What's the deal with those Spider-Man movies?
I'm a HUGE Spider-man fan.
In fact, I've tried to base my life on Spider-man's teachings.
Well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm sure I got a lot of my moral code and sense of decency from all those comics I read and cartoons I watched.
So the movies should be a dream come true, right?
Well, overall I think they were pretty well done, but I have a few problems with each of them.
Maybe I'm just too much of a nit-picky nerd, but some things really bothered me about these films.
Let's start with the first film:
This one's easily my favorite.
Some people had a problem with the organic web shooters but I was totally fine with it.
The only thing I really don't like is the look of the Green Goblin, but I understand that to make him how he looked in the comic probably would have been ridiculous, so I'm okay with the change.
Flash Thompson could have been used a bit more too. I always liked the old comics where Flash looked up to Spidey all the while tormenting poor old Peter Parker, I think that could have been explored in the movie, but oh well, a solid adaptation overall.
I saw this one 5 times in the theater!
Up Next: Spider-man 2.
I had a few major problems with this one, the first one being the title.
Spider-man 2?
That was the best you guys could come up with?
I heard they were thinking of calling it "the Amazing Spider-man" and I think that would have been better, I don't know, anything with a number in the title just seems bad. I guess it's better than "Spider-man too" though. Can you imagine?
I just watched this one last night and while it definitely had it's moments, I was not a fan of Dr. Octopus at all.
He was never a villain I particularly liked anyway, but they got him totally wrong in my opinion.
I didn't like the way he threw his human arms around when he was doing stuff. In the comic he was always very calm and composed while his arms were flailing around trashing everything, and that just made him scarier.
The only time he wasn't calm was when Spider-man bruised his frail ego and sent him into a bitter rage, which is what was sorely missing from the film.
We did not see Doc Ock - the insecure, snarky prick, we saw Doc Ock - the misunderstood, heartbroken scientist, and that was not nearly as interesting to me.
Also, whose idea was it to give the arms intelligence and have them "talk" the good Dr. into doing all that bad stuff? It was a bad one.
Now, I'm getting really nerdy here, but like I said, Spider-man is important to me, so bear with me - this is the stuff that REALLY got under my skin.
1. Doc Ock cannot take a punch from Spidey. He's just a normal guy, a punch from Spider-man would knock him out, yet Spider-man punches him tons of times and it never seems to really bother him.
2. When Spider-man loses his powers, he falls several times from heights that could have easily killed him. I know he's tough but that was lame.
3. The screaming girls and the people staring at the camera. Seriously, watch it again and look at the people in the background, they do everything but actually point at the camera. And the screaming girls are all terrible, it just seems really forced.
4. The tie-dyed shirt that Peter Parker's Doctor was wearing. Bleh!
5. The schamltziness of that scene with the passengers on the train, with the kids giving him back his mask and all that just seemed a little too cheesy.
6. John Jameson is a useless character, how did Mary Jane even know him? (Don't get me started on her) I think they should have had Ned Leeds in there somewhere, get the seeds for that Hobgoblin story set up, right?
7. And the last one, I promise! Spider-man let stuff fall to the ground while he was fighting Doc Ock that could have crushed people. He never would have done that.
I really liked the action scenes in this one, but I guess a lot of the characters bugged me. More than I realized until I started typing it, yow!
Harry was pretty good though...
OK, Spider-man 3.
I enjoyed this one while I was watching it, but now that I think about it, it was pretty much a monumental failure.
Dang.
I liked the scenes between Peter and Harry, and the fights between Spidey and the new Goblin, they were awesome!
The new Goblin looked so lame it was painful though.
Gwen looked just right, but she was hardly in it, and even when she was she was pretty cardboard. I always liked Gwen more than MJ though, so I could be biased.
The Sandman was pointless. Sympathetic villains are a dime a dozen in these movies, couldn't he have been a thug like he was in the comics?
Venom was a complete waste, though the guy from the 70's show was way better than I thought he'd be.
The dark side of Peter Parker being explored was pretty interesting, I thought. I didn't even mind him strutting down the street, but when he started singing it went right out the window.
Wow, what a whiner, I didn't realize how many little things annoyed me about these movies.
Well, like I said, Spider-man is important to me so the little things are gonna bug me I guess.
Unfortunately I'm not looking forward to Spider-man 4 & 5.
I imagine they'll be about as good as Rocky 4 & 5, but who knows?
