The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Reaction!

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34 thoughts on “The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Reaction!”

  3. Fantastic reaction
    You’re beautiful
    Watch INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. When you get a chance.
    Gwen had died in the comics, her death was inevitable.
    Great video, keep it up 👍

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  4. Gwen's death touched me that way that i felt like I REALLY lost someone like my friend or someone. I was upset and very sad. Even people around me asked me if I am all right and what happend. It took a BIG WHILE when i get over with her death. 😭😭😭💔💔💔
    Fantastic, emotional movie.
    Great reaction. Greetings from Poland.

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  5. You can look up “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” and read about it. One of the major events in comic book history, and considered the end of the Silver Age of Comics and the start of the Bronze (which went on until ~DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns).

    Iirc, Harry’s portrayal in the comics was the start of them addressing Real Life issues with Harry becoming a drug addict and descending into a kind of tormented madness. Don’t think there was much drug abuse/addiction for Harry in these films—they substituted some amount of drinking/alcohol abuse—and that makes some sense, since it had declined from the huge social issue it was in the ‘70s and ‘’80s.

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  6. Because the previous suit from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) received negative backlash since it’s release, the studio agreed to redesign the suit that mostly reflected the “Ultimate comic design”.

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  7. First time i saw this, seeing the tower and gwen together i was like yea she aint guna be in the 3rd one lol then even better. There was no 3rd one back then. Hopefully if there is one it'll be better than these 2 😂

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  13. No Way Home went a LONG way towards rebuilding goodwill towards the Garfield series. Having a third film, set in the Sony Marvelverse, would be the crown jewel for that 'verse.

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  16. I'm sure everyone in the comments mentioned it, but the Death of Gwen Stacy is not something this movies writers came up with, it's something directly from the comics and is very closely replicated in this movie.

    Shailene Woodley was supposed to be MJ in this movie, she even filmed scenes as the character, however they decided to take her out of the movie as they felt it lessened the impact of Gwen and her death IIRC.

    Felicity Jones's character Felicia is supposed to be the character Black Cat, a villain and love interest of Spider-Man. the Smythe character is also a comic character who uses the villain name Spider-Slayer.

    This movies goal was to set up the Sinister Six, a group of six Spider-Man villains from the comics that team up to fight Spidey because they each failed to defeat him on their own. the illustrations in the end credits of this movie even tease who they intended to be in their version of the Sinister Six: Vulture, Doc Ock, Kraven, Mysterio or Chameleon (there's some debate about which one it is), Goblin, and Rhino, all of which are characters we have or in Kraven's case will see in live-action Spider-Man/Spider-Man adjacent films. Unfortunately their Sinister Six film never ended up happening.

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  17. My problem with this film was that it tried to ride four horses. Electro, Peter/Gwen, Peter’s parents, Harry/Goblin. I wanted to see far more of Electro vs Spider-Man.

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  18. Gwen's death scene still gets me… I just wasn't expecting her to die like that and the way Andrew Garfield acted in it was both amazing and made it worse for my tears…

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  19. That's how it happened in the comic book. Issue # 121. Ironically, the clock stopped also at 1:21. That death has stuck since this day. Gwen has returned recently, but it's a alternate reality version of herself where she has the "Spider-Powers".

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  20. It's so interesting to see new people react to the most iconic deaths in comics, people who's deaths to you are simply a fact of life long before these movies came out, with total shock and surprise. It's always fun, great reaction.

    As for writers to blame that'd be Gerry Conway who killed Gwen Stacy via Peter catching her with a Web by the ankle to save her from falling, only for the sudden jolt of being caught to snap her neck in The Amazing Spider-Man #121 in 1973.

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  21. I’ll be honest, Gwen’s death didn’t hit me because I went in expecting it. I sort of built this wall around me. The moment that hit me was when the camera panned around to show Spidey standing behind the kid in the final scene. No idea why. It just really hit me emotionally.

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  23. The last scene of Gwen is so emotional that I still cry every time I watch it. I've really enjoyed you discovering & loving TASM films. I love them too. My fav iteration of Peter & Spider-Man as well as one of the best on-screen romantic couples in a superhero movie. The fact that Andrew & Emma were together at the time, makes it even more adorable.

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  27. The first Spiderman film with Toby Mcguire and Dafoe as green goblin payed an homage to Gwens death by having Mary Jane fall and take the place of Gwen Stacy as Spidey was faced with "the impossible choice". some of the shot references were direct parallels to the comic panels leading to her death.

    Every death, has a significance for Peter.

    Uncle Ben, destroyed him, but nailed in the iconic with great responsibility lesson.
    Gwen, tempered in his hubris and cocky side that he could do it all and save everyone. It taught him to be careful with his powers, because even though he was trying to save her, it was ultimately his sudden rescue that snapped her neck, not the fall.

