Told you this movie would be terrible. And don't say I am making a judgement in hindsight. I made a post on this thread a few months ago predicting the movie would be awful. When I made that post, I predicted spidey fans would spew and vomit in response, and soon enough, it happened.
Why are you spidey fans fighting tooth and nail in defense of this franchise? Shouldn't you be calling Sony out for making these crap spiderman films? This is a CASH GRAB, nothing else. Sony is exercising ultimate indifference in their hostile stewardship of spiderman. If you want me to translate that last sentence, spiderman is chained inside sony's house and sony is pounding on spiderman until money starts falling out of his crevices. If you want me to translate that even more, take the south park episode where indiana jones gets raped by steven speilberg and george lucas. Replace indiana jones with spiderman and replace steven speilberg/george lucas with the board executives at Sony.
Spiderman one and spiderman two with tobey maguire was great. We can all acknowledge that. But that isn't what Sony is about anymore. They learned nothing from spiderman 3. Cram every villian they can think of into amazing spiderman 2, so they can set up sinister six and hope to get an avengers box office.
The worst part is that marvel studios is getting a bad rap for other studio's awful films. Look at the reviews for this spiderman movie. Half of those critics are not aware of the power struggle between sony and marvel. They think this is another crappy marvel film, and marvel is getting the blame. If I created an amazing product, and then a chinese knock off company made a cheap copy and flooded the market to the point that the consumer becomes sick and tired of said product, I'd be pretty pissed off. And watch, I'm probably gonna get flamed for this one too, but to me, its pointless to debate with someone who thinks this "amazing spiderman" franchise is a quality product.
I think people have to watch Spider-man 1 again. That film did not age well a year after it was released. One of the worst looking villains in the Spidey series. Some bad CGI and some lack luster action scenes. The origin part of the film is great but pretty much after he puts on the suit things start to go down hill. I mean the goblin's whole evil plan was lame and silly IMO. I did enjoy the final confrontation but that was about it as far as the last half of the film goes.... That Parade sequence..... Blah... One of the worst action scenes ever.
I thought ASM 2 was technically superior and had just as good of a story.... However there were some boring moments. But ASM2 got the Spider man character better then any other of the spider man films and it deserves credit there. I have seen comparisons to Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, and while I get the Riddler / Electro comparisons, I see no other reason for it. Well throw in the corny Evil scientist also... But other then that I have to say that people need to revisit those films again and see how bad they really are... Especially B&R.. ASM2 is an Oscar winner in comparison.
I guess I just have never thought that the Rami films were all that special. While I really enjoy part 2, I feel it has not aged as well. I have never cared for the final 15 min that takes place on Doc Oc's strange little river shack. It's still a very enjoyable film. But far from a perfect Spider-man film IMO. All the Rami Spider-man films have a "feel" to them that I have never loved. I enjoy them but none of them would be in my top 5 comic films. Now I will admit that after watching ASM 1 I left the theater going "why?" It was not different enough to warrant it's existence. Funny thing is I did not think it was better or worse then the first film. It had many of the same issues. Good actors, good beginning, bad villain and average action. After seeing the film I was angry because I would have rather seen SM 4 and 5. but after viewing it again I thought it was much better then I originally gave it credit for. Now that we have two in the can I can now get past the Rami films.
I will admit that my opinion can change after another viewing or two.
I will also say this... There has yet to be a perfect Spider man film. It does not seem like it should be that hard to make but it has yet to be done IMO.