It’s the
penultimate review of Spider-man Month!!
And yes,
this is my favourite Spider-man movie. It’s also the only one I’ve seen at the
cinema. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t got its problems, but I’ll get to that.
The Amazing
Spider-man had a decent box office performance, making give or take
$500million, and this one made about the same (I know it's the lowest grossing of the films, but it's not by much)… So why is this one judged a
failure again? People expected it to break $1bn, why? None of the other
Spider-man movies managed that. Iron Man 3 did it? Well, yeah and you wanna
know why? Because it was that followed the f*cking Avengers! Iron Mans 1 and 2
didn’t get close. Because the 2nd and 3rd Nolan Batman
movies did it? (The first one didn’t get close) here’s some advice Sony.
SPIDER-MAN ISN’T BATMAN! Batman is the most popular super-hero, Spider-man is at
best the 3rd most popular Superhero, with Superman second. (OK, that
might be a personal thing, but…) Speaking of our big boy Blue, remind me how
Man of Steel did in the Box office.
Oh yeah, it
did worse than this film. Seriously, DC is using Man of Steel to launch a DC
Franchise, Amazing Spider-man 2… Might spawn a Sinister 6 movie. I suppose the
issue is merchandise. Whilst DC, and its parent company Time Warner own all the rights to their characters, Sony does not own the toy rights to Spider-man.
Disney owns them, and gets most of the profits from movie related toys, and other merchandise. So
really, the movie is Sony’s bread and butter. But $500 million, most of your
movies don’t make that kind of money
OK, rant
over… It just bugs me every time people say this movie was a commercial
failure. It really wasn’t. But clearly it was enough to drive Sony into making
a deal with Marvel to pair Spider-man into the MCU.
The Amazing
Spider-man 2 was Mark Webb’s attempt to make a movie that stands on its own,
whilst also giving opportunities for sequels and spin-offs. You’ll quickly see
he succeeds in one of those but whether he succeeds in the other is
questionable. So let’s dig into the Fairly Decent Spider-man 2 (well, that’s
the more accurate title) and see what we’ve got here.
