I finally saw The Amazing Spiderman 2.
I've come to the conclusion that Superhero movies lose me. I like genre films that just happen to have Superheroes in them.
Batman Begins is a Kung Fu flick.
The Dark Knight is a heist film.
The Watchmen is a character study.
The good X-Men films are the ones that accentuate the X-Men as a metaphor for social issues.
Iron Man is a corruption flick, while also turning Tony Stark into a great character study.
The Winter Soldier is a paranoid political thriller.
The Avengers, for all intents and purposes, is your token buddy cop movie.
Superhero movies that simply stay superhero movies lose me really quickly, and that is what every Spiderman films seems to be. It just stays a superhero movie.
Maybe, with time, and seeing this series develop will make this addition to the series look better in hindsight, as this series is compounding this BIG MYSTERY...but as a stand alone...I was not feeling it at all. Its also confused as to what it wants to be. Is it like the Raimi films where its a comic book on the screen or is it a more reality based take. You have Curt Connors and Max Dillion being your token rogue origin story while you now have Rhino and the Green Goblin as some sort of reality based, using the totally cliche in a post-Nolan Batman World "prototype military technology"...just totally confused on what it wants to be.
Meanwhile, there are so many corny parts to The Amazing Spiderman 2, it takes me out of any mystery solving or attachment to the developing story.
Overall, thumbs down from me.
I still think the best medium for a live-action Spiderman is via the small screen. His story and his rogue gallery is tailor made for episodic television. Especially for what they are trying to do with this series here.