You're not Superman, you know...
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amezriI am warning you...
Before I get into that review stuff... there were some kick-ass trailers, including "Men In Black II" and "Austin Powers: Goldmember." However... someone needs to shoot the writers, director, and producer of "Scooby Doo." First of all... Freddy Prinze J.r does not make a good Freddy, not matter how many wigs you put on him and how many acting lessons he takes. Second... Sarah Michelle Gellar is just.. ugh. There are no words. Daphne is pretty much a Buffy clone. It must have been her idea. I am so not amused. Daphne is supposed to be the airhead with no skills whatsoever. Her kicking ass is just not right. On the other hand, Matthew Lillard makes a very scarily accurate Shaggy which is probably worth sitting through 2 hours of crap. Not that I'll be paying to see this dren...
And now..
I'm not kidding. SPOILERS below
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First of all, with Sam Raimi directing and Danny Elfman composing the score, how could this movie not rock? Also, the cameos by Bruce Campbell (ring announcer), Ted Raimi (um.. guy at the Daily Bugle) and Lucy Lawless (random NYC freak). Very cool shots with Spidey web-slinging through the city, as well as Matrix-y shots of Spidey-time. Sam Raimi is my hero! The score was fantastic and I have been jamming to Chad Kroeger of Nickleback singing "Hero" all week. Um.. looks like there's a new soundtrack I need to buy.
Okay.. down to the movie. From what I remember, the basic "rise of the hero" plot was pretty true to the comic. He gets bit by a spider in a research lab, discovers new powers and thinks they are the coolest ever - but still can't get the girl. Two things bothered me about Movie!Spidey: no webbing catridges, therefore he can't change formulas for different usage; and where the hell did he get the money to make the new costume and how did he do it? I really enjoyed the scene on the rooftop where he was trying to figure out how to use webbing and he was shouting random stuff and moving his hands all funny. "Web, activate!" "Go, web!" "Sahzaam!" ROFLMAO
He then tries to earn money by wrestling. The place gets robbed, but Peter won't stop him because the guy dicked him over and didn't pay Peter the full amount. "I don't see how that's my problem." The robber shoots Uncle Ben and hijacks his car - thus Peter is responsible for his Uncle's death. That was a nice bit of character development.
The rise of the Green Goblin was pretty canon and the costume was hot. There were a few scary, unexpected Goblin flash-cuts, but that's typical Raimi. He likes to freak the crap out of people. Goblin attacking a place where Hary was, though... not sure if that occured often in canon. Goblin/Norman usually tried to keep Harry out of things. Didn't like that Goblin was killed in the end, but I suppose the movie needed it. Villian does the standard "threaten the girl" taunt and the hero renews his strength.
Ah, the bridge scene - that was interesting. I think this was in the comic book, but with a different girl.Spidey let the girl die so he could save the innocents... I think. It might have been a "What If...?" Anyway, the point is that I always thought Spidey could have saved both -- which he does here. The citzens of NYC chucking stuff at Green Goblin to defend Spidey was great - "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!" ^___^
We never did find out what Goblin did to Aunt May. She was still in the hospital, wasn't she? I dunno.. she looked okay to me. You'd think he would've killed her or something. Poor old lady is gonna have some scary stuff come her way. The little love triangle between Peter, MJ, and Harry was a nice setup for a future movie. As was Peter halting any sort of chance with MJ when he told her that he could only ever be her friend - at Ben's grave, no less. I'm sure she figured out he was Spiderman from the kiss, though. Hey - it worked for the Bat and the Cat.
Mary Jane's last few lines were very annoying. And they rhymed. ::smacks writer:: Also.. who the hell was writing Green Goblin's jokes? A lot of them were just plain stupid.Though, they were in the comic, too I think... *shrug*
There were lots of great lines.. which I can't remember. But I'm going to see the movie again with Q tomorrow and will hopefully retain more information the second time around. I'll add stuff later. Oh, but I do remember that I am finding Tobey Maguire strangely attractive...man, this is like that Elijah Wood fascination. It just.. develops because the guy is in a hot new film playing the lead. Cannot.. resist.. the.. blue eyes. o_O
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Before I get into that review stuff... there were some kick-ass trailers, including "Men In Black II" and "Austin Powers: Goldmember." However... someone needs to shoot the writers, director, and producer of "Scooby Doo." First of all... Freddy Prinze J.r does not make a good Freddy, not matter how many wigs you put on him and how many acting lessons he takes. Second... Sarah Michelle Gellar is just.. ugh. There are no words. Daphne is pretty much a Buffy clone. It must have been her idea. I am so not amused. Daphne is supposed to be the airhead with no skills whatsoever. Her kicking ass is just not right. On the other hand, Matthew Lillard makes a very scarily accurate Shaggy which is probably worth sitting through 2 hours of crap. Not that I'll be paying to see this dren...
And now..
