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I really shouldn't have gone to the cinema yesterday instead of working on my presentation. Well, I never should go to the cinema when I have a presentation to prepare; but this time, it wasn't even worth it. I mean, I liked the first Spider-man movie EXCEPT for those three or four totally superfluous cheesy love/ angst dialogue stuff.
The second Spider-man movie contains three or four cool, brilliant, enjoyable action scenes and otherwise ONLY totally superfluous cheesy love/ angst dialogue stuff.
It calls for a parody, but to do one, I'd have to face the love/ angst dialogue shit again. Oh, what the hell. The things we do out of boredom and annoyance.
Yes, boredom. I've seen some films this year that made me secretly think they should have been shorter(Hidalgo and Lost in Translation, namely), but neither of them were so screamingly pointlessly boring for such long periods of time. They were good, the just weren't as good as I'd hoped. But this one makes Star Wars: Episode I look brilliant. Ilúvatar gracious.
The action stuff in Spidey 2 is good. Really good. The jokes are funny. That's what Raimi is good at. And he had a cool villain and everything. But he absolutely sucks at the "oh we must add emotional depth and adolescent angst" part. And unfortunately, four fifths of the movie consist of exactly that. (And I doubt very much that that was only the case in the German version. Or do they talk about the Iraq war in the original?)

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Ich hätte gestern echt nicht ins Kino gehen sollen, anstatt an meinem Referat zu arbeiten. Natürlich sollte ich nie ins Kino gehen, wenn ich noch ein Referat vorbereiten muss; aber diesmal war das Kino es nicht mal wert. Also, ich mochte den ersten Spider-man-Film BIS AUF diese drei oder vier völlig überflüssigen kitschigen Liebes/Heldendrama-Dialoge.
Der zweite Spider-man-Film besteht aus drei oder vier coolen, genialen, mitreißenden Actionszenen und ansonsten NUR völlig überflüssige kitschige Liebes/Heldendrama-Dialoge.
Er schreit nach einer Parodie, aber dafür müsste ich mich nochmal mit dieser Liebes/Heldendramascheiße auseinandersetzen. Ach, was solls. Was man so aus Ärger und Langeweile tut.
Ja, Langeweile. Ich habe dieses Jahr schon ein paar Filme gesehen, bei denen ich insgeheim dachte, dass sie wensentlich kürzer hätten sein können (nämlich Hidalgo und Lost in Translation), aber keiner der beiden war so endlos langweilig. Sie waren ganz gut, nur eben nicht so gut, wie ich gehofft hatte. Aber der hier lässt Star Wars: Episode I brilliant aussehen. Grundgütiger Ilúvatar.
Die Actionszenen in Spidey 2 sind gut. Sehr gut. Die Witze sind lustig. Sowas hat Raimi drauf. Und er hatte auch einen genialen Bösewicht und alles. Aber Raimi ist miserabel, was den "Oh wir brauchen aber emotionale Tiefe und die Lebensangst junger Erwachsener!"-Teil angeht, und leider besteht der Film zu ungefähr vier Fünfteln daraus. (Oder ist das nur in der deutschen Fassung so, und im Original reden sie über den Irakkrieg?)


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Date: 2004-07-09 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfy.livejournal.com
Heh, I liked it :)

Anyway, you can hope for Spiderman 3 to be a real actionmovie... at least the love-stuff is totally clear now *g*
Now just wait until 2007.

And in the meanwhile enjoy this:
http://www.spiteyourface.com/video/peril_of_doc_ock_medium.mov

Ah well, I liked "Van Helsing"...

Date: 2004-07-09 08:42 am (UTC)
ext_45018: (grins)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
I don't think I'll wait for part 3 that desperately.

But the LEGO thingy rocks. If only they had limited the movie to that sort of stuff, I would have liked it as well... I mean, I'm all for some emotion and I like a certain amount of kitsch, but not in an erudamn comic adaptation. At least not this way. They handled the emotions and stuff perfectly in X-Men 2, so of course it's possible to combine both.

Date: 2004-07-09 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damanique.livejournal.com
I agree. I liked Spiderman 2, but the dialogue scenes were considerably less exciting and I just couldn't get a feel for the characters or their troubles anymore. :\

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