THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: ELECTRO BOOGALOO

[Rodanex]

Usually because jokes are more funny if you don't stop and explain to everyone that it's a joke.

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[Pkmatrix]

[Henry88]

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[Hybrid Gojira]

I finally got around to seeing this.

I can see why there is so much hate. I found it to be an average action movie with some really cheesey dialogue. Most of Foxx's lines are just bad, and I usually love him as an actor. There's not much to work with here. The new origin stuff...blarg. Man the Goblin design is simply terrible.

I wonder if

[Henry88]

$690,030,000
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id ... erman2.htm

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[lhb412]

Holy heck! A few months ago people were talking about Sony putting out a Spider-Man Universe movie every year, now they're just concentrating on introducing the Sinister Six in their solo film and then 'completing the trilogy' with Spidey apparently facing off against the six in a third Amazing Spider-Man film in four years!?!

[Benjamin Haines]

[jellydonut25]

Cheap shows are awesome for seeing movies like this, because you don't care when they're terrible.

This movie is really three movies:
There's the incredibly awful, in every way that I had possibly hoped, with amazing hilarity, story of Electro. It's pathetic, cheesy, makes little sense, and is just an absolute BLAST. Great for laughing at.
Then there's the mostly solid story of Peter and Gwen. Solid chemistry between the characters, solid acting performances all around. It's a bit of a stretch to call this a "movie" but it's the only part of this movie I'd keep almost in its entirety were I making this movie.
Then there's the part of the movie that SUCKS. It sucks all the fun out of it, it rips out all the hilarity, and it bogs down the running time with no payoff. This is the movie about Peter finding his origins and his dad's past. This is BORING. Without this the movie is a solid 40 minutes shorter and SO MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING. I honestly don't care that they changed Spider-Man's origin. I care that there's no payoff and that it's BORING.

Now, I loved the Electro part, because it was the hilarious crapfest of ridiculous garbage that I was hoping for and the first 40 minutes of this movie was wildly entertaining in its atrociousness. The problem is it doesn't work with ANYTHING else in the movie. I mean, as entertaining as this movie would have been without all the BORING Parker stuff, it would still have been a trainwreck, because the legitimately good Peter/Gwen story and the hilariously awful Electro stuff don't mesh.

Also, HOW F***ING HARD IS IT TO DO THE GREEN GOBLIN?!?! HOLY HELL. I didn't know which of the three movies to put this in, because it is the only element that bridges the three movies going on here: there's its connection to the legitimately good Peter/Gwen stuff and a way in which re-writing it COULD have worked to make for a GOOD 90-minute movie. Then there's its connection to the god-awful boring genetic research Parker stuff and the way in which it's whiny and stupid and nobody cares. THEN there's the way in which it's just hilariously pathetic and so it fits right in with Electro.

This movie isn't just a trainwreck. It's several trainwrecks. And even with that, I wouldn't have understood all the hate until I suffered through the middle hour or so of the movie. First 40 minutes, hilariously bad. Final 30 minutes, combination hilariously bad and decent adaptation of the Death of Gwen Stacy. Middle hour....frigging horrible.

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[jellydonut25]

There's some stuff in there that leads one to think, "Hey, maybe they're finally realizing their ways of doing things are wrong," like when they talk about needing to stop their soul-less output and stuff and then there are parts that make you realize, "Nah. Not what they meant" like when they basically say they should just keep churning out a new Spider-Man film every five minutes so they can make money on it.

And they specifically state making quality movies like Moneyball (and Captain Phillips) is stupid because it's not a franchise so they can't make buttloads of money on it.

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[Ernesth100]

They're saying Sony is already thinking of firing Garfield.
I mean, come on man.

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[MekaGojira3k]

They should just give up and let Marvel try Spidey in Phase 4 or 5 (if the MCU even exists that long)

[Ernesth100]

What if they cast a new Peter Parker and make Andrew Garfield Ben Riley?

[Benjamin Haines]