense of the city of NY in the original films like as if it was it's own character

 

[Gianakin_]

Personally, I liked the humor in this more than Raimi's.

 

[Project862006]

true but it lacked the charm imo

 

[spider-neil]

I thought the humour had a definate edge to it, like the dinner table with Stacy's funny lines coming out because he was angry or the car jacker or Spidey joking and then it turns when he webs that car jacker's mouth.

 

[bapi]

BTW Roberto Orci (TASM2 screenwriter) is on Twitter (@boborci) so maybe it's the right moment to write him what you did or did not like and what you want to see in TASM2.

 

[Troy_Parker]

I didn't like that the origin itself was pretty short. Just as short as it was in SM1... at least it felt like that.

I would have LOVED them to go all Batman Begins on the suit and webshooter construction, I mean, if you're going to do an origin movie, at least get into as much detail as you can without sacrificing other things. A 2 and a half hour movie, along with some more depth on the suit, webshooters and Connors's family would have felt SO much more satisfying. I have no problem with questions being left unanswered, I like the idea of having this long flowing storyline that spans 3 movies.

 

[El Payaso]

It's a valid point but not something the layman is going to think of. I see a bunch of spiders in a room with me and I think poisonous bite, getthe he'll out of there but maybe that's an Aussie thing haha.

Surely you wouldn't think in that room you can find what happened to your missing parents.

Watched no 3 today and I really do feel it is underrated, for me Tobey was such a good choice. I absolutely love the line "what's the matter, is little goblin gonna cry?". Venom was massively rushed obviously (where was the tongue dammit!!) and the dancing scenes and making his hair emo in the alley made me think what a *****ebag but overall it's a good movie. I hope people on these boards will watch it again with an open mind.

I could do the same with B&R. Thing is, the scenes you mentioned are more than enough to ruin a film and help me from calling it good.

one thing this film lacked was overall charm and humor that raimi's films had imo

The lack of Raimi's humour was one of the best things.

everything was at night in this film spiderman looks great in the day time and they never really showed it and i love how the citizens went out of their way for peter in the original trilogy

you really got the sense of the city of NY in the original films like as if it was it's own character

Some new yorkers also did in ASM. Only they had a reason for doing it here and they forgot to throw lines like "I got something for your ass! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us." Thank God.

 

[Jexx]

I didn't like that the origin itself was pretty short. Just as short as it was in SM1... at least it felt like that.

I would have LOVED them to go all Batman Begins on the suit and webshooter construction, I mean, if you're going to do an origin movie, at least get into as much detail as you can without sacrificing other things. A 2 and a half hour movie, along with some more depth on the suit, webshooters and Connors's family would have felt SO much more satisfying. I have no problem with questions being left unanswered, I like the idea of having this long flowing storyline that spans 3 movies.

I agree with this, that would of been awesome. But I've seen reviewers complain that the movie was too long, so I dunno what affect that would of had on the ratings.

Surely you wouldn't think in that room you can find what happened to your missing parents.

Hmm.. I'm fairly sure Peter went in that room because he wanted to find out more about what his father was researching, and why it was dangerous, why he had to leave.

 

[El Payaso]

Hmm.. I'm fairly sure Peter went in that room because he wanted to find out more about what his father was researching, and why it was dangerous, why he had to leave.

That's a start. He doesn't have much more than the briefcase's secret content.

 

[Jexx]

I actually wonder what Peter thinks about his father's research.

I sometimes miss the inner monologues, at least, from the perspective of the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon.

 

[Steve Sanders]

Flash Thompson. Kinda' took me outta the movie right at the beginning.

No school today would allow a violent psychopath like that to run around and attack people. He would be expelled. It was ridiculous and over the top.

Also, if the school didn't do anything, someone would have captured the bullying on video and posted it on Reddit.

