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last night, eric and i drove slowly up and down the streets of the ritzy neighborhood of snell isle, smoking three enormous joints in preparation for 'spider-man 2', which was playing just down the road.
what a waste of perfectly good weed.
maybe it was the 14 year olds sitting behind us who would titter and laugh out loud over any (painfully cheeseball) emotionally cathartic exchange between the characters, or maybe it was the guy sitting down on the floor, in the nosebleed seats, who would hoot and hollar and clap very loudly at every cool thing that happened (i, for one, am i big proponent of audience participation at movies, but only when everybody is down w/ it, otherwise it is unappreciated, distracting and rude). or, you know, maybe it was the weed. but i didn't like it half as much as i liked the original.
i loved the heightened realism of 'spider-man'; i loved that, no matter how outlandish the story became, i still believed that peter parker was an actual guy. but they do a 180 in 'spider-man 2'; it is to puply, comic book derivativeness what 'kill bill' was to asian schlock cinema. peter and mary jane and the rest of the supporting cast often speak in these long-winded, self-important platitudes that would be more fitting inside a thought bubble in an actual comic book than in a movie.
the action is still pretty cool, though there is much less of it than there was in the original. and doctor octopus is a cooler villian than the green goblin. i'm not saying i hated it, and i'm certainly not going to crusade against it, but all i'm saying is, don't believe the hype.
last night, eric and i drove slowly up and down the streets of the ritzy neighborhood of snell isle, smoking three enormous joints in preparation for 'spider-man 2', which was playing just down the road.
what a waste of perfectly good weed.
maybe it was the 14 year olds sitting behind us who would titter and laugh out loud over any (painfully cheeseball) emotionally cathartic exchange between the characters, or maybe it was the guy sitting down on the floor, in the nosebleed seats, who would hoot and hollar and clap very loudly at every cool thing that happened (i, for one, am i big proponent of audience participation at movies, but only when everybody is down w/ it, otherwise it is unappreciated, distracting and rude). or, you know, maybe it was the weed. but i didn't like it half as much as i liked the original.
i loved the heightened realism of 'spider-man'; i loved that, no matter how outlandish the story became, i still believed that peter parker was an actual guy. but they do a 180 in 'spider-man 2'; it is to puply, comic book derivativeness what 'kill bill' was to asian schlock cinema. peter and mary jane and the rest of the supporting cast often speak in these long-winded, self-important platitudes that would be more fitting inside a thought bubble in an actual comic book than in a movie.
the action is still pretty cool, though there is much less of it than there was in the original. and doctor octopus is a cooler villian than the green goblin. i'm not saying i hated it, and i'm certainly not going to crusade against it, but all i'm saying is, don't believe the hype.
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I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Enzian last night, very powerful film. There was a very diverse audience there, and this conservative girl's mind has been opened a little bit.
Watcha doin' in St. Pete?