On Sun, 5 May 2002, Reggie Bautista wrote: > Robb wrote: > > > > > > > > SpiderMan Made 41.4 million dollars on - the - first - day -. > > > > > > > Marvin replied: > > >And it deserves it. Dayyyyyyyyyyymn, that's a good movie! :-) > > > > It was good, but there were a few things that could have been better about > it. Overall, I'd give it a 9.5 for general viewers, 8.5 for hardcore > Spider-Fans. If you haven't seen it yet or if you plan to see it again, be > sure to say through to the end of the credits, there's a cute little extra > in the soundtrack. > > Problems as I saw them: I though the casting for Aunt May could have been > better. A couple of the fight scenes had some pacing problems. And ... > > s > > p > > o > > i > > l > > e > > r > > > > s > > p > > a > > c > > e > > I had a little problem with the organic webshooter. Why make that change? > It doesn't have much of an impact on the plot, I just don't get it. And > part of the coolness of Peter Parker in the comic books is that he is > technologically savvy enought to build things like a webshooter. It's also > fun to see him occasionally run out of web fluid and have to improvise > heavily... > > Those problems aside, I liked it a lot overall, and I'm sure I'll pick it up > on DVD when it becomes available.
I pretty much agree with all this; on the other hand, I'd still give it a 9.5 because they did a beautiful job of collapsing nearly -- what, a decade? -- of Goblin arc into one movie. The organic web shooters are silly, IMO, but my understanding is that Raimi just loved the idea for some reason. Maybe it's because it's really hard to strap mechanical web-shooters on a real human being's arm without making them look stupid. If you look at the comics, Spidey's web-shooters must be based on nanotech or something because they take up literally no space at all on his wrists. And the ending, where Parker breaks MJ's heart...that was done *so* well, I could hardly believe it. I didn't watch all the credits though: that song -- was it by Aerosmith? -- sucked so hard I didn't want to hang around. Marvin Long Austin, Texas "Never flay a live Episiarch." -- Galactic Proverbs 7563:34(j)
