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Spider-Man 2 is 10 years old today!
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BladeoftheImmortal
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Best comic book.movie ever. Raindrops section is perfection.
CreeperBlocks
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This is still the GOAT Spidey Film and the better spider-man 2. I loved Doc Ock. Such a great Villian. that Train Scene is legendary imo
HomerSimpson-Man
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Fantastic movie still. It really also seemed to ooze more of Sam Raimi's eccentric kinetic style, the Doc Oak hospital scene, classic. Such an awesome action packed third act from bank to subway to final pier sequence, so good.
Really the only thing against it the aging CGI work, but it's a decade old, so eh, it is what it is.
Really the only thing against it the aging CGI work, but it's a decade old, so eh, it is what it is.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Such a great movie. Probably the best superhero movie of the 2000's.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Pizza time.
Was Spiderman 2 the one with pizza time, emo hair Peter Parker, the dancing scene with Mary Jane, and "how's the pie" "sogood.gif"?
I think I too remember seeing that on opening night. It may have been so long that my memory is completely unreliable, but I seem to recall nearly crying with laughter at it, and everyone in the group being like, shocked/entertained afterwards because we thought it was so bad.
On the plus side, the youtube poop based on it (I don't have a link but maybe someone else does) is pretty hilarious.
George Oscar Bluth II
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CreeperBlocks
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No Spider-man 2 was the pizza one and the rest were from Spider-man 3.
Ha, my wife and I just rewatched this movie last night! What a coincidence.
Definitely the best of the Spider-Man movies. Loved Doc Ock as a villian, loved Peter's struggles throughout the film, and that train sequence? Fucking awesome. The action during that scene is so intense and well done, and then it does a perfect job of bringing out the emotions directly afterwards.
Great movie.
Definitely the best of the Spider-Man movies. Loved Doc Ock as a villian, loved Peter's struggles throughout the film, and that train sequence? Fucking awesome. The action during that scene is so intense and well done, and then it does a perfect job of bringing out the emotions directly afterwards.
Great movie.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Yep, saw in in theaters. Midnight showing, had a fantastic time. The audience in Austin, TX loved it. People were super into the humor and action sequences, it made the entire experience more fun.
I also remember going to the midnight opening of Spider-Man 3...yeah, I don't even want to get into that. I just remember hearing someone say "What the fuck was that?!" as we walked out of the theater, and my friend and I just had to agree.
It's hard for me to say how Spider-Man 2 has aged. I haven't sat through it that many times in the last 10 years. I own the dvd, but I've probably only seen it in passing maybe 4 times since it left theaters. I probably rewatched it more before Spider-Man 3 came out. Maybe I'll give 2 a watch tonight. I wonder how the years have treated the movie.
It's always strange how time changes your opinion of movies. I remember seeing Batman Begins on opening, and not really being that amazed by it. But I watched it again in theaters and it really grew on me and ended up being one of my favorite superhero movies. I've gone back to it multiple times over the years, and it only gets better for me.
I also remember going to the midnight opening of Spider-Man 3...yeah, I don't even want to get into that. I just remember hearing someone say "What the fuck was that?!" as we walked out of the theater, and my friend and I just had to agree.
It's hard for me to say how Spider-Man 2 has aged. I haven't sat through it that many times in the last 10 years. I own the dvd, but I've probably only seen it in passing maybe 4 times since it left theaters. I probably rewatched it more before Spider-Man 3 came out. Maybe I'll give 2 a watch tonight. I wonder how the years have treated the movie.
It's always strange how time changes your opinion of movies. I remember seeing Batman Begins on opening, and not really being that amazed by it. But I watched it again in theaters and it really grew on me and ended up being one of my favorite superhero movies. I've gone back to it multiple times over the years, and it only gets better for me.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Not to de-rail the topic but I completely agree with this. Watched BB last night after not having watched it in one sitting since it's release and I was amazed by how good it was. I remember originally feeling bored by it and wondered why people heaped praises on it.
After watching it last night, I realized why and I absolutely loved it. My favorite Batman film by far.
Spidey 2 is still fantastic, regardless of age.
CadetMahoney
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over-rated to the maxx.
Seeing how ASM2 bombed the reboot will be sooner than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVX-cUJGdxs
Damn it..... much heart very feels ........
Bombed? The movie has made over $700 million worldwide.
It hardly make its budget back in the domestical BO. That's a big ass flop.
