Edelag From Mexico, joined Dec 2005, 329 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2386 times:
I just got back home from seeing Spider Man 3 with a couple of friends of mine. Not the best out of the 3 but this one definitely takes second place. A bit long for an action type of movie but its time well worth. In my opinion the best out of the 3 is the first one, then the third one, and finally the second one. I am not a movie critic but I can say that this movie is worth the money. Let’s just see whether the director of the movie chooses either The Hobbit, or Spider Man 4. Frankly, I enjoy both movie series.
Iamcanadian From Canada, joined May 2001, 734 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2364 times:
Are you kidding me? The only reason I moderately enjoyed this movie was because of the comic relief to distract me from the lack of plot and drawn-out storyline, and the blatantly obvious cheesiness of the emotions. And just when I thought things couldn't get any "worse" in terms of unrequired content, the director decides to display an American flag flapping in the wind, filling the entire movie screen, and have a slow-motion clip of Spiderman heroically running in front of it.
*groan*
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way, shape, or form, anti-American. I just felt this was over-the-top, cheezy American patriotism that served no purpose and gave no added value to the movie within the context.
Quoting Edelag (Thread starter): Let’s just see whether the director of the movie chooses [...] Spider Man 4.
I'm going to put my money on NOT making Spiderman 4. All the loose ends were tied up at the end of this movie!
1.) We found out what *really* happened when Ben Parker got murdered.
2.) Peter reconciles with the killer.
3.) Peter becomes friends with Harry again! Oh wait...he's dead now.
4.) Wow, Mary Jane is NEVER going to want to get back with Peter, now that he's become an egotistical prick! Oh...they're united in Harry's death? They LOVE eachother again? But did MJ even find out *why* Peter was being a pain in the ass? Oh well, who cares?
I really didn't like how Venom was only in the movie for about 30 minutes, and how they didn't even focus/develop one villain the entire movie. Sure, Sandman was Ben's killer, but all I saw him as was a genetically modified jailbird...none of the villains really held any real *hate* for Peter/Spidey.
Meh. I just hope they don't go and *completely* ruin the Spiderman series by making a fourth installment.
Captaink From Mexico, joined May 2001, 5093 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (6 years 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2350 times:
Didn't like it, didn't like it, didn't like it.
Ok, there were moments when I was like, "WOW that is cool." But then many were the moments when I said to myself, "oh how corny can it get?" (like that flag thing IAMCANADIAN mentioned, or the cheezy screams of the delight from the people of NY...) I actually was telling my friend during that movie, I think it is becuase I am getting older.
It could have ended, when Harry died, or even when Spidey gave the 'heartfelt' speech, at which point people started clapping (whats' with the clapping anyhow). But it still dragged on even more. UUURGGH.
I was really looking forward to it but i was dissappointed.
P.S. Just love the action between the 'goodies' and the baddies'
Thom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50 Reply 6, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 2258 times:
Quoting Iamcanadian (Reply 1): the director decides to display an American flag flapping in the wind, filling the entire movie screen, and have a slow-motion clip of Spiderman heroically running in front of it.
I must say that alone puts me off seing the film..
Thom@s
"If guns don't kill people, people kill people - does that mean toasters don't toast toast, toast toast toast?"
KLM685 From Mexico, joined May 2005, 1577 posts, RR: 21 Reply 8, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2168 times:
Quoting Thom@s (Reply 6): I must say that alone puts me off seing the film..
I'll have to agree with you. It's those kinds of things in which you ask yourself whether the director thought about who was going to watch his fim. The whole world or only in the US? I don't disrespect the US at all but just seems that it goes a bit over the top.
Quoting Captaink (Reply 7): Not that our opinions really matter. Spidey is destroying the box office, shattering records for both first day and weekend ticket sales..
I know...but people don't know that the movie is good or bad before watching it (sometimes...). It's the expectation they create that sets the box office record.
