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"Ugh! I must register my disgust on the internet immediately..."

RANT BEGINS

Spider-man 2.

BLOODY AWFUL.

I had more fun and entertainment watching 8 legged freaks.

WTF!? I thought the first one was bad but it was fantastic compared to this movie which was evidently made for the thirteen year-old Buffy fans to jack off to.

I stopped caring by the end of the first hour and by the end I was hopeing he'd fly into one of the choppers and promptly end the movie. I actually had to stop myself from convulsing at the wedding scene, I really should have turned it off after the main villain (poor but what y'gonna do he's from the comic books) died as it managed to nose dive further into a desperate "Watch my 3rd spidehmun moveh PLZ!!!!111" appeal.

The dumbing down was simply staggering 'hello we're going to remind you of each characters motivations every five minutes just incase you nodded off during the vomit inducing doey eyed teeny angst bits'.

THIS is what passes for a good movie these days?


1. Batman
2. Unbreakable (Not a comic movie in the traditional sense which is probably why it's good).
3. Judge Dredd (Flawed but still the best anti-hero comic movie)
4. Hellboy (The humour could actually be classed as funny and the character less of a cardboard creation from dullsville)

At least it's given Raimi the freedom to make another Evil Dead, hopefully he won't devote too much screentime to smaltzy assburgers.

Suddenly StarWars looks good, I mean good! That's so horribly tragic.

Still at least I watched Collateral before I wasted 2 hours of my life on this. Now THAT was a film.

(Oh and prizes for those who get the bastardised quote from the title)

RANT OVER

Hedfix wrote:
> Yep. Shame the rest of the movie smells of ass.

Heh, now you see, I think it's one of the best comic book movies ever made. Ignoring the fact it isn't actually based on a comic in the first place.

Schneider's a c***

The Animal was mind numbingly awful. Don't even get me started on how crap The Hot Chick was.

Though Chris Tucker was an even bigger c*** in the Fifth Element.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Rob Schneider should be executed in public.

The Animal was good.

The gigolo thing stank though.

monkey_man wrote:
> You can't expect Raimi to base all his films on nods to Evil
> Dead

MM's mis-read no 1.

(although Campbell should be in every film by law, the end of
> Darkman is genius)

Yep. Shame the rest of the movie smells of ass.

, but when he does his best scenes - like the
> operating theatre scene - you can see how he does it so well.

Not worth sitting through 2 hours of crap.

>
> Stop whinging like a little school girl that's cut her knee - you're
> obviously not prepared to listen, just look at your replies. Good
> day, sir.

MM's mis-read no 2.

As if you've read them. :P

Rob Schneider should be executed in public.

But Spider-man is meant to be a bit cheesy, right? Look at the characters - all American cheerleader type, geeky student journo type. You can't expect Raimi to base all his films on nods to Evil Dead (although Campbell should be in every film by law, the end of Darkman is genius), but when he does his best scenes - like the operating theatre scene - you can see how he does it so well.

Stop whinging like a little school girl that's cut her knee - you're obviously not prepared to listen, just look at your replies. Good day, sir.

Pandaemonium wrote:
>
> Hmm, didn't know that. Will have to keep an eye out.

When I say 'in production' I mean that rights have been purchased to make 2 films. When and if they make it as far as release is anyone's guess.

Hedfix wrote:

(k, quicky since it's concerning Dredd.)

> Then you must have missed at least half of what the whole Dredd
> thing's about. There's plenty of swipes at popular culture (the
> closest thing on TV would be Monkey Dust - pretty much any character
> from that show would be at home in Mega City One) and plenty of funny
> situations (The story where Dredd has to sort out an army of pleasure
> bots trying to hump anything that moves for example).

Nooo, not at all. I just thought Stallone approached the part like it was all a huge joke. The movie I felt just was a dumbed down light hearted action movie, with none of the satire present in the comics. They made Fergie into comic relief too, which I found criminal. "Robocop" managed to come across deadly serious, yet contain the social commentary that the Dredd comics were famous for. Sure there were laughs, but for all the wrong reasons (adverts for example, and the news readers). In fact, I'm sure I read somewhere years ago that Robocop was heavily influenced by the Dredd comics full stop.

> The Film was like one of the very early sagas (where Dredd fights off
> numerous threats whilst travelling to somewhere) that didn't have
> much humour.
>
> The plot was actually a simplified version of one of the more
> memeorable plots from 2000AD (Rico, Dredd's brother returns takes
> over Maga City with the help of some made Chief Justice who takes
> orders from a fish) with various cameos.

Calligula.

> As far as comic book anti-heroes go, one hasn't been done better
> yet.

Yeah, considering Dredd is basically a part of an oppressive police state it's quite a suprise he struck a nerve with teenage lads. :)

> Apparently there are two more movies in production by a different
> firm one involving Judge Death which most people wanted to be the
> main villain in the first movie.

Hmm, didn't know that. Will have to keep an eye out.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Judge Dredd? Ahahahahahahahaa.

Exactly.



"You could have gone out the window"

"But it's 40 floors up - that's suicide!"

"Mabye, but it's legal"

Pandaemonium wrote:
>
> FFS you're not half getting a bee in your bonnet about this eh?

Far from it, you didn't make your point clear.

This is a discussion not an argument.