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Imax 3D vs RealD 3D vs RPX vs no 3D

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I saw 3d. It was NEAT...but it didn't add much to the overall movie. This wasn't Avatar where the environment was a character in itself.

The main 3d effects were of Spidey's swinging around and his body contortions throughout the city buildings.

The fights were pretty much the same as they were in 2d.

So if you like neat 3d acrobatics, go for it. Otherwise 2d is fine.
 
Disappointing.

It was very boring for an hour plus and then it got decent. Not great. Not good. Decent. This was like a drama.

The post credit bits was really eh as well.

Post processed 3d = most of the film looks like it could have been 2d as well. Saw this at IMAX and I feel somewhat cheated. AUS. Biggest IMAX on the planet. Underwhelming

That very last shot was embarrassing.

5.6/10 or thereabouts.
 
btw for a big tent pole movie that had wisecracks and jokes and whatnot. The audience was largely devoid of reaction. It was so bad that it could have been a graveyard.

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read up a bit. when uncle ben died again. I chuckled. Not going to die. But only because my mate said that "so he has to die everytime they reboot this?". but then; I didn't think the dead was moving. It was so telegraphed and of course; deja vuish.


Meh movie.
 
So what's the deal with the web shooters? Is that more faithful to the comic than him being able to make the web himself?
 
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It actually would have been ballsy for them NOT to kill Ben. Or, possibly, have him die in such an unexpected fashion that everyone going "Ok, NOW he's gonna die" gets proven wrong so many times they stop predicting.
 
It actually would have been ballsy for them NOT to kill Ben. Or, possibly, have him die in such an unexpected fashion that everyone going "Ok, NOW he's gonna die" gets proven wrong so many times they stop predicting.

They should have had Sandman kill him out of nowhere.
 
I liked it. My only real beef with it is that the villain just sucks. SM1 and 2 had amazingly iconic villains, but here you had this shitty looking, generic as fuck reptile.

Spidey's moves were fucking awesome, so were those first person perspective moments.

Green Goblin was amazingly iconic???????????
 
Stuff like property of Peter Parker was indeed pretty weak. It's like the script writers couldn't find clever ways to make certain plot points progress so they just forced it. Camera having peters name on it was a pretty weak way to have lizard learn the identity. Peter sneaks into the lab too freakin easily (grabs name badge, real rodrigo shows up has no ID and is escorted out), then later sneaks into super secret lab door even easier with worlds stupidest key card system with no security cam. Cranes suddenly available a great distance away from each other with everyone available to use them. Dude with rescued kid coincidentally in right place at right time to catch spiderman directly with a crane in worlds most improbable moment. Captain police offer stupid enough to fire shotguns at regenerating giant dinosaur guy at point blank range. Parker throws football so hard it bends the goal post and no one gives a shit (that wasn't advancing plot, was just stupid)

Probably more examples if you want to dig deep. These things will keep the movie from being standard setting good. But, the portrayal of spiderman himself I think makes the film enjoyable for fans. Movie fans will enjoy the action. People that disect movies to death may not have a good time

Yea bro, because the cops knew he was a regenerating lizard at that point lol
 
Green Goblin was amazingly iconic???????????

dafoe and franco's depiction of their descent into madness added character and made them so.

sandman + venom won't well carved out = meh


I got to say; molina's dc ock is fucking amazing still. Probably the best spiderman movie villian.


I have a feeling this movie's BO take is going to tank on bad word of mouth.
 
dafoe and franco's depiction of their descent into madness added character and made them so.

sandman + venom won't well carved out = meh


I got to say; molina's dc ock is fucking amazing still. Probably the best spiderman movie villian.


I have a feeling this movie's BO take is going to tank on bad word of mouth.

Except for the fact that most people seem to enjoy the movie...

You do know how word of mouth works, right?
 
interview with Rhys Ifans confirming that the man in the after credits scene is NOT Norman Osborn, is pretty cagey about it. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/56771

Capone: We were debating whether it was a prison or a mental institute.

RI: It's not a zoo. [laughs] I kept seeing it as maybe a mixture of both. Then a representative from OsCorp appears miraculously in the room. How he gets in there and how he leaves, we don’t know. Maybe we will find out. But it’s not Norman Osborn.

Capone: It’s not? You can say that?

RI: Yeah. But it is someone who is in the employ of Norman Osborn without question.

Capone: Someone we're familiar with, who we don’t know is employed by Osborn?

RI: Yeah.

Capone: Okay, interesting.
 
Rth from boxoffice.com

Movie made 22-24 million on wednesday, -30% from OD tuesday

You only post negative news.

Why are you so negative?

Those numbers are a little worrisome. I assume July 4th should be a big movie going day? Or are people busy doing other things?
 
I really have no idea at this point. Hobgoblin?

They aren't going to do the hobgoblin without the green goblin first.

I think the Vulture would be the best bet, but they sure made it seem like Norman Osborn so I'm still going with him/green goblin and the 2nd movie Gwen will get killed.
 
You only post negative news.

Why are you so negative?

Those numbers are a little worrisome. I assume July 4th should be a big movie going day? Or are people busy doing other things?

How is it negative

On day 2
Return of the king fell 50%
Transformers 3 fell 42 percent
Passion of th christ 44 percent
Spider man 2 41 percent drop

Its normal, infact july 4th cushioned the fall

You need to realise how box office works
 
You're completely conflating plot, theme and motivation. Connors and Dr Ock were motivated by the same thing: using science to improve the quality of life for mankind. Thematically you may prefer Spider-man 2 but in terms of character motivation and objective they are identical.

