The Amazing Spider-Man
Columbia Pictures
By: Chris "Sledge" Douglas
The Amazing Spider-Man.
After I saw this movie for the first time, my friends asked me what I thought of it. They'd seen it, and they reacted pretty positively to it.
My reaction to this fourth Spider-Man film from Columbia?
Meh.
A big resounding "meh."
In fact, specifically I remember saying that this movie just felt empty. It had decent moments, but overall just felt like there was no heart.
Now, I'm noticing I come around on my opinions a lot more these days. Maybe it's a symptom of getting older and more jaded to this sort of thing. Or maybe I just have strong initial reactions, but then calm down considerably. Who knows?
Plus, I just felt it was way too soon to do a reboot of a franchise whose last movie was just a few years earlier. In fact, plot elements such as Dr. Curt Connors being the main bad guy seemed to only be there because the previous franchise would have gone there anyway.
So I decided to watch it again. And here is what I thought.
