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12-10-2021, 05:18 PM | #1381 |
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Now for Amazing Spider-Man 1. I didn't like this movie back when it first aired and I still don't like it now! The primary reason being that Andrew Garfield's' Peter/Spidey starts off a huge douchebag and stays a huge douchebag; There's no real arc here. The romance is forced and has zero chemistry, the action scenes are lame, and the plots about Peter finding himself and hunting for Uncle Ben's' killer is just immediately dropped without a second thought. It also features what is probably my most hated Spider Suit in the entire franchise. Not alot for me to like here!
But, to give some credit, there are some scenes that do work in a vacuum, and when comparing it to its sequel and especially to the MCU movies, it doesn't have nearly as many of the amount of things that annoy me that those movies do. I could see how some might like it, even if I don't. Again, grading on a curve here, but I'm gonna be nice and go 3/6. Without that curve though? Bump it down a point. ASM-2 will be next week, and then... No Way Home.
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12-11-2021, 12:08 AM | #1382 |
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Next up in my Spidey Marathon leading up to No Way Home is the Editor's Cut of Spider-Man 3. If you're gonna watch Spider-Man 3, make it the Editor's Cut. It is an overall improvement in almost every way. Is it perfect? Does it take a bad movie and make it good? No, there's still alot of problems. The pacing, while better, is still pretty bad. The entire thing still feels like three separate movies cut and pasted together. And even though it's clear that everyone involved was doing the best they could under the circumstances of the film's' production, they just didn't have a ton of substance to work with. But heck, if I'm grading on a curve, in comparison to every Spider-Man movie we've gotten since SM3's' initial release? It's still leagues better than what's come after. So with that in mind, I'm willing to give it a pass. And hey, if nothing else, the score/soundtrack is still good. 4/6.
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12-11-2021, 08:29 PM | #1383 |
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As far as I am aware, it's only available as a part of the "Spider-Man Trilogy Limited Edition Collection" on blu-ray.
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12-14-2021, 11:09 PM | #1384 |
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I watched Shang Chi for the first time, and it was alright. The cast was fantastic, and the action was exciting, but the story was average. However, it's good to see more Asian representation from Hollywood. Not a bad movie, but I don't see myself watching it again anytime soon.
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12-15-2021, 02:15 AM | #1385 |
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I haven't always been the biggest film watcher but since March 2020 I have probably started watching more films and listening to more albums (except from all time and different countries of course)! My most recently completed film was Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2 from 2010 (the version of those teamups that was in Heartcatch), if I never see another Precure movie then that was a good enough one to have seen I suppose and I don't watch anime films that often!
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12-16-2021, 04:04 PM | #1386 |
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 is done and... man, I got alot more out of seeing this again after seven years than I thought I would.
The movie has a reputation of being one of, if not the worst Spider-Man movie for alot of reasons. Poor pacing, being four different movies glued together, lack of character development, being very much an advertisement for a Sinister Six movie... all of these criticisms are valid, and very true. But the thing is... I kinda found some weird, new found respect for the film? There are alot of scenes that work really well in a vacuum, and many of the actors are clearly trying their best to sell what little screen time that they all have. Ontop of that, this movie fixed alot of the things I hated about the first ASM movie; The ugly as sin suit from the first film was replaced, Peter can now talk in coherent sentences, and there's a much bigger attempt to keep everything under a thematic core. Plus, the musical score and the action scenes got a very notable bump in quality. Is it a good movie? No, but given it very much feels like the creators originally had four movies planned out, only for Sony to tell them to combine them all into one so they could get to a Sinister Six movie ASAP? There's a surprising amount to like here. The movie has plenty of good ideas, just really poor execution due to all being one film instead of a set of them. And I would sooner be far more excited to rewatch this than any of the MCU Spider-Man films. 3/6.
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12-17-2021, 08:32 PM | #1387 |
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I just got back from seeing No Way Home.
And, surprisingly, I found it to be a huge step in the right direction for MCU Spider-Man.
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12-24-2021, 12:36 PM | #1388 |
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I saw
Bill And Ted 3 Bill And Ted Face The Music Bring It On VI World Wide Cheer Smack Jumanji 2 Welcome To The Jungle Jumanji 3 The Next Level Jurassic IV Jurassic World Jurassic V Fallen Kingdom The Fast And The Furious 9 Justice League Space Jam 2 A New Legacy I have Netflix DVD Rentals active New Movies Due Up Avengers III Avengers IV Black Widow Bat Man Vs TMNT Final Fantasy XV Kingsglave Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 Into The Spider-Verse Scoob! Spider-Man VIII No Way Home (3rd in the Homecoming Trilogy) TMNT VI Out Of The Shadows Tekken Tekken 2 Kazuya's Revenge Tekken Blood Vengeance Tomb Raider (2018 Movie) X9 Logan (3rd in the Wolverine series) X10 Dark Phoenix New Movies owned Due Up Aquaman Wonder Woman Due to COVID 19 I watch movies on DVD and refuse to go to the theater.
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09-04-2022, 06:11 PM | #1389 |
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I watch the "More Fun Stuff Edition" of Now Way Home a few nights ago with a good friend of mine.
And all I gotta say is, I can see why most of those scenes ended up getting cut in the first place. Most of the extra bits are during the first half of the film, and they serve to make a bunch of the pre-existing scenes twice as long which in turn makes them seriously drag. And from what I've looked up, apparently this cut doesn't even restore all of the scenes that got cut out. The film opens with a fun bit of interactions between the actors of the three Spider-Men over a Zoom call though, and the scene of the Peters talking on the Statue of Liberty is extended too, and it's made even better than in the original theatrical cut. But yeah, unless you're a super diehard fan of Tom Holland's' Peter, I wouldn't recommend actively seeking the extended cut out.
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09-17-2022, 10:57 AM | #1390 |
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I watched Uncharted (adapted from the PS3 / PS4 game series) which was how Nathan Drake became a thief.
Also Sailor Moon Eternal Parts 1 and 2 and Rise Of The TMNT The Movie Due Up Trans Formers The Movie (1986) which I'll see this after G I Series II. John Wick 1 - 3 The Matrix 1 - 4 Jurassic VI Dominion (DVD) Spider-Man 9 No Way Home (DVD) I saw all 5 Jurassic movies and bought the new Matrix movie as well as John Wick 1 - 3. Currently watching The Batman on DVD
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