The Amazing Spider-Man 2- With Great Power, Comes Great Irrationality

I broke audience rule number one of the rules of 3D. I saw a 3D converted movie. To make matters worse the The Amazing Spider-Man 2 frequently broke filmmakers rules one and three with fast action and camera pans counter to on-screen motion. As a result, all of the action sequences in this movie looked very shitty.

Oscorp, the world's most scientifically advanced corporation, is proud to announce the world's first electromagnetic power grid. Finally, you can throw out your old analog electricity. The all-new electronic electricity provides power at speeds approaching the speed of light by wave motion of one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Electricity now with magnetism.

Oscorp is also introducing new highly explosive uranium-238. No longer will you have to build a complicated nuclear bomb to destroy a city with an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. Spontaneously explosive plutonium: now on sale at all Terrorist Mega-Mart locations.

The next time I see a movie where a bullet causes an explosive decompression of a plane I will explosively decompress. That's just not how science works. The pressure difference inside and out of a plane is not that great. Bullet holes are too small to cause a catastrophic failure of a fuselage. Planes are made of metal and are pretty strong. This was ridiculous when it first started showing up in movies about 20 years ago and it just keeps getting worse. The Mythbusters have tested it. It's time to let this bit of stupid movie science go.

Spiderman is my favorite superhero, (Although, I am not a big fan of any of the film treatments.) but something occurred to me while watching this movie that I hadn't thought of before. How does Spideman work? His main power is his sticky skin, but he covers it in a full body suit. Why doesn't he have problems with random things sticking to him? Does he wake up in the morning curled up in a tiny ball and spend hours getting himself untangled? Can he turn off the stickiness when he's fucking Gwen? (Because ouch) If stickiness is conscious power, then how does he sleep on walls and ceilings as he does in this movie as well as other appearances? So many questions, so few answers.

Gwen narrowly escaped the 63rd floor with security guards nearly catching her at the elevator. If only the security personnel at Oscorp, home of flying jet wings, giant battlesuits and magic mutating drugs, had access to some sort of technology to communicate telephonically with personnel on a different floor of the building, they could have caught her as she got off the elevator. But, I guess such futuristic tech is still decades away.

I have been waiting for them to kill off Gwen since they introduced her and still caught me by surprise when they did. It's good to be back...