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""Rook out, here comes a Spider-man""

Saw this last night, and it's excellent, really reminded me of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films - especially Army of Darkness. I won't give anything away, but the bit where Doc Ock trashes the operating room, and then it zooms in on the chainsaw, I did a little girlish giggle of glee. Thank God they actually had a good villain this time. And Bruce Campbell, he rocks in everything. Probably the best superhero film I've seen from the current batch of CGI-enhanced monstrosities, but that's probably because I didn't really know the characters, or the villains. Apparently there's a whole back-catalogue of weirdos waiting to be unleashed - including some to do with characters already introduced.

The Spider-kids sometimes devour their Spider-parents as it is a good first meal for them. Mary Jane is a bird though and not a Spider. She is not a real bird though. She is a ginger.

*The above answer was written to GCSE E grade standards*

If him and Mary-Jane have kids, will he try to devour them?

What is even more amazing is the fact that Spiders aren't especially strong (for their size) and are cowardly curs. Spider-Man should be a bit like Dick Dastardly and spend his nights spinning webs in banks, dockside hideouts and in science labs, in a bid to ensnare crazed criminal genius bad guys. Then he'll simply bite them (as he will be poisonous like every Spider is) and wait for them to die.

Ah, Spider-Man pulls his punches on regular humans otherwise he'd knock their heads off. It's the crime-fighters code.

Of course, you could argue that he could just punch him hard enough to knock him out, but then it would have been a pretty short and crap film.

The bit that gets me is that Spidey gives Doc Ock some good superhuman power-style punches to the face yet Doc Ock is fine with this. It doesn't even dislodge his Evil Disguise Hat at first. Surely Doc Ock has no superhuman strength? He'd get knocked out in an instant.

*spoilers*

How did Harry know where Doc Ock's hideout was? I don't recall him giving it away when he was getting the Trinium in return for Spidey?

Also, Spidey has to do some crazy low-assed limbo to avoid the bridge when they're fighting on the train, but Doc Ock makes it too?

Or he just wore his Evil Disguise Hat and smoked his Evil Cigar and hid his mechanical arms under the Evil Disguise Trenchcoat and the fusion rod Dollar-Saver place thought it couldn't possibly be that nice man they'd seen on the news.

Isn't it obvious? He bought them on ebay.

I enjoyed the film but had to stop myself from being pedantic and repeat the mantra "it's a flim based on a comic" whenever the characters did something dumb.

*Spoilers*

Doc Ock setting up his "lair" in a ricketty wooden building atop a crumbling pier over the river. What a great place to pick when you want to (re) build a fusion reactor that creates a minature Sun. Also I'm sure you just can't buy the equipment needed to make the device, or take delivery of such equipment without raising suspicion. You'd have thought that the Police etc would be on the look out for somone buying "fusion rods" with cash.

*End of spoiler*

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> One thing that was quite refreshing was the editing; if there's one
> thing that gets my goat it's when directors feel the need to put
> about 30 cuts per second in their action movie, like I'm some
> MTV-watching moron with an attention span of 0.2 microseconds. Dawn
> of the Dead was guilty of that.


In fairness, I think it was justified in Dawn of the Dead; I'm guessing the director wanted to give the audience a sense of confusion in order to highten the tension and fear; we only get brief glimpses of what's going on, and partially seeing something is a lot more frightening than seeing it in full. Mostly though, rapid cuts get right on my proverbials too.