Yeah. He's just one step away from being one of those deluded T2 fans.
The Amazing Spider Man 2 (2014)
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thenammagazine
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I publicly apologize to Khev for comparing him to T2 fans. That was over the line.
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I too hated the way the fight with Rhino just cut off at the end. On the one had I can see why they did it but on the other, considering how weak the climactic battles with Electro and Goblin were, I was hoping for a decent Spiderman set-piece to close out an overall disappointing film and maybe make it less disappointing.
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I'm not blind. I understand and agree with the most common complaints such as an unfocused story & too many sub-plots but I find the hate to be exaggerated. It was an okay movie, not great not terrible
I'm a bit conflicted on the ending. As an emotional high note, demonstrating that Spidey overcame the trauma of Gwen and his self doubts, I think it worked exceedingly well. Particularly the part where he talks to the kid (the scenes with him dealing with kids in this movie were spot on Spider-Man). But I was also disappointed we didn't get to see him dismantling Rhino. If he had done that, would it have taken anything away from the other stuff? I don't think so. This isn't like No Country for Old Men, where the filmmakers are making a point by not showing what happens. And on top of that, you would get a (presumably) successful fight to really cap off the story, and could see the bad guy being carted away. And he could have finished him off in about 2 minutes, and I think folks would be fine with it, since that clearly wasn't the real conflict of the film. But ultimately, it didn't bother me too too much.
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Evolving monkey avatar says everything it needs to.
Koba was smart doe.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was one of the best films of the season, if not the best. Nova has good tastes there, very good tastes.
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I actually thought Nova was kind of harsh on this one, considering his usual stance on Spidey properties. I've seen him call out several of the weaknesses of the movie since its been out. He definitely hasn't been crusading this as a perfect flick.
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I haven't been in this thread since May (or a little later, I recall making comments about those lolzy deleted scenes), so I wouldn't know. So forgive me Nova.
Saw this thread get get bumped up repeatedly and wanted to see what all the ruckus was about.
Saw this thread get get bumped up repeatedly and wanted to see what all the ruckus was about.
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The ending has huge problems as well, when I realized that mom would get her son front row seats to the Rhino show, a huge mech that shoots bullets getting ready to duke it out with some cops, it kind of took me out of the ending. Then of course, with plenty of spectators around, Spidey just starts knocking missiles left and right putting everyone else in danger, it was as if Spidey was tapping into his inner MOS Superman.
I did like what they were trying to do with the ending, but the movie in general feels like it was directed, written, and edited by a 5 year old.
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to part in bold.Yeah, they really shouldn't talk about grounding these things in 'reality' and then do the stuff that I've underlined in your post.
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I don't get the complaints about possible collateral damage. Batman blew up cars in TDKT for all we know some grandmothers were in them. The army shot at hulk on a college campus where student ps could've been hit. Pretty much every superhero movie has the possibility of bystanders being hurt, it's the greater good that's important.
This movie was probably the one to most show a superhero saving lives than any others which are more about fighting villains. We had a good bit of Spidey helping New Yorkers
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This movie was probably the one to most show a superhero saving lives than any others which are more about fighting villains. We had a good bit of Spidey helping New Yorkers
No worries
Don't try and figure out my tastes, everything is case by case with me.
There are some movies I can laugh at, but still like. MOS definitely qualifies. Parts of TDKR too. I really do like those movies but I have to be in the right mood to watch them.
As for cbm's I don't like? Well, let me say I don't *want* to dislike any of them. And in a way they're kind of like the Jurassic Park movies where just seeing the subject matter convincingly on screen is half the entertainment right there. So I do prefer to be forgiving rather than let little things ruin them. But I definitely don't like the FF movies, the Ghost Rider movies, X-Men 3, Wolverine Origins, or SM3. Those movies are worse than even the Schumacher Batflicks to me because I can't even laugh at their absurdity. They're just plain bad. I'm pretty "meh" on Daredevil, Green Lantern, IM2, The Incredible Hulk, and Ang Lee's Hulk. So that's a pretty good chunk that I don't care much for or outright dislike.
SM2 hasn't aged that well for me but I do still really like SM1.
Favorites are:
CA:TWS (duh)
CA:TFA
GOTG
Nolan Trilogy
The Avengers
IM1
ASM2
ASM
Thor/Thor 2
Batman 89
STM/MOS (I rate them about equally, it just depends on my mood, do I want to watch good Superman or evil Superman?
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