Betsey and I went to the drive-in last night. How's this for a double feature: Spider-Man 2 and White Chicks.
Betsey and I have a history of inadvertent doubleheaders - we'll watch two movies that seem completely random, and then they'll have something in common like an actor or a plot element. We carried on the tradition last night. James Franco, who of course is in Spider-Man, and Busy Phillips, who was reduced to slumming in White Chicks, both played major roles in Freaks and Geeks. And their F&G characters dated each other. =D
Although there was a moment when I was also sincerely embarrassed for James Franco. ( Minor spoiler, on the off chance that anyone reading this hasn't seen the movie yet. ) As a matter of fact, I was underwhelmed by the handling of Harry's character arc period. It got no real development, so instead of coming across as a young man tormented by stress and grief and his slowly cracking sanity, he really just seems like a whiny little bitch. And a whiny little bitch who chucked out his roommate for no good reason, at that. Seriously. Even just a throwaway reference to how he got from "You're my family now, Peter" to "I'm not gonna live with you anymore!" would have been most helpful. I mean, sure, ( minor spoiler part the second, and bigger spoiler for the third movie. ) But that's just me and my silly love of character development.
The movie also proved pretty conclusively that my favourite thing about the first movie was definitely Willem. I just wasn't as involved in Doc Ock's story, even though Alfred Molina rocked and was also hot. Of course, it also could be that the Ultimate Spider-Man version of Doc Ock's origins is so good that it is one of my all-time favourite comic book stories. The movie version just doesn't even come close.
Oh, and Dear PTB: The treacly scenes with Peter and MJ are sickmaking and boring, so could they please not last for seven years each? Thanks.
Don't get me wrong, overall I had a good time - there were some crazy funny moments, some sad/disturbing ones, and some nice acting, plus always with the Sam Raimi love - but it just didn't do it for me on the level that it seems to have done for everyone else.
Betsey and I have a history of inadvertent doubleheaders - we'll watch two movies that seem completely random, and then they'll have something in common like an actor or a plot element. We carried on the tradition last night. James Franco, who of course is in Spider-Man, and Busy Phillips, who was reduced to slumming in White Chicks, both played major roles in Freaks and Geeks. And their F&G characters dated each other. =D
Although there was a moment when I was also sincerely embarrassed for James Franco. ( Minor spoiler, on the off chance that anyone reading this hasn't seen the movie yet. ) As a matter of fact, I was underwhelmed by the handling of Harry's character arc period. It got no real development, so instead of coming across as a young man tormented by stress and grief and his slowly cracking sanity, he really just seems like a whiny little bitch. And a whiny little bitch who chucked out his roommate for no good reason, at that. Seriously. Even just a throwaway reference to how he got from "You're my family now, Peter" to "I'm not gonna live with you anymore!" would have been most helpful. I mean, sure, ( minor spoiler part the second, and bigger spoiler for the third movie. ) But that's just me and my silly love of character development.
The movie also proved pretty conclusively that my favourite thing about the first movie was definitely Willem. I just wasn't as involved in Doc Ock's story, even though Alfred Molina rocked and was also hot. Of course, it also could be that the Ultimate Spider-Man version of Doc Ock's origins is so good that it is one of my all-time favourite comic book stories. The movie version just doesn't even come close.
Oh, and Dear PTB: The treacly scenes with Peter and MJ are sickmaking and boring, so could they please not last for seven years each? Thanks.
Don't get me wrong, overall I had a good time - there were some crazy funny moments, some sad/disturbing ones, and some nice acting, plus always with the Sam Raimi love - but it just didn't do it for me on the level that it seems to have done for everyone else.
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