    It might seem heartless to attribute death and blame to Peter, but it was the intentional brooding writing of his character that wanted to give him reasons to blame himself. He internalizes his faults and blame, and drives his obsession to keep helping, not only because he has great responsibility, but also because he has to pay a penance for those moments of joy between tragedy.

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  29. They did set up for the film after this as they had cast Shailene Woodley as Mary-Jane. For whatever reason they didn't use her footage nor did they include it on the dvd release. But you can find a little bit of it on YouTube and stills on Google.

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  31. This movie may not be the best but it still had amazing action scenes and Peter and Gwen had the best chemistry. Better then any other Spidermen and their love interests.

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  33. Being familiar with the comics, when they entered the clock tower I was like "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu…" you get the point. Though I'll never forget there was a group of teenage girls like two rows in front of me in the cinema who were freaking when she started falling, then were relieved when he shot the web out yelling "Oh good! He's gonna save her!" I was like "Oh, you're about to feel betrayed SO hard in about 5 seconds."

    They didn't stop crying even when they were in the parking lot getting into their car.

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  34. I LOVE this film!
    It's so underrated. There are a couple of things I would change (like following through on Electro's sympathetic arc as the film basically ignores it after they're taken prisoner, but I find them to be a really interesting character; and slowing down Harry's transition from good to evil as the one scene of Spider-Man refusing to give Harry their blood rushes that point). But I think it's otherwise really well made. It's ambitious — few family blockbusters have the guts to actually kill a character, and if they do, it's in a vague "kind of but not really" way. The chemistry between Harry and Gwen, which was already strong in the first film, soars in this one. I think there's something to be said for the clever action choreography when Peter isn't even in Spider-Man mode, which again, we saw a little of in the first film; plus that's just a neat, funny idea, giving the character these faux-bumbling action moments. The slow-mos too; it feels so fresh and creative in our era of generic superhero films. And the soundtrack… Oh my gosh, the soundtrack. 👌I think that, at least, is getting some recognition years later as it was slated at the time (with the attitude, "it's just trying to appeal to kids with dubstep"). I am highly nostalgic towards the main theme of the Sam Raimi trilogy (including its transition into Sandman and Venom themes in the third film), and I like the subtler theme in Marc Webb's first film. This soundtrack though, knocks it out of the park with every piece. The story told just within Electro Suite, and the way electronic music is incorporated to build tension in the rest of the soundtrack; the sudden dread to high-octane nature of I'm Goblin; the pure fanfare of I'm Spider-Man; the suspense and mystery of There He Is and Special Project; the slower, emotional moments in You Need Me, I'm Moving to England, and Let Her Go. And lastly, the visual effects and special effects departments are on point throughout; it's something I feel like we take for granted nowadays and moan when it's slightly rough, but props to the teams when they do it well.
    Oh, also, probably my favourite Spider-Man costume; and again, that's counting for my nostalgia towards Raimi's.

    The way Spider-Man inspires kids in these films is just precious. ❤
    In fact, I think that's what makes these films. It's not the big action plots (though I do enjoy those too), it's the small, real moments between all of the characters; the scenes between Peter and Gwen, Peter and May, Peter and various kids.. hell, Peter by themselves — It all feels so raw and sweet, in a different way to the sweet moments of Raimi's films. Aunt May was lovely in those, and shared some very sweet scenes with Peter, but this relationship feels very grounded (which doesn't make it better necessarily, but it's commendable and appropriately different as a new take on the world. And actually, it's an example of how I find the MCU lacking. Not to focus on the negative—I like Peter, Ned and M.J. and the relationships they share—but nothing in those films comes close to either of these previous iterations, certainly not the portrayal of May whose worth in the story rides solely on the joke that she's hot. That's partly why I was personally disappointed when Spider-Man was taken from Sony. I'm sure if we got The Amazing Spider-Man 3 now, it would be something very different to what it would have been at the time, but it's nice to imagine).

    I haven't personally read the comics, and can't answer your question on how Harry is received by audiences in different runs, but I can speak to the typical dynamics of a Spider-Man story if you're interested:
    Peter and Harry are usually best friends, and Norman is there as the disapproving father who gives more praise to Peter (similar to what we saw in Raimi's first film). As for the role of love interest, Peter and Gwen were the original couple, but Gwen was killed off (falling to her death in a fight on a bridge with Green Goblin, similar to the situation Mary Jane was in at the climax of Raimi's first film), before Mary Jane comes in as the new leading lady. At this point though, there's a lot of variety within various Spider-Man media (comic and otherwise), so that's just the "traditional" take if you like.

    To answer your other question on the plan for these films, it was meant to be a trilogy, and there were ideas in the works for spin-offs. It's hard to know the full extent as there were obviously a lot of ideas being thrown around as you can see vague set-up between these two films (I won't give you all of the Easter Eggs and rumoured concepts in case it inadvertently spoils any future Spider-Man stories you react to). Plus, a lot of what we think we know is speculation as little was officially announced.

    Thanks for going through this journey. It's been lovely to experience it with you.

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