Posted on 06/30/2004 6:31:48 AM PDT by Remole
Ebert: "Now this is what a superhero movie should be."
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(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Any movie that gets a good review from Ebert is required to have a homosexual subtext to it.
Does Peter Parker come out of the closet or something?
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can.....
Anyone see it last night?
Hmm ..so what was the homosexual subtext to The Passion of the Christ since Ebert also gave it 4 stars?
Yup. But I like his reviews. He writes well, and he's upfront about his biases (most of which I disagree strongly with). I don't always agree with his take on a movie, but I almost always find his reviews useful in determining whether a movie is one that I want to see or not. What I'm looking for from a critic is information, and Ebert's consistent enough (IMO) in what he does that I generally get it, even if it isn't the same information that he thinks he's conveying...
One reviewer I read was silly. He opined Spiderman was the perfect Superhero for post 9-11 America. Before that date, we liked our super heros like we perceived our country to be... invincible. After 9-ll, he wrote, Spiderman better suits us...still strong but full of self-doubt, guilt, and introspection. (Some movie reviewers take themselves way too seriously!)
And the movies, too :)
I saw it at midnight. Great movie.
If freepers go in mass this weekend to see Spiderman them that should tip the scale and push 9/11 to the bottom og the pile.
Spiderman will be a doubly great movie, knowing that it will knock Farenheit off the front page.
Haven't read Ebert's review, but just wanted to bump this for FReepers.
If you are at ALL a Spiderman fan, a MUST SEE!
Very, very entertaining. And very little reason not to take the kids, except if you or they object to comic- book violence. Nothing in it like the end of the first Spiderman, which was too gory for young kids.
Anyway, Spidey 2 has wonderful themes of self-sacrifice and heroism, confession, love, obsession, and pulls it all off without being hoaky if you can accept the context of a comic book action movie.
**** Four starts from this FReeper!
-- Joe
I have to add this if it wasn't clear before...
Spidey 2 is BETTER than the first movie, which also was great.
-- Joe
"...One reviewer I read was silly. He opined Spiderman was the perfect Superhero for post 9-11 America. Before that date, we liked our super heros like we perceived our country to be... invincible. After 9-ll, he wrote, Spiderman better suits us...still strong but full of self-doubt, guilt, and introspection. (Some movie reviewers take themselves way too seriously!)"
Actually, the reviewer had a good point, but probably drew the wrong conclusion.
Spidey 2 shows Peter Parker eventually getting OUT of self-doubt to become more of a man and hero. And to make others around him more heroic.
-- Joe
Take the girls in his life. First there was Betty Brant, then Gwen Stacy, then Mary Jane Parker. I know, I know, the movie wouldn't sell without a beautiful red-head in it, but I would have liked to see it keep to the original storylines.
Flash Thompson does hate Parker in the beginning, but his character also loved Spiderman. Then when Flash came back from Vietnam him and Peter hit it off after Harry (as the Green Goblin) destroyed their apartment they shared.
JJJ. J Jonah Jameson. What can I say? This character seems to be truer to character than anyone. I love it in the first movie where he tries to protect Parker when the Goblin bursts through the wall. It just goes to show his decency and how much he really cares for those work for him.
Joe Robertson. Here is a character they soarly need to use more. He is Peter's mentor in a way, almost the father figure he never had when Ben Parker was killed.
Mary Jane Parker. Nahhhhhh. I don't like Kirsten Dunst and I never will. Her character is probably one of the non-traditional character in the movie now. Heck, her character didn't even get a bigger role in the comics until after Gwen Stacy was killed by the Goblin (well, Spiderman actually killed her, you'd have to read the comics to know what I mean). I was not for using her when the movies started and I don't think she be used now. If nothing else, perhaps both Stacy and Watson could have been used in the first movie and let the Goblin kill her. Then Watson and Parker could have become close cuz of her death. That at least would have been truer to Spidey-dom.
Well, that's my take on things.
Frank Rich found the Bush connection in Spiderman. Is there anything the mainstream media won't use to attack Bush. This is almost getting cartoonish...and I don't mean the Spiderman movie.
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