ha ha...I was feeling minimalist. I love lisa, especially when she is really dismissive of things...so that was me, being Lisa, being dismissive...

and now I don't know who I am.

But I still don't likee the spidee. three-ee

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Originally posted by Dork:
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.

Yes, yes. I'm not dense. It's just shocking to me that this movie didn't do well, is all. It was a great flick! Just ask FragileKidA!!!

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Originally posted by Ishmaels coffin:
ha ha...I was feeling minimalist. I love lisa, especially when she is really dismissive of things...so that was me, being Lisa, being dismissive...

Whew, had me worried for a bit.

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But I still don't likee the spidee. three-ee

Well, there's no accounting for taste.

Well, I just got home from seeing it, again. The main reason I went this time was to compare the digital presentation to seeing it on film & the difference was very clear! The picture was beautiful & the colors just jump at you in the digital version. The film was deteiorated from so many showings & you have the circle burns in the upper right hand corner from when they put the it together. From now on, it's digital ALL THE WAY! I can't wait until this becomes the norm!

Last week, when I asked the girl in the box office about the differences between the two, she said there really weren't any. Why is it people can't tell the difference in picture? I remember, years ago, I changed the cables on my VCR. At first I only used a plain black cable that connected to the antenna hook-up on the television. Not soon after I upgraded to the yellow cables & I flipped out over the improvement it made. I ran downstairs to my brother & friends & made them come up & look at the difference the cable made, but only ONE of them could see it! The others thought I was crazy . I then got a DVD player & upgraded to S-Video & had an even better picture & still, no one could see it! Then component & HDMI & I'm still the only person other than my ONE friend that can tell any difference in picture! It's not that hard, really. I can make out the subtle differences in detail & color brightness & it's a mystery to me why nobody else can.

Concerning the actual movie, I noticed a new face that I hadn't seen since part 1. FLASH THOMPSON is in 3! He's at the end, behind Mary Jane at Harry's funeral. Look for him on the left (MJ's right)! It's the same actor & it even gives him credit in the cast at the end, even though he doesn't have a single line in the movie. That's why I like going to movies more than once. The first time, your focus is on the foreground. The second, you can check out the action in the background. I also noticed that Venom did, indeed, shoot his webbing from the back of his hands. At least they got that right!

Monkey_Boy - Spiderman 3 gets even better!? Something to look forward to when and if I get an HD monitor and receiver.

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Originally posted by tabuno:
...when and if I get an HD monitor and receiver.

IF?! Dude, you GOTTA get an HDTV if you're gonna FULLY enjoy any movie on DVD! Ahhh, the beauty of the colors & details. However, my sister complains that you can see too much detail. She says she can actually see the make-up the actors wear! I never noticed that, & I notice everthing!

Oh yeah! If you guys thought "Spider-Man 3" was bad (I didn't, but some of you did), take a look at these notes from the studio to Raimi, asking for a few changes!

Thanx for the laugh, you sass talking monkey in a sidecar.

Wow, i haven't read Cracked for about 20 yrs, ha ha.

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Originally posted by Ishmaels coffin:
Wow, i haven't read Cracked for about 20 yrs, ha ha.

Me either, I'll have to look into this Chris Sims character.

Caught this movie last night. When I first heard that there would be a triple villian line-up, I figured it'd turn out a cluttered mess. A few scenes at the end were messy but all-in-all, it was better than I expected.

There was bound to be a lack of character development in this movie with so much going on, so, letting that slide, I wasn't too disappointed. Sandman is one of my least liked villians- except for his stint with the Frightful Four. I enjoyed the comics' introduction of the symbiote but tired early of Eddie Brock/Venom. So tossing these two least liked villians in the same film wasn't such a bad thing for me. Though it might have been interesting if the symbiote reached Brock at the end of the film, thus setting up Venom for Spidey 4, but whatever. I especially liked Marko's first tranformation into Sandman, which is the best thing I can say for the character in the movie. If there are more Spiderman films, I'd like to see Electro, Kraven and the Vulture as the villians, but one per film, please.

As always in the Spidey films, I liked the Parker-MJ scenes best as well as Jameson, Robbie and Betty at the Bugle. The symbiote's affect on Parker as a bad boy was a nice contradiction to the loss of confidence sequence in Spiderman 2.

Ah, my beloved Gwen Stacy. The real reason I wanted to see the film, to see how they'd portray her. If MJ is a composite of MJ and Gwen from the comics, I kinda dreaded to see what they would do with my favorite Marvel Universe character. I was pretty pleased with the results, though I still would rather have had Gwen in the first Spidey film. Looks like they could do some interesting things with her if there's to be a 4th movie in the series. I won't nitpick too much, given Marvel's history of screwing with this character. Still, a more developed love triangle with Gwen, MJ, and Parker could be fun. Develop Gwen into more than just a "girl in my class" for Petey. Maybe the class tie-in could finally lead to Dr.Connors changing to the Lizard.

