mgarnica89
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This movie was the perfect amount of lame/good superhero film. Now that they got the reboot origin story over with, they can try new things. Im not expecting a "dark knight" sequel of sorts but i expect an entirely better movie.
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LTTTP: The Amazing Spiderman
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You block this from your memory?
Best scene in the movie. Problem? Spidey 3 is a great comedy.
Brilliant.
I didn't realize there even was a pile of hate for the new Spidey flick. I thought it was great.
But I guess I also love X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Elektra... so perhaps that needs to be taken into consideration; maybe I'm just a sucker. Come take my money, Marvel.
I could've done without the Power Rangers suit, but Willem Dafoe was brilliant, and it was exactly because he was hamming it up.
Mighty Chin
Banned
ASM Peter Parker was way too angsty. So brooding and unlikable. At least Maguire played him dorky as he should have been back in highschool.
Fighting was really well done but the darkness covers up a lot.
What are there 25+ Marvel based movie? I'd put this in the bottom half.
Fighting was really well done but the darkness covers up a lot.
What are there 25+ Marvel based movie? I'd put this in the bottom half.
Discotheque
Banned
saturday night parker > amazing spiderman and it's sequel too probably
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
At times it was as if he had the symbiote.
I thought Alfred Molina was an excellent choice for Doc Ock.
It was decent if you turn your brain off. Once you start to analyze the scenes for any shred of logic the move unravels.
Like:
Why is a high schooler apparently lord Czar of interns at a gigantic corporation?
Why does the lizardman decide he needs to keep a detailed log about what he is going to do on his computer?
Why is there liquid nitrogen on the roof of a building?
Why does spiderman make a promise to a dying man only to break in a week later?
How did spiderman know which car the thief was going to steal?
Like:
Why is a high schooler apparently lord Czar of interns at a gigantic corporation?
Why does the lizardman decide he needs to keep a detailed log about what he is going to do on his computer?
Why is there liquid nitrogen on the roof of a building?
Why does spiderman make a promise to a dying man only to break in a week later?
How did spiderman know which car the thief was going to steal?
matrix-cat
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Why the fuck did Spider-Man start climbing up buildings and limping on rooftops when he hurt his leg? Son of a bitch can swing! It involves no leg movement at all! It's the ideal form of transportation for a person with a bad leg. Things that are as spectacularly dumb as that just ruin the whole movie for me - it just makes it seem like nobody involved with the movie cared enough to actually watch it all the way through.
Same sort of thing happens in Star Trek 2, where
. How hard is it to make a movie internally consistent? I honestly don't care about plotholes and nitpicking, but stuff like that is so egregiously stupid I just can't get past it.
Same sort of thing happens in Star Trek 2, where
Khan is an untouchable superhero throughout the whole movie, then at the end the filmmakers apparently forgot and just had Spock beat him to death
triplestation
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the movie had no fucking backbone, it was not even sure what is was doing besides rebooting spider-man for the sake of rebooting spider-man and garfield is a cunt, just unlikable, you just couldn't root for him
nothing is ingenious about this filler ass shit, you'd think that a spiderman reboot post 2010, you'd be served a brilliant, thoroughly explained imagery on how spider-man becomes spider-man now that he is supposed to work on mechanical devices. no, you just have a shot of garcunt being superduper nerdy playing bullshit with shit you aren't sold on that ''he made'' and that is supposed to sell you his bullshit brilliance. (wow, garcunt is actually a word) and what irks me the most is how the score tries to emulate elfman, shit is hilarious
nothing is ingenious about this filler ass shit, you'd think that a spiderman reboot post 2010, you'd be served a brilliant, thoroughly explained imagery on how spider-man becomes spider-man now that he is supposed to work on mechanical devices. no, you just have a shot of garcunt being superduper nerdy playing bullshit with shit you aren't sold on that ''he made'' and that is supposed to sell you his bullshit brilliance. (wow, garcunt is actually a word) and what irks me the most is how the score tries to emulate elfman, shit is hilarious
It didn't take Gwen Stacy much time to make the antidote.
What happened with the lizard cops
What was the lizard's ultimate goal?
This movie is just as bad and stupid as Prometheus
triplestation
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the lizards ultimate goal was to turn everyone into lizards because its superior to being human
no professor would think that, it is incredibly naive
you'd have to consider the health of the economy and so many changes
curt ifans conners is a cunt
no professor would think that, it is incredibly naive
you'd have to consider the health of the economy and so many changes
curt ifans conners is a cunt
Not necessarily.
Spock smashed a piece of metal over his head after Uhura spammed him with the phaser. He took a phaser set to kill right in the head earlier and got up a minute later, earlier in the film. One can assume she had her phaser set to stun, and the amount of fire he took, plus some wearing down after Spock tried the Vulcan nerve pinch on him moments earlier ultimately brought him down.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Peter Parker has no less than four father figures in this film.
I found this fact funny. I don't know why.
