Sunday, May 11, 2014
It wasn't bad. The same old Hollywood superhero movie iteration. The protagonist having great power leading him to great responsibilities. There were great mysteries to be solved alongside mocking the police credibilities and the city's defense system as a whole. Aiming for a wider audience demographic, there were gritty depressing scenes because he never asked for these powers and responsibilities but it's dawned on him and there's nothing he can do, but also incorporate supposedly funny one-liners during awkward bad guy chasing scenes because kids like humor with their action. Relationships are complicated and the attractive protagonist can not settle with his attractive love interest because as much as this is an action-oriented film, it is also a love story with conflict and damsels in distresses and never to be left out make-out sessions.
in case you haven't figured it out, I'm not really into super hero movies. I have nothing against the idea of super heroes itself, and nothing against people who genuinely like super hero movies, it's just that it's not my cup of tea. And to be fair, I like a lot of different flavors of tea, but my murky sense of taste tend to be bland for other people, and that's okay. To each of their own.
I liked watching seven different psychopaths unraveling their inner psycho in different ways and overtones. I liked seeing how the Beat Generation started a literary revolution that resulted to life changes, murder and a newspaper clipping on a pub wall. I liked watching six different timelines scattered across three millenniums nested in one another through different medium of story telling.
I like my tea complex.
There are only two reasons why I watched The Amazing Spider-man 2.
1. it was my sister's birthday.
2. The person who inspired the Beat Generation turned out to be an Osborne heir.
Lucien Carr was a dark and manipulative character, and for Dane Dehaan to implement those traits into Harry Osborne is pure perfection. With his blue eyes emitting dark gazes as he carries out his lines with such intensity, it's so engaging. He plays his character as someone with bottled up rage but tries to stay content and he does that well. There is no excitement with the way he walks, he simply moves to get to somewhere with the bare minimum effort which makes him appear so empty and enigmatic. There is a tenderness in his voice that sounds both calm and distress at the same time. It's like watching a dementor blending in, and it's amazing.
As I was awestruck watching Dane play Harry, I remembered that this character was initially played by James Franco in the 2000-ish trilogy, which is sort of amusing to me because James Franco also played Alan Ginsberg in Howl. What I found funny about this fact is because in both movies where James Franco was featured in, I disliked his character whereas when the Beat Generation played a rendition of his characters, I liked them instantly. Who knows, maybe there might be another remake of the political movement in san Francisco— more specifically the Castro during the seventies, and someone from the Kill your Darlings cast plays Scott better than james franco.
But no seriously, dane dehaan can play severus snape and can do no wrong.
Someone mentioned that he's like a young Leonardo deCaprio and I cannot unsee that.
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