15 Predictions For 2014 Movies Everybody Got Wrong

9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Will Be A Significant Improvement

The Prediction: After director Marc Webb and lead Andrew Garfield had to deal with the awkward growing pains and undeniable redundancy of the Amazing Spider-Man reboot, surely the second movie would feel like a proper Spider-Man sequel and get things back on track? The Reality: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is both the lowest-grossing and worst-received of all five Spider-Man movies to date, in large part because it had clearly failed to learn the lessons of the second-worst movie, Spider-Man 3. Much like that catastrophe, this film is overloaded with villains while seemingly struggling to actually fill its bloated 142-minute run-time. Jamie Foxx is horribly miscast in the role of limp villain Electro, Paul Giamatti is relegated to a glorified cameo, and aside from Gwen Stacy's death, there's just not a lot here that evokes more than a dubious shrug. Due to the movie's tepid reception, production on a third film has been delayed by two whole years to 2018.