Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Untold Finale Edition, The

This is highly superior to the theatrical release! As of right now, this Untold fan edit series to me is the definitive way to watch these movies. Obviously neither of them are perfect, but the source material isn't perfect either. I had a few thoughts about improvements, but I think that's ultimately preference and the editor did an amazing job. He totally redeemed The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for me!

I absolutely loved the TASM1 version of the untold edits and it is now my definitive version of the movie so I was really excited to see this. And it mostly delivered. it's honestly really good.

Moving the parent stuff to the first movie gives this a lot of time to breathe and just streamlines it quite a bit. I like how Electro's anger is more directed towards the city and I like quite a lot of stuff here, especially the little motivation tweaks. I love thay they went to the effort of adding in custom dialogue. That was really cool and it mostly sounded pretty decent.

Which is why I wonder why they left in that line towards the end where Goblin says "when you said Spider-Man said no" because like, that didn't happen, I just wondered why they didn't cut it or just like dub it with another line, it would only be cutting the words "you said" from the dialogue because "when Spider-Man said no, you mean you said no" still makes sense. But otherwise, it's all great until the end although I would've liked to see the demonstration of the suit from the deleted scenes, it would have barely added 30 seconds and I think it makes us understand the suit better at the end although it's fine if they think it's unnecessary because the suit says stuff like "healing protocol activated" which is enough to get a clue what it does. That's personal preference.

But I think that one of the unintended consequences of cutting the setup after the fall towards the end is that everything feels *super rushed* like the fall happens at 1:47 and the movie is over by 1:55 so you barely even get time to properly process anything before the movie has moved on and is already over. This is a better movie than the theatrical cut by a long shot, I just think the ending needed something more to slow it down a little because it just moves too fast. I honestly don't know what they could possibly put in there but it was just a little rushed. Despite that, this is still by far the best version of this movie and I'm glad it exists.

There were also a few odd cuts like when Peter meets Gwen at Oxford there's a weird jump cut that threw me off. There's a few others too but definitely nothing too major. I do like that the "Peter's DNA made him Spider-Man" stuff was cut out but that also sort of makes Peter's reluctance to give Harry his blood a little weird like he's obviously just being cautious and this edit does play it off like that but that's just a me thing, probably. It works well for the most part and aside from a (mostly forced to be because of a lack of content) rushed ending, this is easily the best version of this movie.

The way this structures the third act is also really enjoyable and it's just a fun time and much more cohesive than the theatrical cut.

Originally posted 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/rlw7vd/tasm_the_untold_extended_edition_and_tasm2_the/

Ho. Ly. Shit. I already thought the original was decent but Masirimso's edit elevates it to a whole new level. Cleaner, faster, and more focused, it lets the film's pros shine through. And has Jamie Foxx's Electro less of an uninteresting "Hate Spider-Man" guy to a sympathetic villain who feels angry at the world for making him feel unimportant. I'd say he's now worthy of the Raimi films in this edit.

Only had three problems with the edit. May's phone call while doing the laundry felt too oddly cut to me, perhaps have everything before she agrees to a double shift cut and just have it start there? Another thing was the odd cut of Harry's prison scene. It just felt it didn't result to anything and would have rather have had the Sinister Six setup retained to have the film a "Gamera: Revenge Of Iris"-type ending. Finally, I wish Masirimso keep the subplot of Richard using his blood for the experiments and having only the Parkers be able to use it. That was the main reason that Peter said no to Harry using his blood since it would not have worked and just have resulted in a mutation.

As a whole though, bravo Masirimso. Bravo. You've turned a OK film into one of the best.

Excellent edit, adding the parents subplot into the first one was a very smart move, the story is now smoother and much more enjoyable. Loved the morgue deleted scene and Harry's gruesome transformation.

Although I am a DC fan, or rather I became one growing up, overall, Spider-Man is my all time favourite superhero! I have read lots of comics, both with Peter and Miles Morales, seen the great Amazing Spider-Man animation and of course, watched several times all 8 of his movies. The original two Amazing Spider-Man films, were really hit or miss for me. Several good stuff in them and several bad. Let's say, for the second Amazing movie, my overall enjoyment factor was a 7, mostly because they had the balls to kill Gwen (spoiler alert) and, for me, it has the best and most comic-accurate Spider-Man costume ever!

When I came upon the "Untold" edits I was really really intrigued. I mean, having all the "Peter parents" plot from the second movie into the first, which was his origin film, made perfect sense! And for this one, maybe it became a little better without several distractions.

As with the previous one, the visual and audio editing here was again, excellent! You could not tell if anything was tampered with or missing. So job well done for a second time!!

On the narrative side of things, did the movie become better without all the removed stuff? Overall yes, quite a bit! I was able to enjoy great Spidey action and humor without unnecessary distractions from before. But, there was another, negative, thing that came out brighter than before, by removing all the fat. The poorly written and totally rushed Green Goblin. Seriously, I realised it even more with this edit. And the unfortunate thing is, you cannot remove him because he kills Gwen (again, spoiler alert). So we are stack with this character..

A minor gripe that I have, is that the editor also kept Rhino at the end. But I understand, you can't close the film with a funeral, plus if you remove Rhino, you have to remove the scene with the little kid, which was great! Still, if a way was found to end the movie without Rhino, (maybe some web slingin around town?), it would be less cringey.

So, I definitely recommend to check this out, I believe it will be your go-to version, unless you absolutely hated the original. For me it will be from now on!

Thank you Marisimo17 and thanks to anyone who read my review!