So I take it you didn't like the movie?

Sorry, couldn't help it. From what people tell me, the movie was right with the comic books. I went in there thinking that it was going to be cool. Remember all the hubbub about The Matrix and the new special effects? I was expecting something like that for Spiderman. Yeah, didn't happen. I too left the movie less than satisfied.

So now would be a bad time to say that I thought it was great? Ok, ok, I'm leaving. I'll head right over to Child Welfare and turn myself in. They'll probably want to take my daughter at the soonest possible moment.

I loved it, too. A lot. They had me at that kiss in the rain... I don't think my mind ever left that scene afterwards. I guess my bronze statue just got switched to aluminum, huh?

The only thing worse than Kirsten Dunst's acting was Kirsten Dunst's teeth. But Tobey was okay and I expected and got a fun actiony comedy. The wrestler sequence was funny. The, guy I let get away ended up killing my uncle, bit was predictable, but comeon, it's the first movie, it has to get the yeah we all know that but you gotta get it in the movie anyway stuff out of the way.

Once again I think movies like this must be seen immediately before all the hype can build up and ruin it for you. Expectations are a curse to all movie goers I tell you.

But if you want an intelligent well acted movie, may I recommend Insomnia. If you don't like IT, then you need to perform your own advice on your head... knock some sense in there.

I liked the movie but I see where you are coming from. Poor acting, cheesy dialog - all common side effects of comic based movies. I think I enjoyed it because I saw it soon and with low expectations. Sometimes I don't mind going to a theatre and putting my brain on hold for a few hours.

Insomnia was a great flick.

You can trust all of us when we say to go see Imsomnia. It was a splendid movie. If you go see it and don't like it, I'll flog myself with a wet noodle.

Please give us some perspective, by listing ten of your favorite movies.

Wow! Now that was entertaining.

Now I have to see Spiderman, just to compare it to the awful Attack of the Clones, and figure out which is worse.

Well, I have inflicted three of the four Christopher Reeve Superman movies on myself (I drew the line there, and never went near the fourth one), so I think if I watch a movie based on a comic book I'll probably know what's the worst that could happen...

I must dissent. Spiderman is a fine movie. I don't know what you could possibly have been expecting to cause this reaction, but may I remind you that it's supposed to be a fun summer action movie - a cotton candy blockbuster - not Citizen Kane?

That said, Kirsten Dunst's bad acting, and her godawful teeth, are serious detriment to full enjoyment of the flick.

Okay, so Willem Dafoe left a lot to be desired, etc and so forth, but it was *fun* in a Sam Raimi kind of sense. It certainly didn't leave as many holes as SW II did, or even when compared to the hideous Batman.

So there's a lot of reason to put some thumbs down, but I must admit that in the rain... something was pointing up.

"So save me the aisle seat... I think I have to step out for a moment."

This passes for intelligent commentary? Wordiness and hyperbole are less entertaining than the movie, which sucked, yes, but was certainly better than most comic flicks, Dafoe's underperformance notwithstanding. At $100 an hour, what do you owe yourself for the time you wasted on this post? You assert the eminence of your tastes, then don't mention what they are. How are we to judge? From the post, we know you've seen Electric Boogaloo and some sequel with a person named Whoopi in it, which definitely calls your judgment into question.

And dialog. "Oh-My-God-My-Eyes"? Oh-My-God-My-Ears.

Fear not, Mr. Deeds opens at the end of the month, and all will be well.

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I wasn't aware anyone was passing this off as intelligent commentary. If that's what you want, go read one of Stanley Kauffman's impenetrable theater reviews. Furthermore, I wasn't asserting the superiority of my tastes, but the inferiority of this awful movie.

And the "Oh-my-God-my-eyes" line was funny AND mimetic. You'll be thinking about it for weeks.

You said:
"Not since "Electric Boogaloo" has a movie extruded such insipid dialogue, combined it with mindless, seemingly random events posing as plot development, swaddled it in choreography reminiscent of epileptic fits, and vomited it onto a screen at such toxic levels that the intelligent viewer is left emotionally drained from grief over the decline of American storytelling. "

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. You obviously have never seen Shanghai Surprise.

Sean Pean. Madonna. 'nuff said.

Wait, there's a Spiderman movie? Sorry, I've been up to my ass in snipers and news crawls.

Gosh, I'm glad you saw Spiderman just so I could read your review of it; I laughed my butt right off.

I went expecting it to be the worst movie I've ever seen. It wasn't so I was happy. Without Kirsten, it wouldn't have been worth watching.