Well, just finished ASM2...hooo boy, was that terrible. Rhino being a nothing character, despite how much Sony were advertising him being in it, the movie actually ends the exact same shot the trailers that it was advertising for, i.e., this.
The whole movie actually kinda feels like that. A movie that's little more that a marketing apparatus for Sony's upcoming Spiderman movies, told in an utterly haphazard way that actually doesn't make it feel like a movie at all, but a trailer. From the whole mystery of Peter's parents, to setting up future characters, there's very little the movie has on its own. It's just such an empty product of a movie.
That being said, the movie looks nice. Photographed very well with rich colours and well detailed faces compared to the darkened grey filter and textureless features that the last movie had. Probably aided by the fact that it was shot on 35mm film as well as a change in cinematographer. It's a shame though that for all it offers, the actual image is the movie's high point.
And I don't care what anyone says, Spiderman quipping just doesn't work on film. Any scene that has him doing it just comes off as irritating, which is why I'm glad that the Raimi trilogy kept that to an absolute minimum. Not that it matters anyway, since Pete himself seems to crack a few jokes out loud in the movie, pretty much meaning that he and Spidey are now basically the same character.
So yeah, my mini review of ASM2. I'm hoping to expand this out and incorporate the previous movie in a future review in which I'll look deeper in what those movies have to offer, but right now, all I can say about the new one is...I think it might just be worse than the last one.
