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Did you think it was a bomb and then call the police? Or do you not live in Boston?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

No way. I immediately felt much safer actually.

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link

liked the bit in the french restaurant and some of the early self-centredness

the strutting down the street and showing off in MJ's bar stuff was funny but didn't feel like the same film, in a way

superheroes and superhero stories often rely on coincidence (I don't mind it) but this had a bit too much, for me

some of the jokey bits were strung out too long (the bit w/ JJJ and the girl w/ the camera) and, eventually, some of the mugging and OTT action dialogue put me off, too

I like spider-man and I like sandman (he was sympatheticky but his flashback-anguish and redemption were weak) and it was exciting and looked good, for the most part (few bits that seemed more "unreal" or were a bit too "busy")

good fun but on too long, too many baddies, few disappointing thing and snow patrol at the end

oh, and w dafoe's butler finally telling j franco that spidey was innocent! good help is hard to find

― RJG, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

the butler really should've told franco that ages ago, it would've saved the guy a LOT of troubles.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I was kind of like "WTF butler dude, way to wait until the last minute to be of any use! Also where were you in the previous movies?"

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Franco's revenge plot was kind of a perfect storm of douchey genius though. "BOOM I FUCKED YR GIRLFRIEND, HAW HAWS!"

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

franco's plan:

a) force kirsten dunst to break up with spiderman
b) tell spiderman he fucked kirsten dunst
c) make self a martini
d) wait for spiderman to appear on his balcony
e) ...get his ass kicked????

srsly willem dafoe should've popped back up in the mirror to mention, like, setting a trap for spiderman, or something?

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

The whole Butler thing was really bad. It just seemed so . . . lazy.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link

i just don't think he thought any of it out beyond the "it's funny to watch peter crying on a bridge while holding flowers lol" stage.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link

james franco 8080

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link

b) tell spiderman he fucked kirsten dunst

ALSO the thing about this is that didn't harry and mary jane date each other in the first movie? i mean, really, this is old news.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link

wait that would've been hilarious if he was all like LOL you guys broke up over this and i was just talking about like what happened three years ago PSYYYYYYCHE

truly that would've been the best diabolical plan ever.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link

I CAN'T REMEMBER THE OPENING CREDITS "PREVIOUSLY ON SPIDERMAN" MONTAGE DID NOT ADDRESS THIS

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link

SPIDERMAN REALLY SHOULD STOP BEING SO LAME ABOUT HARRY FUCKING HIS GF CONSIDERING SPIDERMAN STOLE HER FROM HARRY AND FROM JJJ'S SON, GET YR OWN GF SPIDERMAN

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

like, for example, the russian girl or the newspaper secretary

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link

"That's why I fucked your bitch, you spidey motherfucker."

Ally OTM about slut from 40 Year Old Virgin & Russian girl.

― milo z, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link

omg this movie. What a mess. But a truly glorious mess.

PETER PARKER PETRELLI OBERST JAZZ HANDS.

― Roz, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link

"Peter, I meant to tell you... I put my thumb in MJ's butt."

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

(obv that is Dave Chappelle as Harry Osborne)

(haha "obv")

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

I can see exactly where this Chappelle skit is going with the omelet scene. "Do you like hot peppers?"

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link

"How'd your hair get so red, anyway?"

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Re: the dancing sequence:

Did no one else notice how it kept flipping back and forth between the way Peter thought women were reacting to him (*swoon*) and the way they were REALLY reacting to him ("Who is this nerdy dancing cunt? lol")?

Yeah, I thought that was the best part of the movie.

There were people in the theatre with me who were obviously SQUIRMING at cheesy jazz PP... and I'm thinking, jesus people, he's SUPPOSED to look like a douche.

― Roz, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

even a cursory reading of Foucault should have told us that

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

This has had generally bad reviews in the UK. I didn't really understand why, or at least, looking back, I can't understand why there was so much gushing over Spider-Man 2 compared with this.

Yes, it was too long, sagged in the midddle, and things like the butler revelation were lazy, but it was so likable. Maybe I've just been watching 24 too much, but to have some kind of optimistically liberal, New Testament Christian superhero morality tale was quite refreshing, even if Sandman's whole motivation was a bit all over the place.

Neither Tobey Maguire or Kirsten Dunst seem to be able to do crying very well, and the series never manages really get emotional depth out of their darker times.

i just really appreciated the fact that sam raimi decided to make the venom story just a really weird, convoluted cocaine metaphor.

After I saw it, I tentatively mentioned this to my cinemagoing companion, apologising if it was a really obvious thing that everyone had been saying, but umm.. yeah. I totally read it that way and I'd be surprised (but sort of pleased, in some kind of life having a deeper pattern behind it kind of way) if it wasn't intentional.

Did no one else notice how it kept flipping back and forth between the way Peter thought women were reacting to him (*swoon*) and the way they were REALLY reacting to him ("Who is this nerdy dancing cunt? lol")?

I certainly noticed the mixed response, but I put it down to different people having different reactions to coke-esque confidence, but yeah, you're probably right in your reading.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I saw it more like...the ones that were reacting badly to him were just too far away to get a whiff of his spidey pheromones!

― RJG, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link

An interesting take!

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

BTWFWIW, for my money Tobey + EVIL floppy hair = hotter, but then I fancy annoying coked-up girls.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link

(not exclusively)

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Like anyone cares.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

stfu george lucas

― Roz, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link

hahahahahahahahaha oh georgie porgie

whaddaprick. is this because ILM didn't do the effects?

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:09 (sixteen years ago) link

heh never mind, now i see why:

"Lucas, who was behind the smash-hit Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, said he was not impressed by the new sequel, which surged ahead of the director's 2005 film Revenge of the Sith to take the record for the biggest weekend box-office record."

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

talk about the nerd pot calling the nerd kettle black!

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Sith did not have musical jazz interludes. This is why it sucked.

― Roz, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Plus, the scene where we first see Sandman >>>>>>> anything in the Star Wars prequels OR any of the Spidey movies.

― Roz, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link

where is the where do i shot web image?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

everyone in the theater laughed at the crying on the bridge scene.

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I just watched this and I really liked it, but after reading this thread I can't remember why at all. Maybe it was cause I saw it right after the new Fantastic Four and it seemed so much better in comparison. Also it was great to see Toby Maguire channeling Jim Carrey. Somehow I think Karl Jung would just eat this movie up.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6446/howdoishotwebvj0.jpg

I had this in mind the whole time I was reading the thread too. FUCK YOU INTERNET.

― viborg, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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