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Spiderman 2 has to be the most poor film this year so far. It's so so bad. The acting is alright, I guess, compared to a lot of films out recently. But the plot is worse than poor.
It's fairly similar to the first film, where Peter Parker can't admit his love for Mary Jane Watson and goes though emotional trouble whilst figuring out what to do. That whole subplot is dissapointing. At every opportunity, inserted into the film is the most potent cheese I've ever watched. The love story tries to be deep, but it comes across as boring, slow and unemotional.
You've got the necessary badguy who gets out of his depth and ends up being controlled by a 4 armed robot attachment welded to his body. The cheese in the film even comes though with Spiderman and the Baddy. At the end, when the baddy is about to die, Spiderman finds times for his moments of wisdom and enlightenment.
I shall certainly not be paying the overpriced cinema ticket cost to go and see this film on the big screen. Since the first film was so big, I guess most people will want to see it anyway, so I suggest you download the film rather than pay to see it.
And to top it all off, destroying the Fusion Reactor at the end had no basis in physics what so ever. The fusion reaction manages to be drowned in water, whereas, apparently, the water would just fuel it.
It's fairly similar to the first film, where Peter Parker can't admit his love for Mary Jane Watson and goes though emotional trouble whilst figuring out what to do. That whole subplot is dissapointing. At every opportunity, inserted into the film is the most potent cheese I've ever watched. The love story tries to be deep, but it comes across as boring, slow and unemotional.
You've got the necessary badguy who gets out of his depth and ends up being controlled by a 4 armed robot attachment welded to his body. The cheese in the film even comes though with Spiderman and the Baddy. At the end, when the baddy is about to die, Spiderman finds times for his moments of wisdom and enlightenment.
I shall certainly not be paying the overpriced cinema ticket cost to go and see this film on the big screen. Since the first film was so big, I guess most people will want to see it anyway, so I suggest you download the film rather than pay to see it.
And to top it all off, destroying the Fusion Reactor at the end had no basis in physics what so ever. The fusion reaction manages to be drowned in water, whereas, apparently, the water would just fuel it.
I was looking forward to seeing that film, and now I've been somewhat put off. However, after what you said about HP3 (which imho was a good film) I think I'll go see it anyway and make up my own mind :p
by Matt at 00:07 on 08th Jul 2004
rofl. Probably a wise idea. Although I didn't think HP3 was anywhere near as tedious and emotionally pathetic as Spiderman 2. Don't get me wrong. It's not a completely bad film, it's just nowhere near the levels we've experienced recently from films such as LOTR, Matrix, Michael Moore, etc. I was just giving the reasons that it ranks so low on my ranking of films I've watched.
Interestingly, I downloaded a spoof of Spiderman 2 created in Lego. It is absolutely amazing. It uses the special Spiderman bricks that have been released and the short film (which doesn't follow the film particularly) it absolutely outstanding. I'd rather watch those 4 minutes of Lego than watch the box office film again.
by Yam at 12:14 on 08th Jul 2004
Nice.
by KillKrazy at 20:12 on 09th Jul 2004
Agreed it has lots of cheesy moments, but it is based on a comic after all. Imho the bad guy was way better than in the 1st film and overall I thought it was good entertainment.
As for the realism of the ending... tbh I couldn't care less, if I wanted realism in a film I'll go watch Schindler's List or Jurrassic Park.
LOTR Rant: The 3rd film was so similar to the 2nd yet managed to last a good 6 hrs (we watched the special deluxe gay hobbit collectors masturbatory fantasy edition) and then it 'ends' a good 172 different times (yawn). Don't even get me started on the whole "it's getting harder" "let me hold it for you" dialogues...