8 Overhyped Movies We Can Consider Fairly Now The Dust Has Settled
2. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Original Reaction...
rating: 3.5
I'm perhaps one of very few sane people who felt that there was still a lot of steam left in the Sam Raimi-helmed Spider-Man franchise, mostly because - at the end of the controversial third flick - things seemed relatively unresolved, and that peeved me. So they rebooted the franchise instead with Andrew Garfield replacing Tobey McGuire, and although I would have easily traded this movie for a fourth Raimi outing, the fact that Garfield was involved gave me hope. The result? An enjoyable if not wholly unoriginal origin story that was probably too samey to excite fans in the ways they had hoped, with an impressive first hour and a generic second. Now The Dust Has Settled...rating: 3
Free from hype and expectation and the knowledge, The Amazing Spider-Man impressed me far less on the second time around, mostly because I realised just how willing it was to just retrace the steps of Sam Raimi's 2002 movie. Was it necessary to play it this safe? Okay, so they made Peter a little more akin to how he is the comic book (he's more jerk-ish as Spider-Man, at least), but the second hour of the movie is a real mess, and the resulting CGI fights are bland and uninspired. The most interesting aspect? The conversations between Peter and his uncle and Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey. Ultimately, though, here's a mediocre superhero movie that feels kind of like a wasted opportunity.