I need to kill a few hours and the only thing playing at the theater is Amazing Spiderman. All seven screens. Is this worth my time?
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Originally posted by CJF View PostI need to kill a few hours and the only thing playing at the theater is Amazing Spiderman. All seven screens. Is this worth my time?"Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."
- Ty Cobb
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Saw it tonight with the LAU Hija. It's the best of all the Spiderman movies, mainly because Andrew Garfield can act a lot better than Toby Maguire. The story was well-written and even the score was good (the latter made sense once I saw that James Horner did it). Just a lot of good super-hero fun. Better than The Avengers, IMO, because there actually was a story and characters who developed and I could care about. Definitely worth the time and the price of admission.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Originally posted by LA Ute View PostSaw it tonight with the LAU Hija. It's the best of all the Spiderman movies, mainly because Andrew Garfield can act a lot better than Toby Maguire. The story was well-written and even the score was good (the latter made sense once I saw that James Horner did it). Just a lot of good super-hero fun. Better than The Avengers, IMO, because there actually was a story and characters who developed and I could care about. Definitely worth the time and the price of admission.Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī
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Originally posted by Slim View PostI thought it was kind of boring. Too much smooching and not enough action."I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"
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Originally posted by Commando View PostI thought that HS scene w Lizard was the best superhero action sequence of the year- Avengers included.
Better than the scene wherein metal reptiles flying through the sky are felled by ScarJo's pistol that fires regular bullets and eye patch dude's bow that shoots regular arrows?Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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Originally posted by Slim View PostI thought it was kind of boring. Too much smooching and not enough action."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Originally posted by CJF View PostI passed."I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"
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I thought Amazing Spider-Man was a decent time-passer but was nowhere near in the same league as the first two Sam Raimi movies. I liked Andrew Garfield and (especially) Emma Stone--their chemistry was great--but the film itself gave short shrift to the character of Spider-Man. His transition to hero lacked the emotional punch of the first film, his thirst for vengeance upon his uncle's killer just kind of petering out as he gets caught up chasing the Lizard. I kept feeling like some of the film must have been lost in the editing booth.
For every minor improvement (Hooray for the mechanical web-shooters!) there were bigger missteps (the pointless focus on the conspiracy involving his parents) and while I liked Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors, I thought the Lizard was seriously lacking as a villain--cheesy at best and downright distracting at worst. The action scenes, while enjoyable, had none of the inventiveness of Spidey fighting Doctor Octopus in the 2nd film.
I think it was mistake to redo the origin like they did. It had none of the heft of the original telling and Peter ended up coming across as more callow than heroic. Either find a dramatically different way to present the origin (kind of hard with a story as iconic as Spider-Man's) or jump past it and get on with a new tale.Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...
None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.
I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.
--Portland Ute
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Originally posted by CJF View PostI need to kill a few hours and the only thing playing at the theater is Amazing Spiderman. All seven screens. Is this worth my time?Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken
Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
- Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule
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Originally posted by atheistcougar View PostEmma Stone. Yes, it's worth it.Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...
None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.
I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.
--Portland Ute
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Originally posted by Green Lantern View PostI thought Amazing Spider-Man was a decent time-passer but was nowhere near in the same league as the first two Sam Raimi movies. I liked Andrew Garfield and (especially) Emma Stone--their chemistry was great--but the film itself gave short shrift to the character of Spider-Man. His transition to hero lacked the emotional punch of the first film, his thirst for vengeance upon his uncle's killer just kind of petering out as he gets caught up chasing the Lizard. I kept feeling like some of the film must have been lost in the editing booth.
For every minor improvement (Hooray for the mechanical web-shooters!) there were bigger missteps (the pointless focus on the conspiracy involving his parents) and while I liked Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors, I thought the Lizard was seriously lacking as a villain--cheesy at best and downright distracting at worst. The action scenes, while enjoyable, had none of the inventiveness of Spidey fighting Doctor Octopus in the 2nd film.
I think it was mistake to redo the origin like they did. It had none of the heft of the original telling and Peter ended up coming across as more callow than heroic. Either find a dramatically different way to present the origin (kind of hard with a story as iconic as Spider-Man's) or jump past it and get on with a new tale.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Originally posted by LA Ute View PostGood points. I liked the movie a lot. I try to remind myself that no move will ever capture a comic book legend exactly the way the legend's devotees see it. (None of the Superman movies have succeeded, for example, IMO.) So I go in with lowered expectations. For me, this movie succeeded because I actually liked and cared about Garfield's Peter Parker, something that I found hard to do with Toby Maguire. Aunt May and Uncle Ben seemed more like real people to me, too. And Emma Stone is just great.
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