Ishy's Pinebox, thou dost cracketh me up ! I'll be going to see this bad boy in digital picture & sound at 11am central. That's just under 2 hours away! One of my friends has actually managed to go this long without seeing a single preview with Venom! For some reason they didn't show it when we went to see "300". I don't get it, they showed it the first time I went to see it & even the third time, but NOT the second? Very strange, indeed. Is he in for a shocker, or what ? We'll be going as a group, that is, if everyone is able to get to the 11:00 show. If not, tough-titty-toenails ! For some reason, only 2 showings are going to be all digital presentations. All the others are showing EVERY 30 min. after 10am! Guess, I'll be posting in this thread, again, when I get back!

righty-ho!

i'm waiting with baited breath...mmmm...bait....

Well M_B, I am hinging a lot on whether I go watch this movie or not on your commentary and review. After just unloading $60 to watch the fight tomorrow night I am short on cash. So if you say it stunk I will wait until my next paycheck, but if you say it was better than Grindhouse then I just might have to scrap some money together and go watch it this weekend!

Don't worry, fellas. The movie is well worth seeing in the theater (or on bootleg, my floating sarcophagus ). I don't know if it's better than "Grindhouse", but it IS a good Spidey movie! For a FULL review, check out Comic-Based Movies. If you don't want any spoilers, just read the top & bottom paragraphs! I had a buddy recommend that I just copy & paste my review from there, to over here, but we all know that's just DUMB !

I thought about copying and pasting my response to yr monkey boy review here, but that would be just DUMBER than DUMB!

I've heard... less than complimentary things about the movie, so I held off on trying to see it tonight. Maybe after some of the furor has died down...

Spiderman 3 exceeded my expectations and compares well with such classics Jaws (1975) and Titanic(1997) for the best popular audience movie of all time. The strong incorporation of basic, elemental themes of revenge, forgiveness, love, and betrayal, life, death, and sacrifice are all on public display in this thrilling, plot-heavy adventure movie. In the context of comic book movies, the entire substantive script and its presentation overcome the weak portions of special effects in this movie and one weak scene dealing with Franco and his servant. Spiderman 3 well deserves its record-breaking box office status that it will achieve this weekend.

Spiderman 3 was mediocre, with a little more weight on the good than bad.
There were too many storylines going around all over the place that never gets fully developed. I don't really care if it's too long, but i should cut the minor characters and explicate more on the main characters. By this I mean sandman mostly. Three villains is just too overwhelming. We never completely understand the story of Brock and the Sandman. The love/problem triangle between MJ, Parker, and Osborn should have been more provoking and exciting. The notion of Brock's hatred for Parker is in need of greater exploration. It tries to do way too much, and overfills you with all the emotions that tabuno mentioned.

However, I'm not saying this is a bad movie. No, spiderman movies are still better than other comic adaptations. The action is great as always, and the special effects is spectacular, although there is too much, and a few is very fake. Even though it floods you with all these plot lines, you still take it all in because it's very entertaining and done in a thrillingly paramount fashion.

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Posted 07 May 2007 05:42 PM

Spiderman 3 was mediocre, with a little more weight on the good than bad.
There were too many storylines going around all over the place that never gets fully developed. I don't really care if it's too long, but i should cut the minor characters and explicate more on the main characters. By this I mean sandman mostly. Three villains is just too overwhelming. We never completely understand the story of Brock and the Sandman. The love/problem triangle between MJ, Parker, and Osborn should have been more provoking and exciting. The notion of Brock's hatred for Parker is in need of greater exploration. It tries to do way too much, and overfills you with all the emotions that tabuno mentioned.

