Spiderman 3

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:41 am

I went and saw this Saturday night. Its pretty good, not aweful but not mind blowing. There a few of those weird scenes where they have characters and situations that just seem included because they are part of the comic.

One thing that impressed me was the focus on head injuries in this movie. Punches to the body seemed to take a back seat to everyone taking one to the scone. I'm not too sure if there is supposed to be symbolism there, or if its just a happy coincidence. Whatever it may be, I love a good knock to the head.

So the movie has all that Spiderman angst and confrontation in it, which I suppose you can't have a Spiderman movie without, but what the fuck is with all the singing and dancing? Whats more, what is with all the Emo singing and dancing??

B+

signboy · Post by **signboy** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:18 am

The highlight was definitely watching Harry take it to the head. Again. And again. And again. It really made me identify with the character, and feel his pain. No, the highlight had to be Bruce Campbell's third Spiderman cameo. A little bit silly, but it's Bruce. His B-grade highness can do no wrong, in my opinion.

jackfrost · Post by **jackfrost** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:00 am

sausage boy wrote:seemed to take a back seat to everyone taking one to the scone.

i heard the best part was the HP5 preview.

Calfborg · Post by **Calfborg** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:57 am

If I'm remembering it correctly, that Harry Potter trailer had the most explosions I've ever seen in one minute. Completely ridiculous.

Post by jb » Mon May 07, 2007 7:41 pm

Pure, unadulterated <b>SHIT</b>.

<b>D-</b> saved from an F by a few cool Sandman F/X.

BAH. Fucking BAH.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:21 pm

Slightly better than 2, not as good as 1.

B-

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Tue May 08, 2007 2:19 pm

Pants!
Bollocks!
Utterly Disappointing!!!

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:09 pm

I wasn't wowed. I think it was torn between being a comedy or a drama or a balls-out-superhero movie. It ended up just being crappy.

Emo!Spidey? Sucked. It's like some producer was going, "Oh Jeez, do you think that after a ten minute montage they'll get that the symbiote made him evil? Let's have him hit the girl he secretly loves!" Ugh. Bad scene. It'd be funny in a different movie, but in this series of Spidey films? Eh.

C.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:24 pm

this movie is bad but i liked it ok. why were there eight musical sequences? why is the writing awful? why is the acting horribly uneven?

Post by **Lunkhead** » Tue May 08, 2007 4:26 pm

I haven't seen it yet, but it just seemed from the outset like they were trying to cram too much stuff into one movie. I wish they had done:

Spider-Man 3: Sandman and the black suit, which makes Peter powerful enough to defeat Sandman, but makes him an asshole
Spider-Man 4: Spidey's a total dick, and he fights the Green Goblin Jr. and goes to far, and realizes what he's become, and gets rid of the black suit
Spider-Man 5: Venom

or

Spider-Man 5: Spidey fights 1-2 miscellaneous bad guys
Spider-Man 6: then Venom

Oh well. I'm going to see it anyway.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Tue May 15, 2007 12:47 pm

Sam Raimy: "Okay we need a scene where spidey has lost himself in the suit and all of the naughty personality traits are coming out, we need him to be rude and crude and so hard to handle. We also need to show how that affects the way people respond to him. Especially women."

Little 12-year-old Timmy: "I can write that, I know all about being a bad boy and how to knock the women senseless."

I was in absolute shock watching Captain Emo (yes that's what a badass spiderman looks like, aparently) do John Travolta style finger flicks at the ladies and seeing them swoon to his *obvious* badassedness.

Maybe I've outgrown comics.
Or maybe I just want something surreal and fantastic but rational, believable and something that uses the hyperreality to tell me something new about the world I live in. Something beyond the reach of little Timmy.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:18 am

yeah, this wasn't great. the sandman effects were very cool. in general the writing wasn't up to par i think. it did have one redeeming quality, negative cutting by mo henry.
-bill

himynameisntmark · Post by **himynameisntmark** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:29 am

Harry's suit? Lame. Isn't he supposed to become the hobgoblin? With the orange skin and the awesome green Link hat? Is it just me or are these movies completely ignoring the graphic novels and making it up as they go along? BLASPHEMY!!

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:18 am

Blasphemy is calling comic books graphic novels.

himynameisntmark · Post by **himynameisntmark** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:33 pm

Actually, a graphic novel is a type of comic book. They usually have lengthy storylines and since Spider-man has been around for quite a while and has quite a lengthy story behind it, it doesn't hurt to call it a graphic novel. But I guess if you consider graphic novels the really long book-like comics, then yes, Spider-man is indeed a comic book. Sorry for that.

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