The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man Detail

Release : 2012-07-04
Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Runtime : 136 minutes
Company : Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions
revenue : $752,215,857

The Amazing Spider-Man Plot and Review

The Amazing Spider-Man Plot:

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearanceleading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

User Review:

The Amazing Spider-Man has no reason to exist. Spider-man is a hero everyone knows. Hes been around for so long everyone is familiar with his origin, comic fan or not. Its basic pop culture. Then you have the Sam Raimis movies. Everyone saw them. They made loads of money and theyre always on tv. They are entertaining movies. Spider-Man gave us a good origin story in 2002. This movie simply wasn't needed. Now I gave it the benefit of the doubt. Theres Burtons Batman and Nolans. Maybe this was a different Spider-Man. A more dark vision perhaps! Maybe the movie spent a few minutes on the origin and then wisely moved on with its story. Maybe... well maybe it wasn't just another rehash. A shameless attempt to remake, or how they say it these days, reboot the same idea with minimal changes except the cast. I was naive.The whole movie is about Spider-Mans origin. They traded Mary Jane for another love interest and held off on The Green Goblin because that would be too much rubbing it in the face for the fans, I guess. We get Gwen Stacy and The Lizard. The rest is same old, same old. The same uncle Ben plot, the same scenes about making the suit, learning how to control powers, the search for the criminal Spider-man lets get away with horrific results. Same thing. Except everything is done without a spark of energy or creativity. Raimis movies were energetic, flowing with excitement. They were new. Seeing Spider-Man on the big screen, webbing all over the city, fighting The Green Goblin, it was amazing. We didn't have The Avengers back there, or Iron Man. This was like a dream come true for comic fans. The Amazing Spider-Man smells of old cheese. I tried to take the movie for what it was but it was impossible. My mind would not let me. I knew what was going to happen next. I knew all the plots! Id seen it all before! But even ignoring that the movie just does not work. Its slow, turgid with an unlikable Peter Parker and a CGI lizard for a villain. Parker is a whiny, self centered idiot. His relationship with aunt May and uncle Ben is never fully explored and what little there is consists of Parker being a rude jerk for no reason at all. The movie has one thing going for it. The cast. Sally Field and Martin Sheen are great with what little material they have. Emma Stone is sexy and sweet which is her thing and again she pulls it off brilliantly. Rhys Ifans is decent as Curt Connors and surprisingly enough I loved Andrew Garfield as Spidey. Yes, seriously! He looks perfect for the part and he did his best with the horrible script. Hes charismatic and brought his own touch to the role instead of copying Toby Maguire. If the movie is even slightly original its because of him. Some of the action in the last third of the movie is also spectacular. Spider-mans movements when fighting are really well done as is the web-slinging. The action is well directed and exciting and the movie sets up a sequel rather nicely. But its asking a lot to go over the material everyone knows for two hours for a few minutes of cool action. The movie plays it so safe it hurts. Its competent but never brilliant. Tedious but far too long with little spots of action but few and far between. I hope in the sequel this Spider-Man can find its own style and its own place. Given space to grow and evolve, on the strength of the character and Garfields acting this could be the weak start to a new amazing super-hero trilogy. Then again, maybe im just naive.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2012} Official Trailer (HD)