Iamcanadian From Canada, joined May 2001, 734 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2148 times:
Quoting Captaink (Reply 7): Spidey is destroying the box office, shattering records for both first day and weekend ticket sales..
I was just about to mention something about this, but I think KLM685 put it the way I was going to say it...
Quoting KLM685 (Reply 8): It's the expectation they create that sets the box office record.
If the third installment of The Lord Of The Rings came out, and disappointed most people who saw it, don't you think it would have as many opening day/weekend sales as it had? It's the duration of high ticket sales that indicates how sucessful a movie really is.
Captaink From Mexico, joined May 2001, 5093 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2139 times:
Quoting Iamcanadian (Reply 9):
If the third installment of The Lord Of The Rings came out, and disappointed most people who saw it, don't you think it would have as many opening day/weekend sales as it had? It's the duration of high ticket sales that indicates how sucessful a movie really is.
Yeah That is all true. But Spiderman, just because of its history will continue to have high sales. The is is the 3rd installment, the first 2 were very successful, I don't expect a difference in this one. I am sure many people heard the reports before going to see it. A few of my friends saw it on midnight thursday, and they didn't like it, but guess I still went to see because it was Spiderman. And I am sure many people will thinking like that.
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 11, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2139 times:
Quoting KLM685 (Reply 8): It's the expectation they create that sets the box office record.
It'll be interesting to see how word of mouth affects next weekends sales, though. I personally will be waiting until it comes out on DVD, as I have heard less than spectacular reviews from friends.
Senorcarnival From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2131 times:
I thought it was unnecessarily long and had some pretty lame dramatic scenes like when Peter breaks down and starts sobbing on that bridge with MJ. I always thought Tobey Maguire was a better actor than that.
Rineanna From Ireland, joined Jan 2007, 879 posts, RR: 13 Reply 13, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2125 times:
It definitely wasn't the best out of the three.
One part which really ticked me off about the film was how cheesy the dialogue was at times. I've never heard a whole cinema sigh in unison before until the dialogue between Peter and the Sandman at the end and Peter says, as cheesy and as clichéd as anything I'd ever heard before.......
"I FORGIVE YOU!"
I swear to God, the whole cinema just let out a united groan!! The minute the film came to a finish, there was a scurry to the exits which can never be a good sign! But, hey, the makers had our €9 already in the bag so what did they care!
It was allright, but I would've thought it to be better.
QANTASforever From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2117 times:
Why the hell did an alien virus turn Peter Parker into an emo?
In fact, during one scene where Mary-Jane asks "Who are you?" - someone did actually exclaim "A ******* emo" - much to the amusement of everyone in the theatre. During their break up scene in central park, people were actually laughing.
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 21, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2034 times:
There would be "as many as we can make good stories for", he pledged.
aka, "We'll make them as long as we can pull in these crazy profits."
KLM685 From Mexico, joined May 2005, 1577 posts, RR: 21 Reply 22, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1992 times:
Quoting Newark777 (Reply 11): It'll be interesting to see how word of mouth affects next weekends sales, though.
It will probably affect it to minimun levels as people just need to go and see it for themselves. So as bad as the movie is people will still go to see it. Then again, kids don't mind whether it's a good or a bad movie. At the end parents will still have to go and see their kids heroe
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 23, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1986 times:
Quoting KLM685 (Reply 22): It will probably affect it to minimun levels as people just need to go and see it for themselves. So as bad as the movie is people will still go to see it. Then again, kids don't mind whether it's a good or a bad movie. At the end parents will still have to go and see their kids heroe
I agree that with a movie this big any bad word of mouth isn't going to hurt it that much.
N229NW From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 1850 posts, RR: 36 Reply 24, posted (6 years 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1985 times:
Rip the DVD? Even that seems like a waste of time.
I'll see it if it is the only thing being shown on a transcon flight and I'm too brain-dead to read or work instead. Even then I might poke my eyes out instead of watching it...
