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A good...and different Saturday, plus The Amazing Spiderman
13 years ago
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So I'm feeling a bit better now after getting to spend my Saturday with 
pandaxcheese and Makoda (don't know your FA XP). We got some great talking time in, moved wood (I sort of showed them up....sorry! Also, moved large sections of a 100' tree off a trailer, wearing nice clothes and flip-flops and managed to not get dirty at all. I'm pro ^.=.^) We also went and saw "The Amazing Spiderman" which I'll talk about in a second. Then we had mediocre Chinese buffet time and finally a very strange night, which was spent snuggling in the back of my car... defiantly a first for me. Not complaining though cause getting snuggle time was awesome and helped my mood a lot, but being stuffed into a car for that long didn't do wonders for actual sleep. XD I also got to experience Denny's for the first time in years this morning, and it's just as terrible as I remember! :D I don't know what you people in New York are talking about, but here, and most other places in the country, Denny's is pretty much the worst place you can go for food and is only still open because they never close. (it's like a pun or something, but seriously the 24-hour thing allows the drunk people to come in and stuff their face at 3am and keep the lights on in the joint.) Last thing was driving home for an hour and flopping down in bed to crash for several hours. Overall, a good day with good people! :D I would have liked if Zigmafa could have been there, but he wouldn't have enjoyed it. We would have just had WAY too much fun breaking his mind and he would have had to flip ALL the tables. ^.=.^ It would have been great!
As for a short review of "The Amazing Spiderman", in short, it was pretty bad. I say that as not being a fan of comics, or any of the other Spiderman movies, or any of that. Just as far as plot, and consistency, and the shear level of what I like to call "fake science", the movie was just too many flaws to be recommended.
I won't make any spoilers, but what I mean as far as consistency, there were several scenes where there had clearly been SEVERAL takes and props and makeup would change DRASTICALLY. For example, in one scene, Peter is in the science company building and he is seen walking in with his skateboard. Then from camera angle to camera angle the skateboard appears in his hands, then disappears, clearly someone forgot to give it back to him before they shot the next 5-6 seconds of dialog. That's just poor. Things like this happened in several scenes, things would be different from shot to shot, and it wasn't like small things either, it was fairly obvious. Also, there were portions that had clearly been changed in edited because he would walk into a shot after a fight scene in which he took NO DAMAGE and have a black eye somehow.
The poor plot comment came from the fact that most of the movie was rather predictable and they seemed to change the rules for Peter from one point in the move to another. In one fight, he's basically god moding against some guys and is untouchable. Later, in a similar situation, he struggles to stay alive. Additionally, he seems to forget some of his powers from fight to fight, leaving a situation that could have easily been solved to a life and death struggle because he "forgot" he could do something. (Prime example is towards the end, and it's not really a spoiler, but he's falling over the edge of a building and he could just grab onto the glass with his "spider-grip whatever" but noooooooo, he's got to act like he's out of options and wait for "someone" to help him) Also, to add drama they try to make it looks like his plight to get to the, "final boss" I'll call it, he somehow can't manage to do ANYTHING, he just like craps out, then when he gets to the fight, he's all back to "full power" and ready to go. Finally, a lot of the major plot events didn't seem to follow any sort of normal logic, there was no reason for the characters to act as they did and it was VERY forced.
Finally, the "fake science". Now I understand that it's a fantasy movie about non-real things, but that doesn't excuse just putting a bunch of greek letters together and calling it an equation, or making up random shit about chemistry and biology, or screwing with physics. It's really difficult to go see a movie that contains anything of the sort as a scientist or engineer and be able to just ignore stuff like that. In the past two Marvel comic movies I've seen (this and The Avengers) there was way too much "fake science" to just ignore. Whether it's the "smart people" in the movie talking about "fancy science" that they assume most of America won't understand and therefore it doesn't matter if it makes no sense (even assuming stuff the technology for such things are there), OR physical things happening that shouldn't be, like cars flipping unrealistically, or blowing up for no reason. Prime example in this movie was at one point a car is hanging from one of this webs and randomly it decides to catch fire. There's no reason that would happen given the situation! It's things like that which are used simply to create more tension or difficulty in a situation for the hero that pretty much just piss me off and make me lose interest mid viewing. Another part that pissed me off was in one of the fights, the bad guy, who is some sort of chemist-ish-thing has thrown Spiderman though a chem lab, and just grabs two random flasks of various colored liquids and after half a second of looking at them decides that he knows what they are and that when mixed they will explode, so he throws them and they blow up. I shouldn't need to explain why that makes NO SENSE and really couldn't be more ridiculous.
