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Post #761
I'm not saying they were bad. I'm just saying this one is better.
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Honestly movie critics are terrible a lot of times especially with fun movies like these or ones that don't have some huge deep buried message. If you judged movies by reviews from critics on Metacritic, Avengers would be a horrible movie.
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I thought the film itself had a fantastic message on morality surrounding issues like genetic experiments and a statement on the power of father figures ( Shame they cut the scenes with Connors kids ). Along with the America Vs Terrorism message that was present in Ramis films (Villains target landmarks, lingering shots of american flags Spidey flies pass). Except this film didn't annoyingly flaunt it in your face.
Ramis films were great fun feel-good films. Just awful Spidey films.
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I'm going to be honest. I really can't even bring myself to consider that this movie is somehow better than the originals.
Too much of the movie felt awkward and/or dumb, and too many parts were played for laughs. Yeah I know, it's a Spiderman movie, so it should be silly, but there is a fine line between silly and just stupid. The first two movies had a beautiful mix of comedy and seriousness, only starting to screw that up in the third movie, where things got really dumb. This one just didn't seem to know when to take things seriously, or when to stop making a joke drag on. Well, at least not until the end, where the stakes were raised and we got to see more awesome fights. I wish the rest of the movie was more like that.
Also, Peter didn't really seem like Peter. He just felt like a generic teenager with no real personality.
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Gotta say as much as I cherish Raimi's trilogy this one blows them all away. Garfield makes Parker such a likeable, realistic character I absolutely loved it. Everything about the film just felt so right.
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Just came back from watching this. Amazing.
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Dunno if you noticed it but there was a huge and clear shot of the American flag in this one
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Haven't watched the movie yet but a lot of people say this essentially is very good but doesn't do anything new. I'm okay with this but is it true ?
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It doesn't do anything new in the sense that spiderman is still spiderman, but the story, the tone and overall feel is completely different from the Raimi film. Go watch it.
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It just came out in France, and I'm generally waiting a bit before going to a movie because there is only one cinema around and every time a big budget movie like this one comes out the whole place is flooded with people and it's just not manageable.
The biggest thing that keeps me away is the 3D though. I freaking HATE the whole fad because I find it tiring and it often drags the attention away from the actual movie. It's so overpriced too.
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Rhys says the man who visits him in the after-credits is not Osborn
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They don't have a 2D screening in your cinema? I watched it in 2D and I loved it. Never thought "oh, that scene looked like it was made of a cool 3D effect".
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FUCK, Martin Sheen
I knew I recognized his voice and I was just like "fuck where have I heard him"
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I suppose having The Illusive Man as Uncle Ben is another thing I liked about this movie.
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Saw this movie just then, it was very good. Garfield made this movie much more enjoyable than the other ones, Toby Maguire constantly seems depressed.
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Andrew Garfield is the perfect man for this role. Goddamn the movie was fantastic.
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I like how Emma stone dress herself. Looks just like the comic book Gwen.
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I really dont want Gwen to die, she's so much bettter than Mary Jane, and so much more attractive and loveable
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Well no shit Emma stone is hot
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Death by spidey catching her the wrong way thanks to Gobbie or via Carnage
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I'm assuming it's someone who works for Osborn. Because, you know, Osborn is dying somewhere, I don't think he's in any shape to be visiting high-security prisons.
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you can't seriously criticize a movie if you are blind. you just can't.
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They probably have one at some inconvenient hour once a day. The Avengers had a single 2D screening at 6pm on I think 3 days a week only.
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fuckin ouch, way to tell a blind man what he can and can't do!
seems to be like he had a perfectly good grasp on the film to me. plenty of vision capable critics have been slamming the film, just cuz all you guys in here seem to think it's amazing doesn't mean a critic can't think it sucks, just because he's blind. do you even realise how much of a bad person you sound like right now
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I dunno. It's like a deaf person reviewing a song based on a music video. Specially as he's the only person I've heard so far to criticise Garflied.
Plenty of visual critics? Most the visual critics are only slamming it because it's a reboot. They'll go on to say they prefer the cast, love the story and think it's all great but then always slam it for being a reboot 90% of the time.
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There's a guy on The Edge radio station in Toronto that does blind movie reviews and he's fucking hilarious.
Edited:
http://www.edge.ca/DJsandShows/DerekWelsman/
Here's his reviews.
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It just seems the movie is for Spider Man fans and that's about it. All critics have been giving it mixed reviews yet every fan of Spider Man I have talked to loved it. In fact, I'm probably going to go see it again tonight or tomorrow. I didn't know it at the time, but it was one of the most enjoyable movies I have seen in the past couple of years.
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But I'm not even a Spider-Man fan and I thought it was wonderful. This seriously boggles me. What's wrong with this movie for critics to have such a lukewarm-to-bad reaction?
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Because its a reboot.
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no, it's obvious that blind people can enjoy movies too but it's also obvious that the experience is completely different than someone that can actually see the movie. Therefore his opinion is arguable up to a certain point, especially with a film like spiderman that relies heavily on the visuals. That's all I meant.
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Man, I am completely baffled by how much everyone here seems to love the movie. Not that I'm saying you shouldn't, it's just that I tried really hard to like it, but just couldn't bring myself to like it all that much. And Spider-Man is my favorite superhero.
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Well it's taking in a lot more money than expected. Turns out people are flocking to see it.
CinemaScore polled audiences and those audience are giving it an average of A grade. I went to see it with my friend who doesn't enjoy super hero movies (But enjoyed Avengers) and she thought it was great. As do my friends that didn't like Spider-Man. So it's not just Spider-Man fans that are liking it.
The only people that don't seem to like it are a few of the american critics. Even then the only reason they disliked it is because it's a reboot. Some sites (IGN springs to mind, I think E and MTV too) have scathing reviews from one writer, but praising reviews from another. Then Rottern Tomatoes and Metacritic are always going with the negative one which is hurting the main score.
That's the only reason those scores are low.
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I dont understand why people hate it because its a reboot, though.
Batman Begins was a reboot, The Incredible Hulk was a reboot, even Captain America was a reboot.
Even then, its been 5 years since spider-man 3, some are saying its too soon, but so was The Incredible Hulk.
I guess it helps if people actually liked the previous movies, but even then, not many people liked spider-man 3 (atleast that ive seen).
Though, i liked Spider-Man 3, it wasnt nearly as good as the first or the second, though.
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If they didn't like it, isn't it more reason to reboot? Especially if the reboot is much better.
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I saw it. I thought it was pretty good. Nowhere near as good as y'all say it is, but good.
But holy shit is Emma Stone attractive.
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Also, I feel like pointing out that the game is actually really fun, and an interesting sequel to the movie.
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Isn't that the game where you webswing off clouds and not buildings?
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