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However, the movie also has some surprisingly strong female characters in Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy and Sally Field's Aunt May. Or hope, in the case of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man. View Gallery: Spider-Man 2 films in Rochester But she thought it was the storyline that gave it some surprising depth and intrigue.Īt its core, the movie is about what every superhero movie is about: finding the strength to use your talents in the face of adversity and moving past your angst to bring good to the world. "It was surprising, emotional, palpable, a good love story for a superhero film," said Weeden, whose documentary about the Wall\Therapy mural project, A Waltz in Rochester, debuted recently.Ĭarly Cerquone, who is studying motion picture science at RIT, thought the film was "visually stunning" and gave it a thumbs up for special effects. More: 'Spider-Man 2' shoot brought positives, negatives
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Jesse Weeden, a film student at Rochester Institute of Technology, thought the movie lived up to the hype. His 8-year-old son, Robbie, is a huge Marvel fan, though, so LaDuca couldn't help but take him as his date for the premiere. In his fairly new job as director of convention and visitor services for VisitRochester, he was interested in seeing how the Rochester scenes held up. That's also what Greg LaDuca of Spencerport was hoping, he said before the premiere. She also believes the story will get the approval of her superhero-loving children, who will be seeing it Thursday night. The movie was everything she expected it to be. "I'll be watching closer in the (end) scenes to see myself the next time I see it." "It's something I'll never forget," she said. (Her husband, John, said it helped that she wore a pink shirt.) Klibanoff, who took nine days off her teaching job at the Harley School to be an extra, spotted herself in the earlier scenes. Laura Klibanoff of Pittsford, an extra in the film, said local actors were told what happened in that scene during filming, and although the special effects make it look like Manhattan, it was definitely filmed here. Rochester makes another brief appearance at the end, although you wouldn't know it if you didn't know that there was a day when a part of East Main Street was re-dubbed 59th and Broadway, street signs and all. Rochester makes its first appearance about six minutes into the movie in scenes that last about three minutes. Robert Duffy said that Columbia Pictures and its crew spent $2 million over 10 days a year ago filming action scenes in the Rochester area for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which had a local premiere Wednesday night at Regal Henrietta. Watch Video: 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' screeningĮconomics 101: It's expensive to save a city.