$258,000,000
What would you guys do with just over a quarter of a billion dollars? Would you save the rain forest? How about go into business making cars that get 200 miles to the gallon? Maybe build 2,500 homes for the homeless? Or possibly donate mass sums of cash to charity? I bet all of us would eventually arrive at the decision to make the world a better place with at least some of the money. This weekend, American film producers are proving that you can take $258 million and actually use all of it to no ones benefit.
Of course, I'm talking about the most expensive movie ever made, Spiderman 3. Through my connections, I was able to see it for free last night and before it started I wondered if the movie was worth that much money. That's a whole lot of money to spend and it should translate into this movie being the best movie ever made. If I were spending the entire 2006 Gross Domestic Product (Purchasing Power) of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe on one two-hour piece of film, it would sure as hell be unimaginably good. Spiderman 3 (SM3), I'm sorry to say, is sorely disappointing.
I'm no fan of the series, by the way. I thought the first was corny while the second was much better. My biggest problem with the series as a whole is that I think Tobey Maguire was a bad choice to play Spiderman. Am I the only one on Earth who thinks he's misplaced? The series has turned out just like the X-Men movie series: The first one was bad yet commendable and the second was fantastic but the third film fell down somehow. Got lost and turned down an odd path. SM3 had too much going on to the point where nothing connected. You could have completely cut every last scene featuring the Sandman character and it wouldn't have affected anything. He's only in the movie for 10 seconds. 90% of the movie was Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst misunderstanding each other and feeling sad as opposed to Spiderman the character growing and being a hero. In fact, he did a few things that I would think a fan of the character would be ashamed of seeing him do. So many characters screaming for screen-time that nothing is accomplished and even in the final seconds of the movie when our love-birds are slow-dancing and reconciling, you realize nothing happened. No one changed. No one grew. At the end of the second film, Spidey had learned to balance his role as a hero and a human being. In '3', nothing grew about anyone's character. This was an unnecessary entry in the series and I bet history will remember it for that.
I know the movie is going to break every last box-office record this weekend and I can understand that. There's nothing like a Summer blockbuster action movie in the theaters. The problem is that there's also nothing like a good movie. In these days of rising ticket prices and my non-existent income, I've never been so picky about the movies I go to see. I got to see SP3 for free but I even think the two-hours I spent were more than I wished to have afforded. I can't wait until the initial rush to see it dies down and people begin to wake up to the reality that this movie is bad.
Umm... Wow, I didn't expect my opinion to have lasted this long. If you've seen it and thought differently than me (Or would like to join in the fun), comment!!
Of course, I'm talking about the most expensive movie ever made, Spiderman 3. Through my connections, I was able to see it for free last night and before it started I wondered if the movie was worth that much money. That's a whole lot of money to spend and it should translate into this movie being the best movie ever made. If I were spending the entire 2006 Gross Domestic Product (Purchasing Power) of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe on one two-hour piece of film, it would sure as hell be unimaginably good. Spiderman 3 (SM3), I'm sorry to say, is sorely disappointing.
I'm no fan of the series, by the way. I thought the first was corny while the second was much better. My biggest problem with the series as a whole is that I think Tobey Maguire was a bad choice to play Spiderman. Am I the only one on Earth who thinks he's misplaced? The series has turned out just like the X-Men movie series: The first one was bad yet commendable and the second was fantastic but the third film fell down somehow. Got lost and turned down an odd path. SM3 had too much going on to the point where nothing connected. You could have completely cut every last scene featuring the Sandman character and it wouldn't have affected anything. He's only in the movie for 10 seconds. 90% of the movie was Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst misunderstanding each other and feeling sad as opposed to Spiderman the character growing and being a hero. In fact, he did a few things that I would think a fan of the character would be ashamed of seeing him do. So many characters screaming for screen-time that nothing is accomplished and even in the final seconds of the movie when our love-birds are slow-dancing and reconciling, you realize nothing happened. No one changed. No one grew. At the end of the second film, Spidey had learned to balance his role as a hero and a human being. In '3', nothing grew about anyone's character. This was an unnecessary entry in the series and I bet history will remember it for that.
I know the movie is going to break every last box-office record this weekend and I can understand that. There's nothing like a Summer blockbuster action movie in the theaters. The problem is that there's also nothing like a good movie. In these days of rising ticket prices and my non-existent income, I've never been so picky about the movies I go to see. I got to see SP3 for free but I even think the two-hours I spent were more than I wished to have afforded. I can't wait until the initial rush to see it dies down and people begin to wake up to the reality that this movie is bad.
Umm... Wow, I didn't expect my opinion to have lasted this long. If you've seen it and thought differently than me (Or would like to join in the fun), comment!!