Trailer Tuesday-- Amazing Spider-Man 2

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It's that time of the week again where we Take a Seat and look at a trailer for something coming up on the horizon.  I considered posting about the Robocop remake that comes out this week, but I might end up going to see that so I'll save it just in case.  I'm chomping at the bit for a bad review, and that one just. might. do it.

I've been thinking all day what to review.  Since I am still just getting started reviewing and there are so many movies and trailers out there I need to catch up on (plus TV show reviews I'd like to get to), there are quite a few choices.  To pluck some more low-hanging fruit, I decided to look at another comic-book movie: Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Pictured:  Low-hanging fruit

Obviously, I never reviewed the first Amazing Spider-Man so first we should talk a little about that movie.  The first time I heard it announced that a new Spider-Man was being made I wasn't into it at all.  We just turned off Spider-Man 3 with Tobey Maguire and suddenly there was another movie with a new actor and the word "Amazing" in the title in the pipeline.  Granted, this was actually several years later, but you get my point.  It felt so soon.  I'm not saying I loved or even liked the Maguire trilogy but, without giving too many seperate reviews all at once, I liked the first one and thought they went downhill from there.

With the fresh memory of another Spider-Man and rumors that this new one was made due to not wanting to lose the Copyright, it seemed like a recipe for disaster.  Leading up to the movie, through trailers and all, I was reluctant to give it a chance.  Once it finally made it to the dollar theater (Rest in Peace, Carmike Maxi-Saver), I decided to give it a try one day after I got out of the gym.  Yes, I showered first, I'm not insane.

I prefer eccentric.

I was pleasantly surprised.  I liked the casting choices.  Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Denis Leary as her cop dad, Sally field as Aunt May, Martin Sheen (not the crazy one, his dad) as Uncle Ben, and Rhys Ifans as the villain: The Lizard were all solid.  It took watching the movie to realize that Andrew Garfield was going to be a good Spidey.  It also took watching the movie to realize that he once before saved New York from the Daleks with The Doctor on Doctor Who.

From Left to Right:  Jones, Martha; Doctor, The; Man, Spider

Anyway, it changed my tune and I was like, "Tobey Macguire who?" Although at that point most people had seen Sea Biscuit and were thinking that already.  Anyway, now that we have the background out of the way, it's time for the main attraction!  Here's the trailer:

Holy villain overload, Spider-Man!  I'm not saying that as a bad thing.  In this movie, we finally meet Harry Osborn.  We also see him using Oscorp tech to turn himself into the Hobgoblin.  No cheesy Green Goblin mask in this one.  This looks like a gritty Gobby and I really like the casting.  The actor first showed up on my radar when I watched Chronicle, a movie I wasn't expecting much from but surprised me largely because of him.  

Other glimpses we get are of Electro, played by Jamie Foxx, and Rhino played by Paul Giamatti.  Foxx was an interesting choice, but he might turn out to be really good.  Especially if he is mostly CG like he appears to be in the trailer.  Giamatti is great and I can't wait to see more of him and this updated version of Rhino.  

That's a lot of villains for one movie.  That pretty much leaves Doc Oc and/or Venom for the bad guy in the inevitable 3rd movie in the series.  At least as headlining villains, that is.  They don't appear to be wasting Doc Oc in the second movie like that other trilogy.  

So that's it, right?  Just one trailer?  A little over 2 and a half minutes of foreplay?  NOPE!  Last week during the Superb Owl, an extended trailer dropped.  I didn't watch it until after, but I imagine it was another where they directed you to go watch it online.  Otherwise, the commercial would have cost as much as a small movie itself.  Here's the extended trailer:

There may be another trailer floating out there, but I don't care.  This extended look is all I need to see before going to this movie.  It starts with Peter being really bad about hiding his alter-ego from his Aunt May. (It looks like it ends that way too, and quite hilariously.) The biggest thing we get is a view of non-CG Jamie Foxx.  We get a little bit of the story as to how he becomes a villain.  He was an introvert and looked up to Spider-Man. He has a kind of cliche industrial accident that gives him super powers over electricity. He wants to be more like Spider-Man but is not accepted as such and when Spider-Man doesn't recall his name he flies off the handlebars.  Is it just me or did he fall into a vat of electric eels?  

Even a little fresher and more 'ZAP'-y

Other than Electro, we see slightly more of Rhino and a little more of Harry.  With this trailer, I think we can safely say that the story should be a good one.  Uniting all three of these villains against Spider-Man should provide a very entertaining couple of hours.  I just hope that it's not some cheesy twist that enables Spider-Man to win out.  Because he will.  There is still money to be made.  Things don't look so good for New York as it appears another movie is hell-bent on leveling as many buildings as possible.  Should be something to see and I can't wait until I can see it and how Spider Man handles it all.

"Oh.. Shit."