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I watched The Amazing Spiderman today, and I couldn't say that I'm satisfied with it. There are some details from the comics version altered in this movie, and I don't like that. The cinematography is probably better than Sam Raimi's version, but story wise Raimi's version is better.
 

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I heard he build the spiderweb shooters out of nothing, as in normal buy, not genius come up with something like that. Ah my friends decided to see TDKR at the end of the month, so Spidey will go down the Blu-Ray path. :P
 

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I get that the spiderweb shooters are there in the original comic, but making him have the ability to shoot the webs himself works a lot better. It actually makes sense for it to be a part of his powers.
 

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My problem is not with the shooters, it's that this Peter is dumber than the T. Maguire one and still could create such items. Don't know why anybody should have a problem with the change to it not being part of his powers, it's been both ways many times in the comics. Does anybody know if the Spider-woman arc is worth reading?
 

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I have not seen the new spiderman movie yet but at least I have never been a fan of the web shotters myself. They make no sense to me. Without being able to shoot webs spiderman's powers come down to his physical enhancement, spideysense and wall crawling. My issue with this is that not one of this powers is necessarily relatable to a spider without the ability to create webs himself. Without the ability to shoot webs we have the situation that spiderman could have been bitten by practically any animal overall. Even his spidey sense is not necessarily a spider related ability, the only thing spiderlike about it is the name. Ultimately with the powers non web shooting spiderman has he could as easily be antman, flyman, lizardman or basically absolutely ANYTHING that can crawl walls. The only actual tweeck that would have to be made is to replace the spidey sense for anythingelse-sense(which makes for a change so minuscule is unimportant).
 

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The Dark Knight Rises new Featurette:

 
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I watched The Amazing Spider-Man yesterday and enjoyed it, though I think the first film works better as an origin story. The film had some awesome looking action sequences, and the actors did a great job with their characters (Aunt May's actress more or less), but there were also a lot of cheesey moments. It was also very unrealistic at some parts (like the web-shooters for example). The soundtrack was a mess in my opinion. At one point in the film it looked like someone stepped on a piano. Also, I think Andrew Garfield should have bulked up a little, when he was wearing the Spider-Man costume he looked really skinny. Still, the movie is pretty entertaining, and it's also funnier (comedy is something I felt the other ones lacked).
 

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To be honest I liked this film better than the original one. For some reason I find the original spiderman guy remarkably annoying. I feel this origin kinda makes more sense overall. Setting aside that spiderman in this film started out as a potential sex offender and could be charged with battery, it seemed the story eased up more into him learning how to use his powers for good. I felt uncle ben's death had a greater impact in this film too. I still dislike the shooters though. Had that spider thread not been there he could as easily assumed his powers were based on any other insect. I can't fathom how building shooters which shot some metallic liquid something something web is easier than building rudimentary wings and simply being roachman. Or grasshopper man, he jumps a lot.

Not sure I liked the part when he told gwen about his powers. Spiderman is supposed to be secretive about his identity and we are supposed to somehow process that he told a girl with whom he had always had only half conversations at best?

What I do wonder is if the director will have the balls to actuall kill off gwen stacy as in the comic books. Thinking about it the Stacey's get a really bad treatment in the comic book. For me the best ending for the series would him meeting MJ at the very end of the last movie. Technically that would remove importance from the potential death of gwen though.... If they do have she balls to kill gwen in the movie its gonna be hard to pull of.
 

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The Dark Knight soundtrack is available for listening in its entirety here. Enjoy! :amuse
 

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What I do wonder is if the director will have the balls to actuall kill off gwen stacy as in the comic books. Thinking about it the Stacey's get a really bad treatment in the comic book. For me the best ending for the series would him meeting MJ at the very end of the last movie. Technically that would remove importance from the potential death of gwen though.... If they do have she balls to kill gwen in the movie its gonna be hard to pull of.
I hope that they do end up killing her. Not that I have anything against, in fact I really like the way Emma Stone acted in her role. It's just that it's a pretty big deal in the comics and it would be interesting to see the movies handle it. However, I heard that Joe Quesada (who's some big cheese at Marvel, not really sure what he does though) doesn't like Mary Jane at all and that she might not appear in the newer movies.
 

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The whole thing with the buildings falling and the camera moving upward reminds me of bleach lol.
 

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The thing with the web shooters was that they were already in the original comic itself, there's no point finding it as a flaw in the movie
when it followed the comic.
Web shooters make more sense than organic webs because if peter parker shoots real webs out of his wrist then his body must be producing solidified sticky web
substance...which is kindda gross.
I watched it 2 weeks ago since it premiered earlier here in Sg.
I must say that it's nowhere near epic but still an enjoyable watch, I might be biased seeing how spider man is my favorite superhero, ever.