Cast

	Andrew Garfield	as	Spider-Man / Peter Parker
	Emma Stone	as	Gwen Stacy
	Rhys Ifans	as	The Lizard / Dr. Curt Connors
	Denis Leary	as	Captain Stacy
	Martin Sheen	as	Uncle Ben
	Sally Field	as	Aunt May
	Irrfan Khan	as	Rajit Ratha
	Campbell Scott	as	Richard Parker
	Embeth Davidtz	as	Mary Parker
	Chris Zylka	as	Flash Thompson
	Max Charles	as	Peter Parker (Age 4)
	C. Thomas Howell	as	Jack's Father
	Jake Keiffer	as	Jack
	Kari Coleman	as	Helen Stacy
	Stan Lee	as	School Librarian
	Hannah Marks	as	Missy Kallenback
	Kelsey Chow	as	Hot Girl
	Kevin McCorkle	as	Mr. Cramer
	Barbara Eve Harris	as	Miss Ritter
	Danielle Burgio	as	Nicky's Girlfriend
	Michael Barra	as	Store Clerk
	Leif Gantvoort	as	Cash Register Thief
	Andy Pessoa	as	Gordon
	Andy Gladbach	as	Physics Nerd
	Ring Hendricks-Tellefsen	as	Physics Nerd
	Tom Waite	as	Nicky
	Keith Campbell	as	Car Thief
	Steve DeCastro	as	Car Thief Cop
	James Chen	as	olice Officer

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Detail

Release : 2002-05-16
Genre : Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Runtime : 142 minutes
Company : Lucasfilm
revenue : $649,398,328

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Plot and Review

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Plot:

Ten years after the events of the Battle of Naboo, the galaxy has undergone significant changes. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are assigned to protect Padm from political separatists. As relationships form and powerful forces collide, these heroes face choices that will impact the destiny of the Republic.

User Review:

The collective fever that characterized the countdown to The Phantom Menace had long since dissipated by the time the first sequel prequel rolled off the ILM production line. Casual spectators, once stung, had decamped en masse to the newly discovered Middle-Earth, leaving George Lucas with just the few million hardcore fans - true believers who, with all the apprehension of parents at a nativity play, willed their defrocked hero back towards respectability.There are certainly stretches in the patchy Attack Of The Clones when Lucas flat-packed dialogue struggles to keep the hecklers quiet Anakins seduction of the former Queen has all the charm of a teenage lunge behind the bike-sheds and none of the feeling but by the time climactic reel six cranks into high gear the sagas reputation as the godfather of modern sci-fi spectacle is more or less restored. Indeed, when Yoda finally unsheathes his mini-saber and kicks Sith ass the faithful can reliably be found standing on seats hollering as if the outcome was never in doubt. But, as the little Jedi might say, in doubt it was.Where Episode V fairly zipped around the galaxy with all the breezy confidence of youth, unafraid to travel anywhere, even dark places, the second middle child of the saga is saddled with an altogether heavier burden from which it struggles to escape. Empire hits the ground running on ice planet Hoth, Clones however, has a truly cold start to contend with, aware perhaps that the movies most pressing task is to simply atone for the more egregious sins of Episode I. Thus, Jar Jar is quickly sidelined, the upgraded CGI Yoda gets a showcase and those damn Amidala-clones are killed off on page one. On Coruscant we also meet the grown-up Ani - okay so hes a whiny teenager but thats still a vast improvement on the bowl-haired moppet the world was asked to root for in 1999.Also more powerful than when last we met is Ewan McGregors Obi-Wan, the Jedi who was simply wan in Menace is a much more forceful presence as a full-bearded Master, struggling manfully with the endless exposition and even landing the odd punchline.As with Empire, the protagonists are separated for the second act: while Obi-Wan is busy uncovering the conspiracy of the Clones, Anakin and Padme turn into colourless clones of Han and Leia in the romance stakes. There are pleasures (Obi-Wan squares off against Jango Fett) and pitfalls (Anakin and Padme have a picnic) in roughly equal measure throughout this flabby middle act but as with Episode I mostly you get a sense of drama that is willed into being, a necessary bridge to Episode III that requires Lucas to traverse territory romance, politics he is simply not comfortable in.Matters improve greatly in the final forty minutes: Christopher Lees Count Dooku arrives to provide some much needed gravitas, C-3PO turns up to do his C-3PO thing and Padme puts on a skin-tight white leotard. Best of all, Lucas finally cuts loose. The classic trilogy bristled with seat-of-your-pants filmmaking, our heroes bouncing from cliffhanger to cliffhanger, and in the final section of Episode II almost four hours into this prequel enterprise - Lucas at last cranks up to this Saturday morning serial pace: from the Tex Avery goofiness of the droid factory, to the Cecil B. De Mille grandeur of the gladiator arena, the action never lets up.Also in the last reel we finally get to divine something of Lucas grand design, with ironic pay-offs for the fans still paying close attention - it is the witless Jar Jar who makes the creation of a clone army possible and Yoda who first leads what will become Stormtroopers into battle. In its own way, the end of Episode II is every bit as dark as the famous end of Episode V.Unsurprisingly, the least anticipated movie of the saga suffered at the box office Episode IV raked in more money at the US box office back in 1977 and remains largely unloved by the fanbase for its emphasis on the central love story but despite no real improvement in dialogue or acting it functions perfectly well as an old fashioned romantic epic, complete with standalone set-pieces, rich political intrigue and a painters pallette. Indeed, so indebted is Lucas to David O. Selznick here, ultimately he may have been better served abandoning his own trilogy structure and boiling both Episodes I and II down to a 3-hour Gone With The Wind style classic an approach that would have at least halved all that damn anticipation.Verdict - The middle episode that can make a virtue of its bridging role is rare indeed. And where The Empire Strikes Back dazzled with vertiginous cliffhangers, Clones is more typical of the breed, necessary but not vital. However, as we make the awkward journey through Anakins teenage trials a sparkling digital print ensures there is still much to marvel at, not least a little green fella who is surprisingly quick on the draw.3/5- Colin Kennedy, Empire Magazine

