I mostly liked the movie, except for the way it felt like it started in the middle of another movie. Like when the opening credits rolled (and I understand the purpose of the opening credits in this movie, let me just say that preemptively), I had missed an hour of the movie already. Weird.

What's weird is that BOTH Hulk movies decided to start the narrative during the opening credits.

I'm assuming Liv Tyler was cast for her ability to whisper "Bruce" with tears in her eyes, because THAT'S ALL SHE DID.

She said it SEVEN TIMES, with a bonus four times without the question mark.

Also, in Avengers, Bruce said he "broke Harlem," but I gotta say -- NSM his fault.

Seriously. I'd say less than 25% of it was his fault.

As an action movie, it was pretty fun. As a Hulk movie? There really wasn't anything there at all. At least Hulk had an actual plot with characters in it.

(This one did, however, have random cameos by Martin Starr and Michael K. Williams.)

Conclusion: Whedon/Ruffalo Hulk FTW.

Saw Pirates: Band of Misfits, Aardman Studios latest, today. A very British movie. Very funny. Brian Blessed voicing the King of the Pirates was perfect.

Oh my god, SPIDER-MAN.

Seriously, that is the Spider-Man movie of my dreams. Andrew Garfield is *my* Peter Parker. Holy Jebus. He's everything I wanted Tobey Maguire to be, but wasn't. And I don't know how much of the action scenes in the Spidey suit were CGI, but -- DAT ASS. Oh my god.

Flash Thompson! Character growth! That was fantastic.

Emma Stone really was great. She was practically sparkly. But not in a vampire way.

I love that the plot's conflict/angst/Big Bad was the result of an EQUATION. I mean, Peter name-checked the damn equation as the reason the Lizard was created. It just made me laugh. (Noooo! Not the equation !!!!!)

I'm a little thrown that Sally Field is old enough to play Aunt May.

Finally: Dennis Leary. Has he had ALL the plastic surgery, or did he leave a little for a Kardashian or two? DAMN, man.

Oh, and whoever said upthread that this movie has daddy issues coming out its ears, hell to the yeah. Good Lord.

t edit Oh! MECHANICAL WEB-SHOOTERS FTW.

DAT ASS. Oh my god.

Ahahahaha, seriously. I actually had that exact thought at one point. That is a shapely booty.

Flash Thompson! Character growth! That was fantastic.

I don't think I've ever seen Flash with more than one layer!

MECHANICAL WEB-SHOOTERS FTW.

Weren't they wonderful?

So did you or did you not tear up at ALL THE CRANES ??

So did you or did you not tear up at

I SO DID!!!!! God damn, I even *knew* I was being manipulated, and I still teared up!

MECHANICAL WEB-SHOOTERS FTW.

Weren't they wonderful?

Oh my god, while he was making them, I was all "Science, BITCHES!"

I SO DID!!!!! God damn, I even *knew* I was being manipulated, and I still teared up!

Right? I loved how the dad specifically said out loud, "That's the guy who saved my son!" Just in case we didn't recognize him. (Um, I didn't. But still. It was so blatantly silly.)

Oh my god, while he was making them, I was all "Science, BITCHES!"

As he was making them, I was all, "Why did I ever settle for organic webshooters?"

So have you seen the stuff about the Untold Story? I'm really glad they cut that stuff out, but it's interesting that it seems to have been all cut out so late.

So have you seen the stuff about the Untold Story?

I hadn't seen any of that, but I did wonder about Peter just dropping the hunt for Uncle Ben's killer. I wondered if maybe we were supposed to assume that he realized that vengeance wasn't a good life choice and just decided to focus on the super-heroing part.

All that weird genetic destiny stuff -- I remember it from the trailers, and I remember Dr. Connors' line about how all the other subjects on whom cross-species DNA merging was tried ended up dying, and thinking, well, that's not entirely true, is it? Maybe that'll be addressed in a future movie -- but I hope not. I really don't want to see him ending up as Peter Parker, human guinea pig. For one thing, the costume would suck compared to the Spidey costume.

That was C. Thomas Howell!

I also teared up at the crane scene. I love shit like that.

That was C. Thomas Howell!

Ponyboy was Jack's Dad? I'll be damned.

His career these days seems to consist of crappy movies that my husband watches on Netflix streaming, so I totally recognized him.