Ok, here’s my two cents. Great movie for the first 2/3rd or so, then sorta falls apart. Oh and all the scenes with Mary Jane were crap, just because she’s a total annoying character. (The scene where she all of a sudden decides she’s in love with Peter is especially painful, but mostly I just hate when a perfectly good action movie gets all mucked up with “love” and crap.) And the way they kept calling her “MJ” was totally annoying. The only time people ever say “MJ” is when they’re talking about pot or Michael Jackson. I would accept: Mary Jane, Mary, or Mary J most likely.
The whole demise of the Green Goblin sorta didn’t make a lot of sense. When he says “don’t tell Henry” (his son’s name is Henry, right?) does he mean “don’t tell Henry I was the Green Goblin?” Because doesn’t the fact that he’s wearing the Green Goblin outfit and is impaled on the Green Goblin-mobile sorta make that hard to hide? Also, why is Henry so cheesed off at Spider-man? Either he doesn’t know his dad was the Green Goblin, and if that’s the case, since he was killed by the Green Goblin machine, wouldn’t he assume he was killed BY the Green Goblin, and not Spider-man? AND if he did know his dad was the Green Goblin – HOW CAN HE BE UPSET THAT HE WAS KILLED!!! That’s just insane. If you found out your dad was a psychopathic mass-murder I find it hard to believe you’d be that one-sided about him being taken down, especially since his dad treated him like crap most of the time to begin with.
J. Jonah Jamison – awesome. Loved the “Whichever one is cheaper” line. Can there be a movie with just him?
I loved the fakey-science explanations for everything, and found them to be at least border-line plausible, and I loved the hokey scene with the New Yorkers on the bridge. That was just the right amount of cheesiness I think.
(BTW, I think the reason the Goblin mask was so sucky was because the guy seemed to have a sort of mask collection and he based it on that?)
I also didn’t understand how Parker was able to get away with using his webs during the wrestling match. Wouldn’t he have been “disqualified” for something like that, or at least risk being found out?
I have to agree with the music as well; when I saw Danny Elfman in the credits I thought “oh goody!” but it doesn’t even hold up to Dick Tracy. (And WTF was Macy Gray doing there? Doesn’t that sorta screw up the whole fantasy world and date the movie horribly for viewing in future generations?)
Well, not sure it comes across but for the most part I did like it, lol.
At the very end the play the entire television theme “…Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead…”