Spiderman 3 trailer

[kid cue]

ok you guys are fucking nuts. this was 95% of what i could've hoped for. yes it was long, and it felt more like "let's just keep watching this movie" than "omfg what happens next??!!!!" but i thought everything (action, humor, visuals, themes) was right on. the most painful bit to me was the news reporters in the last action scene. i can't believe the critical backlash & overall bandwagon jumping with people falling over themselves to diss this movie everywhere.

[King of Snake]

Well at the risk of "jumping on the bandwagon", I saw this yesterday, and while it wasn't a bad movie per se, it just didn't have anything really going for it either. The whole black-spidy thing was pretty underplayed, (all it did to him was give him a set of balls it seemed (ok and make him a bit of dick in the process), but when this photographer guy gets the stuff on him he turns into Venom...? wtf?)
I would have liked to see much more a spiderman struggling with a his good and bad sides as a result of the alien stuff.

Bring on the new Batman!

PS. Bruce Campbell as the french waiter was awesome

[grady]

Best part of the film was Bruce Campbell, everything else, meh.

Please stop with the Sam Rami defense, it's tired and useless at this point. Technically the film seemed fine, but it was tepid, dull and boring. I'm not jumping on a bandwagon here either, I've always had disdain for Spiderman in the film incarnation, but thought I would take a chance one last time. That will be the last.

[Tom]

I agree with kid cue, you guys are retarded.

[mmm skyscraper]

Originally Posted by grady

I'm not jumping on a bandwagon here either, I've always had disdain for Spiderman in the film incarnation, but thought I would take a chance one last time. That will be the last.

Yeah I don't understand why people who dislike the 3rd movie rave about the 2nd. Both of them have their stupid moments.

I thought 3 was right in line with the other movies, so my expectations were met.

At least the Sandman didn't die.

edit: I don't understand the complaint about too many villians. I wish we could have seen the Sinister Six in a film.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by kid cue

ok you guys are fucking nuts. this was 95% of what i could've hoped for. yes it was long, and it felt more like "let's just keep watching this movie" than "omfg what happens next??!!!!" but i thought everything (action, humor, visuals, themes) was right on. the most painful bit to me was the news reporters in the last action scene. i can't believe the critical backlash & overall bandwagon jumping with people falling over themselves to diss this movie everywhere.

To sum it up super-quickly, too many ideas and not enough time spent flushing them all out. Venom, Sandman, Goblin....sort of.....all getting a minute of screen time here and there, and all conveniently falling together for a big climactic fight. But with so little time spent developing each, it's hard to give a crap what happens to any of them. That was my problem.

[kid cue]

Originally Posted by Sean

To sum it up super-quickly, too many ideas and not enough time spent flushing them all out. Venom, Sandman, Goblin....sort of.....all getting a minute of screen time here and there, and all conveniently falling together for a big climactic fight. But with so little time spent developing each, it's hard to give a crap what happens to any of them. That was my problem.

i know what you mean, but i think it's a judgment call -- you def get the feeling of many many knives being juggled, but i still thought the balance between each plotline, character, funny moments, actions, and themes was about as good as it could've been (i.e. clear, concise, fun, and genuinely meaningful by the end). i was definitely never confused by the film, except over one small point. and a lot of people are complaining about how there was too much crying, which i also disagree with. there's this overall critical/viewer consensus that it's some kind of pretentious, unenjoyable emo-fest, which i think is totally off

i'm not sure character development was really that necessary, since these characters are all basically archetypes, and the film seems to've been based on a series of meta-gestures within the comic book subgenre, i.e. using the familiar characters & superhero/villain tropes to communicate very familiar themes in a different, self-consciously cartoony way. that probably makes no sense because



I'M DRUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Strangelet]

not a great film. at all. the writing was unintelligble, unrealistic, and mising any kind of system of inner logic that even a comic book contains. The result was a discombobulated mess, with quality elements bobbing up and down like survivors on rafts after a shipwreck.

All through the movie my response was: this doesn't make sense. That would never happen, this is out of character, he/she would never do/say that based on the situation.

i don't know if it was too much to write in or too many writers, but this one sinks under the weight of its own hubris.

(and I was nice and didn't bring up the evil danicing emo parker crap. or that I half exptected donna to come out with a cat suit or fez to be some super disco villian. I mean, why not?)

[dubman]

who the fuck are all these people being confused by it all
90% of you have failed completely
this was the best one of the lot.

DAMN YOU FOOLS