Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5041674-20140508040330/@comment-1895174-20140510154709

Really didn't like it. Easily the weakest Spider-Man movie to date.

In no particular order:
 * The movie wastes Norman Osborn, Marvel's best villain, and Harry is more weaselly than intimidating.
 * Dr. Kafka is turned into a mad scientist (and a dude).
 * Electro is akin to a villain from Joel Schumacher's Batman movies; he is the personality of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze given the character arc of Jim Carrey's Riddler.
 * The showdown in Times Square was good, but the rest of the movie's fights (especially the one with Harry Osborn) were CGI cluster****s and made the movie look like a cartoon.
 * Like the previous Amazing Spider-Man movie, Peter and Gwen's "romance" is the strongest part of the movie (no doubt bolstered by Garfield and Stone's performances), but that relationship is at times taken to weird places where Peter comes off as kind of a stalker.
 * Complete and total dissonance between the movie's more dramatic moments and the campier stuff.
 * Absolute mess of a story less concerned with its own narrative than it is in setting up another movie, and even then it fails at that, too.
 * Encouraging audiences to use their phone during the movie.