I found this fact funny. I don't know why.
This movie is the biggest trojan orse I've ever seen, it's actuaully the most dangerous type of movie, the one when you think it is good, it convinced you that it was good, it makes you to shut your mind, and then you begin to think a little more, just a little, and everything comes apart.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It was a very weird and IMO not very good movie. I feel like it didn't really get Peter Parker as a character, in that he really didn't seem all that different outside of the costume.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
To be fair, some places do keep nitrogen like this. The chemistry building on my campus stores it in this 20-foot tall 6-foot wide tank out back.
matrix-cat
Member
The fact that
Spock ran at the same speed as Khan, made the same twenty foot leap straight up to the shuttle, and then went toe to toe with him instead of being killed immediately is what I have a problem with. Khan killed all those Klingons, punched dudes across rooms, crushed a man's head with his bare hands - Spock's just a dude. What was the point of the scene where Kirk beats on Khan to absolutely zero effect if Khan just gets beaten up by another regular dude at the end?
While Elfman's theme is my favorite of the bunch, I did like Horner's score for this film. Hope he comes back for ASM2.
mugoldeneagle03
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I could never get into the Lizard as the villain but I still watch it when I catch it on TV. The chemistry & dialogue between Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone are great, and the movie does give Spiderman a fresh of breath air.
Expect the upcoming sequel to be even better. The leaked shots of Jamie Foxx as Electro looked good.
Expect the upcoming sequel to be even better. The leaked shots of Jamie Foxx as Electro looked good.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Okay, this is a failing of the movie but not for the reasons you think:
Its very very well established in the series that Vulcans are physically supermen themselves, extraordinarily strong. They didn't really mention it in the movie though
Thats kind of why that scene was so cool for me actually, seeing
a Vulcan go hand to hand with a human who's actually stronger then him was pretty cool. Watching them go back and forth with Spock trying to nerve pinch and mind meld to get him off balance and Khan trying to crush his skull was fun
PaperFlame
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The movie wasn't bad, it was just boring, it didn't felt unique or special at all.
Monocle
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On my first viewing I didn't notice any of the things GAF complains about. I wouldn't call myself an uncritical viewer; when I'm watching a superhero movie I just happen to be less receptive to the things that challenge other people's suspension of disbelief. The plot logic of popcorn films doesn't interest me unless they insist on that level of engagement. The main thing I care about is whether the ride is viscerally satisfying.
I liked the way Spider-Man's origin story was handled in this movie, and I liked Andrew Garfield much more than Tobey MaGuire in the title role. I was relieved that Mary Jane wasn't Peter's love interest, because that angle was a huge part of the Tobey trilogy and it was time for a different focus.
ASM is my favorite Spider-Man film after Spider-Man 2. I'm definitely on board for the sequel.
I liked the way Spider-Man's origin story was handled in this movie, and I liked Andrew Garfield much more than Tobey MaGuire in the title role. I was relieved that Mary Jane wasn't Peter's love interest, because that angle was a huge part of the Tobey trilogy and it was time for a different focus.
ASM is my favorite Spider-Man film after Spider-Man 2. I'm definitely on board for the sequel.
Escape Goat
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It was better than Tobey McGuire's snooze fests. But the plot and villain weren't very good. And the crane operator's son.
It was alright. Better than Tobey's version, but I have an irrational hate of Tobey Maguire, his face makes me want to throw rocks at it. Andrew Garfield isn't much better though. I swear in some scenes he came across as straight up mentally handicapped. Especially scenes involving Gwen Stacy. Some decent scenes though, worth a rental, wouldn't watch it again.
Yea some of it was nice. Lots of piano smashing though. If he came back for TASM2. I would be happy, but if he didn't I wouldn't mind.
DangerMouse
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Heh, he was perfect as JJ LOL.
Yeah, I enjoyed the movie overall, I also quite enjoyed some of the Spider-man attitude (like with the car burglar) and the scenes where his powers first started on the subway where he beat up the guys by accident (the speed/spontaneous feel of it was surprisingly great, such as when he ended up with the metal bar) and wrecked his alarm clock and the door.
Leary was great and fun.
I hope they do something big with the sequel now that they've got the origin story out of the way again, so we can see what they can really do with this new group.
'Twas OK, except they murdered Denis Leary.
Yeah, I enjoyed the movie overall, I also quite enjoyed some of the Spider-man attitude (like with the car burglar) and the scenes where his powers first started on the subway where he beat up the guys by accident (the speed/spontaneous feel of it was surprisingly great, such as when he ended up with the metal bar) and wrecked his alarm clock and the door.
Leary was great and fun.
I hope they do something big with the sequel now that they've got the origin story out of the way again, so we can see what they can really do with this new group.
Amazing Spiderman >>>Rises
I respect your opinion and all....
But it's wrong.
Bane> Lizard
Escape Goat
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Bane was just a flunky. At least Lizard hatches his own schemes.
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