Amazing Spider-Man

I sure hope they take some time to explain the origins of this mysterious and unexplored character. I mean, how did this kid get the characteristics of a spider but still remain a human guy????????

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SNAFU, I only went cause I had seen everything else, went in thinking this will be another damn awful Spider-Man movie and really enjoyed it. That moment thirty or so minutes from the end is what will sent this apart.

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Finding Namo, they do go in to why it affects Peter the way it does, and why it won't work for others.

Jamie Foxx adds nothing to the film, I think the bigger question is, has Jamie foxx added anything on value to any film?

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I enjoy Andrew Garfield so more than I ever liked Toby McGuire.

America deserves better superheroes...why a straight, white Spider-Man is no longer a real underdog

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Remember the last Spider-Man sequel and how gosh-darn good it actually was?

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It's getting mixed to poor reviews over here, especially on websites that tend to be more forgiving to such genre fare.

I'm gonna wait for this one to hit BD.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Overall Metacritic rating (1-100): 53
Rotten Tomatoes: 56 percent
Link

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Thanks for that riveting insight, Roxy. I bet no one else had that exact thought. Sorry that these aren't movies aren't your cup of tea since they're not based on the comics you grew up with.

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The sarcasm pill paid off cuz that post made me LOL.

Of course the greatest thing about Roxy lately is that he's been using this phrase:

As the saying goes "Never Assume...." You know the rest

which is perfectly perfect in every way and he doesn't even realize it.

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Since he always explains his jokes, I think it's likely he doesn't know how funny it is.

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"But for what it's worth I liked it more than Captain America ."

I'm quite indifferent to Spider-Man and these Spider-Man films even if I grew up with so much of the 90s era imagery of the comics. As much as people fault the Disney/Marvel with now becoming a bland/generic brand in the superhero genre with an aesthetic that makes every film look all the same, I would say they have done a pretty solid job in picking actual story-lines for the films. The Winter Solider is one of the best Captain America stories, written by cool, righteous liberal Ed Brubaker, who helped modernize this superhero to mainstream comics fans. So needless to say, Cap 2 already has me line and sinker.

To me even just taking 25% of story from The Winter Soldier is more interesting than cramming in several different story-lines, images, and villains into this Spider-Man film, and not one of them involving my favorite villains in the Spider-Man universe. I also find Sam Raimi to actually have a much better cinematic identity than Marc '500 Days of Summer' Webb. I don't care how dated and product placement/synergy filled the earlier films are, they are Sam Raimi films. Plus I think of Spider-Man 3 as Raimi throwing up the middle finger at Sony because he was forced to do lot of changes from his original conception. Give him credit, not many franchise films currently, even Kevin Feige's infallible Marvel Studios/Avengers universe, would have made the Harry Osborn arc 3 films long- but Sony wanted Venom so there went Franco as the central villain.

I also am wildly indifferent to Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (at least in this kind of film, for her). I don't get it. They are too old for these roles. It's like watching the 90210 kids at West Beverly High when Luke Perry looked like his hair was thinning.