Welcome to the summer movie season! Over the next few months many major blockbusters will be shot off at the box office like fireworks on the fourth of July.
This first weekend in May marks the release of the first of the said blockbusters: The Amazing Spiderman 2. What a ride it is as well! It played beautifully in Imax, hated the 3D but that’s because I hate 3D, and I loved the crowd tonight adding in the experience of the movie. The cheers and applause, the ‘did you see’ when the easter eggs where revealed, and the collective gasps of breath released when the climax concluded were all part of the experience that I love and will treasure.
Let me diverge and ramble a bit about the original flicks for a second. I throughly enjoyed the first two entries in Sam Raimi’s trilogy and like many fans that I’ve come across I was disappointed with his third entry. I also throughly enjoyed the first in the new line of spidey flicks.
What I enjoy most this time around is the recasting of the roll. Andrew Garfield is captures me in his duel roll of Peter Parker and Spiderman in a way Tobey Maguire never did. Then again Tobey Maguire can’t act is way out of a paper bag to save his life. The only performance worst then whatever his last movie was is the performance he is currently filming right now.
Anyways back to the topic at hand and that being the summer movie season. The 2014 summer season is off to a good start, as I witnessed this past evening with friends and strangers alike. I eagerly await summer big budget remakes (Godzilla), sequels (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Expendables 3, Sin City 2), more superhero flicks (X Men Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy), the hyped up over caffeinated flicks (Jupiter Ascending), and what ever else comes this way over the next few months.
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