I thought The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was pretty lame. It was a contrived mess. On the one hand, it was trying to be what I would call an “emotionally serious” movie, what with Gwen’s death and the destruction of Harry and Peter’s friendship…but then they had Electro, who belongs in Batman and Robin. The Harry/Goblin story seemed very shoehorned in, and didn’t have enough time to really develop–plus, why was he so obsessed with getting cured immediately when he presumably had 20 or 30 years to live? That made his actions at the end seem to come almost out of nowhere, which in turn made Gwen’s death seem out-of-place in this movie. Add in corny symbolism (the “spider-web hand” reaching out to Gwen as she fell), a completely pointless subplot for Aunt May, a needless appearance of the Rhino, and lots of badly-written, “on-the-nose” dialogue, and you have what, in my estimation, is the worst Spider-man movie by far. (That being said, the chemistry between Gwen and Peter made the movie watchable for me…though the breakup was totally contrived and clichéd.)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit was “meh.” It was entertaining, but felt very derivative of the Bourne and Craig-era Bond movies.
I didn’t watch The Hobbit 3, but if I had, I would almost certainly have hated it (hence why I didn’t watch it. 
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It’s because big studios won’t pay for them anymore–and on the rare occasion that they do, you often get stuff like Noah where they don’t understand that most Christians want to see something that’s accurate to the Bible. Most Christian movies these days are made by amateurs who, frankly, don’t know what they’re doing. 'Tis a shame, though I’d like to point out The Prince of Egypt, The Passion of the Christ, and the first Narnia film, all relatively-recent (ok, maybe that’s a stretch ), high-quality movies that were largely well-received. (Btw, Ben-Hur is a favorite of mine as well!)
