Sunday 11 June 2017

The Amazing Spider Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: 2014

Cast: Andrew Garfield (as Spiderman), Emma Stone (as Gwen Stacy), Dane DeHaan (as Harry Osborn/ New Goblin)

IMDB: 6.7

The Amazing Spider-Man series has continued with the second movie. The movie is about how Peter Parker deals with the family secrets while his girlfriend is going away to England and his friend requests his help which he can't offer. His friend Harry is dying because of a genetical disease and asks Peter to get Spider-Man's blood to  help him cure himself with the special feature in the half-spider blood. Nevertheless he isn't aware of the fact that none of the people except from Peter's blood line is suited for it and it can actually kill him. When Peter (Spiderman) refuses Harry, he chooses a much different path which includes getting involved with a guy that has turned into an electric-person because of some accident in the Oscorb centre. When Electro is released, he tries to wreck the whole city to get back to Spiderman while Harry finds another way to cure himself. He finds the special projects which includes the spider project and injects himself a liquid and turns into the Goblin. He finds out that Peter is the spiderman and hates him for betraying him and not offering his help while he was dying. While they fight, Gwen gets involved and she dies eventually which makes Peter depressed.

Personal Thoughts: It really was amazing. I liked the story line for different reasons. When people watch Spiderman, they usually focus on Spiderman's side of the story but this movie gave an insight to the side of the "bad guys". To be honest, I find Electro really interesting because of his past of being almost invisible to people even if he was so important to the city. He has turned into a mutated person and I think that's a part of the reason why he became so angry all of a sudden. He had been ignored for so long that when he became another person, he automatically abandoned his old self because people actually acknowledged him and that was as good as it could get for him. I found it sad because the day he turned into that person, it was his birthday and since he didn't have any friends, he was celebrating his own birthday by his own. I think these people in movies represent the people in reality so much that it adds even more to the movie. Also, the reason why I watched the movie was because of Dane DeHaan and he truly was amazing. He's probably my second celebrity crush and he's married. Anyway, he was also great. I just find his voice and look so captivating that he can suit any character and make them seem dramatic and elegant. His desperation was really visible in the movie. I believe he became so cold because of how he was treated. He was all alone even if he didn't look like it. He had to look strong even when he was dying and nobody was helping him. It was the part where the lawyer guy said that he was basically a nothing to the world that affected me the most in his scenes. Also his personality as Harry, not the Goblin, was funny in a weird way. I think in some parts of the movie he was the funniest character (of course that's before he turned into a green skinned ginger who flew around the city on a board). I used to look at Marvel movies as simple super hero movies but I think some of them are more than that. They portrait the bad characters so well that it foreshadows the good ones to be honest. Ps: I know it sounds irrelevant now but Gwen's death was sad.