As expected, Spiderman 3 broke all kinds of records, both domestically and abroad--$148 million in it's opening weekend here in the United States, and $227 million in foreign countries combined. I, however, did not contribute to those ticket sales, as my wife has been out of town and I swore I would wait to see it with her. Most of the reviews I've read, though, have been pretty negative. Anyone here want to lay down an opinion? Should I rush to go see it as soon as my wife's plane touches down today?
Feel free to put up a review on a seperate post, if you like.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Was it really that bad?
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No seperate post from me. I saw it opening day which was a real treat. I love seeing blockbusters on opening day, and that rarely happens now in my life.
It was a fun and entertaining movie, but it had a little too much cheese. I can handle some cheese because it is Spiderman. But when you start glancing around in the theater to find out who might know that you are watching this, then it has gone too far. This only happened in one scene, and they could have done a much better job with it. What I loved about Spiderman 2 was how they started to focus on actual charachter development. They could have taken it another step in this one but almost regressed.
It is a fun movie. I say go see it, but at the same time I give it 3 out of 5 stars.
I liked it. I think I know to which scene W2 is referring, as it got kind of corny in the execution, but considering how it applied to the story, it was good.
The acting was good, especially Thomas Hayden Church's final scene. (I was wondering why they had such a good actor for such a small part.) As is usual, however, James Cromwell was under-used considering his skill and talent.
As always, it had a positive message very in line with Stan Lee's Spidey, (and another great cameo by the man himself, as well as Raimi's buddy Bruce Campbell.) The action scenes were good too, although almost too fast to catch everything.
Even some returning minor characters had some good scenes in it, such as Peter's landlord and his daughter, and that hot secretary at the Bugle.
All in all, I think it fits well with the other two, and is even more uplifting in a non-velveta way.
I'm buying it on DVD when it comes out, and I'll see it again at the theater if I know anyone who wanted to go.
It was the first Spider-Man movie that half way through it I was already planning on seeing it a second time in the theater, preferably on an IMax screen (never saw the other two more then once on the big screen, nor felt such a huge desire to) That is the highest praise I can give it. 'Nuff said.
Wander, what was in this movie that caused you to decide to see it again at an IMAX theater? Don't take this the wrong way, I am just curious to know if there is some comic book knowledge that allowed you to geek out on it more than me.
No comic book knowledge. Just great special effects, incredible cinematography,and high speed action scenes. It wasn't so much that it was a comic book movie, I just really enjoyed it as a movie. And I know the scene that made you guys feel embarrased to be there. I myself thought it was an incredibly quick way to get the point across of how much that certain person (assuming there are still non viewers among us I won't spoil) had changed. Cheesy, maybe, but can't you see doing that if you had those gifts and were suddenly very, very ummm... what's the word? Maladjusted, and probably quite a bit more sexually 'anxious'? Just saying.
As far as being true to the comic, the movie was actually much closer to the animated series of the mid 90's that followed the X-Men cartoon on Saturday mornings. And that is actually not a bad thing either.
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