The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - User Review Thread! - SPOILERS! - Part 4

[Doctor Who]

oh yeah Love the ENDING, this movie is a real rollercoaster

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first part with spidey swinging "AWESOME" as soon as Max appears "EHH?", Times square " WOOO! YEAH", Ravencroft scene "WHAAA?", all the Harry parts " i like it", Goblin transformation "oh s**t, that´s creepy",Electro´s final battle "Meh",Clocktower scene " good but GOD was that brief", the aftermath"" and the ending "AWESOME"

sometimes i think the first time i saw the movie, i didn´t know what to think because it had me so excited and then like Jeremy said for every scene i LOVE there is something i HATE or bothers me in a logical level, i almost felt like Gollum,lol

I did love that ending! Very awe inspiring; I'm we got to feel the transitions over time before Peter put on the suit again.

 

[SpideyK]

Great minds think alike.

I seriously want to give this film a rating but I simply can't. I'm actually having trouble remembering everything that happened in the movie.

I feel ya.

Well, for me right now, it's an 8.35/10 - not an 8.3, not an 8.4. So, I don't know if you liked the movie more or less than me, but yeah.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Although the clock tower fight was really short, I thought it was a great scene. Also, Chris Cooper was absolutely terrifying as Norman Osborn. He was so... goblin-like.

 

[ArtOfficial]

"Let's light some candles...it's my birthday"

Itsy Bitsy Spider dubsteb power plant megamix.

He played it as straight as can be alright. Nothing corny about any of that, surely. Along with that hairbrained plan of his to cut the city's power so he could take back his precious design and then...what...exactly?

He idolized Spider-Man. To me it seemed absolutely normal that he would try to copy his style and start saying corny one liners once he got his powers.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Max Dillon was obviously mentally ill. He talks to himself, has social issues, and visualizes himself attacking his boss.

 

[Rock Sexton]

Let me also point out that it has the same problems as Spider-Man 3, in the sense that everything is connected, and there are way too many coincidences: Spidey saves Max, which happens to work at Oscorp, Max that happens to run into Gwen, who also runs into Harry, and Harry goes for Max to work for him because both need/hate Spider-Man. Oh, and that Spider-Man has some connection with Oscorp, where his father used to work, and he used to work with Norman Osborn, Harry's father, and the spiders and the blood, and all of that leads to Sinister Six being from Oscorp...
Oh and that Rhino comes from Oscorp, and Aleksei almost kills Max if it wasn't for Spider-Man and that... ufffff. No, please. Is just too much.

Gave me a headache trying to envision all that. Sounds like the quality of the movie suffered tremendously because they're trying to wedge the Sinister 6 setup in there in order to create a Spidey universe - which quite frankly I still don't even understand.

 

[AF3619]

Max Dillon was obviously mentally ill. He talks to himself, has social issues, and visualizes himself attacking his boss.

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but,is Peter parker sagitarium? lol

 

[Supernova]

I really enjoyed this movie a lot, sure the writers and director ripped off other franchises but I was still entertained. One negative for me would have to be that I couldn't take Jamie fox seriously as a nerd, felt like he was doing an old in living color bit.

4.5/5


On a side note I have no idea how Thor 1,2 and ironman 2 have higher ratings then this movie.

 

[kbrooksgohan]

Gave me a headache trying to envision all that. Sounds like the quality of the movie suffered tremendously because they're trying to wedge the Sinister 6 setup in there in order to create a Spidey universe - which quite frankly I still don't even understand.

Idk how the six were wedged in. They didnt mention them till the end..........

 

[Picard Sisko]

I really enjoyed this movie a lot, sure the writers and director ripped off other franchises but I was still entertained. One negative for me would have to be that I couldn't take Jamie fox seriously as a nerd, felt like he was doing an old in living color bit.

4.5/5


On a side note I have no idea how Thor 1,2 and ironman 2 have higher ratings then this movie.

The thing is that Iron Man 2 wasn't has hard to follow, although it has some of the same issues as TASM2.

