Comments on: REVIEW: A Spider-Man is Born

By: Nyukka

Nyukka — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:21:43 +0000

….IM NOT WEARING ANY PANTSS!!

By: Tonsoffun

Tonsoffun — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:35:14 +0000

This has got to be the biggest joke I have ever seen. Did I see you call Spiderman 3 a MUSICAL? You are without a doubt one of the most complete morons i have ever encountered. Who cares what you thought about the movie anyways, because it wasn’t made for somebody like you. Musical?! Eat Sh*t…

By: rich

rich — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:39:31 +0000

” … in Sam Raimi’s timeless 50s world where young folks still live in ratty apartments in the city, guys take their dates to jazz clubs where the waitresses double as singers, and newspapers still sell …”

I hate to tell you this BUT … a number of young people start out living in ratty apartments. A friend took a pretty hot little number to a jazz club (in Philly) recently, and they had a great time. Don’t know about the singer/waitress combo. I work for a newspaper, so I can attest that they still sell. It’s not the plastic/phony world of CSI, where every coroner looks like a MAXIM model … but it’s a little closer to the real world than we might care to admit.

By: Critical Hits » Bonus Inq. of the Week: Spiderman 3 Threat or Menace?

Critical Hits » Bonus Inq. of the Week: Spiderman 3 Threat or Menace? — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:47 +0000

[...] THE BEAT reviews it, and I like the notion that the movie should have just been done completely as a musical. [...]

By: Ralph Mathieu

Ralph Mathieu — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:55:37 +0000

My wife and I saw Spidey 3 this morning and it exceeded all of my expectations – it was way more terrible then I thought it would be! We did have fun MST3King the movie (there was only one other person in the theater – we saw this at 8:30am at a local theater that was showing it every hour this past weekend).

I was sure that however bad the movie would be that it wouldn’t be campy, but it was, showing that history always repeats. None of the action scenes had any tension, too many falling buildings and people, hell too much of everything which is ultimately just numbing and yawn inducing. Spidey 3 is all about excess and with a capital EXCESS.

By: Javier Maidana

Javier Maidana — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:25:12 +0000

The movie is terrible.
The action scenes looked like a Playstation game opening!
Please wake up Spider-Man 3 sucks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:30:21 +0000

It’s all entertaining enough and I think those who see the movie in the right frame of mind will enjoy it. It’s better constructed than most of what comes out in the blockbuster-type movies and the comic fans who go see it will undoubtedly have the mental cliff notes to enjoy what is going on even in the parts of the film that seem too brief or somewhat lacking.
The dvd director’s cut Spider-man 3.5 will probably be very cool.
Still, it would have been smoother if ONE of those story lines had been removed and expanded on in its own movie. It speaks well of everyone involved with this film that it did not become “Spider-man Forever”.

Mostly I just want to see Bruce as Inspector Clouseau trying to prevent evil someones from using the Pink Panther as a key element in a doomsday device.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:48:44 +0000

It just shows how close different genres are. If you took all the MJ/Peter/Harry/Gwen scenes and added a full orchestra and bathed it in technicolor you would basically have a melodrama from the 1950s perhaps starring Lana Turner as MJ.

The Sandman effects were brilliant but I’m most wild about Harry. Of all the characters in the films he is the one who has the most full story taking him from here to there, so he kept my interest most of the three. Eddie I thought was a bit of a snore because much of his story, as per Peter David, seems to have been left on the cutting room floor.

Glad I saw it, but I think it would be better on TV.

By: ChunHyang72

ChunHyang72 — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:36:41 +0000

The truth is, in Sam Raimi’s timeless 50s world where young folks still live in ratty apartments in the city, guys take their dates to jazz clubs where the waitresses double as singers, and newspapers still sell, all of the characters are so well known and lovable that we WOULD watch them run around crying in diners for 2 1/2 hours.

There was something weirdly quaint about the portrayal of NYC in this movie, from the MJ-bombs-on-Broadway plot to Peter Parker’s supposedly cheap apartment with the killer views and Soho location. Not to mention the hilarious idea that there’s a particle accelerator somewhere out in the New Jersey Meadowlands. At least the film was made on location!

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:15:02 +0000

Yeah Dane, you’re right. King of the World is a bit strong. What I should have said was that he could always feel important. King of the world is how I feel when I put on the costume. LOL!!!

By: Jimmie Robinson

Jimmie Robinson — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:13:58 +0000

I was also entertained by it … but not enough to forgive the majority of it. It’s a blockbuster film, not independent cinema. I expected more by-the-numbers thrills and less of a story that *cannot* be summed up in a single sentence. When I want a slice-of-life melodrama on releationships I don’t think Spider-man would be on my list.

But that’s just me, like I said, it did entertain. Though a few plotlines were left dangling.

As the most expensive movie ever made it made me scratch my head. I predict a heavy drop after 2 weeks. But then…. just about all movies suffer that nowadays.

By: A Lizard of Robotics

A Lizard of Robotics — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:38:51 +0000

Yes! Oh yes! The Stan Lee cameo almost made me cry!

I enjoyed it, but two deus ex machinas more or less began and resolved the Osborne-Venom saga. Which is a shame.

By: The Dane

The Dane — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:20:50 +0000

I don’t think Christopher’s been reading the same Spider-Man I’ve been reading… I don’t know how we could get such disparate views of the li’l webbed fella, but “he could always put on that costume and be king of the world” doesn’t really describe the Spider-Man I know at all. That wasn’t even the case with the Bakshi cartoon I grew up watching. Peter does occasionally use Spider-Man as a defense mechanism to distance himself from whatever ruin his life has most recently become, but even as Spider-Man, he is almost constantly weighed down by the weight of responsibility he has chosen to shoulder. It’s pretty rare that he exhibits anything that might resemble a king-of-the-world outlook – and those are usually moments of self-congratulation or irresponsibility (with occasional instances occurring after a particularly happy victory – his ride off into the sunset, if you will).

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:16:23 +0000

Since I plan to see this in Imax, I will wait until Wednesday, To avoid the hooting fanboys.
Want singing, dancing, romance, martial arts, humor, and one of the HOTTEST hunks to ever hit the screen? Go buy a copy of Krissh! It’s from Bollywood, and it is the. best. superhero. movie. EVER.

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:41:39 +0000

Yeah, you know I was really liking Spider-Man until green goblin came to the front. It had alot of heart, and it was an over all good story. I also like how they payed tribute to just about every old horror movie in one way or another whenever they could fit it into a shot. Part 2 did nothing be bumb me out. What I always liked about Spider-Man was that no matter how insignificant he felt as Parker, he could always put on that costume and be king of the world. Just from watching clips of 3, I assumed that it’d be more of the same, and I just decided from that, that I don’t want to see it. To top it all off it came out after 300, and that was everything I could possibly ever want in a comic book movie. After seeing that, I feel that I’ve gotten a really great movie fix and can now spend more time doing other things with my life, without feeling the need to go and sit in a dark room for 2 or more hours.