I am going with 2 friends, and we all are stoked! Made sure to take a nap this evening so i wouldn’t be completely dead tomorrow at work. Anyone else?
I am, and I LIKE it. Gonna probably regret it tomorrow, but what the heck, right?
It’s also showing in IMAX theaters. The closest to you are at the Air and Space Museum’s Dulles Airport facility and the Regal theater in King of Prussia, PA, outside Philadelphia.
Full list here: www.imax.com.
We have an IMAX at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, but they only show “educational” shorts that go along with the Science Center that it is attached to. I get disappointed every time i hear a movie is made for IMAX.
I got my ticket! 
My son is probably waiting in line right now for the midnight show.
He’s also going to catch the IMAX show with a friend and me tomorrow afternoon in SF. Damn kids and their energy!
Fucking work…grumble grumble.
I just got back from the movie, and as for non-spoiler material, I will say this:
Sandman looked pretty cool most of the time. A few scenes I didn’t like what they did, but overall, it worked pretty well. Venom didn’t look as good as I had hoped, but also not as bad as I had feared. You can definitely tell how far the CG has come between this and the first one. There were times when I knew it was CG, just because it had to be, but it wasn’t blatantly obvious like the first, and even the second one.
I felt their could have been less drama/feelings crap. There was also a segment in the middle, which had a similar “feel” as the one in numero dos after he ditches the suit, that I felt went on a little long, and was a little too hokey.
Now for the spoilered stuff:
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I guess this is just a half spoiler, since it’s said in the trailers, but I still don’t like the change they made to have Sandman be Uncle Ben’s killer. AFAIK, it was, and always has been, just the lone guy who robbed the wrestling place in the comics. I realize it was “needed” for the whole choosing your own path/forgiveness/Spider-Man gone mad part of the story, but still…I like it when they stick to the original source material.
Speaking of, I was THRILLED that they actually had the balls to make the symbiont an actual alien. I was afraid they’d do a cop-out and have it be some kind of laboratory experiment of Dr.Conners. I know a lot of casual fans (ones who mostly know the movies,) might think the idea of an alien is stupid, but I think it was worked in as well as it could have been (clearly they couldn’t have Spidey go off fighting some Secret Wars on another planet and such.)
Gwen Stacey wasn’t hot enough, damn it! :mad: It might have just been the hair, cause I really hate the ‘platinum blond’ look, it makes what could otherwise be a hot, young woman, look like an old maid. And I’m not knowledgeable enough about the comics to know if Gwen was supposed to be that dumb/flakey, but certain parts when she spoke grated on my ears, like her Spider-Man Day speech.
For the most part, I liked the action sequences, but I could have done without the “snow board in the sky,” and the “surfing Spider.” But the big fight at the end was rockin, for the most part. I was glad that they ended up using the symbiont’s weaknesses to sound and fire, though I’m sure that if a #4 is made, Venom will be back.
And did everyone have a mass stroke on the set, or something? I know Kirstin Dunst always looks like that, but there were a few scenes where James Franco and Toby McGuire looked like half their faces were asleep.[/spoiler]
Overall, I enjoyed the movie, and rank it #2 in the series (#1 is #1, and #2 is #3…if that makes sense.)
I just got back from it myself and I thought it sucked donkey dicks. It’s too late to go into detail, but some of the lines were hokey even for a superhero movie. The acting was way below average and the supposed comic relief was awkward and pretty juvenile. The entire movie felt piecemeal. The action sequences we too short and to few, and in most it seemed that Spidey was getting his ass handed to him. The whole reveal with the butler at the end was way to convenient. On the whole, I’m struggling to come up with anything I really enjoyed about this movie.
The film is incredibly disjointed and suffers badly from fan pandering. You cannot fit the roughly dozen plotlines (not an exageration, sadly) into a single 2.5 hour movie and have it hold together. There are several points where it would have been better to go “organic webshooters” and diverge from the source material just to simplify things.
In addition the action scenes don’t show half the cleverness and skill that the sequences from the previous two movies did. The only one that really stands out in my mind is the second confrontation with the Sandman. In general the Sandman action sequences were better than the others. Rami has changed the style of the film to the hyperactive, incoherent editing style that’s favored by action films these days; the “I have no idea what’s happening but look at the cool stuff flash on the screen for 1.5 seconds” school of action sequences. The climax of the film is especially awful for this.
Finally, Spider-Man still can’t keep his mask on for a whole fight. You’d think he’d get spares or something by this point.
[slight hijack]Are you just as unhappy that your local multiplex doesn’t show science films? Each organization serves its mission and market.