Then later on he's all lovey dovey on Pete because Ben died. The filmmakers make it seem like we should suddenly like this character. WTH? Such a drastic, unsupported change in character. The Flash in the beginning would have probably been glad to kill Peter if he could get away with it.

Thats not true at all.Bullys like that unfortunately,get away with things like that all the time.Its a shame but thats how it is.There was this really unpopular student I knew when I was in junior high school who got picked on like that from kids all the time and they always got away with it.Its a terrible thing that those kind of things go in in this world but they do and these kids get away with it all the time.kinda like how politicians get away with crimes all the time we could never get away with.

 

[Eros]

IMO the only real problem with this movie, is the villain, Lizard was easily my least favorite spider-man movie villain. He didn't have the creepiness of the green goblin, the charisma or dark humor of Doc Ock, and the visual wonder that was sandman. I would put him slightly below Venom. In a comic book movie, the super villain is very important, if he or she doesn't draw the audience in, make them somewhat route for them, or understand what their intentions are, the movie will suffer. The Lizard in TASM was not very interesting, and the relationship between Conner's and Peter was not very developed.

 

[TheWallCrawler]

Though I liked Lizard's design, I still think that it should've been done mostly with makeup and prosthetics. Of course then Lizard wouldn't be as big, but who gives a crap

 

[spider-neil]

Lizard is one of my favorite villians but all I love about the character is missing from this movie.

* You don't get an extended period with his family when he is 'whole'
This would make it more heartbreaking when it is taken away.

* You don't get the dynamic where Peter wants to save the doctor and also protect him but he also wants Lizard gone.

* There is no family here to drive home the doctor's motivation and add as a touchstone when the doctor is changing into the Lizard.

I understand you couldn't get all of that AND have the origin of Spidey, so I'm reasonably happy with what I got. But if a favorite of mine had been shortchanged in this manner (Doc Ock) I would be very angry.

 

[SpiderMarvelite]

I didn't' really hate much from the film, only slight nitpick was the black crotch and piss eyes :P

 

[TheWallCrawler]

Yes, but spidey's origin should've never been here. Though I really liked it and it didn't feel like dejavu as it all was done with a fresh feel, the origin takes too much space from other potentially good stuff like a more developed Lizard story

 

[spider-neil]

I didn't' really hate much from the film, only slight nitpick was the black crotch and piss eyes :P

Well he was in the sewers.

 

[SpiderMarvelite]

Well he was in the sewers.

Yeah I guess the suit material didn't protect his Spider-Johnson then t:

 

[spider-neil]

I did like that the sewers looked like sewers. The water looked horrible in this movie, I hate movies where the sewer water looks clean enough to drink.

 

[Jexx]

But it wasn't sewage, it was storm water.

If you noticed, the movie feature the street drains as leading to the sewers. Storm water doesn't go to the sewage treatment plant, it would be a waste of power, storm water is just relocated to other places.

 

[Jexx]

* You don't get the dynamic where Peter wants to save the doctor and also protect him but he also wants Lizard gone.

I actually did catch a subtle hint of this. At the end, when Peter puts the antidote in the Ganali Device, it seems like he was deciding whether or not to directly apply the antidote to Connors, or put it in the Ganali Device. He could of just removed the lizard serum from the device, but logic told him that the Lizard probably already infected others.

But! I wouldn't be surprised if Pete really wanted to directly apply the antidote to the Lizard because he suspected that putting it in the Ganali device wouldn't completely cure him of his Lizard side.

 

[BestGirl]

- The mechanical webshooters weren't the best idea. I won't go into why since there's a whole thread dedicated to them, so I'll just say that it would've been smarter to stick with Rami's organics.

- Captain Stacey confronting the Lizard by himself. What happened to the rest of the NYPD?

- Dr. Ratha just disappearing.

- The Lizard figuring out who Peter was by seeing the label on Peter's camera. So Peter's a genius but it doesn't occur to him that it's a bad idea to carry around object with his name on them when he's dressed as Spider-Man?