Overall I enjoyed the film, though Spiderman 2 is still my favorite of the series.

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crazed Jedi
Posted 27 May 2007 08:40 AM

There was bound to be a lack of character development in this movie with so much going on, so, letting that slide, I wasn't too disappointed. Sandman is one of my least liked villians- except for his stint with the Frightful Four...I especially liked Marko's first tranformation into Sandman, which is the best thing I can say for the character in the movie.

Personally, I found the Sandman one of the best characters of the movie and one of the best perceived villian/victims of any movie. It's rare to see a much more sympathetic antagonist caught up by accident, bewildered with his superhuman powers. Too often we get sterotypical, black or white characters without much dimension, thus becoming just so much boring action evil - nothing really new, just bigger and more evil. The Sandman on the otherhand appeared to me much more identifiable with reality and his human feelings and emotions can be something that the ordinary movie-goer can relate to.

I hated the movie. They downplayed Venom and made this movie even slower than the second one. There was too much talking and too little action.

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MrRandomGuy Slacker Posted 08 June 2007 05:12 AM
I hated the movie. They downplayed Venom and made this movie even slower than the second one. There was too much talking and too little action.

For the very reasons you hated the movie, I enjoyed it more. I haven't really followed the comicbook hero and the absence of Venom didn't concern me because it wasn't anything that I knew or became used to so its omission wasn't even part of my worldview. Personally, I like talking and conveying ideas and ideological themes to inpart in a movie more depth and substance so that the action then takes on even more meaning for me. I haven't been attracted to much non-stop video games and non-stop thrills and action without much room for thought. So because our interests are so different, it would be hard to reconcile your distaste for this movie with my interest in it.

I don't understand the hatred for SM3.

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Originally posted by batspideykong:
I don't understand the hatred for SM3.

They're called "HATERS". They can't help it, it's what they do. Especially the Australian ones!

Hey, we Oz types live in Bizarro world, doncha know. We have to hate all those folk in the 'Northern' hemisphere....plus we don't have any good Aussie comic heroes...so we're grumpy..ha ha

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Originally posted by Ishmaels coffin:
Hey, we Oz types live in Bizarro world, doncha know. We have to hate all those folk in the 'Northern' hemisphere....plus we don't have any good Aussie comic heroes...so we're grumpy..ha ha

I told ya!

does anyone know the DVD release I heard it was announced

It'll be released the day before Halloween.

I don’t know about other aussies AKA haters, but this film was a let down for me, what I particularly “hated” about this film was Venom. The animation was awesome, but why Topher Grace? What quality about his personality, body profile or voice made them click their fingers and say YES! That boy is the embodiment of Eddie Brock! And while we are at it lets cast Steve Urkil as Blade, or better yet, get Jason Biggs to play Wolverine in the next X-Men movie.

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Originally posted by crazed:
Though it might have been interesting if the symbiote reached Brock at the end of the film, thus setting up Venom for Spidey 4

That would have actually been pretty cool.

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Alchemy Slacker First Class
Posted 22 October 2007 10:37 PM

I don’t know about other aussies AKA haters, but this film was a let down for me, what I particularly “hated” about this film was Venom. The animation was awesome, but why Topher Grace? What quality about his personality, body profile or voice made them click their fingers and say YES! That boy is the embodiment of Eddie Brock! And while we are at it lets cast Steve Urkil as Blade, or better yet, get Jason Biggs to play Wolverine in the next X-Men movie.

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Originally posted by crazed:
Though it might have been interesting if the symbiote reached Brock at the end of the film, thus setting up Venom for Spidey 4

That would have actually been pretty cool.
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Call me old fashioned but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating

Fascinating disappointment on your part since I particularly enjoyed this movie big time. I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. I really enjoyed how Sandman was developed and his role in the movie. As I am not really devoted to comics, particularly superhero comics, I don't have much attachment of any of these movies to their source material, no attachment to how they look nor their original charactization so I am not comparing the movie version to anything accept my impression of the movie experience for the first time. As such, this movie dealt with some great universal issues that confront the everyday man. Even as a comicbook stereotype, the movie was able to present most of the characters as related to real people caught up in some rather fantastic situations. Most characters were not one or even two dimensional but had an additional bit of depth unusual for most action-thrillers. It's difficult to really comment on your opinion since it really most made a statement of belief without any further explanation.