The Amazing Spider Man 2 (2014)

[jye4ever]

I really hated the slow mo scene on those steps saving them from the electricity.

 

[RIDDICK]

The CG for the Brolectro fight looked like a video game.

Blur Studio makes better CGI for VG shorts then what was shown in entire ASM2.

 

[Rorywan]

I really hated the slow mo scene on those steps saving them from the electricity.

Me too. I hate when actors stand still pretending to be time sliced/frozen momented.

Always looks cheesy.

 

[karamazov80]

Me too. I hate when actors stand still pretending to be time sliced/frozen momented.

Always looks cheesy.

I can think of one instance, and one instance only where that worked for me--in the first episode of Firefly, when Mal is standing slackjawed in slow motion, watching his forces get overrun, and you see a guy in the background getting blown away with gunfire. I'm not even biggest fan of that show, but that was effective to me. Most of the time I see that--i.e., Michael Bay, Bruckheimers--it does nothing for me at all. I get though that in Spider-Man they were trying to demonstrate at one point how he was able to perceive things more quickly than others, and they were trying to establish that the electricity was going to harm or kill people if he didn't act in just the right way at just the right time. But I think that could have been more effectively done without the slo-mo. Part where he slowly did mid-air flips at the end to avoid electricity was not effective IMO.

 

[jye4ever]

Slow Mo is not even used in porn where it should be used.

 

[thenammagazine]

Slow Mo is not even used in porn where it should be used.

Things don't look the same in slo-mo. It gives you the time to ponder, "Wow, WTF is that bump?! Did they shallack foundation over a sore?"

So what should've been turns into...

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

That is one fascinating cat.

 

[DiFabio]

You mean *****.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I really hated the slow mo scene on those steps saving them from the electricity.

I think it would've been better if it wasn't so SLOWWWWW and kept switching between characters. The tension was lost because it took too long

 

[Khev]

I think it would've been better if it wasn't so SLOWWWWW and kept switching between characters. The tension was lost because it took too long

Yeah I get the Matrix thing they were going for but that's just so old hat now. I liked how the Sherlock Holmes movies would do his whole previsualization before a fight. I always that was a cool "Spider-Sense" type technique.

 

[RIDDICK]

I liked how the Sherlock Holmes movies would do his whole pre-visualization before a fight.
that was a cool "Spider-Sense" type technique.

it was great (at least in the first movie).

I felt no spider-sense presence while watching ASM2, non at all.

 

[thenammagazine]

it was great (at least in the first movie).

I felt no ыpider-sense presence while watching ASM2, non at all.

I never knew "Spicey-Sense" was actually Bullet Time.

 

[jye4ever]

Speaking with The Daily Beast, Garfield revealed that execs tore into the script written by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, which he believes ultimately destroyed its thematic spine.

"I read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I was getting away from how I actually felt about it," said Garfield. "For me, I read the script that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it. I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it—because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related. Once you start removing things and saying, “No, that doesn’t work,” then the thread is broken, and it’s hard to go with the flow of the story. Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the final say in those movies because they’re the tentpoles, so you have to answer to those people.

As for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 (due in 2018), Garfield hopes that team will learn from its mistakes, rather than throwing up their hands in despair.

"It’s a discernment thing. What are the people actually saying? What’s underneath the complaint, and how can we learn from that? We can’t go, “Oh God, we *****ed up because all these people are saying all these things. It’s *****.” We have to ask ourselves, “What do we believe to be true?” Is it that this is the fifth Spider-Man movie in however many years, and there’s a bit of fatigue? Is it that there was too much in there? Is it that it didn’t link? If it linked seamlessly, would that be too much? Were there tonal issues? What is it? I think all that is valuable. Constructive criticism is different from people just being dicks, and I love constructive criticism. Hopefully, we can get underneath what the criticism was about, and if we missed anything."

 

[thenammagazine]

Textbook denial.

 

[Khev]

I don't know, it sounds like he was harsher on it than me.

 

[DiFabio]

Yeah, that doesn't sound like denial. Sounds like it was botched during production. He's not really defending it there.

 

[jye4ever]

Soon he will be hanging out with Shia Lemouth.

 

[thenammagazine]

Yeah, that doesn't sound like denial. Sounds like it was botched during production. He's not really defending it there.

He's refusing to take any of the responsibility and pointing fingers. His channeling Hayden Christensen for the second time didn't help matters.

 

[DiFabio]

The story and whole thing being crap isn't his fault!