Spider-Man review
May. 28th, 2002 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfAgain, I don't really give standard reviews; I just note down everything I want to mention, for whatever reason -- everything from "hey, that was cool" to "wait a minute, was that so-and-so?"
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- Why is Mary Jane with that musclebound guy anyway? Parker's cuter even before he ditches the specs. Of course, I Brake For Geeks, so hey.
- Wow, this music is awesome. I wonder why. It couldn't be because it was scored by the God of Music himself, heavens no... (i.e. Danny "Skellington" Elfman)
- Why on earth is that gas chamber thingy so HUGE? I mean yes, it looks cool, but they have to pump a LOT of gas into it. I gather that the gas isn't exactly free to produce, to pump in, or to cycle out for standard air. So why the million-gallon tank? (I did have to run to the potty during a scientist scene, so there might've been a perfectly good explanation for this shameful wastingness, but still.)
- No more glasses, huh? Lucky kid.
- The initial scene where Peter's swinging from one bit of webbing to the next, in pursuit of the guy who carjacked Ben -- very cool. He was all awkward and sort of lurching from one strand to the next, just like you'd expect considering he'd never really done it before. Later, of course, he totally has it down, and r0xx0rage ensues.
- Neat, Spider-Man's head was just defenestrated.
- Neat, now he was defenestrated properly.
- This movie contained advertisements for: Cup-o-Noodles, TDK, Cingular, Prudential, and Samsung. Please pass the glorified ramen, the cellphone, and the investment portfolio.
- The glider fwooshing through the float that was shaped like the globe, and said globe going boom -- neat. Symbolism.
- Someone in the back kept laughing VERY loudly at things that weren't at all funny. For instance, when... crap, I forgot his name. Osmond? Orson? Whatever. When the guy who's really the baddie was lecturing his kid that MJ only wanted his cash, this guy in the bac of the theater just went NUTS. Becky leaned over and whispered "They had a lot more drinks than we did."
- Did Mary Jane have brown roots? It kinda looked like it to me, but then, I am 3/4 blind.
- Best line: "Oh." See also Famous Last Words.
- This, I'm not really sure of, as it didn't register till after an anglechange. But it LOOKED like there was a blatant editing error near the end. While they're in the cemetary due to goblin-dude being dead, MJ makes nice with Peter, and she's got her right hand on his face. The angle changes shortly after Peter says he'll always be her friend, and it looked like her right hand disappeared. Then the angle changed back, and lo and behold, if it had disappeared, it was back.
I need to see it again to doublecheck that. And to see Bruce. Bruce was the ringside announcer dude, and I didn't even realize it till too late. Whoops.
Overall, I give it an 8. It was good. There were lots of defenestrations. I wanna see it again. That is all.
And spoiler space for direct linkage to comments page....
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poit
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- Why is Mary Jane with that musclebound guy anyway? Parker's cuter even before he ditches the specs. Of course, I Brake For Geeks, so hey.
- Wow, this music is awesome. I wonder why. It couldn't be because it was scored by the God of Music himself, heavens no... (i.e. Danny "Skellington" Elfman)
- Why on earth is that gas chamber thingy so HUGE? I mean yes, it looks cool, but they have to pump a LOT of gas into it. I gather that the gas isn't exactly free to produce, to pump in, or to cycle out for standard air. So why the million-gallon tank? (I did have to run to the potty during a scientist scene, so there might've been a perfectly good explanation for this shameful wastingness, but still.)
- No more glasses, huh? Lucky kid.
- The initial scene where Peter's swinging from one bit of webbing to the next, in pursuit of the guy who carjacked Ben -- very cool. He was all awkward and sort of lurching from one strand to the next, just like you'd expect considering he'd never really done it before. Later, of course, he totally has it down, and r0xx0rage ensues.
- Neat, Spider-Man's head was just defenestrated.
- Neat, now he was defenestrated properly.
- This movie contained advertisements for: Cup-o-Noodles, TDK, Cingular, Prudential, and Samsung. Please pass the glorified ramen, the cellphone, and the investment portfolio.
- The glider fwooshing through the float that was shaped like the globe, and said globe going boom -- neat. Symbolism.
- Someone in the back kept laughing VERY loudly at things that weren't at all funny. For instance, when... crap, I forgot his name. Osmond? Orson? Whatever. When the guy who's really the baddie was lecturing his kid that MJ only wanted his cash, this guy in the bac of the theater just went NUTS. Becky leaned over and whispered "They had a lot more drinks than we did."
- Did Mary Jane have brown roots? It kinda looked like it to me, but then, I am 3/4 blind.
- Best line: "Oh." See also Famous Last Words.
- This, I'm not really sure of, as it didn't register till after an anglechange. But it LOOKED like there was a blatant editing error near the end. While they're in the cemetary due to goblin-dude being dead, MJ makes nice with Peter, and she's got her right hand on his face. The angle changes shortly after Peter says he'll always be her friend, and it looked like her right hand disappeared. Then the angle changed back, and lo and behold, if it had disappeared, it was back.
I need to see it again to doublecheck that. And to see Bruce. Bruce was the ringside announcer dude, and I didn't even realize it till too late. Whoops.
Overall, I give it an 8. It was good. There were lots of defenestrations. I wanna see it again. That is all.
