Andrew Garfield says studio cuts hurt Amazing Spider-Man 2

A lot of people say that the Amazing Spider-Man 2 was disjointed, and that the timing and pacing was slightly off. I’m inclined to agree with them. Whilst I’ve been defending the film for certain aspects, I cannot argue with this point of view especially when the star of the film Andrew Garfield himself has himself blasted the films irregular ‘thread’.

Garfield mentioned in an interview with the Daily Beast that he was overwhelmed by the film’s criticism and mentioned that originally he absolutely loved the original script for Amazing Spider-Man 2.

"It’s interesting. I read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I was getting away from how I actually felt about it. For me, I read the script that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it"

But just like with Sony’s meddling in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, certain Sony personnel had a problem with certain elements of the film and that led to them being unnecessarily cut. Garfield goes on to mention what he thought were the main issues with the film.

"I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it – because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related. Once you start removing things and saying, ‘No, that doesn’t work,’ then the thread is broken, and it’s hard to go with the flow of the story."

Ultimately though Garfield goes on to mention that he had a great time doing the film , especially the deeper scenes although he does add that a lot of his favourite scenes were cut.

"But I’ll tell you this: Talking about the experience as opposed to how it was perceived, I got to work in deep scenes that you don’t usually see in comic book movies, and I got to explore this orphan boy—a lot of which was taken out, and which we’d explored more. It’s interesting to do a postmortem. I’m proud of a lot of it and had a good time, and was a bit taken aback by the response."

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