The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4.0/10 stinky bananas
Not good. Not good at all.
Let’s get the stuff I liked out of the way first because the stuff I hate is a lot more fun.
I like this Spider-Man suit. The comic book accurate eyes just do it for me. There is some decent spidey action; and there are some sweet Spider-Man shots scattered throughout the movie.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have great chemistry on screen. This movie would be a big fat zero without those two. The Gwen Stacy death scene (spoiler) is by far and away the best part of the movie. They absolutely nailed it. It is shocking, devastating, and emotional all at once.
Alright, here we go.
The story is complete nonsense. Nothing embodied this more than the final action sequence. Somebody thought it was a good idea to splice in a side story about intersecting planes in the middle of the final duel between Electro and Spider-Man. Hey Director guy, I don’t give a shit about these two fucking planes, go back to the Spider-Man stuff.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has the worst ensemble of villains in the history of movies.
The Rhino. My goodness. Casting Paul Giamatti in this was certainly a choice. Paul pulled out his patented Russian accent for this one and boy was it stinky. The big dumb mechanized suit they threw him in is fucking terrible too.
The Green Goblin. Yikes. What the fuck was that performance by Dane DeHaan (I had to Google who the fuck he was). I don’t think there has ever been a bigger drop off between two iterations of the same character. Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin is number 1 and this Green Goblin is probably dead fucking last. Yuck.
Electro. What an absolute waste of Jamie Foxx. They decided to take Jamie Foxx, who is undeniable one of the coolest dudes on the planet, and turn him into some loser nerd AND THEN THEY MADE HIM FUCKING BLUE. Whoever made that decision should be shot into the sun, never to be seen again. Electro’s whole motivation for being a bad guy is because he has no friends and nobody showed up to his birthday party. Hey guy, get a better reason for being a bad guy.
Anyway, this movie is subpar. If you haven’t seen it, just YouTube the Gwen Stacy death scene and then move on to the next one.