This is truly one of my favorite films of 2014 and in general,and all of the problems that people have with this movie do not bother me at all. It seems like superhero movies get the most criticism on IMDB than anything else,so why?
shareI enjoyed the movie as well, it has it's problems, but it's not Batman and Robin and it's not Spiderman 3.
shareDefinitely agree! I do not understand why people would at all compare this to Batman and Robin.
shareLet's face it the Raimi movies came closer on the cheese factor to Batman and Robin then ASM2 ever did. Rain Drops scene, the board turning into skeleton's, Macy Gray and dancing Emo Peter.
shareNo just No. Any scene with Paul Giamatti was more cheesy than anything in Raimi's Spider-Man movies and I mean anything.
shareNo just No. Any scene with Paul Giamatti was more cheesy than anything in Raimi's Spider-Man movies and I mean anything.
I don't know, it was over the top yes but I guess in my opinion since he was only at the beginning and end of the movie it didn't betray the tone of the movie. Rhino was always an outrageous character.
I don't get why people complain about that when that's pretty well how he's been portrayed in every cartoon he's been in.
I guess he was a bit over the top in the movie. But did you forget some of the video game adaptations of him? In the end of the PS1 game he and the other bad guys are playing Go fish and then he thinks he's won and starts bragging about it but then says he made a mistake and didn't really win. He's also not one of my favorite villains. Heck, if I were to make a top favorite 10 Spider-Man villains list he probably wouldn't even be on it.
Green Goblin is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1L4ZuaVvaw
Let's face it the Raimi movies came closer on the cheese factor to Batman and Robin then ASM2 ever did. Rain Drops scene, the board turning into skeleton's, Macy Gray and dancing Emo Peter.
Actually it's just like both of those, if not worse. It can definitely be lumped in as one of the worst superhero films of all time!
shareI agree: its not a perfect movie but it doesn't deserve the hate it gets. This movie has a good mix of humor, soap opera and fight scenes, and those are the three elements that every good Spiderman story needs. Plus, I thought that the villain Electro was very well realized, and that Jaime Foxx did a very good job with the role.
That being said, the movie does have some flaws in my opinion The minor flaws are:
1) Sally Field seemed too young and strong to be a convincing Aunt May.
2) There was no sign of J. Jonah Jameson, and the Spiderman saga just isn't complete without him,
The major flaws are:
1) The unneeded, unasked for subplot about Peter's parents
2) The Green Goblin. I mean, this is Spidey's arch enemy we're talking about. If he can't be the focal point of the story he shouldn't be in it at all
Even with the major flaws though, this movie deserves much better than the critics gave it
1 Sally was born in 1946. Marisa Tomei was born in 1964 and she's going to be the new Aunt May.
2 I like JJJ as much as the next man, but after JK Simmons, anyone else would be a pale imitation.
3 I wouldn't say uneeded. The producers had to find something to mark this as something original from the Maguire trilogy.
4. Even the Goblin didn't start as Peter's arch enemy. Again, they needed to do something different from the original trilogy.
In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot.
It was a bad movie that doesn't gel completely and there are so many missed opportunities throughout it.
shareBecause its garbage!
share(sigh) A lot of my friends and people I know completely despise both TASM movies. And somehow they prefer Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man over Andrew. Now, before I start my rant, I will say that IMO the only really great Spider-Man movie we've had out of the 5 is Spider-Man 2.
PROs
1. Andrew Garfield showed here that he fit the role of Spider-Man really well here, and we see Peter become more sure of himself, as opposed to staying one-dimensional. Cracking jokes with villains and kicking ass while doing it.
2. The chemistry between Andrew and Emma Stone was really good,(shame that they broke up in real life)
3. Explored the mystery of Peter's parents even further
4. Dane Dehaan's Harry was miles better than James Franco IMO
5.The special effects were really well designed
6. The intros of Felicia, Smythe, and a brief tease for Drew Goddard's Sinister Six
7. Sally Field's scene with Peter: "Your My Boy!!"
8. The scene with the kid at the end
CONs
1. The romance stuff was fine and all, but it was on the verge of becoming too much of a focal point IMO.
2. Too many characters: Now, Sony had initially intended for TASM 3 and Sinister Six to be released in the same year, but they delayed TASM 3 to 2018 and kept Sinister Six in its original release date. So many people say that "TASM 2 is nothing more than a set-up for Sinister Six" blah blah, but I didn't really mind it since it was only briefly referenced towards the end.
4. Electro's dialogue: Jamie Foxx did pretty well as Max, but some of his lines were cheesy as hell.
5. The fight with Spider-Man and Harry ends way too quickly: This is the one thing that perhaps bothered me the most. Its starts out rather promising; and when Spidey says: " You wanna fight? Well Fight me!", I just knew that the fight was gonna be awesome. But its over in a matter of seconds. Literally like a doomed train that is still on the tracks, but is about to go off the rails. With Gwen's death being a vital point in the movie, I would have liked the fight scene prior to that to be more epic-instead it just feels rushed.
6. Rhino: Now Paul Giamatti's a talented actor, but I could not take him serious as Rhino.
7. Some of the deleted scenes(Great job Sony) should have been kept in the movie.
8. Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn was a joke.
And Interestingly enough, I still like TASM 2 even to this day. Is the movie perfect? Hell No. And like I said, the only Spider-Man movie I consider great to this day is Raimi's Spider-Man 2. But TASM movies offered a more darker tone and different take on the character of Peter Parker. Sure, Andrew may not have been as convincing a nerd in some people's eyes as Peter Parker, but he's arguably the best Spider-Man we've had thus far.
In the comics Max Dillon is a hothead. Here he's a middle aged man almost in tears because Spiderman didn't acknowledge his birthday. FAIL
shareTo be fair in the original comics, his origin is just that he's some electrician who is fixing a powerline, gets electrocuted, gets powers from it, then just randomly decides to use his powers to rob banks. Because apparently electricians didn't get paid very much in the early 60s.
Green Goblin is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1L4ZuaVvaw
It's hated because it's a *beep* movie.
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