UPCOMING...The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody told you it was a happy tale, if somebody said I was just your average guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied....
WRONG MOVIE

So for those of you who don't know, the line I opened with was the opening line of 2002s Spider-Man.  That movie spawned 2 sequels, but the fourth film was canceled.  The series was rebooted in 2012 as "The Amazing Spider-Man", the same title of the comic book that the webhead starred in.  

Spider-Man is the story of teenage Peter Parker who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and gains extraordinary powers.  After letting a crook that he could of stopped escape,  that same crook murders his Uncle Ben.  Peter then develops a masked alter ego "Spider-Man" to track down the crook, but then decides to use his powers to stop crime in the city of New York.

The newest film in the franchise "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", to be released May 2 2014, has made me speculate about what I think will happen.

1.Gwen will Die
It makes perfect sense, in the original stories Captain Stacy died a few issues prior to her. He died in the previous film.  Also the Green Goblin is who killed her in the original stories(if you don't count spidey's web).  He is debuting in this film.

2. Norman Osborne is not Gobby
yep, this time around Harry is the Goblin, though a leaked trailer said that Norman had     died and left everything to Harry.  I would say this will take place sometime in the first act.

3. A slew of Villains
If you watch the trailer (which i have below) Green Goblin, Rhino, Electro, Vulture and   Doctor Octopus, are all teased.  I've also heard that venom was mentioned on one of the   computer panels.  This is too many villains for the second film of the series.  The originals films introduced 5 villains in 3 movies.  Here were introducing/teasing 7 villains in 2 movies.

4. Ben's Killer
I think that the plot of Peter catching Uncle Ben's Killer might play over into this film. The original film focused maybe 15 minutes on this subject and resolved it, In The Amazing Spider-Man it focused 20 or so minutes and then dropped the subject, probably because this was an old plot line, and they wanted to focus on the new stuff they added to the story.  So It's reasonable to think that this will be touched on at least in the upcoming film.   

5. Richard and Mary Parker's death 
 So in the original movies, Richard and Mary Parker are not mentioned.
In the newer films they have a lot more to do with the story.  From watching the trailer, plus comments in the first film, i think that this will be another one of he major plots for this film. 

I personally can't wait for this new film to come out, and see how everything plays out.  Will you guys go to see it?  Do you think that there's too many villains?  Comment your thoughts below!

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)-Trailer 1   
 
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)-Trailer 1  

The Marvel Effect...

Every few months, I get a notion to go to the movies.  Usually it's a action film, or a comedy, and sometimes a cartoon.  But more often than not, I go to see a comic book film.  Now if your into these types of film's than you've probably heard of the Avengers.
The Avengers series encompasses Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and soon, Ant-Man.  Now in prior Comic book film franchises, Like Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men were all self contained and the films in the series were all on the same characters in the prior film. Most of all, they all had different production teams.  Starting with Iron Man, all of the avengers films play in and out one another and make a mega story.  The thing is, Marvel is producing a film every 6 months for this franchise.  With the older Franchises, they all had different production teams, studios and release schedules, but you could expect at least 1 marvel film per year.  Warner Bros. wants to copy the same format as the Avengers to make a justice league film, Sony wants to copy this to make a bigger set of Spider-Man Films and Fox is copying this format to combine Fantastic Four and X-Men, and Disney with Star Wars.  The Idea of a shared film universe was basically introduced with the Avengers, but now all the other studios are going to copy this format, once this happens they'll be cranking out the films as fast as they come, and the story value will go down, Why? because their all going to run out of ideas on that kind release schedule.  My guess is that after all these franchises blossom, we will see 5 or 6 films per year from these MAJOR franchises, plus whatever Transformers, Star Trek, Jurassic Park, and Planet of the Apes might come up with. 
But, the only film in the MCU that I didn't care too much for was Iron Man 2.  So I could be wrong, but personally I would rather have an amazing film, than a really crappy FX showcase.  But really It's up to you... the fans to decide which films to make a billion dollar grossing picture.