On Sun, 5 May 2002, Dan Minette wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 6:08 PM > Subject: Re: Spider-Man, Spider-Man... > > > > > > > > > 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. > > Actually, he didn't break her heart for long. Her heart was broken for > about 30 seconds before she got a clue about what he was really doing.
Yeah, but the fact that he actually did it was cool. That, and the way he professes his love earlier in the movie was so entirely perfect for the kind of guy he is...I just loved it. This is the superhero a normal person can identify with. > I particularly liked the fact that it was a moral drama, reminicent of the > discussions between Hal Mayne and Bleys Ahrens in the Childe cycle by Gordon > R. Dickson. I also like the fact that the Peter and MJ's love story was > fairly well done: the foundation of their relationship is that they actually > like each other as people. Ayup. Marvin Long Austin, Texas "Never flay a live Episiarch." -- Galactic Proverbs 7563:34(j)