Actually, the main reason many museums don’t show the Hollywood IMAX films is that they don’t make as much money with them as they do with the shorter documentaries that don’t charge as high a lease rate and don’t require as many shows per day.[/slight hijack]
I was enjoyable, and I recommend it, but it had some pretty glaring flaws compared to the first two.
The characterization of the villains was lacking. This isn’t surprising since the real villain is Peter’s dark side, which he had to wrestle metaphorically and then literally. Sandman and Harry were only there to give Pete something to be a dick about, and then forgive and be forgiven. They just weren’t as deep as Osborne the elder or Ock. Especially not Ock.
Like I said, still enjoyable. They neatly deflated what could have been a very painful situation by playing Emo-Dick Peter by mostly playing it for laughs.
I just saw this and I have to say that it was just plain boring and very disappointing. I loved the first 2 and I can’t believe that the same people made all 3 movies. Yes, the special effects were good but at this point that is to be expected. The story was all over the place and sadly I was just plain bored most of the movie.
BTW, if my audience is any indication tickect sales are going to be huge which I suppose is what everyone is predicting anyway. We just got back from an afternoon show and the place was packed. I’ll be interested to see how sales are next week.
Did anyone else sense that the director was channeling Dirty Dancing in the jazz club scene when Peter starts dancing and the crowd follows him up as he asks Gwen Stacey to dance?
Considering that the second one had one the most egregious errors in physics in memory*, that’s saying something. 
*The train scene, where Doc Ock throws Spidey ahead of him, Spidey twists and turns through the walkway, his momentum allowing him to catch up to Doc Ock on the other side of the walkway.
Even though he was thrown forward.
:rolleyes:
If you watch “The Soup” (aka “Talk Soup”) on E!, they had a montage showing the two leads do their promotional stuff for the week… Not only are they completely bored, they’re openly mocking the need for a third movie. Kirsten Dunst said something along the lines of “We’ve already done two of these things, why do people want a third one?”
I loved Bruce Campbell. The rest was pretty hit-and-miss. Mostly miss, although not so far off the mark to make it bad. Just sorta … meh.
But Campbell was great.
Was I the only one who expected Emo!Parker to start playing the Jazz Flute à la Will Farrell in “Anchorman” in the jazz club?
Worth seeing for Bruce Campbell, if nothing else. Too much stuff crammed into 2.5 hours, campy as all getout (but what do you expect, right?). Fun, all in all. Much emotional wanking, horrid dialogue, lots of “hey! Let’s try to wrap up this plot!” and plenty of moments when my fellow movie-goers and I shouted out “sciiiiience!” at the screen when the professor came up with brilliant statements about the symbiote. (We were in a suite at the AMC)
Brilliant!
I liked it about as much as #2, which was really stupid but still enjoyable (how about a nuclear physics experiment in the middle of Manhattan? Yee haw!)
Don’t they have security cameras around that sand pit? (“Oh, it’s probably a bird.”)
The black suit did not really seem to make Spider-Man any more powerful. It did seem to make Venom a lot more powerful than Spider-Man, however.
I liked the “dark” Peter Parker better. “If you want forgiveness, get religion,” was a great line, well delivered.
The first battle between Spidey and Goblin was actually quite good.
All in all, too much crammed into the movie.
Saw it today, and although I liked it a lot, there were bits that annoyed me:
[spoiler]I wish they had stopped showing Topher Grace’s face once he became Venom. We saw him change. We don’t need to be reminded of who he is and what his motives are.
My roommate pointed out that Venom didn’t have his Gene Simmons tongue. Which is a shame, because I love how obscene it makes him look.
As Spidey was being held down by Venom and having the webbing beaten out of him by Sandman, they broke to the media coverage of it and Hal Fishman remarked what a tragedy it would be for Spider-Man to bite it. Well, yeah, it would be, but in the meantime, shouldn’t you be more concerned with who would deal with Sandman and Venom if he does die? Did he think they would just get bored and go away?
I loathe Mary Jane. Peter was a self-centered ass with his “no, really, I know how you feel” bit, but it was dumb of MJ to not tell him she’d been fired, and she was a bitch for running to Harry. Peter more or less exonerates himself by realizing he’s an ass and trying to make it up to her; Mary Jane has no such moment of reflection and remorse. I was glad to see they didn’t get back together at the end. He’s better off without her. She wasn’t worthy of Aunt Mae’s ring.
I’m glad Peter and Harry patched things up. I just wish they didn’t have to do it thanks to a butler we never before knew existed.[/spoiler]
The fight scenes more or less made up for it. And I like that Peter is still a nerd, no matter how cool his alter ego may be.