TAKE 1: One Man’s Opinion
…because
film is largely subjective
by Frederick William Springer
III
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in
3D
Release Date: 2 May 2014 Runtime: 142 Minutes
Review Date: 29 July 2014 Rating: 3.5 (of 6)
What little charm
the initial reboot had was missing from this outing. The beginning (and some other parts) felt
very corny. The appearance of the Harry
Osborn character felt inorganic, suddenly thrust in the story, the filmmakers
literally saying, "oh, by the way, Peter knew him when he was
younger." (And James Franco was
better in the part in the Raimi trilogy.)
I think it would have worked better if there had been no previous
relationship, though that would screw with other plot points in the story.
***POSSIBLE
SPOILER ALERT (I don't remember how much of this was revealed in the first
installment)*** I also find it quite absurd that Peter Parker's father was a
scientist that created the radioactive spiders and that, coincidentally, 10 years
after his parents' death, Peter happens to be visiting the corporation his
father had previously worked for and then bitten by one of those spiders,
spiders that are specifically programmed to only interact with Parker DNA. Way too convoluted and unrealistic that these
stars would all happen to happily align.
On the other
hand, the physical parameters of the Green Goblin make more sense. I think I would have preferred to have seen
more of him--the film did a really slow origin story with his character--rather
than Electro.
The downfall of
the narrative may or may not have something to do with the writers of the last film
being pretty much ousted in favor of the (now former) writing duo of Alex
Kurtzman & Roberto Orci along with their buddy Jeff Pinkner.
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