I'm not kidding. SPOILERS below
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First of all, with Sam Raimi directing and Danny Elfman composing the score, how could this movie not rock? Also, the cameos by Bruce Campbell (ring announcer), Ted Raimi (um.. guy at the Daily Bugle) and Lucy Lawless (random NYC freak). Very cool shots with Spidey web-slinging through the city, as well as Matrix-y shots of Spidey-time. Sam Raimi is my hero! The score was fantastic and I have been jamming to Chad Kroeger of Nickleback singing "Hero" all week. Um.. looks like there's a new soundtrack I need to buy.
Okay.. down to the movie. From what I remember, the basic "rise of the hero" plot was pretty true to the comic. He gets bit by a spider in a research lab, discovers new powers and thinks they are the coolest ever - but still can't get the girl. Two things bothered me about Movie!Spidey: no webbing catridges, therefore he can't change formulas for different usage; and where the hell did he get the money to make the new costume and how did he do it? I really enjoyed the scene on the rooftop where he was trying to figure out how to use webbing and he was shouting random stuff and moving his hands all funny. "Web, activate!" "Go, web!" "Sahzaam!" ROFLMAO
He then tries to earn money by wrestling. The place gets robbed, but Peter won't stop him because the guy dicked him over and didn't pay Peter the full amount. "I don't see how that's my problem." The robber shoots Uncle Ben and hijacks his car - thus Peter is responsible for his Uncle's death. That was a nice bit of character development.
The rise of the Green Goblin was pretty canon and the costume was hot. There were a few scary, unexpected Goblin flash-cuts, but that's typical Raimi. He likes to freak the crap out of people. Goblin attacking a place where Hary was, though... not sure if that occured often in canon. Goblin/Norman usually tried to keep Harry out of things. Didn't like that Goblin was killed in the end, but I suppose the movie needed it. Villian does the standard "threaten the girl" taunt and the hero renews his strength.
Ah, the bridge scene - that was interesting. I think this was in the comic book, but with a different girl.Spidey let the girl die so he could save the innocents... I think. It might have been a "What If...?" Anyway, the point is that I always thought Spidey could have saved both -- which he does here. The citzens of NYC chucking stuff at Green Goblin to defend Spidey was great - "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!" ^___^
We never did find out what Goblin did to Aunt May. She was still in the hospital, wasn't she? I dunno.. she looked okay to me. You'd think he would've killed her or something. Poor old lady is gonna have some scary stuff come her way. The little love triangle between Peter, MJ, and Harry was a nice setup for a future movie. As was Peter halting any sort of chance with MJ when he told her that he could only ever be her friend - at Ben's grave, no less. I'm sure she figured out he was Spiderman from the kiss, though. Hey - it worked for the Bat and the Cat.
Mary Jane's last few lines were very annoying. And they rhymed. ::smacks writer:: Also.. who the hell was writing Green Goblin's jokes? A lot of them were just plain stupid.Though, they were in the comic, too I think... *shrug*
There were lots of great lines.. which I can't remember. But I'm going to see the movie again with Q tomorrow and will hopefully retain more information the second time around. I'll add stuff later. Oh, but I do remember that I am finding Tobey Maguire strangely attractive...man, this is like that Elijah Wood fascination. It just.. develops because the guy is in a hot new film playing the lead. Cannot.. resist.. the.. blue eyes. o_O
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Date: 2002-05-04 05:19 am (UTC)I know what you mean. I was so shocked when I discovered she was gonna do the movie. I love her better in drama like "Cruel Intentions" but she says once that she loved comedy so here we go. Thought, she also chose the movie to work with Freddy.
Now I'm still not sure if I'll go see it or not. I love Sarah but I don't want to torture myself either. I think it will mostly depend on what else is at the theater at the time.
Anyway, I wish I would have seen Spiderman yesterday. I'll go next weekend or maybe during the week, after all I worked, I have the right to some days off.
Have to get ready for classes. Bye and have a nice day.
Juliet
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Date: 2002-05-04 01:06 pm (UTC)it looks like a satire to me....
Date: 2002-05-04 05:23 pm (UTC)I wasn't going to see the movie, because I'm not a big fan of cartoons turned into live action --- despite my sarah love (I saw Cruel Intentions, which sucked because it *did* take itself seriously.) but I've been over to the official site and the trailer makes me giggle in a good way.
Matthew Lillard definitely surprised me.
And I'd cool down on the Sarah Conspiracy to Make Daphne Not an airhead thing...like I said, it looks more like a nudge, nudge, wink wink thing.
Re: it looks like a satire to me....
Date: 2002-05-04 07:26 pm (UTC)Matthew Lillard makes a fantastic Shaggy (I would be surprised if Shaggy didn't light up at least once during the film.). The CG dog was better than I expected.
As for Sarah.. I just. *sigh* During that "training" scene, it was amost like it was Buffy and not Daphne, that's all I'm saying.
Webshooters
Date: 2002-05-05 01:38 am (UTC)Re: Webshooters
Date: 2002-05-05 06:01 am (UTC)Bridge scene in comics
Date: 2002-05-17 07:48 am (UTC)Re: Bridge scene in comics
Date: 2002-05-17 09:00 am (UTC)