Fish in a tree! How can that be?
25 DL021: Stan Lee is already at the right hand of God.....explaining why he never gave enough credit to Ditka, Starlin, Kirby or several others...but that's an
26 WestJetForLife: My friends and I were joking all through the movie. We were hoping Mary Jane would FINALLY bite the bullet in the black spider web of doom, but no dic
27 UnknownUser: If some 'cheesy scene' of the American flag puts you off, that's frankly too bad. If it weren't for us, you would not have any movies, period. Glad t
28 Iamcanadian: Hey, guess what? The first feature film ever made was in Australia! And another newsflash: the largest film industry in the world is the Indian indus
29 Boston92: Agree with all. One of the worst movies I have ever seen. This movie was not even needed. It was POINTLESS. Spider Man 2 pretty much wrapped everythi
30 Thom@s: Yeah, you forgot the "If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German..." Thom@s
31 Airfoilsguy: Why do people clap at movies. The people you are applauding arn't there to hear it.
32 Thom@s: Just like passengers applauding a pilots landing... Thom@s
33 Captaink: I am not a fan of the clapping after a movie. But I have to admit after a long flight, and a great landing, the passengers start clapping, and I kind
34 Senorcarnival: It's their job to get you there safely, that doesn't deserve a round of applause, regardless of how great the landing was...i don't think many of us
35 Airfoilsguy: Your missing the point. If you clap in a plane the pilots can hear it and feel appreciated. If you clap in a movie theater no one associated with the
36 Thom@s: The pilots won't hear the spontanious applause from the passengers, unless the passengers hold their applause until the pilots have taken off their h
37 KLM685: But maybe the FA's will tell them 10 minutes later
38 Thom@s: And maybe whoever is behind the spiderman movie read in a paper that the theatre audience applauded at the end of the film.. *Clap clap* "Phew, thank
39 DL021: Number one....no matter how sophisticated one affects to be by pishposhing the enthusiasm of others applause is always heard one way or another....whe
40 777-200: I didn't think it was that good at all. Maybe just because it was too long..!
41 Newark777: Or if you aren't a huge comic book fan. Harry
42 Jamesbaldwyn: A bit!!! It was a very long film!! But I enjoyed it and well worth my underage ticket
43 Redngold: I liked the movie - even in the middle of the night (I went to a midnight show on opening "day.") For those of you who are criticizing the American fl
44 DL021: dude.... I swear that guy is modeled after the guy who ran Titan books and comics in Tucker back in the early 80s.
45 Kunoichi: Correction: Kids AND geeks! And chicks, apparently... ... it's probably good that I'm a chick geek then... I'll definitely go see it, despite the cla
46 MDorBust: It fits even more when you consider the effect that Venom was having on Parker and emphasizing certain aspects of his personality. But then again, ap
47 Newark777: Haha, we had a guy just like him back in high school, except he was more into Star Wars than comics. Harry
48 Tsaord: Tobey showed he isn't that good of an actor to me with this film. I do not remember park being such a geeky cry baby. I did not like this film.
49 DL021: Holy crap.....I've just read that the man who refuses to apologize for Jar Jar Binks has called Spidey 3 "silly"....now I know it's a great movie....
50 WestJetForLife: Hey, I wasn't the only one in the theater that did that. There must have been at least 40 or 50 other people that were hooting and hollering behind u
51 Newark777: Almost as silly as most Star Wars dialogue. Harry
53 ACDC8: Finally got to go see it tonight. I thought it was an OK movie. Definately worth going out of the house to go see. It was long, but I found that they
54 Kunoichi: 1) Just because everyone else is doing it, does it make it okay? I'm sure SOMEONE in the theater was trying to watch the movie, and was pretty discon
55 WestJetForLife: Don't worry. No attack taken. Simple constructive criticism (and to be honest, it was needed). Much appreciation, Nik
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