10 Simple Fixes That Would Have Saved The Amazing Spider-Man 2
7. Put The Foreshadowing In The Shade
From the moment Emma Stone was cast as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man, there was a Grim Reaper-shaped shadow enveloping the character. Marc Webbs first Spider-Man movie has come in for a lot of criticism, but one thing he absolutely got right was casting Emma Stone to play Peter Parkers first love, as was the case in the early comics. Stone had already made a firm impression in the likes of Superbad and Zombieland, but her effortlessly charming turn as Stacy took her career up another notch. Her obvious and very real chemistry with Andrew Garfield was the films best feature, and this was arguably the case again in the recent sequel. That being said, the character is famous in comic book lore for the story arc The Night Gwen Stacy Died so speculation that a terrible fate would befall her in The Amazing Spider-Man films was instant and incessant. In TASM2, the warning signs started flashing as soon as she began her valedictorian speech, and with every reference to how life doesnt last forever and her knowing now more than ever that what makes it precious is that it ends, the writing leapt further off the wall to claw at the audiences eyeballs. Theres nothing wrong with foreshadowing, and the scene when Peter watches her speech near the movies end was genuinely moving, but making it so obvious from the get-go that she wouldnt survive the running time was heavy-handed and ate away at the suspense.
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