9 Routine Things Movies Do To Set Up The Sequel

6. Go Back to Sub-Plots the Movie Has Long Abandoned

Perpetrator: The Amazing Spider-Man This isn't another The Amazing Spider-Man rant that I'm prone to writing, now-a-days. I'm merely using it as my example. The film, in its trailers and for the first thirty minutes of the movie, decides to explore Peter Parker's family life. The disappearance of his parents, their part in his transformation, and all of Richard Parker's contributions to Oscorp. But when Spider-Man shows up, the film decides that it never really cared about Peter's parents. Until we get our nonsensical and completely shoe-horned mid-credits scene in which the villain of the movie, Doctor Connors, talks to a shadowy figure (whose identity is too obscured, and is probably not anyone we saw earlier in the film) and warns the man to stay away from Peter and the notion that the teenager doesn't know anything about his father's work. Now, this is different from point 9 (returning to a sub-plot more important than the movie as a whole), because the movie is actually more about the birth of Spider-Man than it is family fun night at the Parker house (where Peter is really bad at hide-and-seek). And I could go on and say that The Amazing Spider-Man is also a prime example of number 5 on this list (returning to Gwen's affections), but I'll leave it alone, because even I'm tired of my own *itching at what was a fairly entertaining flick.