So, I got the Spider-man Legacy Collection the other day. I've been going through each and judging each on it's own merits.
Obviously I'm not going to talk about them all right here because it's 2 in the morning. Holy **** though out of every villain in the entirety of the Spider-man movies Jamie Fox's Electro is by far the most useless. His character arc is literally just jealous to violence and it happens within literal seconds (yeah sure Venom is pretty much the same way in 3 but at least that can be blamed on the symbiote), he's then locked up for half of the movie only to come back as a revenge driven Harry Osborne Slave. Admittedly he does have the cool fight scenes and that crazy ass music to save him a bit but still. Like I get that they tried to portray him as a little unhinged in those fantasy flashes he has but that's just that, fantasy flashes, and shoot everyone has had a few of those.
I don't think The Amazing Spider-man 2 is as bad as people say but I think it could've been so much better if they would've focused on Electro entirely. Like, throw in the Rhyno crashing through the streets stealing whatever he was stealing in his actual battle suit and have the opening end with Spider-man finishing the battle and that's IT. No more villains, no more Rhyno, focus on Electro and wait till the very end to try and set up the Sinister Six like they oh so wanted to do. Maybe with someone who is recognizable? You know like Connors? The Lizard? Talking to Rhyno? Instead of that copout Nick Fury Man in the Shadows bull****? Throw out the Green Goblin entirely because no one's ever going to top Willem Dafoe as that character. If all of that, honestly, obvious stuff would've happened this movie could've been super super solid. Like Spider-man 1 level of solid.
I dunno, I'm glad things turned out the way they did because now Spidey is in the MCU but I can't help but think of how much of a missed opportunity this movie was. But y'know, as they say, hindsight is 20/20.
If anyone cares enough I may review the Spider-man movies including 1, 2/2.1, 3, 3 Editor's Cut, Amazing, Amazing 2, leading up to Homecoming which I'll see tomorrow night. I honestly don't know how many of you really care about my movie views but, hey, I'll put it out there.