{"id":2099,"date":"2014-05-09T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:55:54","slug":"movie-review-spiderman-2-sucks-give-lone-ranger-and-abe-lincoln-vampire-hunter-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/movie-review-spiderman-2-sucks-give-lone-ranger-and-abe-lincoln-vampire-hunter-a-try\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE REVIEW: Spiderman 2 sucks.  Give Lone Ranger and Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a Try!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlM2CWNTQ84\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">SPIDER-MAN<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a0D&#8217;OH!<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">I\u2019m a huge\u00a0<\/span>Spider-man<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0fan.\u00a0 I don\u2019t read the comics, but I love the cartoons;\u00a0 and I love all of the movies\u2026well, all except this one.\u00a0 It really brings me to a great dismay to say this,\u00a0but <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Amazing Spider-man 2<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> is an average-to-bad movie.\u00a0\u00a0 I was on the fence with first installment.\u00a0\u00a0 It was good, but nothing like the previous\u00a0<\/span>Spider-man<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0Trilogy.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNumber Two\u201d teeters on the edge of sucky.\u00a0 At some point, it was downright cheesy.\u00a0 And at other times, the dialogue belonged in a children\u2019s movie.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the screenwriter in me talking.\u00a0 That\u2019s just a naked observation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many movie critics, who know nothing about the art of storytelling, claim that Spider-man Two\u2019s problem stems from the movie having too many \u201cbad guys.\u201d\u00a0 This is entirely wrong.\u00a0 Movies always have more than one antagonist.\u00a0 In fact, mostly everyone in a script makes our hero\u2019s life more complicated than it has to be.\u00a0\u00a0 Spider-man 2, is just a poorly done movie on all levels.\u00a0 What\u2019s worse is that it\u2019s boring.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Webb, the director, is truly out of his league and he should not be allowed to direct the third installment.\u00a0 \u00a0Sony had originally chosen him to direct the franchise because of his success of directing the movie <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">500 Days of Summer.<\/span>\u00a0 The movie was hailed as a directorial achievement, but it\u2019s really nothing to write home about.\u00a0 It\u2019s a regular love story told \u201cout-of-order.\u201d\u00a0 If it were told in order, 500 Days of Summer, would be a pretty crappy movie.\u00a0 \u00a0But it\u2019s not , so it fools you into thinking it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">500 Days of Summer<\/span> was Webb\u2019s only theatrical movie that he directed before Spider-man.\u00a0 His next movie should have not been an action-adventure movie but a love story. \u00a0Now his true weakness has been revealed. \u00a0Webb is no action director.\u00a0 When telling a story the old fashioned way, without gimmicks, he fails.\u00a0 He reminds me of the one-and-done director of Jerry MaGuire, Cameron Crow, who was created flop after flop, after directing a movie that was \u201csomewhat\u201d Oscar worthy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjFsNSoDZK8\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">THE LONE RANGER<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Enter, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lone Ranger.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 Now this movie reminds of <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John Carter of Mars. <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0Not because of the premise, but because <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John Carter of Mars <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">was a movie that failed because of the movie critics hated it, but in reality, it was an excellent movie.\u00a0 \u00a0The Lone Ranger, is awesome.\u00a0 Great directing, awesome acting, really fun fight scenes.\u00a0 In fact, it was one of the few movies where I actually told myself, \u201cMan, this is a really fun movie to watch!\u201d during the last action scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s my recommendation.\u00a0 Odds are, no matter what I say, you\u2019re going to checkout Spider-man 2.\u00a0 But give <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lone Ranger<\/span> a fair shake.\u00a0 While you\u2019re at it, check out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/span>.\u00a0 Another awesome movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIDER-MAN\u00a0D&#8217;OH! 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