it wouldn’t be an understatement to say that nearly the entire plot of The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro can be seen in the bazillion trailers that have been released.
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Watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 full online free 2014
Watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 full online free 2014
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Having trouble figuring out the insane plot of the hot mess that was The Amazing Spider-Man 2? No worries. Our patented Spoiler FAQ is here to help decipher what the hell happened in all those weird, awkward scenes where Spidey wasn’t fighting people. Spoilers ahead, obviously!
It’s about a man gifted with extraordinary powers who, through hard work and perseverance, finally manages to get his girlfriend killed.
Lots of things happen in the movie — rarely with any kind of coherence or justification — but as far as I can tell the movie is specifically about Peter Parker, who 1) knows his relationship with Gwen puts her in danger and 2) promised Gwen’s father, who Spider-Man also effectively got killed in the first movie, that he’d leave Gwen the hell alone, but keeps renewing their relationship until finally she’s caught in the metaphorical crossfire of one of his battles and dies. To be fair, Gwen is also pretty set on getting herself killed.
Oh, they show up. They fight Spider-Man and star in some pretty great action scenes, but everything about the villains is completely random. It’s impossible to get invested in their story because their motivation is so stupid. Let me put it this way: Paul Giamatti’s Rhino, sans Rhino suit, is the first bad guy who shows up and his brilliant plan is this: To hijack an Oscorp truck carrying radioactive TMNT mutagen in the middle of the day in the middle of Manhattan, while somehow escaping the 50 cops cars chasing after him and his crew.
First, Electro. If you’ve seen the trailers, you know the deal: Jamie Foxx is Max Dillon, a helpless shlub who works at Oscorp; one day Spider-Man saves him and he instantly becomes both obsessed with Spidey and completely unhinged, and then when he transforms into Electro — and I’ll get to that in a second — Spider-Man says the cops won’t shoot him and a cop shoots Electro and Max somehow blames Spider-Man and turns evil.
When the Sony Pictures Imageworks special-effects team got the screenplay for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, they quickly realized that with great box-office comes even greater responsibility for technical wizardry. The scope of the sequel was much bigger than Marc Webb’s 2012 reboot, and in contrast to the numerous night action sequences that dominated the first film, the new movie would extensively showcase Spider-Man slinging through New York in broad daylight, an entirely new set of creative challenges. “For some of the shots of Spider-Man swinging through the city [in sunlight], the computer could take 40 hours to render one frame of the city of New York,” says Jerome Chen, the film’s visual-effects supervisor. “And there’s 24 frames for one second.”
Adding another 5.2M on Monday and $6.2M on Tuesday, Sony/Marvel‘s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 crossed the $100M mark six and a half days after its initial release (I’m counting the $8.7M it got from 7 PM screenings on Thursday as a half day). Specifically, ASM2 is at roughly $103M after the first two days of mid-week grosses. This comes after a $91.6M gross Sunday. The film has so far made $420M+ worldwide now since releasing overseas two weeks before its domestic release.
The international distribution strategy was wise, given that the pic needed time before Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla stomps into markets. The lizard is being released pretty much day and date with its May 16th domestic bow … except for the all-important market of China where it doesn’t release until June 16th so that gives Spidey a long while to play there with no major U.S. release coming in to elbow it out. To give readers an idea of what the build out has been in China and why the country is so important to the entertainment industry: The Chinese market alone provided 11,002 runs for Spidey vs. a wide 4,324 theaters domestically.
Related: ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Snares $116M In Overseas Web To Raise Overall Cume To $277M+, Growing In China After Record Bow
The international markets for the Spidey franchise has grown over the years as the domestic grosses have continued to shrink. The question right now is whether American audiences growing weary for Spidey? After all, this is No. 5 and there are two more in the hamper. Here is another look at the domestic vs. international audience for this all-important Sony/Marvel franchise:
If you watch the first trailer then you’ll see Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man flying through the air with the greatest of ease, really enjoying himself as the lycra-clad superhero. But then it all turns a little dark.
“Every day I wake up knowing that the more people I try to save, the more enemies I will make,” says Peter Parker in an ominous warning. “And it’s just a matter of time before I face those with more power than I can overcome.”
Then comes his being late for his date with girlfriend Gwen Stacy after being involved in a street battle with a machine gun-wielding thug and joking about it because LOLZ SPIDERMAN STUFF.
