Spider-Man 3

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Actually that brings up a point...I frequently wait a few weeks to see a movie in a theater so I don't have to deal with crowds. Except the last year or so I haven't been going to movies like I used to. I think I only saw maybe three last year in the theater.

Well, we're going back Sunday morning since Mom thinks a lot of people will either be sleeping or going to church then. I only saw the first one and thought it was pretty good, but Mom's seen both of them. She's looking forward to this movie more than me! lol

I thought the second one was WAY better than the first. Can you rent it or something first?

venom doesn't even refer to themselves as "we" but rather "i". nothing ruined the movie more than seeing the venom on screen saying "i want the spider dead."


that and having peter parker dressed up like an emo fag.

Cant wait to see it

I think we own it actually! I'll try and watch it tomorrow night if we do.

...I liked it ! !! !!

Well, I very much enjoyed it, but then again I also really enjoyed X-Men 3.

It's fun. Entertaining. Got a lot of humor, some good action, and ties up the story. However, there's so much about it that doesn't work that I don't know why it is that I enjoyed it as much as I did! I guess it's one of those movies like "Van Helsing" that's entertaining on the surface level, but only on the surface level.

Everything you did and didn't want to know about "Spider-Man 3":
-Are the special effects sh***y compared to those of "Spider-Man 2"? Yep. Atrociously rubbery. Think "Blade 2," except slightly better and used far more often.
-Does Spidey 3 make some really awful storytelling decisions? Definately. There are things that reek of "convinient" and "sloppy." Characters just happen to stumble into situations that wind up defining them.
-Does Venom suck? Oh, god, Venom is terrible! His voice is wimpy as hell--actually, it's not even his voice, it's just Eddie Brock's voice. That's right--Venom's voice doesn't change when he becomes Venom! He's never referred to as Venom, his face looks off...one of the best things about Venom is that he has this monstrous face with a huge friggin' tongue. No tongue here. Normal-shaped face, just with fangs and Venom-y eyes. And half the time the face squirms off so we see Venom's body with Brock's face. Venom's body, by the way, just looks like a black (and very CG) Spider-Man, and doesn't even have the white spider emblam. I never thought I'd be glad he was only in it for the last 20 minutes--if he had been in any more of it I would have been too annoyed by it to enjoy the movie. I mean, I'm not a fanboy--I never read the comics. But I know what Venom looks like, and without that huge tongue he's just not nearly as cool or monstrous. The scene where Eddie Brock becomes Venom is very cool, though.
-Is there really a "The Mask"-style dance scene to show Peter's corruption? Yes, but it worked in the film better than I thought it would. The scene wasn't overlong and served its purpose, even if it would have been better for Peter to realize his mistake while almost killing Rhino or something.
-Are there as many annoying screaming women as there were in "Spider-Man 2"? Thankfully, no.
-Does MJ get kidnapped AGAIN? Of course--she must have fantasies of getting raped or something.
-Do we get to see the imprints of her nipples like in the last two? I didn't notice them this time. Maybe she finally learned to never go outside without wearing a bra!
-What about the already-infamous "Butler" bit? Yeah, everyone in the audience was laughing their butts off at that part. But they still clapped at the end.
-????Bruce Campbell??? Oh you betcha. He's got a good cameo this time. Very funny! I'm a little disappointed though--I was hoping his cameo would be of a villain who Spider-Man kicks the ass of in some montage or something. Stan Lee's got a cameo, too, as always. The audience cracked up when he randomly walked into the shot.
-What about that skinny Russian chick who gave Peter milk and cake in Spidey 2? She's back with a cookie-serving vegence! Sadly, she doesn't knock over anything in this one, so no funny kitchen fires. I'm so glad the rumors of her becoming Black Cat weren't true.
-Is there another annoying scene with people on the street "singing" the Spider-Man theme song with untrained voices and out-of-tune violins? Thank god, none of that.
-Is there more gratuitus posing in front of flags? Sigh...it's a series tradition, unfortunately.
-How's Sandman? They Dock-Ock him out, meaning they make him all sympathetic and s**t. It's kinda cheesy. I prefer Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series--completely different Sandman from a completely different universe, I know, but who cares?
-What about Harry? For sheer Harryness, he gets upstaged by the spactacular "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" trailer. His arc's a bit cliche here but, again, it worked better than I thought it would.
-So despite all this you actually enjoyed it? Surprisingly! It made me laugh, and I got caught up in the action and the characters...it was fun. Just a fun night at the movies. Fans of the comics will loath the thing, but go in with low expectations and you may walk out pleasantly surprised. Hopefully.
-BONUS QUESTION: I want a spidey shmock. So buy one.

Good to hear, as I really enjoyed X-Men 3 also (and Elektra, which was also trashed!)

I *really* liked you review! Fun style!

I guess I'll go see it this week during the day sometime (I'm off work).

Thanks! Though, I can't believe that while writing that whole thing without making a "Petemo Parker" joke. XD I mean, seriously, he coulda been listening to My Chemical Romance. Right after beating the crap out of Sandman with his black suit, he looks in a mirror and combs his hair down in front of his face like this: o_\|

Don't decide to not see it if you are apprehensive about hearing about the emo stuff. Seeing Spiderman as an emo was uproarious, the whole theater couldn't stop laughing.

more like peter parker? more like pete wentz.

peter parker? more like pete wentz.

Saw it on Friday, and I enjoyed it very much. The action scenes were intense, but hard to follow, since they're CG and it's hard to track the characters when they move so quickly. The villains didn't get a lot of screen time here; the story was heavily about the romance between Peter and Mary Jane. There's also, I think, more comic moments in this one--J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah is hilarious, and I would like to have seen more of him.

The blonde chick is HOT!! And Topher Grace was disappointing: I was hoping for Not-Foreman (from That 70s Show), and I got Foreman. But overall I give this movie a "Thumbs-Up".

I got free tickets to see it so I did. Now, I don't keep up on this "popular culture" stuff so I had virtually no idea what was going on during this movie. From what I could understand, the storyline was basically this:

Spiderman gets some crazy-ass black stuff from space on him which causes him to get an emo haircut and start beating the s**t out of everyone. This confirms my suspicions that emo is caused by malevolent beings from outer space. Meanwhile, some escaped prisoner with a huge mouth gets turned into a giant anthromorphic mass of sand by a machine which appears to have been built for that exact purpose. The two have some violent run-ins, then Spiderman's girlfriend breaks up with him and starts dating this squinty dude with green armor instead. So, Spiderman decides to stop being emo tears the black stuff off of him. The black stuff then gets on this photoshopper dude with bad teeth who captures Spiderman's ex-girlfriend. So Spiderman and the squinty guy team up and destroy the black guy and the sand dude, which makes this a very racist movie. The squinty green guy dies during the fight and then there's a funeral scene with some lame voice-over crap, followed by credits. That's pretty much all there is to "Spiderman 3," which is damn near perplexing considering it was almost 3 hours long. From what I can tell the main 3 moral messages of this movie were:

1) Teamwork works
2) Redheads are better than blondes
3) Don't be emo

I think that all of the above statements are things every child should know, so I give this movie like a 4 out of 10 or something. If I had payed to see it I'd be pretty pissed off, though.

That was one of the things that was so amazing about Spider-Man 2. There were scenes in there that probobly cost 50 million just for that scene, but they looked spontanious, and you could always follow exactly what was going on, even when they were in 3D. In most movies, a guy throws a punch and it cuts all around and you can't tell what the heck is happening, and in S-M2 you've got this huge 3D fight and always know where everything is. Really amazing-and more importantly the plot was really good (and it had lines and situations that could have been right out of the book).