Cinema Report #17 - The Amazing Spiderman - Rise of Electro
A better title would have been “The Exaggerated Spiderman - Rise of all sorts of bad guys”. Honestly, I hardly ever have seen a film that was so over the top in every aspect: facial expressions, costumes, special effects, music, number of bad guys, details, inner and outer conflicts, etc.. That's not really a bad thing, but I really felt a bit overwhelmed.
First of all, I'm no big Spiderman fan. I read some of the comics, but then was annoyed when he apparently had multiple clones and some good and bad versions of himself. His costume might not be as ridiculous as that of Superman, but you can't modernize it in any proper way either. Most of all, I think his enemies all look silly and are rather annoying - perhaps because they are all lunatics.
So I don't really know why there need to be several Spiderman versions in the cinema. They are all the same to me. In contrast to that, Batman is and gets reinvented again and again in a much better and more interesting way.
Since everything was over the top, it also was all kind of impressive. You actually jumped and swung with him though the air, between the skyscrapers. The bad guys, albeit ridiculous, were intimidating and dangerous. You could even sympathize with the emotions, although I wanted to tell those characters to just take it all a bit more easy.
The end was a bit disappointing, because they seemed to run out of ideas there.
Firstly, why did we need to see the Green Goblin and Rhinoceros not only introduced, but also fought against, when the movie is called “Rise of Electro”?
Secondly, why did Spiderman's love-interest have to die like that of (Hugh Jackman's) Van Helsing - by pure bad luck and clumsiness of the hero?
And lastly, they stole the months-long depression of Twilight-Bella - although it was probably more justified in Peter Parker's case.