 

[kbrooksgohan]

We'll just have to wait and see. You can never tell with those Osborns.

Normans dialogue was really cool too. I almost felt like he was short of saying that the Osborns have a monster inside them. The whole "legacy" thing screamed Goblin to me. I also think that the guy on the plane was Gustov.

 

[kbrooksgohan]

The thing is that Iron Man 2 wasn't has hard to follow, although it has some of the same issues as TASM2.

Iron Man 2 had zero plot and was almost a bunch of action scenes.

 

[Supernova]

The thing is that Iron Man 2 wasn't has hard to follow, although it has some of the same issues as TASM2.

I just personally think if ironman 2 can be a fresh tomatoe then this film deserves it too.

Im not sure your stance but I felt asm2 was quite easy to follow with all the different storylines going on and how the villains came together. Sure the villains could have used more meaningful character build up but the real meat and potatoes of the film boils down to peter struggling to be both spiderman and peter parker and keeping both lives from crossing over each other.

Without doing spoilers peter wants to be with gwen and help harry and electro and be there for aunt may but being spiderman conflicts with all of those needs for peter and for me that is what mkes the movie work.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Uh. Okay. So this was pretty awful..and before the regulars get on me, I did not want to hate it. But everything I saw from pics/trailers/plot that I hated turned out to be true. My review is below.

I'm going to give it another shot to solidify my opinion....but I did not think highly of this at all. Andrew Garfield was solid, as was Emma Stone (big shock there). Dane Dehaan gave a pretty good performance as Harry Osborn..or more appropriately Norman (who BTW should've just turned into Hulk-Goblin, he looked just like him in his death bed and I would've preferred that instead lol), but unfortunately all we saw was the "dark" side of Harry, and I didn't believe him & Peter were truly childhood best friends. Once he turns into the Green Goblin (for all 45 seconds we saw of him), he was over-acting. Also HATE that once again Harry gets knocked out from something to end the fight. Wtf. -.- Max Dillion was all kinds god awful- how Jamie Foxx managed to go from Django to this is...wow. Four minutes or not, Rhino was the cheesiest villain since freakin' Bane from B&R. It's a sad day when I can say that WB's Green Lantern had better developed villains than the 5th Spider-Man film. The Action was underwhelming, the plot meanders, and virtually every idea in the film is either half-baked, or the writers must have been baked themselves when they wrote this. How someone can dislike the Raimi films, but like this is way beyond me. This takes everything Raimi's films did (sans the dancing), and just completely amplified it to the 100th degree. Garfield, Stone, and Spidey himself deserve so much better than this.

As of right now, and having had about an hour to think about this, I'd probably give it a 4/10.

 

[Supernova]

Not to mention when they introduce MJ peter will be far more afraid for her safety now.

 

[TheVileOne]

I have a question on what you all think of this:

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Peter's spider powers being caused by his father basically? He got the powers because of his DNA and the work Richard did on the spiders?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I just saw this movie. I have a lot to say about it:

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The previous film in the Marc Webb series I felt was a 3/5 type effort. Overall good, but it had glaring problems that hurt the overall product. I feel it is important to note my overall score for last film for people looking at my review of this one. Going into this film, I felt they had a solid foundation for a sequel, despite some missteps. Unfortunately, this film squanders them, and the end result is an inferior sequel to a good but not great film.

The biggest problem is the main villain: Electro. He is by far the worst Spider-Man villain in a film. Yeah, Rhino was corny and hammed up, but he was in the movie a whole 2 minutes. Electro had a ton of screentime, and 90% of it is eye rollingly bad. Right from the very start of talking to Spider-Man alone in his home on his birthday, this character sucked. I have no idea how this material was deemed good enough for filming. I don't see how a director could approve this character. He is straight up cartoonishly terrible. They used a fairly generic character from the comics that they had an open canvas in which to craft this character, and THIS was Webb and co's vision? Just wow. I could see a Razzie nomination for this. He's that bad. The movie doesn't even take him seriously! His Electro theme song in the movie was like clown music. It was like they were laughing about how awful he was.

