Rate Spider-Man 2 [No Spoilers]

[Tav_Behemoth]

This was much much better than I had any right to expect, better than I deserve! I laughed, I cried, it became linked to my higher brain functions via nano-wires.

Ditto everyone who gave big ups to Sam Raimi. This is his best film ever, a great synthesis of Evil Dead eyeball kicks, Army of Darkness comedy, A Simple Plan depth and melodrama, and For the Love of the Game romance cheese. What good cheese this movie has! Just about every scene had a moment when I thought "this is too much", and then they redeemed it by going even farther over the top.

I think an equally important contributor to the movie's genius was one of the screenwriters, Michael Chabon. Start reading his The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay right now. When you're able to put it down again three days later, bleary-eyed and euphoric, you'll see where the deep insights into comic book history and psyche in the Spider-Man 2 script came from.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

An interesting view, but it was demonstrated in the first movie that his wall-crawling ability is derived from tiny, sharp "spines" on his fingertips (and presumably his feet). I guess they must be retractable, or else he'd be unable to NOT stick to anything he touched.

Johnathan

That's just what Pete *thought* he saw--he's rationalizing his powers. Or they could also be like the webbing and be ectoplasm that he creates. It still fits.

 

[Hand of Evil]

It has been I long time...I was totally blown away by Spider-Man 2, it had passion, action, story, plot... You could see a lot of comfort in the roles this time about. Doc Ock and J. Jameson were done to perfection.

Solid 10!

 

[Flyspeck23]

Anybody else get the impression that Spider-Man's powers in the movies are almost wholly psionic, since they were so dependent on his frame of mind and confidence level? Super-strength, wall crawling, and agility are all limited versions of telekinesis. His webbing's ectoplasm, a visible, tangible representation of his telekinetic abilities. Spidey-sense is *clearly* psionic... It all fits, I think.

It works that way in Ultimate Spider-Man, didn't you know?

And that's how they introduced Venom recently - he's a manifestation of Peter's split personality. And it seems his mental disorder's getting worse - can you say "Carnage"?


(Only joking, of course.)

 

[Jeremy757]

I saw it last night. I loved the movie but only gave it an 8.

This movie was a little heavy on the angst filled love story for me, a kind of superhero chick-flick.

I wanted to see less lovie dovie and more of Doc Ock kicking the crap out of people and puppies.

I can't wait till Batman Begins comes out. Batman's a guy I can respect. He doesn't let no dame get in the way of smashing teeth. Ken Watanabe better get his dentures ready.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

To quote Petere Griffin: Holy crap! C'mon Spidey 3!

Before going to the movie, I was singing the old 'Spider Man' song and after the movie I may ask a doc about having some mechanical tentacles surgically attached, especially if I get to do all that spiffy stuff with 'em.

 

[Korgan26]

I vote 7/10.
Very middle of the road movie.
Not as good as the first, but great as far as sequels go.

Z

 

[barsoomcore]

What a delight.

FINALLY, Sam Raimi delivers on the promise of Evil Dead. Finally we see that crazed, utterly fearless talent take a big honkin' blockbuster budget and turn out that rarest of all things: a big-budget movie that DOESN'T feel like it was made by a committee.

Finally, Sam. You've done it. Congratulations. We've all been waiting a long time for this. You've rewarded us for our faith. Now we know we were right all along about you.

It was nearly perfect. I gave it an 8 -- docking it points for a too-long ending (and those AWFUL helicopters), the colour of MJ's hair and Molina's failure at the critical moment.

Yep, I said it. Alfred Molina, although brilliant throughout the picture, let me down in that critical moment where he goes from grief-crazed to revenge-mad.

Spoiler

When the arms come writhing up around him (and weren't they AWESOME? Holy crap they scared me) and he decides, "No, maybe I won't throw myself into the river just yet," -- it doesn't fly.

He didn't reach me with that moment and take me on his little journey and that was disappointing.

And the ending was WAY too long. What is this, Return of the King? Sheesh. Final battle, roll credits. Enough already.

But what a movie. One of the proofs for me of how good it was is how I don't divide it into "sequences" -- it all seemed to flow together in a constant run. It wasn't an action movie where you sit back and wait for the next "sequence" to kick in -- it just rolled right along without a pause.

And it was SO Spiderman. His life is so bleak and unrelentingly mundane, and no matter how successful he is at beating the bad guys he still can't pay the rent, hold down a job or finish college. It was great. Jameson makes your ticket worthwhile by himself. And Dunst and Maguire are just amazing -- man can they act. Oh, yeah. And how is it possible that Rosemary Harris looks EXACTLY like Aunt May? That's just creepy.

MJ's hair is supposed to be darker than that. It bugged me.

Okay, I didn't dock it points for the frickin' HAIR COLOUR, but it still bugged me. I always had a thing for MJ's dark shiny hair, I guess.

The usual Sam cameos were in evidence, and delightful as always (though we didn't get to see the Classic underway -- perhaps it no longer runs?).

Absolutely top-notch. Not the film of the year (Kill Bill Vol 2 I liked better, and The Passion of the Christ), but definitely the "must-see" film this summer.

See it, folks. You gonna love it.

Hurray for Sam!

 

[Kai Lord]

FINALLY, Sam Raimi delivers on the promise of Evil Dead. Finally we see that crazed, utterly fearless talent take a big honkin' blockbuster budget and turn out that rarest of all things: a big-budget movie that DOESN'T feel like it was made by a committee.

Finally, Sam. You've done it.

Are you saying, "finally" as in "finally Sam himself has made a big budget film without the committee" or "finally someone has made a big budget film without the committee"? Because if its the latter, I can think of a number of examples in recent years.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Went and saw it yesterday afternoon. Loved it. I gave it a 9 out of 10. The only thing I didn't like was that it got a little over-angsty at points.

Bring on Spider-Man 3!