Spidey Freak

An epic of epic proportions.

Aw, ok.

Lol @ premature celebrations. This is a lower than expected 4-day for STID and the legs are going to be weak. It is a mediocre movie and FF6 is gonna destroy it next week. It is already breaking records OS unlike STID last week.

Great movie. Olivia Thirlby's character was the best.

And it didn't even bother for Pepper Potts.

Just wait till the second half.

This, but I think the non-Trekkies are not going to be impressed that all they are getting is an ST special. The movie wasn't even as entertaining as The Simpsons Movie for people to overlook that.

What a bummer. But this allows Marvel to go for a smaller budgeted "Heroes for Hire" movie starring Cage and Daredevil, now that they have the rights back. With Ghost Rider cameo!

My first thought as well. Which would make his "lady friend" Jessica Jones right?

He needs to be ten times more captivating before he even wishes of being the next AR.

That makes sense as the entire movie is kinda "been there, done that". Underwhelming for sure. This is what they waited 4 years for?

Anybody else think they used "Old Spock" in the dumbest way possible?

Watched this last night with some of my friends who are huge Cumberbatch fanboys. Solid first half but second half rapidly begins to lose steam until movie (and villain) goes out with a whimper. For some reason, I couldn't connect to the emotional scenes like "the death scene", probably because of the weak script. Khan was not used properly, which is the biggest flaw of the film, considering they chose to make Cumberbatch the focal point of the marketing over the Enterprise crew. Anyone who thinks he is a more memorable villain than the Mandarin is just deluding themselves, sorry. Also, didn't care for the twist with the Admiral. The Enterprise crew were fun as expected, especially Pegg and Pine. Effects were good but at points some alien make-up looked corny like the primitive albino race shown at the beginning. Alice Eve is hot. That's it.

Buffy thinks she died twice because the timeline was reset to the main one once Giles destroyed Anya's Vengeance Demon pendant, so nobody remembered anything that happened in Cordelia's "wish world". And the fact that all the Scoobies ended up killing each other in the alternate timeline because they were on opposite sides of good and evil and never had the opportunity to form the bonds that they did in the main timeline was what made that episode so poignant and powerful. It was a dark and twisted take on "It's a Wonderful Life".

I onwy speak the twuth! I ONWY SPEAK THE TWUTH!

The thing that annoys me about Maguire's acting is that "Tobey is good at only playing Tobey". He got lucky that he had many good movies where the roles were tailor-made for his very limited skills like Pleasantville and The Ice Storm. The tragic thing is Peter Parker is a character who in comics is closer to a more layered and charming Holden Caulfied than the characters (or character) Tobey plays. But in the movies, Peter was written in such a way so as to cater to Maguire's strengths, which aren't many. Meaning the character immediately lost all of his more fascinating nuances to become a rather run of the mill "nerd with a heart of gold" trope example. I see why some people will be satisfied with that, but for me it just isn't enough, especially since I grew up with Peter Parker and all of his complexities. And when Tobey was required to stretch out the character in the sequels, he failed miserably IMO. Tobey only gets a free pass because he plays inoffensive dweeby characters. You don't feel like bashing the guy because the guy doesn't seem capable of bashing anybody back. But mediocrity has to be called out regardless.

The Season 3 episode with the "alternate timeline" created by Anya based on Cordelia's wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale. God that was a brilliant episode!!

I assume Fox's movie rights cover live action tv rights too, otherwise we would have had heard something about the subject from Feige or Marvel.

Doubly fixed!

Naah I think it's just an Easter Egg. Remember that Whedon wanted to put Oscorp Tower in the NY skyline for Avengers too.

^Aah TDK. The reason I started lurking at BOM in the Summer of 2008! Memories!

I loved it. And yeah, it is an incredibly subjective thing. There were heavy Bollywood influences as well, like the celebration of everything OTT, which just wouldn't click with many Western cultures and sensibilities.

That was the whole point of the movie. These tragic beings trying to find a semblance of truth, freedom, love and real beauty amidst the orgy of madness and oppression.

This. Is the 3D any good? When I watched a trailer for it in front of Jack the Giant Slayer earlier this year, the most impressive things in 3D were the Art Deco inspired motifs and designs adorning the credits, instead of the actual scenes from the movie.