What makes Electro even worse is that Dehaan is really good. While he descends into evil fairly quickly, his character was engaging and well portrayed. This movie should have focused MORE on him. The movie was much better when he was on screen. I would say his one and only battle in the movie, it was far too brief. He was beaten way too easily. It had cool ideas with him gliding where there is nothing for the web shooters to attach to, but then it is over within 2 minutes. Dehaan will likely be involved in the series more down the line, but this film needed him more. Especially when the other villain he shared screentime with was as awful as he was.

I also had several problems with the story. Really quickly, they toss the ending of TASM aside and now we get a cliche will they/won't they story with Peter and Gwen. This is like SM3 when they forced problems on MJ and Peter just for the sake of it. It was jarring and unnatural in the progression. Granted, I hated the "Those are the best kind" line, but stick to your guns! Don't back track and retread the same ground! Also, the parent's subplot had a crappy ending. First off, all this was to hide Richard Parker's blookd makes the spider's work? Stupid, and once again, it makes Peter Parker destined to be Spider-Man, not a guy who had a twist of fate. No one else literally could be Spider-Man! Also, I can see why Oscorp wanted Norman out of the way. He dedicated billions of dollars into designing abominations of science with animal motifs for super villain purposes! I can see why that is perceived as poor business.

But, the movie isn't all bad. Andrew Garfield is excellent in the film. I had some nitpicks about certain scenes (like when he casually walks into traffic when meeting up with Gwen...thus causes a bumper to bumper in the background...out of character as was his lack of urgency to get to graduation as he toyed with Rhino and wasted precious time goofily). But he was overall great, and he truly embodies Spider-Man on the screen. As was Emma Stone. It is sad she dies in this movie and not a better one. It could have been truly epic if the movie was better. Sally Field's scenes were all great. I'd say she is an upgrade as Aunt May, though her and Rosemary Harris were both great. The film also offered plenty of great visuals and action scenes. I wish they did more with the Goblin when he was in the movie, but the other action scenes were excellent. The Spider-Man suit is also stunning. Has all the best elements of the Raimi suit, but the sleek physique of the Ditko era Spidey. Outstanding.

Overall, this movie is the very definition of mediocrity. While it has elements that are great, some moments and decisions bog this film down and ultimately culminate in the worst Spider-Man film we've had to date. In the hands of Marc Webb, this series will never shine. He took one of the masterpiece stories of the Spider-Man mythology, and somehow it resulted in the worst film of the series. That just shows his own mediocrity. This series needs a new direction.

2.5/5...maybe a 2/5

Looks like we are in the same boat Spider-Fan. Agree on DeHaan being strong, but I just couldn't take some of the dialogue he was given. I also found his character to lose a lot of steam after the Spidey meeting.

Also agree on the relationship basically rebooting and taking on the Peter/MJ flavor.

Idk how the six were wedged in. They didnt mention them till the end..........

A huge chunk of the film is used to set up Max, Harry and Oscorp. Even if you don't include the Rhino, that is all there. The seeds of the Sinister Six.

Iron Man 2 had zero plot and was almost a bunch of action scenes.

So you haven't seen Iron Man 2? Not a lot of action in it. One of the problems.

 

[Supernova]

I have a question on what you all think of this:

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Peter's spider powers being caused by his father basically? He got the powers because of his DNA and the work Richard did on the spiders?

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i got a hulk 2003 vibe, I have always just liked Peter by chance getting bitten by a spider that's it

 

[kbrooksgohan]

I have a question on what you all think of this:

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Peter's spider powers being caused by his father basically? He got the powers because of his DNA and the work Richard did on the spiders?

Well he had to be compatable. Because he put some of his Dna there it activated. However unless they recreated the spiders i dont understand how the spiders that bit Peter would give him powers.

 

[LizardMan07]

I have a question on what you all think of this:

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Peter's spider powers being caused by his father basically? He got the powers because of his DNA and the work Richard did on the spiders?

