SM3 spoilers

[veronica_rich]

Seriously. I want to know.

I don't LOOK for slash. Believe it or not, I'm not actually hardwired for it like some fans I know. But when it jumps out at me, I can't ignore it.

Okay, first of all: *Only* in Marvel comic-book land could THAT John-Travoltin' Peter Parker get women to look him up and down with those moves and that look. I mean, I don't know about you girls, but if I see a guy coming down the sidewalk like that, I cross the street - away from. Now I admit the jazz club dance number was nifty (except for how he was being a complete ass toward MJ), but the rest of it? Hoo, I hope it was intended to come off as "nerdy geek tries too hard." Admittedly, it's difficult to make Tobey Maguire "bad" - the man radiates Boy Scout badges. He wasn't wooden; if anything, he tried too hard at those parts.

It wasn't horrible, but ... they tried to fit too much into 2.5 hours. The transitions were not smooth; some plot points just happened too fast and didn't allow me to *feel* what was supposed to be going on behind them. And while I like Thomas Haden Church, what was the deal with the whole Sandman thing? Is that supposed to be an allegory for hanging on to poisonous feelings - it's like clumpy sand that gets up in your nose and pounds you to death?

Topher Grace was great. He shed that Eric Foreman thing like it warn't no THANG, as the kids say. I think we'll be seeing him in more stuff soon.

I love Peter/Mary Jane. That said, not to sound like a Sparrabether finding fault with Willabeth, but - Pete and MJ really are quite interesting when they're fighting and not getting along. I'd like to see some mad smoochy-boochies, to quote Jay.

But by far, the BEST part of the whole movie was the interaction between Pete and Harry from the penthouse fight scene onward. Ho-YAY! Guys, that was some first-class dick-waving battle action! Man, I wanna read angry Pete/Harry stuff now! (Please tell me they don't call it HarryPeter. Just don't.)

Comments

[starrdust411.livejournal.com]

Spider-Man 3 was disappointing, but at least it wasn't as bad as X3, which shoved too much into less that 2 hours and with even more unfinished story archs. :P But yeah, every scene that Peter combed his hair forward in an attempt to look tough was a little weird, and that whole flirting thing seemed pretty random. (I guess alien life forms make your sex-drive go through the roof)

Peter and Mary Jane = Will and Elizabeth (during CotBP) to me, only a lot cuter and much deeper. If there's a 4th, I hope these two kids will finally tie the knot and live angstyly ever after.

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

at least it wasn't as bad as X3

Bwaha, that's exactly what I said. I suspect I will be using that sentence for years, possibly decades to come.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, depending on how AWE does. LOLOL

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

No, dude, no. NOTHING can be as heinously bad, insulting, and offensive on many levels as X3 is.

[erinya.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. Let's hope not.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

*hyperventilates*

Mystique ... Rebecca ... girlcrush ...

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

Hee, I just posted my thoughts on it too.

John-Travoltin' Peter Parker

See, I liked that because it was so very cheesy and there were actually women who were all "WTF?" But I felt the jazz club scene took it too far.

Agree with most of your points. Especially the slashy bits.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know who trained Tobey in his dance moves on da streetz. Or did he choreograph himself?

*having a flashback*

"I had nothing to do with this."
"It was my idea!"
"I thought this dance was silly."
"I choreographed it!"
"I didn't want to wear the costume."
"I designed it."
"He did - he's planning to present you the sketches as a wedding gift."

[starrdust411.livejournal.com]

I see someone is a Coupling fan :P

[klear0bsession.livejournal.com]

HarryPeter. *DIES* laughing. ...But I totally know what you mean. I saw it too.

There was too much plot. It could have been two nicely fleshed out movies. But at least it rarely got boaring. Sandman was useless, and is probably what sent the cost of making this through the roof.

And the emo-hair. My friend and I couldn't stop laughing. The movie wasn't halfway over before we joked about spiderman needing to go home and cut himself. I guess he went looking for fights instead.

And still, the most inexplicable thing in the whole movie was Spidy kissing the blonde. WTF?!!!! That wasn't out of character. That was STUPID! Is the male race still that oblivious?


Overall...it was entertaining in a very long kind of way.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

The movie wasn't halfway over before we joked about spiderman needing to go home and cut himself. I guess he went looking for fights instead.

As well as the latest sale on the Johnny Depp MAC collection, apparently ...

[klear0bsession.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha! Yes. Yes indeed.