11 Things About Spider-Man 432
An Anonymous Coward writes: "This has got to be the most inane, greedy thing I have heard of yet! The owners of the billboards on Times Square are suing Sony and those involved with the production of Spider-Man 'for digitally superimposing advertisements for other companies over their billboard space in the film.' Their argument: '[the ads] do not depict the area accurately.' Oh, and a guy in spider costume swinging from the buildings does? Give me a break!" That's one thing; read below for the other 10, if you can handle some movie spoilage. Update: 04/14 21:04 GMT by T : Oh, and a 12th thing: as reader marcsiry points out, that's "Spider-Man," not "Spiderman."
CheeseburgerBlue writes with his space-saving, 10-thought mini-review.
- "Worst opening titles sequence ever. Probably recycled out of un-used material from 'The Last Starfighter.' Truly IntelliVision-level graphics here.
- Peter hacks himself an awesome wannabe costume at first. This is good, because nobody is so well-rounded as to be ass-kickingly fierce, unswerving moral, academically gifted *and* a knock-down seamtress to boot. (It's unheard of, aside from that mama's boy show-off Clark Kent.)
- There is actually some credible character development. (Smacks own agape jaw in disbelief.) So much for the frickin' Batman franchise.
- We are treated to several exciting shots of M.J.'s heaving bosom through clinging wet fabric, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
- J. Jonas Jamieson: beautiful! This character absolutely could not have been done better. It's like a really angry Perry White mixed with Lou Grant, drunk.
- Nice casting. Not only is Peter's pal Harry the spitting image of his screen father (Dafoe), but he also makes a passable Anakin Skywalker. (I can't wait to see what kind of a Darth sombitch Harry turns into in the sequels.)
- Many agree that the animated Spidey flying around looks like crap in the TV spots. Luckily, in context, it works. I found that what the C.G. webslinger lacks in verisimilitude is made up for in choreography -- the sequences of Spidey swinging through Manhattan and thrilling and fun.
- I've always counted on Spiderman to deliver some quality wise-cracks, in stark contrast to Superman's squarejawed mumbling about truth and justice. I also expect Peter Parker to have a dark side that is less cheese-gothic than Batman's silhouetted form baying at the moon. This movie delivers -- Spidey's character is perfectly true to form.
- Great pacing. It's more than half-way through the movie before Peter really becomes Spiderman. His gradual transition to superherohood is convincing, and helps sell Peter as a real guy along the way.
- Despite the fact the Green Goblin essentially kicks his own ass in this movie, he does duke it out pretty cool with Spidey a few times first. (The best part is when the angry New Yorkers pelt him with trash for messin' with their friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.)"
Kirsten Dunst (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone else have a sudden renewed interest in seeing this film now
One-line judgement (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kirsten Dunst (Score:2, Funny)
Is Sony Violating.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's not unreasonable ? (Score:2, Funny)
I hope Sony gets fees when this gets dismissed
Re:Censorship (Score:3, Funny)
They decided to take out all shots of the World Trade Center in the movie.
It's too bad, really. If they had left in the shots where Spiderman was climbing between the Twin Towers, then there is no way the studio could be sued if someone were to try doing the same thing in real life after seeing the movie. :)
Re:Kirsten Dunst (Score:4, Funny)
Sheeesh.
Re:One-line judgement (Score:5, Funny)
check this link out [houstonpress.com]
not exactly "get the fuck outta here", but close enough to be amusing
bemis
-This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence. - Vyvyan, The Young Ones
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
not_cub
Re:TV Series (Score:1, Funny)
have to admit, it was pretty prescient given that Hugh Jackman's antipodeian.
Makes it looks like somebody's last name (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One more thing about "Spiderman" (Score:2, Funny)
I've been thinking "Spiderman" for the past 24 years -- it's as if you suddenly told me that yogurt had a "3."
timothy
Re:Kirsten Dunst (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One-line judgement (Score:4, Funny)
Even if it was Judge Judy? Blech.
Re:One more thing about "Spiderman" (Score:1, Funny)
A former editor? How fortunate I've found you. I'm afraid my website [slashdot.org] may have spelling and grammatical errors. Could you please review it and send me an e-mail detailing every single one?
(Nice work, moderators. +5? Not all 'information' is '+1 Informative'.)Imagine the court proceedings transcript (Score:2, Funny)
CD = Counsel for the Defendant
CP: The accused has distorted the billboard area without my client's permission.
CD: My client has agreed to re-edit the film to remove all shots of the Times Square Billboard area, thus resolving the plantiff's grievance. Does my Learned Friend concur?
CP: What? Well...errr....oh bugger.
Re:One more thing about "Spiderman" (Score:3, Funny)
Excelsior!
3 more facts about Spider-Man (Score:4, Funny)
Paraphrased from The Official Ninja Homepage [realultimatepower.net]
Re:Kirsten Dunst (Score:4, Funny)
Try these:
"Crazy Beautiful" - She plays a self-destructive troubled young teen daughter to a suicided mother.
Kirsten did a great job on this one. Although there are a few 'cheeze' moments, overall this was a very dynamic role in comparison to most of her work.
"Virgin Suicides" - Again, she plays a self-destructive teen hell-bent on killing herself. A very complicated movie, sad and dramatic. With an allstar cast featuring James Wood, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett and narrated by Giovanni Ribisi, this movie was very well made. A+ to Kirsten.
"Bring It On" - Nevermind. This one sucked. I think those two were her only really good roles.
Re:Tobey Maguire + skin-tight outfit = yum (Score:2, Funny)
I almost hope they win... (Score:4, Funny)
Cynical? Me?
Re:One-line judgement (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I am a professional news photographer... (Score:2, Funny)
There are best of episodes of that show?
Re:Virtual Times Square (Score:3, Funny)
Changing the reality? This is Spider-Man, not some deadly serious documentary.
In my reality, people don't develop the ability to spin webs after being caught inside a nuclear experiment with a spider (or whatever the original reason was).
Re:The mini-review (Score:2, Funny)
If webbing is produced naturally by Spidey's body, what happens when he has an ejaculation? "Sorry, honey, I'll go get a knife and cut you down from the ceiling"?!!!
Food for thought...
Spider-Man (Score:4, Funny)
Are you sure you don't mean Spider-Person? Or perhaps Spider-American or Arachno-American. Then of course there are those who believe it should be GNU/Spider.
Re:I am a professional news photographer... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One-line judgement (Score:4, Funny)
HOT ILLEGAL JUDGE JUDY ACTION? Get me some o' that!
Sorry...