I couldn't believe how contrived the whole thing was. Everybody works at Oscorp, Oscorp is not only involved in genetics and military applications, but also controls all of New York's power supply, and now, by the time the next movie rolls around, we'll have been introduced to at least 7 villains created by Oscorp.
I've been told that the kids in junior high and high school these days use Twitter more than Facebook. If there's any demographic that wouldn't be put off by a second Spider-man series so soon after the last, it's them.
I feel like Orci and Kurtzmann receive a little too much flack. They've done good work on Star Trek and the Mission Impossible they wrote, so it's not like they're ALWAYS bad writers.
Edit: random, I know.
Outside of the rock creatures, which were essential for logical purposes, nothing really "wonky" about it, unless you mean that it wasn't really a crowd-pleaser, which is true.
I'd argue that it only seemed so awkward or forced because most people these days are overly cynical. All I thought was "huh...weird...but good for him."
We're too judgemental towards celebrities.
They'd been together for months by that point. While I personally wouldn't act in such a manner, my argument is that the reaction was pretty extreme considering what he did wasn't exactly controversial. There's "yeah, Cruise is a quirky guy," and then there's the reaction he received after that.
The silly thing is that the couch jumping incident is not what should have tarnished his image. The scientology stuff, yes. The prescription pill thing, sure. But getting excited about love? The media/public reaction to that was strange in my opinion.
Agreed. At the very least they need to differentiate between the midnight numbers and the Thursday evening numbers. In reality the three-day number is going to be 80-85mil, not 90-95mil.
All this needs is a talented director like Warcraft has. That's really all the genre needs to start doing well. Same thing happened with comic-book movies.
Noah was pretty dang good and certainly retained the spirit, message, and most everything else of the original story. I find it hard to believe WOM is that bad outside of the uber radical type.
The acting is great and I like how the additions to the story (Watchers, Ila, Tubal-Cain) serve a practical and/or thematic purpose.