Anyway, that's enough ranting about how bad Spiderman was...The important thing is that I had an awesome day with two awesome furs yesterday and I'm already feeling quite a bit better! ^.=.^
pandaxcheese and Makoda (don't know your FA XP). We got some great talking time in, moved wood (I sort of showed them up....sorry! Also, moved large sections of a 100' tree off a trailer, wearing nice clothes and flip-flops and managed to not get dirty at all. I'm pro ^.=.^) We also went and saw "The Amazing Spiderman" which I'll talk about in a second. Then we had mediocre Chinese buffet time and finally a very strange night, which was spent snuggling in the back of my car... defiantly a first for me. Not complaining though cause getting snuggle time was awesome and helped my mood a lot, but being stuffed into a car for that long didn't do wonders for actual sleep. XD I also got to experience Denny's for the first time in years this morning, and it's just as terrible as I remember! :D I don't know what you people in New York are talking about, but here, and most other places in the country, Denny's is pretty much the worst place you can go for food and is only still open because they never close. (it's like a pun or something, but seriously the 24-hour thing allows the drunk people to come in and stuff their face at 3am and keep the lights on in the joint.) Last thing was driving home for an hour and flopping down in bed to crash for several hours. Overall, a good day with good people! :D I would have liked if Zigmafa could have been there, but he wouldn't have enjoyed it. We would have just had WAY too much fun breaking his mind and he would have had to flip ALL the tables. ^.=.^ It would have been great!As for a short review of "The Amazing Spiderman", in short, it was pretty bad. I say that as not being a fan of comics, or any of the other Spiderman movies, or any of that. Just as far as plot, and consistency, and the shear level of what I like to call "fake science", the movie was just too many flaws to be recommended.
I won't make any spoilers, but what I mean as far as consistency, there were several scenes where there had clearly been SEVERAL takes and props and makeup would change DRASTICALLY. For example, in one scene, Peter is in the science company building and he is seen walking in with his skateboard. Then from camera angle to camera angle the skateboard appears in his hands, then disappears, clearly someone forgot to give it back to him before they shot the next 5-6 seconds of dialog. That's just poor. Things like this happened in several scenes, things would be different from shot to shot, and it wasn't like small things either, it was fairly obvious. Also, there were portions that had clearly been changed in edited because he would walk into a shot after a fight scene in which he took NO DAMAGE and have a black eye somehow.
The poor plot comment came from the fact that most of the movie was rather predictable and they seemed to change the rules for Peter from one point in the move to another. In one fight, he's basically god moding against some guys and is untouchable. Later, in a similar situation, he struggles to stay alive. Additionally, he seems to forget some of his powers from fight to fight, leaving a situation that could have easily been solved to a life and death struggle because he "forgot" he could do something. (Prime example is towards the end, and it's not really a spoiler, but he's falling over the edge of a building and he could just grab onto the glass with his "spider-grip whatever" but noooooooo, he's got to act like he's out of options and wait for "someone" to help him) Also, to add drama they try to make it looks like his plight to get to the, "final boss" I'll call it, he somehow can't manage to do ANYTHING, he just like craps out, then when he gets to the fight, he's all back to "full power" and ready to go. Finally, a lot of the major plot events didn't seem to follow any sort of normal logic, there was no reason for the characters to act as they did and it was VERY forced.
Finally, the "fake science". Now I understand that it's a fantasy movie about non-real things, but that doesn't excuse just putting a bunch of greek letters together and calling it an equation, or making up random shit about chemistry and biology, or screwing with physics. It's really difficult to go see a movie that contains anything of the sort as a scientist or engineer and be able to just ignore stuff like that. In the past two Marvel comic movies I've seen (this and The Avengers) there was way too much "fake science" to just ignore. Whether it's the "smart people" in the movie talking about "fancy science" that they assume most of America won't understand and therefore it doesn't matter if it makes no sense (even assuming stuff the technology for such things are there), OR physical things happening that shouldn't be, like cars flipping unrealistically, or blowing up for no reason. Prime example in this movie was at one point a car is hanging from one of this webs and randomly it decides to catch fire. There's no reason that would happen given the situation! It's things like that which are used simply to create more tension or difficulty in a situation for the hero that pretty much just piss me off and make me lose interest mid viewing. Another part that pissed me off was in one of the fights, the bad guy, who is some sort of chemist-ish-thing has thrown Spiderman though a chem lab, and just grabs two random flasks of various colored liquids and after half a second of looking at them decides that he knows what they are and that when mixed they will explode, so he throws them and they blow up. I shouldn't need to explain why that makes NO SENSE and really couldn't be more ridiculous.
Anyway, that's enough ranting about how bad Spiderman was...The important thing is that I had an awesome day with two awesome furs yesterday and I'm already feeling quite a bit better! ^.=.^
