My Spidey Jammies Just Got a Bit Tighter…
Posted by Brian C. Gibson (brian@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 20, 2007
Spider-Man 3 is hitting theaters on May 4th, but I can’t wait. I have a press screening for it next week, but I can’t wait. Some people have already seen the film, but I don’t care. At this point someone from the press could come out and say that Kirsten Dunst becomes The Kingpin and kills Peter Parker in the bathtub with a toaster, and I would still go see it. I can’t wait!
I have been sitting at my computer for a while now just digging stuff up on the film to see if anyone who has seen it has anything awesome to say. On Monday Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter will report that Spider-Man 3 is “A dazzling kick-off to the Summer ‘07 movie season.” Like I said, even if Jesus trashed the movie, I’d still tell him to sit down, shut up and throw my popcorn at him. I am a nerd, and I need Spider-Man in my life. I know how pathetic that sounds, but at least I’m not camped outside of a theater wearing a black cape and a voice box.
The criticism hasn’t been all great, Rechtshaffen says “While the picture as a contained whole may fall an itsy-bitsy short of the personal best set by Sam Raimi’s 2004 edition, the wow factor works overtime with state-of-the-art effects sequences that are often as beautiful as they are astonishing.” Some people have already said that Spider-Man 3 isn’t as great as Spider-Man 2, but i would say any comic film that has 3 villains simultaneously lighting up the big screen has to be pretty impressive.
I guess seeing Peter Parker trapped in a love triangle with Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and Gwen Stacey (Bryce Dallas Howard) doesn’t sound bad either. Except for the fact that Dunst looks like a meth addict who has lost her teeth, and Bryce Dallas Howard looks like an albino in most movies. However, i have heard that Howard is looking pretty good lately.
I guess that the most exciting quote from Rechtshaffen’s report would be this:
Entrusted with the new technologies, visual effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk and Sony Pictures Imageworks deliver big-time here. On more than one occasion, those breathtaking sequences — from Flint Marko’s molecular deconstruction/Sandman’s subsequent reconstruction to that final face-off between Spider-Man, Sandman, Venom and Osborn — are deservedly met with bursts of spontaneous audience applause, which is no mean feat when balancing tubs of popcorn and super-sized beverages.
Are you kidding me? Spidey against 3 villains at once? My Spidey jammies just got a bit tighter…
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