spiderman 2

[JohnT]

After 3 days, Spiderman 2 has grossed $96,000,000+, making it nigh on certain to break the opening week record of $114,000,000 set by... Spiderman.

Of course, it'll never show a net profit.

[OzzyKP]

In a few hours I'm going to see it for the 2nd time.

Btw, that elevator scene, I crack up just thinking about it.

I'm disappointed though, I saw the movie very early on Thursday. 10 am. So there wasn't anyone in the theater. Me and like 15 people. So I didn't get much vibe from the audience. No big laughs or claps or anything. I miss not seeing it on opening day.

But during that elevator scene, I couldn't stop myself from laughing outloud in the theater, hehehehehehe.

[Verto]

I saw this last night. The place was packed. I had planned to see it at 8:35, but missed that, so I arrived early to the 9:35 showing. It was sold out. So I went in to the 10:00 showing. I had to sit up front on the left. At 10:00 there was already a line forming for the next showing at 11:30.

Overall, this movie was much improved over the first. I found the Goblin in the first to be annoying, whereas Doc Ock was a character I enjoyed. I especially liked the scenes on the train. I am going to rent the first Spiderman again to give it another shot, but I doubt my opinion of it will have changed.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Naw, the problem with Batman wasn't that they made too many movies, it was that they tried to cram too much into the movies.

I disagree. I think they made too many movies, especially after Michael Keaton left. Batman was then a new actor for every movie. It was getting stale and old as the backstory was the same and wasn't progressing. A movie franchise has problems lasting after the 3rd one, even a great franchise. A lot of times the 2nd one is the peak and it goes downhill from here.

We could see the end approaching when Danny DeVito appeared as The Penguin. What a joke. That character destroyed the new Batman franchise before it even really begun. Then, when the homoerotica Batman Forever came out, we knew for sure. Batman and Robin was just salt on the wound, rubbed in with sandpaper.

I wish they would just leave the Dark Knight alone.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I mean nothing at all has changed about James Bond, but they've been making those movies for 40-50 years.

How many of those recent James Bond movies have been anything good though? And besides, James Bond stopped following the stories long time ago. If you take Spiderman and make it like James Bond 10 years from now you'll have someone else being Spiderman and the writers making up new villians and new story arcs which were never in the comics.

[Adagio]

I like most James Bond movies... the only ones I don't like are the ones with that new actor... can't remember his name, but I hate him...

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think Brosnan is probably the best Bond since Connery. Though Moore was pretty fun.

[Adagio]

You're the first one I've seen who didn't say "Brosnan killed James Bond" or anything like that...
Everybody I know hates the new James Bond movies...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Actually I've known MANY people who like Brosnan as Bond.

[Jon Miller]

same here

I even know a few who think he is the best

Jon Miller

[Verto]

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT !

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When Peter Parker decides to give up being Spiderman, it shows a scene that plays in semi-slow motion, with him walking, to show how much his life has improved since throwing in the towel. I believe he was walking to college, was wearing black pants, and trips.

What is the song that plays during this scene? Anyone have any idea what I am talking about?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Adagio
You're the first one I've seen who didn't say "Brosnan killed James Bond" or anything like that...
Everybody I know hates the new James Bond movies...

I won't blame the new Bond movies on Brosnan. I blame it more on the writing. it's becoming too hollywoodish. They are losing some of the trademark stuff. It's just another action film- nothing special.

[mrmitchell]

Saw Spiderman 2.

Is good. Not great, but good. 1 was slightly better.

Pierce Brosnan has done nothing to kill Bond. In fact, he's been one of the better ones. Bond has been diminished by what Dissident mentioned--the writing.

[Bosh]

Just saw it last night:

pro:
-some funny moments like the elevator scene and "don't open the caviar!"
-more interesting villian.

con:
-I just couldn't suspend disbelief with Doc Oc. I kept on thinking to myself, "he can't move that fast. He can't outrun a police chopper, why don't they just shoot him, he's no tougher than anyone else and he'd just die."
-Oh ye Gods the moralizing got annoying. All the lectures about responsibility and what it means to be a hero had me groaning after a while.
-I liked Spidey better in the first one. He got to be much to much of a weenie in this one. Spidey is supposed to be a cocky, funny, a bit of an outsider and very human but not a whiny psychosomatic

Overall a real . I thought that X-Men 2 was much better, especially since it has morals that aren't beaten into your head with a sledgehammer like in Spiderman 2. I love the coming out scene in X-Men 2 and morality being fuzzy enough to make alliances of convenience with the enemey necessary, which I think makes for a much more interesting movie than all the dry moralizing in Spiderman. Better fight scenes too.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Verto
What is the song that plays during this scene? Anyone have any idea what I am talking about?

"Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" by BJ Thomas