On the contrary for me, Spiderman 3 was brilliant because the director and scriptwriter were able to pull of the difficult job of weaving so many storylines into a coherent whole. I and I hope many of the mass audience who experienced this movie have arrived at a point of intelligence that enabled them to appreciate the complexity yet profound way that all the storylines came together and built on each other enhancing the story and promoting the essential themes of revenge, forgiveness, and the battle between good and evil between and among ourselves. The story wasn't so much about character development of minor characters but the use of the many story threads to maintain the central characters' dilemmas which I felt was superbly accomplished making this movie quite oddly enough one of the best of the year so far. A great movie for the masses that includes complexity and a strong message of hope and redemption for the horrors that we faced in the contemporary world right now.

Common wisdom holds that we reap what we sow.

Well, this season, Sam Raimi has taken a handful of visual cliches, formula shots and plotting and tired, lazy f/x, and tossed them onto an arid blue screen to reap weeds and whirlwinds......noise, dead things......ah well.....lets look fwd to Green Arrow.....

So, Mr. Coffin, have you actually found a pirate carrying it, or are you just going by the opinions of others ? Are you telling me they have "Spider-Man 3", but not "Grindhouse"?!!

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So, Mr. Coffin, have you actually found a pirate carrying it, or are you just going by the opinions of others ? Are you telling me they have "Spider-Man 3", but not "Grindhouse"?!!

There would at least be an audience for Spiderman 3.

(Note that I've seen both, and Grindhouse is awesome, definitely better than Spiderman 3, but Grindhouse bombed, and Spiderman made like 150 mil in the first week.)

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Originally posted by A-n-t-h-o-n-y:
(Note that I've seen both, and Grindhouse is awesome, definitely better than Spiderman 3, but Grindhouse bombed, and Spiderman made like 150 mil in the first week.)

No freakin' way! I went to see "Grindhouse" 3 times! I love that movie! Or should I say THOSE movies ? I can still understand why "Spider-Man" is doing as well as it is, it has a much wider audience than "Grindhouse". Spider-Man has 2 other movies under his belt & is rated PG-13, while Stuntman Mike, El Wray & friends are a nostalgic look at horror/action movies of old. Only those of us old enough to remember seeing the movies they reference, can really enjoy what the directors were aiming for. Kinda like how you have to have seen the movies that make up most satires in order to get the jokes. Not the recent satires, but the good ones they used to make.

Oooooh! I SAW Spidey 3.....on the big screen, no less.

Boooooooooring. (My very considered thoughtful, intelligent review).

BORING????!!!! I would say that boring was the last thing it was! Sure, some plot developments weren't "developed", but this movie had the most action of the 3! Plenty of fightin'! Maybe the chinese version made some edits, huh?

"Plenty of fightin''...meh....

"meh"? What kinda comeback is that?! Where's the witty, Aussie banter we have ALL grown to love? What does "meh" mean, anyway? I've noticed Dork loves to use it. I'm not too hip on the lingo 'round here.

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Originally posted by Monkey_Boy:
"meh"? What kinda comeback is that?! Where's the witty, Aussie banter we have ALL grown to love? What does "meh" mean, anyway? I've noticed Dork loves to use it. I'm not too hip on the lingo 'round here.

'Round here? Hardly. (Would have thought you'd know this one.)

By the way, Grindhouse did indeed 'bomb' no matter how many times you saw it -- it disappointed at the box office tremendously, opening with less than half the predicted take. (Source)

As of now, it has made less than half its own budget in ticket sales, not counting the money spent on physical prints of the film or advertising.

Thanks for the clarifacation there, Dork ! I HAD heard it on 'The Simpsons', but have never seen it spelled until I came here. Don't know why I didn't connect the two. Weird . Yeah, I checked out the numbers on "Grindhouse" after I read that. I wasn't saying it should've been successful BECAUSE I had seen it 3 times, but everytime I had seen it, the theater was full all 3 times & the audience seemed to enjoy it. In fact, I hadn't spoken to ANYONE who didn't. Have you seen it? Did ya like it?

As I do with most (... all) releases, I am waiting for the DVD. I'd also like to mention that, just because the theaters you sat in were packed... well, I shouldn't have to finish that.