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002} Official Trailer (HD)

Cast

	Ewan McGregor	as	Obi Wan Kenobi
	Natalie Portman	as	Padm Amidala
	Hayden Christensen	as	Anakin Skywalker
	Christopher Lee	as	Count Dooku
	Ian McDiarmid	as	Chancellor Palpatine
	Samuel L. Jackson	as	Mace Windu
	Rose Byrne	as	Dorm
	Frank Oz	as	Yoda (Voice)
	Anthony Daniels	as	C-3PO / Dannl Faytonni
	Kenny Baker	as	R2-D2
	Matt Doran	as	Elan Sleazebaggano
	Alan Ruscoe	as	Gilramos Libkath
	Veronica Segura	as	Cord
	Silas Carson	as	Ki-Adi-Mundi / Viceroy Nute Gunray
	Oliver Ford Davies	as	Govenor Sio Bibble
	Ron Falk	as	Dexter Jettster (voice)
	Jay Laga'aia	as	Capt. Typho
	Jimmy Smits	as	Senator Bail Organa
	Daniel Logan	as	Boba Fett
	Temuera Morrison	as	Jango Fett
	Pernilla August	as	Shmi Skywalker
	Ayesha Dharker	as	Queen Jamillia
	Joel Edgerton	as	Owen Lars
	Jack Thompson	as	Cliegg Lars
	Bonnie Piesse	as	Beru
	Andrew Secombe	as	Watto (voice)
	Leeanna Walsman	as	Zam Wesell
	Ahmed Best	as	Jar Jar Binks / Achk Med-Beq (voice)
	Anthony Phelan	as	Lama Su (voice)
	Rena Owen	as	Taun We (voice)
	Alethea McGrath	as	Madame Jocasta Nu
	Susie Porter	as	Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
	Matt Sloan	as	Plo Koon
	David Bowers	as	Mas Amedda
	Steve John Shepherd	as	Naboo lieutenant
	Bodie Taylor	as	Clone Trooper
	Matt Rowan	as	Senator Orn Free Taa
	Steven Boyle	as	Senator Ask Aak / Passel Argente
	Zachariah Jensen	as	Kit Fisto
	Alex Knoll	as	J.K. Burtola
	Phoebe Yiamkiati	as	Mari Amithest