The Scientist

I was just guessing at numbers and figures, Pulling your puzzles apart, Questions of science, science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart. -Coldplay

Sunday, May 13, 2007

A bit of a Spiderman 3 spoiler...so don't read past the first 3 paragraphs if you want to see the movie

I forgot to mention that we went to see Spiderman 3 last Monday.

It was terrible. Don't waste your money on seeing it in the theatre. There's no point. You might as well flush your twelve dollars down the toilet and use your extra three hours to do something useful.

It's too bad that Spiderman 3 had a different the director than the first two movies. I really, really liked the first two movies. They were fun and fanciful, but not frivolous or unbelievable.

Spidey 3 was overly long, super cheesy, boring and stupid. Within the first 30 minutes I was already bored and super cheesed-out. As the movie progressed, the cheesiness persisted (picture Spiderman swinging in to save the day, in slow motion, in front of a large, gently rippling American flag - blech) and the plot became confusing and incomplete. In fact, five coexisting plots prevented any single plot from being fully developed, resulting in an overal poor storyline. An abundance of villains accompanied the tangle of plots, several of which flip sides at different points to become good guys, where they proceed to have heart-to-heart moments with Spiderman. Which viewer wants to see superheroes discussing their hardships and forgiving each other for all the wrongs between them? In addition, several characters 'die' and then come back to life again (eg. blown up point blank, only to survive with a disfigured face, or, pounded twenty times by a huge hand onto a steel girder, only to survive and kick some more butt). Lastly, there's far too much footage on Mary Jane's and Peter's relationship, including a random dance scene.

In summary, I was very disappointed with this last Spiderman movie and regretably, won't be able to complete my home collection of this trilogy because I refuse to buy this crappy movie.

2 Comments:

At 8:40 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

IMDB.com says they've announced Spiderman 4 for 2009 directed by the same guy. Maybe he feels the need to redeem himself.

 
At 9:23 PM, Blogger Kim said...

Bummer. It will be a tough decision whether to see the next one or not. Good thing we have several years to forget how bad this last one was!

 

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