10 Simple Fixes That Would Have Saved The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2. We Need To Talk About Peter
In Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker somehow always managed to draw the short straw. Bullied at school, belittled by his Daily Bugle boss, overlooked by the love of his life and toyed with by theatre ushers, it wasnt difficult to sympathise with Peter as he struggled through his ho-hum daily existence. When the reboot came around, it was pretty clear that everyone involved took pains to avoid comparisons with Raimis films wherever possible at times successfully. One of the big wins for Webb and co. was the decision to give Spider-Man a little more sass by imbuing him with the lip and quips familiar from the comic books, which was hugely pleasing to die-hard fans. Peter Parker, however, is another story. Tobey Maguires bruised puppy approach wasn't for everyone, but the same can certainly be said for Andrew Garfields skater chic It Boy. The character doesn't have to be a blubbing doormat, yet the new films have gone too far the other way; Peter is no longer an ordinary kid with problems hes a suave, ladykilling (pardon the pun), wisecracking, easygoing tech genius, and its all a bit much. This Peter seldom seems genuinely troubled by anything even his guilty conscience never lands properly, and his grief in the films climax is washed over in minutes. It would have been a simple fix for TASM2 to ground the character some more, particularly as he leaves school behind to enter the adult world.
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