[BLACKOUT]Still a random chance thing as he just stumbled across the spiders, most people would have died but he was lucky enough to gain his powers. So it's kind of in between him being created by his father and it being completely random[/BLACKOUT]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Well he had to be compatable. Because he put some of his Dna there it activated. However unless they recreated the spiders i dont understand how the spiders that bit Peter would give him powers.

Those were the spiders. Peter's father mentions he wasn't able to destroy all the Spiders.

 

[Em Dee]

Uh. Okay. So this was pretty awful..and before the regulars get on me, I did not want to hate it. But everything I saw from pics/trailers/plot that I hated turned out to be true. My review is below.

I'm going to give it another shot to solidify my opinion....but I did not think highly of this at all. Andrew Garfield was solid, as was Emma Stone (big shock there). Dane Dehaan gave a pretty good performance as Harry Osborn..or more appropriately Norman (who BTW should've just turned into Hulk-Goblin, he looked just like him in his death bed and I would've preferred that instead lol), but unfortunately all we saw was the "dark" side of Harry, and I didn't believe him & Peter were truly childhood best friends. Once he turns into the Green Goblin (for all 45 seconds we saw of him), he was over-acting. Also HATE that once again Harry gets knocked out from something to end the fight. Wtf. -.- Max Dillion was all kinds god awful- how Jamie Foxx managed to go from Django to this is...wow. Four minutes or not, Rhino was the cheesiest villain since freakin' Bane from B&R. It's a sad day when I can say that WB's Green Lantern had better developed villains than the 5th Spider-Man film. The Action was underwhelming, the plot meanders, and virtually every idea in the film is either half-baked, or the writers must have been baked themselves when they wrote this. How someone can dislike the Raimi films, but like this is way beyond me. This takes everything Raimi's films did (sans the dancing), and just completely amplified it to the 100th degree. Garfield, Stone, and Spidey himself deserve so much better than this.

As of right now, and having had about an hour to think about this, I'd probably give it a 4/10.

Aw, man. I was really looking forward to your review and I was really hoping you would love it.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I have a question on what you all think of this:

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Peter's spider powers being caused by his father basically? He got the powers because of his DNA and the work Richard did on the spiders?

I'd say making Flint Marko the killer of Uncle Ben was a masterpiece of an idea in comparison.

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Instead of Peter being the relateable everyman-average Joe...this was all pre-destined

....and people said they would never do something like that.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Spider-Man is in fact the chosen one. Let that sink in for ya.

 

[The Joker]

Uh. Okay. So this was pretty awful..and before the regulars get on me, I did not want to hate it. But everything I saw from pics/trailers/plot that I hated turned out to be true. My review is below.

I'm going to give it another shot to solidify my opinion....but I did not think highly of this at all. Andrew Garfield was solid, as was Emma Stone (big shock there). Dane Dehaan gave a pretty good performance as Harry Osborn..or more appropriately Norman (who BTW should've just turned into Hulk-Goblin, he looked just like him in his death bed and I would've preferred that instead lol), but unfortunately all we saw was the "dark" side of Harry, and I didn't believe him & Peter were truly childhood best friends. Once he turns into the Green Goblin (for all 45 seconds we saw of him), he was over-acting. Also HATE that once again Harry gets knocked out from something to end the fight. Wtf. -.- Max Dillion was all kinds god awful- how Jamie Foxx managed to go from Django to this is...wow. Four minutes or not, Rhino was the cheesiest villain since freakin' Bane from B&R. It's a sad day when I can say that WB's Green Lantern had better developed villains than the 5th Spider-Man film. The Action was underwhelming, the plot meanders, and virtually every idea in the film is either half-baked, or the writers must have been baked themselves when they wrote this. How someone can dislike the Raimi films, but like this is way beyond me. This takes everything Raimi's films did (sans the dancing), and just completely amplified it to the 100th degree. Garfield, Stone, and Spidey himself deserve so much better than this.

As of right now, and having had about an hour to think about this, I'd probably give it a 4/10.

Very good review