$258,000,000

[snowrabbit]

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

Comments

[iturtle]

"how's the pie"
"so good"
";)"

[snowrabbit]

Crap.. I've forgotten, where was that from?

[iturtle]

saw that in a gif from spiderman 3.

[snowrabbit]

Yea, I do believe that Spiderman 3 has some of the worst dialogue ever. It's so bad, apparently I can't even remember it. And I've seen it. So for you to remember lines to a movie you haven't even seen, the stink factor must be high.

Jonas's Response

[anonymous]

I don't know, I thought it fit Sam Rami's style. Where he takes a little comic cheese, adds it to some of his own style of cheese, does some cool battles, wrestles around some completly obvious moral lesson, and comes out with a fairly standard superhero movie. So what was the point? We learn to forgive by making choices. In the first movie, Spidey kills the robber for shooting Uncle Ben; he chooses to let his revenge take him (like the black suit). This is followed by the death of Goblin, which he at the very least blames himself for (or is blamed for by Harry which has to be dealt with). So, in a way Sandman was needed (and was perhaps more necessary than Venom) so Peter could show us and himself that people could come back and change, depending on choices. Anyway, you make a lot of good points in your blog post, and I would address them individually as Devil's Advocate, but this is your blog site, not mine and I don't want to follow your post up with an equally long assessment of my own. Take care.

Re: Jonas's Response

[snowrabbit]

Ahhhh! Welcome to my journal!! 'Tis a silly place. And yea, ignore that other comment I sent. it sent before I was done (Stupid keyboard).

Ohh, that Sam Raimi. Who doesn't love the Evil Dead movies? But it's interesting that you say Spiderman 3 is a fairly standard superhero movie. What bugged me most about SM3 is that so much of it wasn't needed. You could have tossed or beefed up several characters but for some reason they didn't. I read somewhere that the producers were worried this would be the last Spiderman movie, so they threw everything into the movie as one last BANG! There was even one point when there was another villian that later was removed. I can't imagine a two-hour movie handling that many villians successfully.

But yea, feel free to write that long assessment! Seriously! It's a blog and a forum. And there are good things about this movie (Like it's $380 million first-weekend worldwide box office take) that I've probably dismissed on the simple grounds that I'm too critical about film.

Re: Jonas's Response

[iturtle]

The evil dead guy directed this movie? That would explain why Bruce "stop calling me ash" Cambell is the narrator for the spiderman 3 game. Nothing against Cambell, cause his voice acting is impeccable, but the spiderman 3 game is horrible. What's his name who acts spidey lends his voice to the game, spouting off cheesy one liners and clues. I never thought I could want someone to shut up more then him. Perhaps if he could act....

Re: Jonas's Response

[snowrabbit]

Yup. Bruce has a cameo as a different character in all three Spiderman movies. In the first, he was the wrestling announcer who coined the Spiderman name. In the second, he was a lobby usher at a Broadway show. But he really stole the show in Spiderman 3 by playing a hysterical French maître d'.

Random Response

[jeef14]

Just randomly felt like throwing in my input that I thought Tobey Maguire was a poor choice when I saw the trailer for the first movie. I have yet to see the third one yet, but had suspicions from the trailer, that you have confirmed. Mainly that the majority of the plot focuses on the sad couple rather than Spiderman.

Re: Random Response

[snowrabbit]

Yay for randomness! Spiderman 3 is one of those films that comes along and makes you really think about who is running the movie studios. It really does focus waaaaaay too much on the secondary plot elements involving Parker as opposed to Spiderman. This summer is kind of funny in that all these three-quels are coming out all at once and all of them aren't quite living up to the magic of the others. Although I have high hopes for Ocean's 13!

Re: Random Response

[jeef14]

I was actually pretty amused by the fact that all the "3's" were coming out this summer. Although, I have to admit, I'm looking forward to seeing Shrek the Third. It looks particularly hilarious.

Re: Random Response

[snowrabbit]

Shrek 3 is just too short. It felt like a 60-minute movie. Although they've greenlit two more sequels, a TV series and a spinoff movie, so there'll be much more Shrek to look forward to.