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Jasonic's Favorites: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! Call it clickbait if you will, but the title of this review is merely me continuing this blog in the proper format and I love the character of Spider-Man regardless of how his movies are received -- and this is no exception. Released in 2014, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a somewhat anticipated sequel for us Spider-Man fans that came out of a reboot series that almost no one asked for. While I was one of many fans who had hope that this movie could succeed, critics have cited it as the least favorable of the Spider-Man movies as a whole, the financial numbers unfortunately reflecting this. With the Marvel Cinematic Universe thriving around this time while Spidey struggled to set up and maintain his own solo cinematic universe, a deal was eventually made between Disney and Sony to share the rights of the character so that yet ANOTHER new version could exist in the MCU starting with Captain America: Civil War in 2016. As ill-fated as The Amazing Sp...