[Stealth]

what did you guys think of Spiderman II?  i saw it last night, and i think it was great!  I think it was easily as good as the first one, perhaps even better.

[an0n]

I've not seen it, but I have a question based on certain reviews I've read:

Parker has some thing going on with the landlord's daughter, right?

Well, could she be Gwen Stacy?

[Corsair]

I'm skipping it. The first one was bad enough and despite the good reviews I've heard it got, I've heard bad things from friends who saw it.

[Stunaep]

I still haven't found a reason to care about superhero movies. I did saw X-Men II, because it had Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in it. 'twas decent.

[an0n]

Any film with both Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in is definitely worth watching.

[Stealth]

well i'm going to post a spoiler here, and ruin it for all you who haven't seen it:

did you know peter parker was spiderman?  damn what a twist! i didn't see that coming

[an0n]

I'd much rather have seen Mary Jane in spandex.

[IceFire]

Two thumbs up here.  Just as good and possibly better than the first one.  I found that the fight scenes were fairly well done, the CGI was perhaps average in comparison to some of the other things we've seen but still quite alright, the humor was absolutely priceless (I wasn't expecting to laugh quite as much as I did), and the plot twists and gets ever more complicated.

Excellent movie!  Lots of fun!

[Stealth]

I agree.  there was a nice twist of humor in it that the first one didn't have, and some of the action scenes i think were very well done

[HotSnoJ]

I saw last night as well. It was pretty good. The fight scene's were excellent, as was the humor. IMHO it focused more on what being a superhero meant. For instance, what are you suppose to do when you've promised to be somewhere and you see a crime or something happening.

The movie was so good I only got up once to refill my coke and use the restroom. (yes I was hurtin' by the end) I give it a 1 outa 5 breaks.


.....Well, it is a 44oz cup x2, so I had ~ 88oz's of coke!!! Plus whatever I drank at supper!

[Liberator]

It's the superhero movie that wouldn't end!  It seemed like it was getting long toward the end even though it only clocked in at around 2 hours.

It's a good Superhero movie and a good movie.  It's getting so many good reveiws because it's almost an arthouse picture, because he spend ~85% of the film in high-angst moments as Peter Parker with only a smattering of excellent, but all-too short action sequences as Spidey.

BTW, you'll love the asian musician chick singing the old theme song from one of Spidey's myriad incarnations from years back.

Spoiler:

Everybody except Aunt May and some guy in a sewer find out Peter is Spidey.

[Gloriano]

I liked Spiderman 2 very much, it was good movie

[an0n]

Uh, Mary Jane realised Peter was Spiderman at the end of the first film. When she kisses him she pauses for a second then is all "WTF?" and looks at the back of his head funny.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by an0n
Uh, Mary Jane realised Peter was Spiderman at the end of the first film. When she kisses him she pauses for a second then is all "WTF?" and looks at the back of his head funny.

Thus the "she always knew" sort of thing.  She suspected...but she was never sure.  Which drives some of the plot in the second movie.

[Shrike]

Doc Oc is a way better villain than the Green Goblin.  None of that pumpkin bomb ****, he's live-action tentacle hentai man!

[Rictor]

Haven't seen either movie, but Doc Oc looks ridiculous. Why in the world did the director feel the need to expose his flabby, middle-aged chest to the world? He just looks so inauthentic.

IMHO, the Green Goblin/Norman Osbourne is the best villan in the Spidey universe, and one of the best in any comic books universe. For one, he's a genius, and he likes to play mindgames and manipulate people. He has no conscience and has almost unlimited power. And his goal in life is to bring as much suffering on Peter Parker as possible.

I'm probaby not going to watch either 1 or 2, cause I don't want to spoil my fond memories of Spidey.

[Flipside]

I've yet to see a superhero movie that captured the spirit of the comics I read when I was young. Let's see a Three movie version of Secret Wars, THEN I'll be impressed

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Shrike
Doc Oc is a way better villain than the Green Goblin.  None of that pumpkin bomb ****, he's live-action tentacle hentai man!

As the token drunk poster of this thread, thats the funniest thing Ive heard for a long time.

[Flipside]

It does almost make it sound watchable

[redsniper]

well, I just saw it and it was pretty good. If you saw the 1st one I'd go see this one too. At the end it strongly hints that Harry Osbourne will be the next villain, which is a shame because I think they should have Venom in the next one.
btw, Venom/Carnage is the best villain not the Green Goblin.