Not sure I liked the part when he told gwen about his powers. Spiderman is supposed to be secretive about his identity and we are supposed to somehow process that he told a girl with whom he had always had only half conversations at best?
I agree. Part of the reason why spider man hides his identity, even from aunt may was because he didn't wanted to worry them and also because of the responsibility in it. Maybe this could be justified by saying that he revealed the identity before he actually matured as spider man but it still didn't feel right.
Also disliked the Aunt May and Peter relationship in this movie, in Raimi's one they were obviously closer.
But Uncle Ben was portrayed well.
My problem is not with the shooters, it's that this Peter is dumber than the T. Maguire one and still could create such items
Dumber? Please elaborate because in the entire course of the movie I thought that he was smart and very intelligent especially when he solved the formula and developed the shooters. Unlike Tobey who in most of the films feels like an awkward A-grader student.

Like many have said, the comedy in this film is better than any of Raimi and Spider-man was much more fun with his wisecracks that the original films lacked.
The flaw that I really have is the Lizard and how the film would be way better if they didn't choose him as a villain.
 

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Well, I didn't like the web shooters in the comic books either lol. Its not quite something I found to be a flaw in the movie itself, it is just a version of spiderman I dislike in comparison to other versions. Seriously, peter being antman makes far more sense than being spiderman so far. I grew up watching the animated spiderman series and I always hated how he would just run out of spiderwebs.

Well, aunt may didn't quite have a chance to be more developed. The focused more on the uncle ben relationship which makes sense because we already had 3 other movies which were all about aunt may. Still, odds are peter's relationship with aunt may will be more developed in the next movies. Even if she did not get quite the focus uncle ben got she still made a terrific job, there is a lot of potential there.

Was he really dumber? And to be fair, this was a younger peter who was just at high school. The peter from the other movie was several years older and was a college level student. I would argue this peter was even smarter than the one from the previous movies.

Did peter complete the formula or did he just give the formula he found to the scientist? I got the impression he merely found the formula in the papers his dad left behind.
 

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Six stunning pictues from Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful





Need to write some short reviews to the dozen movies I got to watch over the last two weeks. :E


So has someone seen some of Akira Kurosawa's "modern japan" movies? I still have half ot the collection waiting to be watched, but I want to keep a bit of time in between them. Is there a recommendation with which to begin? Ikiru seems to be the most praised of those.

Got done with my second last[out of eight] Bunta Sugawara movie The Man who stole the sun[Taiyô wo nusunda otoko]. It's about a school teacher who steals some Plutonium from an atomic plant and builds himself his own a-bomb, being the 9th power in the world to own one. Don't want to spoiler much more than this picture will likely do. Just found it funny when you think about Oda's muse for Akainu, the Red Dog. And it's the first one without the Borsalino counterpart Kunie Tanaka.
 
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Watched The Dark Knight Rises today. Maybe I was expecting too much from Nolan this time, since this is the last Batman film that he directed, but TDK Rises is still inferior compared to its prequel, IMO. I get a feeling that TDK Rises has the same blueprint with TDK, and instead of repeating its success, it fails to meet my expectation. The sub-plot can be confusing sometimes, since the movie is generally fast paced. The thing that I could praise from this movie is the first half of the movie. After that, the plot twists and the ending are not as good as the first half of the movie. Bane really has a lot of potential to be the main antagonist, but then again, he doesn't left any creepy impression on me like Joker did.
 
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I also saw the Batman tonight. Main problem was straightforwardness and predicatability. It wasn't that complex at all. Also some moments of the dialoque felt a little silly, and at times it was so serious of itself it was unintentionally amusing. However, the story kept me interested for the almost 3 hours, which didn't feel like 3 hours at all. That is always good. The flow of the film worked quite well. I liked Bane as a villain, and bits with Gordon and Alfred were again amazing. Selina Kyle was on the borderline. I've never been really fond of Hathaway though. Action was cool and it had many gorgeous scenes. And how much they used real people and places instead of CGI is impressive, and I sure do tip hat to Nolans opinion on 3D.

All this stuff about it being perfect film which changes the watchers worldview and that Nolan is some sort of semi-god with a golden touch is bullshit though. Nolan is very good. Particulary with detail and mythological storytelling. But just no. It was touching at times, but it didn't change me or evoke massive emotions. It was a good film. Very solid package. Also gotta give a nod to the sound design. Brilliant. Music was conveyor belt Zimmer, but as always, it works. I liked it, but I didn't find best films of all time caliber like many others seem to think.

To be fair, Nolan had big shoes to fill after DK. However, I always found DK overrated too. I actually rate all three films in about the same line. DKR might actually be my favorite of the bunch. It is just... The Joker is always The Joker.
 

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I actually enjoyed TDK Rises. just the right amount of story and action and badass. Plot's not too complicated- succinct pace of the movie, etc.

on another note, does anyone have a review of Brave? it looks really sweet.
 
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