ASM2 hardly bombed...
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I don't know if I would say its a flop, but the Amazing Spider-Man series definitely doesn't have the same relevance that the original movies had a decade ago. The movie industry has changed quite a bit since then, but Amazing should be making Avengers or Transformers type of cash. It feels like Amazing 2 came and went so quickly where Spider-Man 2 was the must see movie of Summer 2004.
Discotheque
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God-level
Only movie I see possibly testing it is the next xmen
Only movie I see possibly testing it is the next xmen
Mr. Poolman
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Such a boring movie.
Peter Parker is not a geek/nerd on this movie, is a loser!
And silent, non-funny Spider-Man still is awkward to me.
Peter Parker is not a geek/nerd on this movie, is a loser!
And silent, non-funny Spider-Man still is awkward to me.
better than the garbage we're getting in the new ones
Mr. Poolman
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To me, both movie series are like choosing between having syphilis or gonorrhea.
I used to "like" Spider-Man before I saw this movie, merely as a recognizable cool hero icon. After seeing this movie premiere day in the theaters, I was hooked on the character. It's one hell of an inspirational movie that hasn't aged one bit for me, and even back then when I was a kid it taught me so much, about what it's like being someone that can inspire and the price that a lot of people pay in order to be that someone. It's one incredibly genuine movie when you take the super hero exterior off.
As an aside can I just mention that this is the single best piece of score ever come out of a Spider-Man movie? I know it's originally from the first one but it never misses a beat when it's used.
Aunt May is just the most precious motivator in all of the original movies. Even her scenes in the third one are good. I just couldn't bare her moments of distress, some of the most genuine moments I've ever seen in these movies. She's the kind of person you hate to see having her heart broken.
One of the most wasted characters in the reboot when she almost exists only to serve as a joke.
As an aside can I just mention that this is the single best piece of score ever come out of a Spider-Man movie? I know it's originally from the first one but it never misses a beat when it's used.
Aunt May is just the most precious motivator in all of the original movies. Even her scenes in the third one are good. I just couldn't bare her moments of distress, some of the most genuine moments I've ever seen in these movies. She's the kind of person you hate to see having her heart broken.
One of the most wasted characters in the reboot when she almost exists only to serve as a joke.
CapNBritain
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ITT I feel old.
I loved it when it came out and have no wish to (potentially) tarnish my fond memories.
I loved it when it came out and have no wish to (potentially) tarnish my fond memories.
Better than when you and Peter Parker were roommates?
George Oscar Bluth II
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I wonder if I would have preferred Jake Gyllenhaal in the role, now that I mentioned it in this thread.
Discotheque
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Tobey maguire was fantastic in the role. Gylenhaal would only be similar going by his performance in zodiac (he was like maguire Parker in there) so it would only be a lateral casting move
Nerdkiller
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I'm surprised no one posted this scene yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2FjmR8NIk
Ahhh, screw it. I'm gonna watch this again tonight.
And regarding Amazing Spiderman, I said this on another forum in which there seems to be a shift in certain film circles, particularly in the comic movie sector, where in the past, the community would embrace films that had a strong focus on the vision the director offered on a visual and personal level, in what way said director respected the medium and how he or she would add or subtract from the adaptation in making an overall better movie without altering the key fundamental aspects that the original source offered (namely Spiderman 2). But now these days, that same community seems to be in favour of the kind of the more focus tested flick which slap on stuff like Spiderman's quipping (and there's a good reason why I thought keeping that to a minimum in the Raimi movies was the good way to go) or a more comic accurate costume in the ASM movies that may seem like a more "true to the comic" movie on the surface, but in the end, and I hate to say it, doesn't have any real soul or meaning underneath it. And judging from the general response of ASM2 by quite a large portion of fans on the net (here in GAF included) seems to be "Ehhh. Good enough", even though that movie is the lowest rated in the entire franchise by the critics. And that is a real problem to me, because we might not get moments like that hospital scene up above, or even the Sandman birth in Spidey 3. This also applies more recently to Ant Man, where we saw Edgar Wright (another director with a strong visual sense and knows how to respect an adaptation like he did with Scott Pilgrim) leave the project after about 8 years of on and off development, just before it was set to shoot. Now maybe there is a chance that the movie will turn out all right, but to see a man who was all set to shoot a passion project that he had been working on for almost a decade and then suddenly walk out on it at the 11th hour seems highly suspect in my mind.
