The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Posted by Itheliving 10 years ago to Movies
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 / Rated PG-13 for violence, death, suffering and evil. And angst. Lots and lots of angst.
At 142 minutes this is the longest Spider Man movie to date. For some reason it seems like 242 minutes. There is not a lot of magic created in this film. Not much humor. Lots and lots of angst and emotion. All of this involves lots of talking and on screen suffering. You are forced to sit through it to get to what opens and closes the film and takes place in between the dull spots.
TASM2 was filmed entirely in NY at a cost of two hundred million dollars. It seems it is costing more and more to build a film around an hour of acting and an hour of computer generated special effects. For that kind of money this film looks terrific as do all of the films coming out of Hollywood with big budgets.
TASM2 picks up where TASM1 left off. Peter Parker AKA Spider Man is again struggling to understand his purpose. He wants to kiss his girlfriend and she likes being kissed but there is so much emotion dripping from every scene they are in together that when kisses take place they seem passionless. The bad guys are a cross of those from the original series with Tobey Maguire as Spidey and from part one of this rebooted series. Jamie Foxx shows up as a nerdy electrical specialist geek who turns into super baddie Electro. Sally Field returns as the ever emotional and devoted Aunt Mary. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone play the main characters.
The two big opening scenes lead up to a big graduation ceremony for the two main characters. This is where Stan Lee makes his Marvel Comics cameo. He doesn’t graduate but has a line as a guest. Most of the film is comprised of the long talking and emotional soap opera followed by terrific action scenes most of them done by imagers in a room with a computer with lots of RAM and a very large HD. Soon everyone at home with the money to buy a larger than normal home computer system will be able to create these movies on their own and share them with us on YouTube.
In the mean time these films will be cranked out in the hopes of sustaining gigantic worldwide profits. While I enjoyed Spider Man 1 (reboot) this time out they needed to cut about 45 minutes to get this film into a more enjoyable version. I feel a lot of angst about the following rating as I expected more from TASM2 but they didn’t deliver it. NOTE. There is an additional film clip that occurs about 3 minutes into the very long end credits. It is a promo for the upcoming X-Men movie. Nothing else occurs at the very end. If you are an X-Men fan you should stay for this mini scene. If not it’s okay to leave.
Rated 2.5 out of 4.0 reasons that big budgets and big special effects do not necessarily make for big entertainment.
At 142 minutes this is the longest Spider Man movie to date. For some reason it seems like 242 minutes. There is not a lot of magic created in this film. Not much humor. Lots and lots of angst and emotion. All of this involves lots of talking and on screen suffering. You are forced to sit through it to get to what opens and closes the film and takes place in between the dull spots.
TASM2 was filmed entirely in NY at a cost of two hundred million dollars. It seems it is costing more and more to build a film around an hour of acting and an hour of computer generated special effects. For that kind of money this film looks terrific as do all of the films coming out of Hollywood with big budgets.
TASM2 picks up where TASM1 left off. Peter Parker AKA Spider Man is again struggling to understand his purpose. He wants to kiss his girlfriend and she likes being kissed but there is so much emotion dripping from every scene they are in together that when kisses take place they seem passionless. The bad guys are a cross of those from the original series with Tobey Maguire as Spidey and from part one of this rebooted series. Jamie Foxx shows up as a nerdy electrical specialist geek who turns into super baddie Electro. Sally Field returns as the ever emotional and devoted Aunt Mary. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone play the main characters.
The two big opening scenes lead up to a big graduation ceremony for the two main characters. This is where Stan Lee makes his Marvel Comics cameo. He doesn’t graduate but has a line as a guest. Most of the film is comprised of the long talking and emotional soap opera followed by terrific action scenes most of them done by imagers in a room with a computer with lots of RAM and a very large HD. Soon everyone at home with the money to buy a larger than normal home computer system will be able to create these movies on their own and share them with us on YouTube.
In the mean time these films will be cranked out in the hopes of sustaining gigantic worldwide profits. While I enjoyed Spider Man 1 (reboot) this time out they needed to cut about 45 minutes to get this film into a more enjoyable version. I feel a lot of angst about the following rating as I expected more from TASM2 but they didn’t deliver it. NOTE. There is an additional film clip that occurs about 3 minutes into the very long end credits. It is a promo for the upcoming X-Men movie. Nothing else occurs at the very end. If you are an X-Men fan you should stay for this mini scene. If not it’s okay to leave.
Rated 2.5 out of 4.0 reasons that big budgets and big special effects do not necessarily make for big entertainment.
