Another superhero failure and it's easy to see why (a.k.a. the movie that cannot be spoiled by a review)

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2014)

Let's face it, you did not have great expectations going into the cinema!
I, for example, had a pretty good idea of what this movie would be and that's exactly what it turned out to: a Friday night's pass-time with your girlfriend, eating popcorn while relaxing in the cinema chair.
Why wasn't this movie any brilliant, interesting or otherwise... good?! It's the same reason why we saw recent poor pieces like The Avengers, The Man of Steel, The Wolverine (and generally the other last X-Men movies), Captain America movies etc.
This filmmakers already know they would make a great deal of MONEY by introducing heavy CGI in order to bring life to our favorite cartoon/comic heroes. Don't get me wrong: we love CGI because it makes possible to see truly amazing unrealistic things. CGI is NOT evil!
The problem here is that they (the filmmakers) always find an easy thing to just leave the CGI do its part for all of us, nerds. So they never even bother considering making a good movie. They come up with a quick, dull, bad script, one that "will do".
Does that mean a superhero movie cannot be good? By all mean, no! We all saw the Dark Knight trilogy (surely, with a few reserves for the final one, but the 2nd movie was pure art). So yes, it is possible to make an awesome superhero movie. How? -> TREAT IT LIKE ANY OTHER FREAKIN' MOVIE. Hire some good script specialist to make a very good story, with some interesting and mind-blowing plot points, have them deliver outstanding dialogs and find talented actors to perform effectively.
I won't give any examples, but you can find plenty exceptional movies that did NOT contain superheroes, or any supernatural for that matter. But they were awesome because they had all the details.
So why on Earth do those pesky filmmakers keep refusing to make a good movie out of a superhero movie?
That is the question. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 sucked because its creator chose to. They did not bother to make it interesting. Why did they do that, as I said, remains a mystery.
Now on to the actual movie: an unlucky guy with mental issues suffers an accident that grants him super powers. Very quickly he turns into a bad guy and starts killing people and destroying the city. Of course, we don't see any actually good reason to do so... but it's awesome to see that blue guy shooting electrical energy all around, right? No need for character development here.
The Harry Osborn line (we all saw it coming) was pretty much the same. Send a rich child away from home to travel study at the most expensive schools around the world, and be sure that he'll come back evil. The lack of affection from his father always turns little boys into evil men who need no good reason to start killing people. I liked the actor and how he did his best to play this role. But he did not write the dialog, nor the story, so it's not his fault that his character was so incomplete and inconsistent. Also no need for character explanations here... Harry Osborn HAD to be evil, everyone knew that so let's swallow it.
Then there's the romance between Peter and the girl. Peter seems pretty happy at first, then he sees her father's ghost and remembers he's putting her in danger. Right away he goes and breaks up with her. Although he states he's been seeing the ghost for awhile, I guess this time was special enough to instantly turn his mind around.
Oh well... overall these two characters actually did have a little bit of chemistry... that's just my opinion. All the time though, you feel their dialogs are so forced and unrealistic... They made a pretty good ending though. Hopefully, I thought that would set a nice darker tone for the 3rd film, but the film's ending somehow gave me the impression it won't.
And also, there's the crowd. Those people who seems to find time to clap and enjoy the show whenever there's a killing maniac on the streets. They are never afraid they might... I don't know... die?! If Spiderman is there fighting terrifying monsters, he needs support doesn't he? Let's cheer him up.
Overall, the plot was straight and simple: there comes the villains, there's some fight that destroys half of the city, and in the end Spiderman takes them both down at a cost of a personal loss.
That's the freackin' problem of this movie. Why do they always have to show us the same things over and over... why can't they make up some interesting, intriguing plot and action, with some twists along the way and a breath-taking finale? We knew all the way how this movie would end.
The movie brought absolutely nothing new. Sure, I agree it was different from the other trilogy. But really, is that the only purpose of these filmmakers?
We saw Spiderman jumping, fighting, flying, loving, crying, saving the day. That's all folks.
I conclude the comment with a spoiler: whatever you think will happen in this movie, it will!