That is why whenever I think about Amazing Spiderman, I appreciate the Raimi trilogy just a little bit more. Even Spidey 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2FjmR8NIk
Ahhh, screw it. I'm gonna watch this again tonight.
And regarding Amazing Spiderman, I said this on another forum in which there seems to be a shift in certain film circles, particularly in the comic movie sector, where in the past, the community would embrace films that had a strong focus on the vision the director offered on a visual and personal level, in what way said director respected the medium and how he or she would add or subtract from the adaptation in making an overall better movie without altering the key fundamental aspects that the original source offered (namely Spiderman 2). But now these days, that same community seems to be in favour of the kind of the more focus tested flick which slap on stuff like Spiderman's quipping (and there's a good reason why I thought keeping that to a minimum in the Raimi movies was the good way to go) or a more comic accurate costume in the ASM movies that may seem like a more "true to the comic" movie on the surface, but in the end, and I hate to say it, doesn't have any real soul or meaning underneath it. And judging from the general response of ASM2 by quite a large portion of fans on the net (here in GAF included) seems to be "Ehhh. Good enough", even though that movie is the lowest rated in the entire franchise by the critics. And that is a real problem to me, because we might not get moments like that hospital scene up above, or even the Sandman birth in Spidey 3. This also applies more recently to Ant Man, where we saw Edgar Wright (another director with a strong visual sense and knows how to respect an adaptation like he did with Scott Pilgrim) leave the project after about 8 years of on and off development, just before it was set to shoot. Now maybe there is a chance that the movie will turn out all right, but to see a man who was all set to shoot a passion project that he had been working on for almost a decade and then suddenly walk out on it at the 11th hour seems highly suspect in my mind.
That is why whenever I think about Amazing Spiderman, I appreciate the Raimi trilogy just a little bit more. Even Spidey 3.
CapNBritain
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I really wish he had taken the time to properly show me around New York, but he was always ducking out. Luckily, his pal Spider-Man was around to give me a hand.
not quite sure how the connection to ant-man there works out or where you were going with that
DUFFMCWALIN
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Yup easily. Movie fucking sucked like every god damn Spider Man movie. Maybe one day we'll get a good one.
Nerdkiller
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I kinda threw that in at the last minute, because like Spiderman 3, Ant Man seems to be going through that same "director vs. higher ups" troubles. When Raimi left the franchise, Sony chose to reboot it and hired a more obedient director to helm the next movie. And Ant Man is more than likely going though that process, with them hiring the "Yes Man" director (which may or may not be hilariously appropriate). Like I said, it may turn out good, but I think the question with that movie would be...what if? What if Wright didn't leave the project and chose to make it the way he liked? Because that's how Spidey 1 and 2 got made. Sony back then were at least willing to take that risk to make the movie Sam Raimi wanted to make. The whole thing just looks similar in my eyes.
Well, after what we got just recently and how well the other movies in the past turned out, I don't think that's gonna happen for you.
Also, am I the only one who doesn't get what people have against Maguire as Parker? He seems made for that role in my book.
This is so true though. A lot of shit that I hated in Spidey 3 is right there in Spidey 2.
Honestly, I think the hierarchy goes Spidey 1 > Spidey 2 > Spidey 3. None of the movies have aged especially well though.
TheJollyCorner
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Doc Ock's surgical 'birth' was just classic Raimi. So great.
I'm not a big fan of the film, but Molina was great.
Also- lack of a Nickelback song gets points in my book, too.
Fuck Nickelback.
I'm not a big fan of the film, but Molina was great.
Also- lack of a Nickelback song gets points in my book, too.
Fuck Nickelback.
Still my favorite spidey movie. Still watch it from time to time. Love love the small hommage towards Evil Dead with the great animatronics of doc ocks his arms.
I love this scene
I love this scene
oh god that fucking nickelback song
I saw this movie in the theaters when I was 6 (couldn't watch the first one in theaters because I was too young, waited and loved the DVD release), and while some things didn't age well, I still think today it's a great movie.
That train stopping scene was tense and dramatic as hell when I first saw it, now I can't stop laughing from Tobey's constipated face.
Personally I just like the first movie a little bit more than the second.
That train stopping scene was tense and dramatic as hell when I first saw it, now I can't stop laughing from Tobey's constipated face.
Personally I just like the first movie a little bit more than the second.
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