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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. When Harry's standing in the middle of the street bitching aloud to himself about Spider-Man being TEH EVIL and blah, and then poor James is forced to utter the line, "He humiliated me by touching me." I bet he had some serious second thoughts about the wisdom of signing on when he read that shit. 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, we all know that it's because of Peter's continued association with Spider-Man, but it's just another example of how poorly they handled Harry's story. Considering that Harry the Hobgoblin is obviously going to be the villain for the next movie, you'd think they would have wanted to invest more time in the character. 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. When Harry's standing in the middle of the street bitching aloud to himself about Spider-Man being TEH EVIL and blah, and then poor James is forced to utter the line, "He humiliated me by touching me." I bet he had some serious second thoughts about the wisdom of signing on when he read that shit. 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, we all know that it's because of Peter's continued association with Spider-Man, but it's just another example of how poorly they handled Harry's story. Considering that Harry the Hobgoblin is obviously going to be the villain for the next movie, you'd think they would have wanted to invest more time in the character. 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.