Blog:The Amazing Spider Man (Unofficial)

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The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 superhero film directed by Mark Webb and based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Although Tobey Maguire wasn't that great of a Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Andrew Garfield somehow does an even worse job by making his character feel more awkward, anxious, shy, irratating, and worst of all, humorless, one of the major characterisitcs that made Spider-Man memorable.
 * 2) The movie also suffers through a major tone problem, as this movie is more dark and gritty than the previous installments, which, while it had some dark tones, it was more light-hearted and had a great mix of comedy and drama. It also barely has anything that made the originals decent, including the aforementioned flanderization of Peter Parker and barely any humor.
 * 3) The movie constantly focuses on Peter and Gwen's romance relationship, up to the point where it even makes a whole skadaddle about it. Even the action scenes have constantly pander to the relationship, which gets really annoying. Plus, in the comics, Peter and Gwen never loved each other, making it poor grasp of the source material. To make this worse, the first 30 minutes of the film is all about Peter and Gwen loving each other.
 * 4) The main villain of this movie is The Lizard. Out of all of the potential villains of the Spiderverse, they chose The Lizard, consideringly one of the weakest villains of the comics. Apparently, his plan is to turn everyone into a mutant lizard literally all because Peter has spider powers, which is a stupid reason, but if you watch the movie, it's never actually explained why he does it. The aforementioned reason was actually in a scene that was deleted which angered fans, but did no change. The plan is also literally a generic "enslave everyone and rule the world" plan.
 * 5) It suffers through a bunch of long and awkward pacing and filler, such as the infamous also-deleted scene where The Lizard flirts with two high school girls, which is technically both pedophilia and beastality since Dr. Connors is older than those girls and he's literally an animal at that time.
 * 6) It repeats the origin, such as Peter being bit by a spider and Uncle Ben being shot. It may be nice for newcomers, but at this point, everyone pretty much knew the story so there was no point.
 * 7) Very bad character development. Flash Thompson starts off as being a jerk to Peter Parker, but once Uncle Ben dies, he literally just starts being nice to him like as if he didn't bully him, and what's stupid is that he still acts nice after Peter gets revenge on him.
 * 8)  Absolutely horrendous CGI, especially on The Lizard, and the design of his is extremely ugly and abysmal.
 * 9) To make WIS #3 far worse than it seems, the ending indicates Gwen's father being murdered by The Lizard and having a funeral. Peter doesn't go, and then Gwen asks why. Peter then starts acting so dumb, odd, and creepy to the point where Gwen leaves him, and Peter actually celebrates and gets happy over that, meaning the entire relationship was so pointless! So much for a 2 hour film!
 * 10) In the second original movie, it was revealed that Peter and Harry were best friends for years, but in this movie, Peter never mentions Harry at all and acts like he knew nothing about Oscorp in the beginning of the movie.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Stan Lee's cameo as a libriarian looking for a book with headphones during the battle with Spider-Man and The Lizard is the only good joke they did with this movie.
 * 2) Besides Andrew Garfield, the acting is mostly decent.

Reception
Despite gaining generally postive reviews from critics, with a 73% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 66 on Metacritic, fans have mostly given these mixed reactions. Some have praised Andrew Garfield and still wish for the Marc Webb series to be expanded, although others have wanted this to be forgotten within the Spider-Man name. After the sequel disappointed at the box office, the planned cinematic universe was canceled as well as a third sequel. Sony, however, still had the rights to Spider-Man despite how Marvel was bought by Disney, and they both rebooted the film series with Tom Holland taking the lead and its move to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tom's performance as well as his MCU involvements were more positively received than both the Sam Raimi and Marc Webb films.