Comments on: Best. Movie. Ever.

By: raniem

raniem — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 05:19:18 +0000

this is really cool!!!

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 06:55:16 +0000

I’ll worry about that when I know who you are. (I’m guessing Trucker Pete?) ;)

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:41:48 +0000

Mikal – risk it. I was pretty non-plussed with Spiderman 1 but this is in a different class. Pure Raimi with some Spiderman action on top.

Gary – could be right, but then I approach pretty much every movie with low expectations these days, especially the action bollockbusters, and usually come out with “hmm, that was nice”. Maybe it was the company I was in – I got the feeling the five of us were feeding off each other’s rising enjoyment. And we were sitting four rows from the front. I have a feeling it won’t be the same on DVD but right now it’s done the job.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:39:58 +0000

Subjectivity is an absolute fucker when you look at it. You can love one movie for all it’s comicbook sci-fi nonsense, and yet hate another film for exactly the same reasons. Sometimes I wonder if it has much to do with expectations; I go in with high expectations and come out disappointed, Pete goes in non-plussed with scant interest in the subject, and gets blown away.
I’ve had the same problem with other films; Batman Returns, Se7en: high expectations – but thought they were rubbish. Godzilla, Daredevil: low expectations – but thought they were great, but kept quiet in case people thought I was mad.

By: Mikal

Mikal — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:05:31 +0000

I’m afraid I wouldn’t go and see Spiderman 2 on the basis there are only 2 films I have almost walked out of, The Wedding Singer and Spiderman 1. And thats saying something as I am a BIG Sam Raimi fan.

Incidentally one definition of a geek must be anyone (like me) who managed to get every level of humour and irony intended in the superb Evil Dead joke in High Fidelity.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:59:54 +0000

MJ stuff: Didn’t bother me that much, but then I was lead to expect it to be awful and it’s wasn’t And I quite liked the way it was drawn out – so different to the mad action stuff.

Train: And then Doc Ock smushes them all to one side, grabs spidey and leaves. Magic.

As for the other stuff, it’s a fecking comic book superhero movie based on the works of Stan Lee. Of course it’s going be to unrealistic, cliched and implausible.

(Am I having this discussion? Eek…)

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:38:00 +0000

Oh well, you can strike me down with a thunderbolt if you want, but I didn’t like it as much as I’d hoped! All that stuff with MJ and Peter was sooo drawn out, to the point of irritation. His yearning to tell her who he really is, was all too predictable and like a bad episode of Eastenders.
Then there was that train sequence, where all the passengers started coming forward and saying “You’re gonna have to get through me first” etc.; it was so syrupy and cliched. (And who builds a railway track that stops hundreds of feet in the air and over-looking a river? That was all a bit too bugs bunny for me.)
Loved Doctor Octopus though, apart from the stupid idea of having a major (garbled nonsensical) scientific experiment in his front room. And J.Jonah Jameson was an absolute breath of fresh air. Bruce was ace too!
I know I’m being a miserable git, but I didn’t enjoy it half as much as XMen2 or even the Hulk! And I was really up for it too!
Maybe I’ll watch it again knowing how things resolved, and maybe I won’t be so irritated by the Peter/MJ thing.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:06:12 +0000

This happens to be quite a lot with cameos. If he’s walked up and done a “Hi, I’m Bruce Campbell and this is my cameo” type thing then I’d have got it, but because he just slotted in there perfectly I was rather swept along with it all.

I did spot Stan Lee’s half-second cameo in an instant, which makes my point rather well…

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:42:25 +0000

Didn’t spot Bruce!?!??!!?!?!? I nearly died and went to heaven …

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:23:50 +0000

Bruce Campbell has been in every Sam Raimi film, though I didn’t click this time until it was pointed out to me – he’s bulked up a lot! That’s another paralel with Jackson – his key team on LotR is essentially his mates who he used to blow stuff up with as a kid.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:12:02 +0000

Yeah, it rocks the Kasbah. I’m aiming for my second trip tonight. The glad-to-be-geek section in the middle was just so funny …

Oh, and speaking of Evil Dead, a nice cameo from Bruce Campbell, too. It’s nice that they don’t forget their friends …

By: Paul Rainey

Paul Rainey — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:35:19 +0000

It is good, isn’t it. I might go and see it again.