"Where do all these guys come from?"
Spider-Man 3 was incredibly enjoyable. I would say better than the second (though not as good as the first: my vote for the best superhero film ever made.) I'm surprised that critics' reviews were so mixed, with the more negative ones saying the film is too cluttered and sprawling. It definitely has at least one too many major/ new characters, but their relationships and modivations are so well intertwined it would be difficult to say who to remove without radically altering the story.
I really find Peter and MJ more relatable in the films than in the comics (at least the modern ones - oh, for the Ditko days). Balancing work, school, love, superpowers . . . well, perhaps not so much the latter. Yet what separates these movies from ones like say, Fantastic Four, is that the superpowers represent things (real-life things?) rather than just providing " Oh, cool!" moments.
Another example of this contrast can be seen in the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter screen adaptations. LOTR ties impressive visuals with key plot points (ex: Gandalf leading the calvalry charge down the mountain, representing hope, a turn in the battle, etc.) whereas in HP, things like the griffen flight don't really add anything. Not that I don't love lavish production design, but pointless effects sequences are tiresome. (Especially rendered in cheap CGI.)
I think I convinced Dad to see it. Most of my Mother's-day-call-home consisted of raving about Spidey. Though I did give Mom a flower on Facebook. Go parents on Facebook!
As of today I have (tentatively) four weeks of work left at Student Connections at 25h/week. This allows for some new-job-finding time and still pays enough to scrape by w/o dipping into the savings. The savings are ideally for my new computer, which is partly a business expense. Can't freelance with an eight-year-old machine that doesn't run Adobe CS2 or 3 . . .
I really find Peter and MJ more relatable in the films than in the comics (at least the modern ones - oh, for the Ditko days). Balancing work, school, love, superpowers . . . well, perhaps not so much the latter. Yet what separates these movies from ones like say, Fantastic Four, is that the superpowers represent things (real-life things?) rather than just providing " Oh, cool!" moments.
Another example of this contrast can be seen in the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter screen adaptations. LOTR ties impressive visuals with key plot points (ex: Gandalf leading the calvalry charge down the mountain, representing hope, a turn in the battle, etc.) whereas in HP, things like the griffen flight don't really add anything. Not that I don't love lavish production design, but pointless effects sequences are tiresome. (Especially rendered in cheap CGI.)
I think I convinced Dad to see it. Most of my Mother's-day-call-home consisted of raving about Spidey. Though I did give Mom a flower on Facebook. Go parents on Facebook!
As of today I have (tentatively) four weeks of work left at Student Connections at 25h/week. This allows for some new-job-finding time and still pays enough to scrape by w/o dipping into the savings. The savings are ideally for my new computer, which is partly a business expense. Can't freelance with an eight-year-old machine that doesn't run Adobe CS2 or 3 . . .