So, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Isn’t That Amazing

My first draft of this was a proper review were I talked about really liking The Amazing Spider-Man that came in 2012 and how I was nervous, but excited for the next film. To see what it could build on what the first did. Well, I’m here to tell you. It did nothing.

The Amazing Spooder-Man 2 poster!

Like I said in the opening to this post, I was very excited for this sequel. For one, because I really think that Andrew Garfield is the right Peter Parker, and two because Marc Webb done such a good job with the origin story, so now that that was out of the way, maybe he could expand on the Spider-Man universe! I was nervous, which I can admit. I thought the advertising was way over the top and that they never really picked out a ‘main villain’, they were just like:

“GUYS LOOK, WE HAVE ELECTRO, AND GREEN GOBLIN! SEE!? BUT WE ALSO HAVE RHINOOOO! I KNOW! ISN’T IT GREAT!?”

So, how bad was The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Well for me, I thought it was pretty damn bad. One problem that may come as a surprise is, the movie is far too long. It’s like two hours and twenty minutes in total or something. And for the majority of that, it’s just filled with utter crap that isn’t needed. If you want/need an example, the focus on the relationship between Peter and Gwen is ridiculous. It’s almost too much of them. There is one scene where the two of them are literally just complementing each other and it feels like it goes on forever. A part of me thinks, I shouldn’t be surprised we got such a focus on them together when the director had previously done 500 Days of Summer which is a romance movie itself. I don’t mind the relationship existing and it being shown, but it gets far too much screen time. I came to see SPIDER-MAN, not “PETER PARKER: THE MOVIE”.

The other problem with the movie is, it literally tries to jam everything into the movie. And one of them ‘things’ is Rhino. Lets not lie here, Rhino is blatantly advertised as a villain in this movie and that he actually plays a part in the film. Well, he does play a part in the film, maybe like a total of three minutes of being on screen. Him being a part of this movie, single handily ruins the ending. Not only that, the ending is actually shown in trailers and ads on TV. You’ve probably seen the ending yourself and you don’t even know it yet. How about that? You’re probably going through your brain thinking:

“The ending is in the advert and trailer? What? Well, that doesn’t make sense cause nothing it is really an ending”

And that would be correct because the ending is absolute horse shit on fire. When the credits shot up, I laughed and said “That cannot be it”. Oh! But it was! Either it was Sony pushing Marc Webb, and making him add in Rhino and stuff to set up The Sinister Six, or just Webb himself, setting up the sequel. Whoever’s choice it was, it was a fucking dumb mistake and an obvious one at that.

I don’t know Spooder-Man…I don’t know.

So, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn’t that amazing after-all.

(Note: There was a few good parts of the film, like the battles with Electro and Green Goblin, but there is so much stupid filler in the movie that it ruins it.)

Until next time.

 

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Millionaires + Football = A Series of Unfortunate Events

I know there is always that one person in relation to every single argument, that says the old way that something was, is still the better way. And I don’t want to be that guy here, but I believe I have to be. But don’t worry, I’ll be real and honest with you regarding this topic, unlike this guy:

Oh no, I hope he’s okay!

I’ve grown up watching football (soccer if you’re American), and it has always been something I have loved watching every weekend. And to this very day, I still watch it and pay attention to the scores every weekend and what has been happening. But over the past few years, a number of things for football have changed. One of them which I think is the main problem, is how the sport has turned into a non-contact sport.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not asking for peoples legs to be broke every single game and dangerous tackles to be flying in left and right. But what I am certainly not asking for is if a player is even in the slightest way touched, maybe by a hand on their shoulder or something of the sorts, that they fall to the ground and start the lessons they learned in acting class during the week to be believable. And the worst thing about this is, it happens every damn match. Every weekend you have it happening, and it puts me off more and more every time I see it happening. It’s cheating, it is that simple and they aren’t pushed for it most of the time. Which is a disgrace.

Another issue with football now would be all the money that is involved with the sport. Look at all the huge clubs in football now that get multi-millionaires purchasing them, and they go on a spending spree buying any player they want from some other league, put him on the most ridiculous wages of all time. This happening now with clubs, has almost made getting young new players from the clubs academy worthless. Why wait a few years and train the 18 year old to be good, when you can just buy an already good player for a couple of million? Sure, it’s the easy and lazy way out.

I mentioned players being on ridiculous wages briefly before, and I want to touch on it just a bit more. How a person like Wayne Rooney, who admittedly is a great footballer (having a bad spell at the moment, but in general is great) just a few weeks ago got a wage increase. He’s now on about 300,000 weekly, for just playing football…yep, that alone. Like I said he is a great footballer, but not one footballer in the world deserves to be on a six figure salary. In my opinion, he would be lucky to be a fraction of that salary if it was up to me (unfortunately not, huh?).

Why is football going this way? Well, one of the reasons is money. As proved, money does weird things to certain people (and things). It makes these footballers who are on absurd amounts of money a week, think that they are some of the most popular and needed people in the damn world.

If football keeps on going down this path, I can’t see a bright future for the sport.

Money does good for certain things, true.

But not everything.

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