Spiderman2

Spider-Man 2

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Yet again, uploading the movie poster is proving to be a pain, BUT...I am going to be able to review this one. No, really. I'm going to see it this weekend and I'm gonna review it.

First off, hooray for Sam Raimi and the screenwriters! They're continuing the Harry/Peter/Spidey storyline with Harry out for vengence and Peter torn between his friend and himself. Good call, guys. Harry is turning in to a regular Howard Hughes with a 'tude. Very Lex Luthor-in-"Smallville"-esque. It should be interesting to watch. And Peter. Poor Peter. No wonder the character has been so successful over the years. Dude, I feel his pain. Work, school, trying to keep up with your friends, dealing with jerks every day...sounds like my college career.

It looks like Mary Jane has made a name for herself as a model/actress and I'm not so sure I buy in to that. This is supposed to take place only, what?, a couple of years or so after the first one? Unless she got incredibly lucky (HA!) or had some serious help from her boyfriend (more likely), there's no way that she could have made it big in such a short time. But, whatever. It's a hero-movie. I'll go with it.

Sam, Miles, Al, and the other writer-dude...I know I'm not much to look at, but there is a BIG kiss a-waitin' each of you. Oh. How. I. Love. This. Movie! I don't pretend to know a lot about the comic book, but what little I do know is that this movie leapt from that crinkly, fragile paper on to the massive screen at my theater. The special effects were much, MUCH better than the first movie. I couldn't tell what was animation and what wasn't!

The acting was pretty good, especially Tobey Maguire. Poor Peter! I just wanted to give him the biggest hug most of the time. The best bit of the movie was the scene on the train. Doc Ock sabotages an El-type train, makes it a runaway, and a maskless Spider-man is left to stop a 100 MPH train before it comes to the end of the track in a few miles. How he stops it is cool and all, but what's best is the fact that he collapses from the exertion and the people on the train reach out and catch him! Then, they pass him from one set of hands to another in the car and put him down on the floor. He comes to and gets a little freaked at these 10 faces standing over him and knowing what he REALLY looks like. Then, these two kids come up, hand him his mask, and say they won't tell anyone who he is. AW! This is the New York I saw when I visited there. So many people talk about how mean and rude New Yorkers are. I'm sure there are some that are that way, but I never really saw it when I was there. Everyone was just as nice as in my hometown. Maybe I just wasn't there long enough, but it's nice to see the New York I experienced getting some silver screen time

"My BACK!" Hee!

The chainsaw in the operating room was an obvious shout-out to the Evil Dead movies (which all of you must watch because they're creepy and hilarious). Oh, and Bruce Campbell is AWESOME at playing annoying jerks. Someone get that man some more work!

They set up the 3rd one so well. I can't wait for it. Hopefully, they'll keep the same staff and it'll be just as good, if not better, than this one!

Now, the gripes.

Would SOMEone hire Trinny and Susannah to dress the women in this movie, because whoever's doing it now has NO idea how to dress skinny, flat-chested women. They dressed Mary Jane, who has some cleavage but not much, in all V-necks without a bra. That's an A-1 way to show just how flat-chested she is because her boobs sagged down almost to her waist and gave her no shape. Peter's landlord's daughter wore deep V-necks as well, but these were short shirts paired with low-waisted jeans. She had even smaller breasts than Mary Jane and just looked flat as a board. It's almost as if they didn't even TRY to give the illusion that these women had curves. They just figured, "Eh. They're straight up-and-down, so what's the point in hiding it?" I've got news for you costumers: guys may like women who are, for all intents and purposes, sticks but even I know that they don't like them to be THAT much of a stick.

Too much screaming. Back to the Evil Dead thing, it was too much like a bad horror movie. *EXTREME CLOSE-UP!* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! If I wanted to see that, I'd watch Scream 2. Then, at least, I'd be able to drool over Jerry O'Connell (sorry, y'all. Tobey Maguire and James Franco are pretty good eye candy, but neither one of them are hot in my book.).

One last thing: "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" was written for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. LEAVE IT THERE! End of rant.

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