![]() ![]() The central villain (to the extent that there is one) is all bluster and no menace. Key relationships are given short shrift. There are some good moments in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, especially toward the end, but the whole thing seems to have been assembled by filmmakers tone-deaf to what constitutes compelling cinema. Sitting through The Amazing Spider-Man 2, I had the feeling that screenwriters Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Jeff Pinkner and director Marc Webb were throwing everything they could think of at the audience to see what might stick. There are too many negatives to keep the experience from being the kind of giddy adrenaline rush one hopes for with a Big Summer Flick. The fifth Spider-Man feature, which is the sequel to the unnecessary reboot, is all over the place, an undercooked cinematic casserole that blends some genuinely touching moments and well-presented action sequences with bad melodrama, overlong exposition, and overexposed CGI. In the superhero genre, it's too easy to become sloppy and fall back on clichés. Pre-order now: takes something lackluster like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to remind viewers why movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier are considered superior. #SpiderManNoWayHome swings home on Digital March 22 and on 4K UHD & Blu-ray on April 12! ![]() The post was shared by the film's Twitter account (shown below), generating excited responses from film fans. On February 23rd, 2022, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland, three actors who played Spider-Man in different runs of the film franchise and reunited in Spider-Man: No Way Home, recreated the meme. The post was also upped to /r/MemeEconomy on July 9th, where it gained over 4,900 points. ![]() On May 17th, a pedophilia joke was uploaded to /r/funny, where it gained over 440 points (shown below, right). On March 10th, published the photo with the caption "When your boo start talking like you," gaining over 3,400 retweets and 8,900 likes (shown below, left). The format began growing into a popular format on Twitter in early 2017. On May 6th, 2016, Reddit user Dualestl used the image to describe a meeting between similar-style rappers Future and Desiigner, gaining over 1,300 points. It started growing popular on Black Twitter, particularly related to hip-hop. The image wouldn't begin seeing widespread popularity until the mid-2010s, when people would make jokes describing situations in which two people who are very similar meet. In early 2013, 9GAG user stormrdr posted a version to the site where the text read "HA! Look at that asshole!" (shown below, right). For example, on June 26, 2012, Funnyjunk user generalshawn posted a version where the text read "SAMEFAG" in a thread (shown below, left). In the coming years, the image would be used with various other texts on image macros. The earliest known use of the two characters dressed as Spider-Man pointing at each other was an image macro posted February 5th, 2011 on Sharenator in a compilation of 60's Spider-Man images (shown below). The image comes from episode 19b of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Double Identity." In the episode, a villain attempts to impersonate the titular hero. Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man refers to an image from the 60's Spider-Man cartoon episode in which two people in Spider-Man costumes are pointing at each other. ![]() Spider-man, 60s spider-man, image macro, reaction image, sharenator, generalshawn, stormrdr, freddyamazin, dualestl ![]()
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