Monday, May 7, 2007
Spiderman 3
Here it is, the long awaited Spiderman 3 review, the review to end all reviews. Now I last spoke of Spiderman 2 back in my review of it in 2004 which you can find here. This Spiderman movie followed a lot of the same formula in that the beginning is again sort of a “quick review” of the past two movies and I feel it’s a nice touch as it sort of jogs the memory on what deputed more than 6 years ago. Overall though I thought the movie was good, but not Spiderman 2 good. I think what it was missing was that Sam Raimi “quick zoom” that he did in Spiderman 2 during the Doc Ock surgery room scene that ended in a nice homage to a chainsaw. Don’t get me wrong the movie was still better than 90% of the crap out there, and it earned over $140 million its opening weekend smashing the previous record held by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest which I still have to see. Anyways the scene with Bruce Campbell as the Maitre D’ was by far the funniest and best overall scene of the movie. The subtle or not so subtle way that hand gestures can get confused is just so over the top as to be hilarious. The action in the movie was good, but I think the best action scene was the first one between Harry and Peter, it just seemed to have the action meter turned all the way up to 11. It was quick it was to the point and you got to see that Peter is still trying everything he can to convince Harry that he didn’t kill his father. We also saw how stressed out Mary Jane is and how she’s taking Spiderman finally getting fame…not well. One major point of contention I had with the movie was when Peter busted out the “emo” hairdo, just remember Pete its down the river not across the street. But anyways that can all easily be forgotten about when you get into the scenes around the Daily Bugle, as those are equally as brilliant as the scenes with Bruce Campbell. Since the music which was sans Danny Elfman was still quite good, the acting was up to par, the directing while not overly Sam Raimi like was still good, and the special effects were good all add up to a 8.5 / 10.
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Ok, I agree with everything you wrote at the bottom: the music/directing was pretty good, Bruce Campbell, as always, was great, and I'll even one up and say that the rest of the acting was good as well. And I agree that the movie WAS better than much of the crap out there. And because of those things, your score might actually be warranted. But, what you didn't mention is how there is NO story presented anywhere in the movie. Where did people come from, what did that person just say, why did that action scene simply segue into this one? A lot of the dialogue felt very hurried and subsequently empty as well. And why? Well, the answer is simply what the movie was: a cash-cow conclusion to a series that was so awesome/successful they couldn't help but make one more.
All considered, I expected craptastic, and it actually wasn't bad. Oh, and Kirsten Dunst is hot. Don't expect much and you'll be pleased.
One more thing... Bloggers captcha has become necessary unfortunately, but it sucks ass. For example, apparently
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is not rprrqak. I had to enter 4 codes before it worked.
I understand what your saying, I guess the only way I can justify it is that it in all likelihood there will be a spiderman 4, so its the same thing that happened in Two Towers, in that not much is explained its just assumed you already know.
I know, not much of a justification but its about the only one I can give.
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