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Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the bonch-abalone-is-right dept.

Update: 06/30 15:42 GMT by T : This article has been pulled; the Spider-Man 2 review which appeared here was reposted without credit or permission from chud. (Read it in its original context.) We welcome original feature-length articles, but not plagiarism.

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  1. Raimi and CGI by nucal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some reviews of Spider-man 2 have mentioned that Sam Raimi is not all that comfortable with CGI ... which means that he tends to focus more on the human element rather than the blockbuster aspects of a movie. Given the depth of Peter Parker as a character, this seems like a reasonable trade off that helps make this better than the "typical" comic hero movie ...

    1. Re:Raimi and CGI by cyclocommuter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As a kid who grew up reading Marvel and DC comics, Spiderman easily became my favorite. No, it was not the action scenes that captivated me but Peter Parker's initial "nerdiness". He was bullied early on by his schoolmate Flash and he was even too shy to make a pass at his officemate at the Daily Bugle who I think was his first object of desire... Betty.

      The best Spiderman comic book episodes though was during the span of time he was fighting the Lizard (Dr. Connors), the Rhino, the Vulture and Kraven the Hunter... this was also a time of great turmoil in Peter Parker's life... he had to take care of his ailing Aunt May and was torn between his two ladies of interest... Gwen and MJ who as I recall, was introduced by Aunt May while Spiderman was about to face the Rhino. The original MJ on the comic book looked much better than Kirsten Dunst... thinner, more worldly. Peter Parker was in 7th heaven when MJ decided to go ride with him on his motorcycle.

      I am not sure if any movie can capture in film what those comic books conveyed to comic book nerds at the time.

  2. a bird? an airplane? ...no! it's Spider-Man! by nazsco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > For example the excellent train fight takes place on an elevated train in a part of the city where there are no elevated trains -- but it doesn't matter. The film makes it work, so that you don't even think about it

    HOW THE HELL SHOULD I NOT THINK ABOUT AN ELEVATED TRAIN LINE WITH A DEAD END THAT WOULD THROW A BRAKELESS TRAIN RIGHT INTO FIFTH AVENUE!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    also, they transformed spider-man into super-man!
    - add eyeglasses to alternative identity. check
    - not a smart ass. check
    - CAN STOP A FSCKING TRAIN WITH ITS BARE HANDS! check

    oh! the humanity!

    1. Re:a bird? an airplane? ...no! it's Spider-Man! by Necromancyr · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I put a teeny little 'my view' of the movie on my site - nothing to submit to slashdot, but the BIGGEST problem I have with the new movie is that Spidey isn't a smart ass...at ALL...during fights. If you've ever read the comics, that's one of his biggest things.

      No matter the situation, Spidey always has a one liner to toss out. THere might have been 1-2 in the entire movie...even with the lower volume of action scenes, it was a big let down.

      Movie's still great though.

  3. Re:The Importance of Being Earnest by blankinthefill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While you got the gist of the story correct, you are off on the names/details. Algernon is from the city, and he has invented the concept of "Bunburying". He has created an imaginary friend that lives in the country named Bunbury, who is often incapacitated. Algernon then has an excuse to go to the country (where he ends up with Jacks young ward). Jack is from the country, and creates the persona of Ernest so that he can end up meeting a girl he has fallen in love with. Ernest, if you didn't guess it, is the same as Bunbury. Long story short, both Algernon and Jack end up taking on the differing persona of Ernest, and the two women that they have fallen in love with end up in a tangle of confusion, because of the mix-up of having two Ernests. The play is a social commentary on many things, not the least of which is the foolishness of a name (which some here would do well to recognize), and was definitely put in the movie for a reason, in my opinion, if not for more than one.