The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a lot better than I remember it being. Also, of the three Spider-Men, he might have my favorite suit. It was with the first movie that I thought this suit would be perfect if it just had the big white eyes, and it does here! I also love that it looks like a suit and less of a second skin.
Generally, I think the movie is a step up from the first one, other than I feel that there isn't enough Spider-Man...kind of a reoccurring thing with the movies at times...but I like the stuff with Gwen and Peter here, the side story stuff with his dad is interesting enough without taking up too much of the film, and while I'm still mixed on Electro, he's a pretty good threat. I find his pre-Electro stuff a little cheesy, feels more at home in Raimi's films honestly, and I don't love his blue look, but I remembered not liking him WAY more. Only issues I have is that final fight area at the power plant sucks, visually it gets really hard to watch being just a CG mess. It's like watching a video game for much of it and it even dips into looking like a cartoon, like Spider-Verse. It was not well handled even if the fight is fine.
The biggest downside to me might be Harry. He feels injected into the film, instead of being a real part of it. Like you could remove him and it's the same exact film with almost minimal tweaks. His "Goblin" look SUCKS. Technically it's better than Harry from Spider-Man 3, but that's not saying much. It just feels dumb and looks bad and its once again a situation where I question the design ideals of big budget Hollywood flicks. Sure, the comic Goblin...Regular, Demo, Hob, they are goofy as hell to translate realistically, but nothing they've done so far truly works. He also throws the whole pace of the movie off. Electro being beat is a huge win, the threat is done, and here comes Harry farting his way into the movie again to kill Gwen, because of course she dies, it was telegraphed real hard that it was gonna happen even if you don't know the comics. Everything could've been done by Electro with his escape and with causing Gwen's death and not have Harry here or do it so Goblin is teased alongside the Sinister Six happening, rather than him just slipping in at the end to just be a dick.
I'm going to watch the Holland films next before watching the new movie on Wednesday, but I think it's gonna be real hard for me to place the films. I thought I was gonna easily put the Raimi films over the Garfield ones, but now I'm not super sure. We'll see soon enough once I gather my thoughts after the next two movies.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is a fun time. Been abit since I rewatched and I thought I missed the origin story aspect more, since he was introduced in another movie and this is a continuation on that, but it doesn't bother me as much. We still get early Spider-Man stuff, rough edges, all the awkward teen stuff going on, and really, we didn't need a third origin setup after the previous two versions. I think I've cemented it for me that Tom Holland is my favorite Spider-Man, I feel like he does the best job for me being both Peter and Spider-Man. I think one negative aspect might be that Peter not being the self-made hero he is kinda sucks, like the relationship between him and Stark is good, but everything hinges so much on Stark, that it is hard to see him as his own hero. It's probably my only real negative as otherwise I dig it. Also, probably has the most Spider-Man to it? I always want more Spider-Man in these films and they can generally be abit short on them, but not this time. Keaton is great as Toomes too. Just an all around good flick and I don't have any real big issues with it compared to most of the other films.
Spider-Man: Far From Home was alright, but I think I like the first movie more. Mysterio is great, I think they nailed him and I loved the idea that he shows up as a hero to trick Parker to getting the Stark tech. I have a lot of questions into how they make the "Elementals" work, I feel like they stretch it with the hologram tech and drones, but it's still fun. Otherwise, I don't have a ton of love for the rest of the movie. There's nothing bad, it's kinda just "Spider-Man's Wacky Vacation" and that is sorta it to me. I just liked how everything came together more in the first movie, though there is fun stuff.
Ranking all the Spider-Man movies, I think my top 3 would be Spider-Man: Homecoming, Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 1. Honestly it's hard to pick because kinda each series of films has their good and negatives, but I think this turned out to be a perfect spread through all three series for me.
