Pretty much what Steph said. (Although I did like the Bruce Campbell cameo.)
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Narrator - May 05, 2007 2:07:47 pm PDT #8323 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Polter-Cow - May 05, 2007 3:01:35 pm PDT #8324 of 10001
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Even though I agree with some of Steph's criticisms, I really liked the movie. I don't think it reached the heights of the first two, mainly because there wasn't as much complexity/depth to the major theme of the movie. I think that all the plotlines were interwoven pretty well, and I like that they continued the ongoing plotlines from the last two movies.
So, overall, I found it very enjoyable and a good time.
beekaytee - May 05, 2007 4:18:12 pm PDT #8325 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I agree with pretty much everything Steph said, as stated above, but I think I enjoyed the bloaty mess less.
It was a very bad sign when the times that Peter Parker cried, the audience burst out in gaffaws...really long gaffaws . I'm thinking, not what the filmmakers had in mind. The multiple incidence of a. single. tear. breaking free and coursing down his cheek were just cheese on a stick.
I agree totally with the little Nicky hairstyle analysis. Though my first thought was Peter!Patrelli!
There was just too much going on. Too many contrived 'jeepers!' moments and far, far too little depth.
And, as with the first two, I kept thinking to myself jeez, this is the worst cgi I've ever seen. Saturday morning cartoons look more realistic.
§ ita § - May 05, 2007 9:31:42 pm PDT #8326 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There were very few emotional notes in Spiderman 3 that worked for me. The ones where the acting and writing didn't make me want to scream had been so foreshadowed that there was still pain there.
I'm guessing that I'm supposed to think well of Pete and Harry's rekindled friendship, but I found it insanely creepy and Pollyannaish. I'm not sure what I was supposed to feel for Dark Petey, because although some people in the film recoiled at the fragrant cheese, it also fucking WORKED from time to time. Which? Hell the fuck no.
I agree with all of Steph's kudos, except with a James Franco caveat for the scenes mentioned in my preceding paragraph. Bruce Campbell, who has an ability to annoy me (no matter how much I like him in some stuff, he seems in love with his cool theses days) was freaking MAGIC. I did love him to pieces.
Oh, and I hate Ted Raimi. Never seen him play a character I didn't want taken outside and pistol-whipped.
beekaytee - May 06, 2007 4:57:04 am PDT #8327 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I had a similar recoil to PetenHarry together again... considering it was based on a pretty self-serving lie.
And then! When the butler finally, and oh so conveniently turns Harry's seething rage of a thousand stubborn bulls into gosh! he really IS my bud. Couldn't he have maybe mentioned that before?
Scrappy - May 06, 2007 7:50:30 am PDT #8328 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I enjoyed dark!Peter, but mostly because Maguire seemed to be having great fun with it. It made it fun to watch for me.
The whole butler thing made me roll my eyes forever. LAME.
Basically, the movie had too much dudes crying. and not enough snarky dialogue.
§ ita § - May 06, 2007 8:14:01 am PDT #8329 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What trailers did you guys see before Spiderman 3? We got an extremely emo one about some guy called Jude starring Marilyn Manson's new GF (Rachel Evan Wood? I worry I mess one of her names up), PotC3, Shrek3, HPIV, and some one about surfing penguins. The room couldn't have been flatter after the Jude one, and this is a group that was fired up playing some weird video game onscreen instead of watching ads. Well, the game wasn't weird--it was that standard one with the bat at the bottom of the screen and the blocks at the top with point values. It was just weird to play it as an audience.
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2007 8:36:09 am PDT #8330 of 10001
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We got an extremely emo one about some guy called Jude starring Marilyn Manson's new GF (Rachel Evan Wood? I worry I mess one of her names up)
Evan Rachel Wood. That's Across the Universe, which appears to be Moulin Rouge meets Hair meets the Beatles.
We got all the same trailers you did, it seems. Plus The Bourne Ultimatum. And the HP trailer was NEW! It was one I'd never seen, and it was awesome.
Sean K - May 06, 2007 8:42:50 am PDT #8331 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
HPIV
Aren't we waiting on HPV?
Plus The Bourne Ultimatum.
How did that look? (though trailers seem to be becomming less and less reliable as a gague of quality, if they ever were to begin with)
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2007 9:14:46 am PDT #8332 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It looked fine? I remember almost nothing from the first two movies. I'm not even sure I saw the second one. Was Julia Stiles in both of them, or just the second one?
Okay, she was in both. But, seriously, I don't remember a thing. But the third one looks like...well, it looks like another Bourne movie.