More web-slinging follows and then an introduction with Spidey’s old BFF Harry Osborn (Dane Dehan version) in a palatial-looking hallway. That’s before the action moves to a very snazzy corporate office where Harry reveals that his company has had Peter under surveillance. But why, the audience cries? And obviously the trailer tells them.
“There’s something you’re not telling me Aunt May,” says Spidey, showing off that superhero brainpower of his. “I once told you that secrets have a cost, the truth does too,” she replies.
Sally Field’s Aunt May doesn’t go on to spoil what those secrets were, but fear not, because a video of Peter’s father does instead. As what looks to be a subway carriage rises from underneath the tracks and an ancient computer springs into action with a handy video explaining exactly what’s going on.
“My name is Richard Parker and I have discovered what Oscorp was going to use my research for and I have a responsibility to protect the world from what I know they’re capable of.”
As all this is happening, the audience is treated to scenes of a mysterious man walking through a lab showing off some possibly quite familiar objects – what could it all mean?!
Well as luck would have it, someone else has arrived to tell us now. Handy. “What is all this?” asks Harry. “The future…” answers the mysterious man.
A future that will involve some kind of green man on a hover board, something metal with a horn and an angry blue man shooting electricity out of every orifice.
If the first trailer didn’t quite give you everything you wanted to know about the movie then the Superbowl trailer came next with more battles, a longer look at the various bad guys and obviously Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy being in peril.
The owner of the big metal boots and the big metal horn also becomes apparent, in case you didn’t want to know that – and he’s even more fleshed out, as is basically everything else in the third trailer.
Apparently the first three trailers didn’t give enough of the plot away, so the next trailer – an Enemies Unite reel – decided to show the origins of the angry electric blue man.
Now, while the trailer gives away some pretty major plot points – the one thing that should be taken from it is that it’s never a good idea to mix massive amounts of electricity, a tub full of electric eels, and Jamie Foxx.
Add into the mix a lot more power and a pitched battle in the middle of Times Square and then you’ve got yourself half the film.
If you watch the first trailer then you’ll see Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man flying through the air with the greatest of ease, really enjoying himself as the lycra-clad superhero. But then it all turns a little dark.
“Every day I wake up knowing that the more people I try to save, the more enemies I will make,” says Peter Parker in an ominous warning. “And it’s just a matter of time before I face those with more power than I can overcome.”
Then comes his being late for his date with girlfriend Gwen Stacy after being involved in a street battle with a machine gun-wielding thug and joking about it because LOLZ SPIDERMAN STUFF.
More web-slinging follows and then an introduction with Spidey’s old BFF Harry Osborn (Dane Dehan version) in a palatial-looking hallway. That’s before the action moves to a very snazzy corporate office where Harry reveals that his company has had Peter under surveillance. But why, the audience cries? And obviously the trailer tells them.
“There’s something you’re not telling me Aunt May,” says Spidey, showing off that superhero brainpower of his. “I once told you that secrets have a cost, the truth does too,” she replies.
Sally Field’s Aunt May doesn’t go on to spoil what those secrets were, but fear not, because a video of Peter’s father does instead. As what looks to be a subway carriage rises from underneath the tracks and an ancient computer springs into action with a handy video explaining exactly what’s going on.
“My name is Richard Parker and I have discovered what Oscorp was going to use my research for and I have a responsibility to protect the world from what I know they’re capable of.”
As all this is happening, the audience is treated to scenes of a mysterious man walking through a lab showing off some possibly quite familiar objects – what could it all mean?!
Well as luck would have it, someone else has arrived to tell us now. Handy. “What is all this?” asks Harry. “The future…” answers the mysterious man.
A future that will involve some kind of green man on a hover board, something metal with a horn and an angry blue man shooting electricity out of every orifice.
If the first trailer didn’t quite give you everything you wanted to know about the movie then the Superbowl trailer came next with more battles, a longer look at the various bad guys and obviously Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy being in peril.
The owner of the big metal boots and the big metal horn also becomes apparent, in case you didn’t want to know that – and he’s even more fleshed out, as is basically everything else in the third trailer.
Apparently the first three trailers didn’t give enough of the plot away, so the next trailer – an Enemies Unite reel – decided to show the origins of the angry electric blue man.
Now, while the trailer gives away some pretty major plot points – the one thing that should be taken from it is that it’s never a good idea to mix massive amounts of electricity, a tub full of electric eels, and Jamie Foxx.
Add into the mix a lot more power and a pitched battle in the middle of Times Square and then you’ve got yourself half the film.
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