RogerEbert.com — The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Watching “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” made me long for a low-budget, indie version of the same movie — one that took out all the numbing action sequences and focused instead on the character’s inner struggle. I also realize this is a ridiculous proposal in my two-star review for RogerEbert.com.
I have been anticipating this movie so much and I’m still going to go see it, with that said I tend to agree with your reviews 90% of the time so what would you recommend to a big Spiderman fan “Full Price” or “Matinee”?
P.S. Big fan of you:)
This may surprise you, because you are probably not a comic book fan, but the type of movie you would like “Spider-Man” to be would actually be very close to the comic book, at least from the ’70s to the ’80s (I sort of dropped out of Spider-Man comics, though not all comics, after that.). There was a lot of what some liked to call “soap opera” in the series, with an average of one battle with a supervillain per issue and rarely more than one villain. The producers of the movies always seem to want to outdo everything – the comics, the video games and the blockbuster movies that came before. And I think the origins of the villains are not as important to the comics fans as they seem to be to the filmmakers.