The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Sigh... there are about 30 minutes during the first hour or so, where there are clear flashes of decent plotting and good writing. Problem is, the movie is 141 minutes long. There are way too many "head-scratcher" plot points and the way the main villain's plan is foiled is just dumb. I will give them points for not chickening out on a particular plot point, but that scene was not really necessary for this movie and feels tacked-on, and that makes it pretty awful.
And also, the "mid-credits bonus scene" that ran after the movie ended was a promo for the upcoming X-Men film. Which is fine, because it means I can skip those from now on and save myself a few minutes in the future.
And also, the "mid-credits bonus scene" that ran after the movie ended was a promo for the upcoming X-Men film. Which is fine, because it means I can skip those from now on and save myself a few minutes in the future.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
