Equating 2-5 minutes of on-screen foreshadowing of future events with "a two hour trailer" must be yet another one of those weird "millennial" things. Wouldn't you agree a-dev?
amazing spiderman 2 feels like a 2 hour trailers because a lot of the actions in the movie are not done because of the plot of its own movie but because it really is just setting up for future movies.
If a movie has its own plot and things in it are happening because of its own plot, if characters are doing actions that have to do with its OWN plot,
Rhino was in it ONLY to set up sinister six and stuff.... Rhino had no real meaning in the movie. yeah sure the opening was there to showcase Spiderman using his powers and saving the city, but that didn't have to be rhino, it could have been any random villain.
(You could say "Well crows, it was better that it was Rhino because it was nice to have a known villain open the movie"
But then I would say, if they want to use Rhino why not add him to the rest of the story? why not do something else with him, not just use him to open the movie but have him be a bigger part of the movie.
Green Goblin was the same thing, he served no real purpose in the story. OR if they wanted him to have a bigger place in this world, why have him show up out of nowhere for no reason?
The only real character with a real story was Electro, his story began, had a middle and ended. Rhino and Goblin just had a beginning and a set up.
Their motivations are only made to set up future movies. they have no arc. And you can always use the "Cameo" Excuse but then again Cameos are meant to be short, Goblin is in the movie long enough to not be a cameo but not long enough to be a real character. Rhino is a better cameo but then he still sucks because everyone expected to see the fight between Spiderman and Rhino that they teased in the movie...
If anything, As bad as Venom was in Spiderman 3... he was a more real character than the characters in AM2. Venom had a tiny Arc but it was still an arc.... Sandman also had somewhat of an arc. a beginning middle and an end.
the reason Lord of the rings is different is because they had a clear story that just happened to be told in 3 movies, Just like Kill Bill was meant to be 2 movies. Amazing Spiderman was building to things that they didn't even have scripts for yet. making things as they went along. Setting up character and incomplete arcs for future movies that they didn't even know how they were going to be made.
Thats the biggest difference between Amazing spiderman 2 and Lord of the rings, one of them had a very clear vision, a clear path to follow and a complete story with a clear beginning and end.
the other one was a movie made to set up future events while trying to be its own single movie trying to tell one single story while at the same time trying to be part of a bigger story and it failed because it couldn't do both properly.
This movie to me lies in the middle of both. Maybe Snyder has a clear vision for the entire franchise so the setting up here is not as terrible as AM2, but the computer clips were laughable. the aquaman is ridiculous. it is not even a proper set up, it is not even a cameo.
