No words for how bad it is

Rating: 1/10 (31 May 2014)

So I watched this movie yesterday with my friends. I did not have high expectations, although I did like the original Spider-man trilogy. What further lowered my expectations was the fact that all my friends told me that the prequel was terrible (which I was fortunate enough not to have seen). But little was I prepared for what I was going to see. It was more that two hours of trying to decide whether I should laugh or cry at how terrible the film was. I admit, I was somewhat entertained by the movie trying to take itself so serious, but ultimately failing miserably.
OK, let's see what made it so horrible... pretty much everything. The whole character of Electro was a bad joke, I feel. I kind of understand that nowadays all the villains have to be born by being bitten by genetically modified radioactive eels/spiders/etc. or falling into some high-secret supermachine; but then his motive being Spiderman not remembering his name and protecting the citizens from his wrath? What. I also feel the lightning effects did not look as good as could be expected considering nowadays' CGI technologies (it might be just me, though). I almost think the whole movie would have been much better had the whole Electro line been omitted. I didn't like Spider-man's character, either—him behaving as a cool guy, humiliating his enemies wherever he can. He is supposed to be a withdrawn boy whose goal is to save NY from the villains and not make a show of defeating them. I believe those scenes were meant to be funny, but not only were they not, they also destroyed Peter Parker's image. After all this, Harry's character almost seemed acceptable. Almost.
The plot was dumb, the dialogues were empty, but honestly many of the fight scenes were even worse. They were so ridiculous while trying to look serious that I literally buried my head into my popcorn several times. And then at the and came Rhino...
I feel sorry for the actors/actresses involved in this movie, they really did a decent job, and also for anyone who had nothing to do with the directing/story-writing, for having to contribute to this. The whole concept was so terrible it could not have been saved even if every character had been played by a Morgan Freeman.
After the film, my friends said the first installment was even worse, and I was like, "Really? Is that even possible?" I'm trying to think of a film worse than this, and there is literally none I can remember. I don't know if I have ever rated a film 1/10 (probably not), but after seeing this, I feel I should re-rate them to at least 5/10 so as to keep proportions.
To anyone planning to watch this: if you like superhero movies in general, you can give it a try, although I think every single film in this particular genre has been better than this in the last 10 years. (But, you know, different tastes and stuff, so you might like it.) However, if you are not particularly fond of such films, you should not, under any circumstances, watch it, expecting an enjoyable two and a half hours.