:lol, TASM copying another movie's character and doing it worse is not helping your case at all.
 
How is it negative

On day 2
Return of the king fell 50%
Transformers 3 fell 42 percent
Passion of th christ 44 percent
Spider man 2 41 percent drop

Its normal, infact july 4th cushioned the fall

You need to realise how box office works

Well, I would have considered that July 4th would have brought the number up since it was a full day off for everyone in the US. That's why the drop looks negative to me.
 
Garfield is great casting. Someone described him as a dick before seeing the film and it clouded my vision a bit but I enjoyed his persona greatly. Stone is a very pretty lady.
Bad guy was there only for the most compulsory reasons being a super hero movie and I'm glad the film focused on the beginner tale as much as possible. I thought the Coldplay segment was cool, I liked the web-shooting/suit segment (as short as it was). The movie felt snappy once it got going.
 
Well, I would have considered that July 4th would have brought the number up since it was a full day off for everyone in the US. That's why the drop looks negative to me.

Its normal, the tuesday number included midnights, if you exclude midnights it made 27 million on tuesday, which means non midnight to wednesday drop Was only 10-15 %
 
Now this is how you make a spiderman movie.

Tobey Maguire was so bad in the other movies, so was Kirsten Dunst, her acting is bad and is very hard on the eyes.
 
Now this is how you make a spiderman movie.

Tobey Maguire was so bad in the other movies, so was Kirsten Dunst, her acting is bad and is very hard on the eyes.

I never felt that when I originally saw the movies but I recently rewatched Spidey 1 and 2 and some scenes with Tobey and Kirsten just feel so off. Theres that one bit right after Petes birthday party when they are talking outside and it doesnt even feel like they are speaking to eachother. Its so awkward.
 
Right, just got back from a second viewing (went with a bunch of people from work, it's all good!). It is definitely better the second time around. Small things that I missed the first time make more sense now, the motivation of Connors seems more grounded in his character than before, all of the talk of interspecies recombinant DNA makes more sense this time around.

The crane scene was still pretty lame, but it wouldn't be a Spider-Man movie without a corny "New York, fuck yeah" scene. The score didn't grow on me, at all. In fact I have told people in the bank with links to SPE that they need to get Hans Zimmer in if they want a better score next time. That or get Elfman back now that Raimi has gone.

I was also talking to some of the film finance guys that were there, they were saying that SPE would be insane to rewrite the Vanderbilt screenplay from scratch, especially since Orci and Kurtzman are involved, they were saying that they wouldn't finance such a movie and would only do so on the basis that Cloves was brought back in and Orci/Kurtzman dumped. They also said that Sony need to get a move on and lock Webb down for ASM2 or this whole exercise will come to nought as the tone of the next movie will be ruined. Since these guys are pretty close to Sony I hope they can get across that Orci and Kurtzman need to be dumped and to get Cloves and Webb on board for ASM2.

Overall, I think I gave it the right score last time around, 4/5.
 
If a sequel does get made, for the love of God, get a new composer.

James Horner is just the worst.

I don't think the score is actually bad. But it was used terribly. You expect the main hero theme to be reserved for just a few fuck awesome scenes, but it's constantly playing in loop. And it's even playing during some of the more solemn moments. If Horner was in charge os how it was used in the movie, then yes, he definitely needs to be replaced.
 
If a sequel does get made, for the love of God, get a new composer.

James Horner is just the worst.

I disagree, but the best rating I can give his score is "unoffensive". I think in any scenario there would have been issues with the hero theme for Spider-Man. The worst offense here for Horner was playing the theme at some of the most needless times.
 
Doctor Connors was in the teaser. If he has a part in the next movie, I can't think of too many other reasons to show him off again if the man spider isn't involved. Unless they try to go with venom again perhaps.


That seems like a huge leap based on focusing on the least important thing in the post credits scene. I don't expect
Connors
to be in the sequel at all, maybe a cameo. The scene was to remind you that what happened to Parker's parents is still a mystery that will be explored more and to make you wonder who the mystery man was.
Probably Norman
.

Guess we'll find out in a year or so.
 
I don't think the score is actually bad. But it was used terribly. You expect the main hero theme to be reserved for just a few fuck awesome scenes, but it's constantly playing in loop. And it's even playing during some of the more solemn moments. If Horner was in charge os how it was used in the movie, then yes, he definitely needs to be replaced.

I disagree, but the best rating I can give his score is "unoffensive". I think in any scenario there would have been issues with the hero theme for Spider-Man. The worst offense here for Horner was playing the theme at some of the most needless times.

It's the incidental music in low-key scenes that bothered me most. It sounded super, super cheap. And though I mostly hate Horner's work, one thing I would rarely call it is cheap. His work usually sounds waaaaaay overproduced.
 
It's the incidental music in low-key scenes that bothered me most. It sounded super, super cheap. And though I mostly hate Horner's work, one thing I would rarely call it is cheap. His work usually sounds waaaaaay overproduced.

He usually does. I can't think of the last score that I really enjoyed of his.
 
Saw it the other day, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Better than my expectations, which were very low for this cashgrab reboot.

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone were great castings, so much so that I wish they'd resolve any licensing issues between Marvel and Sony Pictures to get Andrew Garfield's Spiderman in the next Avengers movie.
 
interview with Rhys Ifans confirming that the man in the after credits scene is NOT Norman Osborn, is pretty cagey about it. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/56771


While he could be 100% right, I don't put much faith in an actors take on things. The sequel is currently being written by people who didn't write this movie and we don't know who is going to direct, so the mystery man will be whoever the fuck the writers and studio want it to be for the sequel.
 
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