As expected.

Eh I loved it, though I was expecting to anyway given my love of the first and the two leads.

I was surprised how little is actually centered on actual villain action ad it was more on Peter's struggles with being with Gwen as Spidey as well as diving into Spider-Man's past. I thought it all worked. Sure it may seem like a lot is thrown at you in the beginning but it all comes together quite effectively in the end.

The action is fantastic in this and it just put a smile on my face seeing Spidey in action.

Garfield and Stone are aces with Garfield mastering Peter and Spidey's personality and Stone for just being beautiful as ever while working off Garfield with ease. DeHaan is also strong and made for a fairly convincing Harry. I know Green Goblin doesn't go through as much of a mutation as is shown here but the growth of his character coming from the betrayal, in his mind, from Peter/Spidey pays off and is done well.

The massive negativity just doesn't make sense to me. I mean I can see if you didn't love it but I can't see a way where some are saying it's a piece of shit film. I know I'll get flack for this but ASM2 is a much more original, gripping story than The Winter Soldier's which is basically just a major re-hash of Marvel Studio's usual shtick but since it's "building the huge universe" it seems like it has to be praised. The universe being built in Sony's Amazing Spider-Man series isn't going overboard with throwing everything into place to build up the series. It gives you hints here and there but it's worried more with the main film's plot instead of what's going to happen three films from now more. That's one of the main reasons why I hope Spider-Man doesn't move to Marvel Studios as Spidey probably will just get washed behind Iron Man and Captain America.

Lol, no.

I like 1 slightly better than 2 simply because I'm a sucker for origin stories. Also, I hated Electro as the main villain. Even worse than Reptile. At least there was some point and continuity with Reptile.

Spider Man has some great villains... and they keep using the shitty ones.

What is the main film's plot, by chance?

You could cut Electro and Peter's father out of this film and nothing would change. Harry's only in it to justify dropping Gwen from somewhere high.

Villians development:
Green Goblin > Lizard > Electro

though the spidey/electro battle is more awesome than the one with the lizard

I'm not on the 'Electro is a great villain' train.

The film is a little too campy. There were number of scenes that made me shake my head, like how people were happily clamping and completely ignorant of the danger as if an audience is watching an arena fight when people not outside the "protected" fence were running all of place. Also too melodramatic with too many storylines. Sometime I felt I was watching a romantic comedy instead. With both villains, they did a fine job setting them up to make us care for them at the beginning, but by the end, they return to the generic cartoonish characters.

I'm very curious about L'il Spidey's story. How did he convince his mother to take him to the scene of a psycho in a giant rhino-shaped suit of armor's firefight with the NYPD?

She sounds like a Conservative.

I know it's a blockbuster trope at this point, but I would have appreciated some acknowledgement of the collateral damage that would have happened from Electro going nuclear in Times Square. We actually see people running around while billboards are collapsing and crushing them, yet the news report later is just that "New York it very grateful for Spider-Man's intervention." No mention of the hundreds that surely died.

And yeah, the plane sequence during the last battle was a remarkably lame attempt at building suspense.

Yeah, interesting how all the buildings look all fine and dandy the next day after every major action sequence where all of them were getting crushed left and right. And the plan sequence, man. Let's just continue flying straight when we have no communication while at a low attitude and see where we are going to end up.

Blame Superman


he destroyed and killed millions

No he didn't. Did you even watch the fucking movie?

Which one?, I've seen both (TAS2 and MoS)

And I'm just being sarcastic, I hated that stupid controversy about the end of MOS, I LOVED THAT MOVIE

nm then

Spider-Man was trying to save people. Superman wasn't. That's the difference in how they come across.

I blurted out laughing at the introduction of the plane thing. "Four and a half minutes! Clock it!" Wow. We're that desperate for a ticking clock sequence?

Superman saved the World. And then when the damage was already done, he kicked Zod's ass and did a miniscule amount more of damage.

But did he use webbing that moves faster than electricity?

No, he didn't.

i loathe you

It is fair, however, to point out that Spider-Man wastes time joking around with Rhino while he's brutally t-boning car after car. And then spends an eternity consoling Max while Rhino is still on a rampage.

Was anybody actually in danger during Spidey's last fight with Electro?

Yeah, but you said Spidey was fighting Electro instead of trying to save people. Well, who could he actually save? There was nothing to do but fight Electro.