Monday, May 07, 2007

Spider-Man 3: A Movie Review

In the third installment, we find Peter and Mary Jane together, both doing what they love and all is well. Then things start to go down hill - Harry goes all Goblin on Peter, Flint falls into a testing pit and becomes the Sandman and Eddie Brock is out for Peter's job. Add in the Stacy family [father police Captain and daughter Gwen] and you have a lot of story to tell.

Good: The CGI work was pretty good - Harry/Peter's first fight and the crane vs building scenes were excellent while most of the Sandman stuff was just ok [a little bit better than the Mummy]. Bryce Dallas Howard was a good addition to the cast as Gwen. Bruce Campbell stole his scenes with his Maître d’ character. The concept of the storyline.

Bad: Spiderman 3 clocks in at a bulky 2:20 but it still wasn't enough time to properly develop all of the stories being developed in the film. Most of the major plotlines still need additional development. Peter dancing? Harry becomes too nice with a bump on the head.

Ugly: Unanswered questions - What happened to his "Spidey Scenes"? Where did the alien symbiote come from? Why does Venom have all of Spidey's abilities? What does the ending mean?

Overall probably my least favorite of the 3 Spiderman films and that is based mostly on the under development of the characters but after it made $148 million in its first three days here in the US and $375 million worldwide, I think they will make some profit on this film. And who knows maybe Sony can convince Sam, Toby and Kirsten to come back for a 4th [just next time maybe try the more is less tactic].

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Friday, May 04, 2007

SM3 Mosaic

This is a very cool use of web 2.0 fan-submitted photo's. Wonder if they will make a poster out of this and give one to each of the god-only-knows how many folks submitted photo's for the mosaic photo.

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Final Spiderman 3 Trailer

Comcast has the posted the final Spiderman 3 trailer on their newly launched Spiderman 3 Comcast website. The new site has a very slick design and looks like a good deal of time and energy when into it. In the last trailer we get most of the same stuff shown in the other 2 trailers but we do get our first glimpse at Venom. It is well worth the view. I had some trouble downloading the QuickTime file via their web only interface so I tracked down a regular url to the movie file and you can download the entire movie file using this link [right click -> save as]. May 4th just can't come fast enough.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Spiderman 3 Preview

NBC has posted a 7 1/2 minute "First Look" of Spiderman 3 which will be available until 9 pm PST tonight. The download is fairly big [250 meg] so give it a fwe minutes to load because it is worth the wait. The flight scene between Spiderman and The New Goblin is outstanding. 59 days and counting to what is sure to be this summer's biggest blockbuster.

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