jhansla

Yeah but at least it had some decent action sequences.

I really wanted to like this movie but i found it really boring

dgc

Saw it tonight using the frre ticket from the superbit.

Time to relive the experience by playing Spidey 2 on the xbox.

Eeeeeeeehaaaaaaa!!!!

Giles

in all fairness, to each his own my friend, I found Hellboy boring, so much so I fell asleep on it twice.

Michael Corvin

I think this is one thing that dragged down the first film, other than the abismal GG suit. The first score was just a complete rehash of the original Batman score. Kinda like, outtakes & leftovers from Batman. The second movie's score was much better but still lacks the punch that a John Williams can provide.

Overall, I loved it. Doc Ock is a great character. Much better than the looney GG. The directon was much better than the first except for the completely out of place surgery scene. WTF was that about? That was borderline R material there. Very unlike the tone of the rest of the movie. I thought that could have been handled a whole lot better.

I thought at one point when Spidey was losing his web-slinging abilities I thought they would introduce the scientist side of Peter making different devices to make different types of webs. But alas, no. Apparently he was just depressed. While it makes sense, I think it was the wrong way to go.

Overall a very entertaining, solid film with great pacing, acting, and first rate action scenes with Doc Ock. Add in the comedic touches like the elevator, and romantic ending and you have yourself a four star film that is welcome on my DVD shelf anytime.

p.s. please no more GG for Spidey 3!

ReduxGuy

I don't know why, but when Peter said that, I was think of Pai Mei from Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and then, thinking of Peter saying "If you punch me, do I not..." and then Pai Mei shows up and punches him in the nose.

Anyway, I loved SM2. Great film.

However, I do have a bit of complaint towards Danny Elfman's score. There were times during the scene with Doc Ock before he becomes Doc Ock where the score was sounding A LOT like the score from Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

See Spider-Man 2, then watch Hellbound and you'll see what I mean.

cactusoly

Just saw it. Only 2 minor problems .

1) The loss of superpowers, sure its supposed to be pychological, but I didn't buy it (even his eyesight got better when he accepted his powers again)
2) Too much poor Peter stuff. It was good to a point but then it went too far. When he told Mary Jane he can't be with her after she knew (oh poor me), I just wanted to slap him, stop being so pathetic.

I loved absolutely everything else. 9/10

I hope Harry is the Hobgoblin in 3, I know he was Green Goblin 2 but I think it would just work better with a different costume and name. (besides I figured out the scene when he found his dad's lab 2 years ago.)

Jackskeleton

If people bitched about green goblins outfit in the first one people will never stop if they make harry into Hobgoblin for no reason other then they can.

Giantrobo

1. Sorry you didn't buy it but it made perfect sense. Plus, not having to wear glasses was one of the effects of his changed physiology. Once stress emotional stress was getting the best of him it was down hill...or should I say down building hit ground and bang head on car from there. Let us also not forget that Peter is still young so dealing with all this and staying sane must
take a lot out of him.

2. The "poor Peter" part of the moive is one of the reasons this movies is getting RAVE reviews from most people. Plus hasn't "being spider-man sucks because I have no life" ALWAYS been part of the Spider-man Legend? I'm no Marvel Comics fan but one thing they do well is making their heroes very "human" with all the trials and tribulations of real life.

krazykat72

In the comics, it was revealed that MJ always knew Peter was Spidey sometime around issue 243.

Harry found out in the mid 130's (he found the costume in Peter's room)

-Paul Jacobi-

cactusoly

I'll stick to my guns about the super powers. You could stretch an argument about webshoters not working and maybee (just maybee) the wall crawling, but physical attributes such as strength and vision should not be able to be turned on and off.

As far as poor pathetic Peter, I did think it worked and was necessary for the plot (and yes it did follow the comics) but I just got to the point when I was like "Oh my God, enough is enough.

Still a great movie, and I thought it was a notch below the first movie. When I walked out of Spiderman I was completely blown away. I didn't have the same overwhelming response of 2 though I enjoyed it a lot. (although I did freak out over the Green Goblin stuff escecially the Willam Defoe cameo)

Hammer99

Agreeance 100%, especially on those 2 incredible scenes. What a great, great movie, 10x better than the 1st, HUGE props to Raimi... can't wait for #3!

El-Kabong

But I dont think the strength did turn off. I mean he took a tumble from the roof of a 10 story apartment building, then just got up and walked away? You don't do that unless you have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal man.

As for the vision - there's been many a night of LONG hours in front of the computer, where late at night my vision just goes and I can't focus on a damn thing anymore. So while I havent been bitten by a spider and gotten my super-powers yet (DAMNIT), I can totaly see this happening to Peter.

Giantrobo

That's cool. I'm not trying to get into to it with you or anything and I'm sure you understand that.

We will agree to disagree though. I believe the powers are all connected so it makes sense for him to have the problems the way he did.

tofu

I was wondering when this happened in the comics. I forget but does anybody know if Aunt May knew about Peter as Spidey in the comics because they seemed to imply it in the movie.

Morf

I seem to recall an issue where Aunt May admitted that she knew all along that Peter was Spider-Man. Can't recall which issue, though.

tofu

Oh yeah and in the scene where Peter saves the little kid from the fire and the two firemen are talking to him, I could have sworn that one of them was Antonio McDyess of the NY Knicks. But he's not listed on imdb. Instead, its some other guy.

Anyway, I liked the movie. I was never impressed with the first one. It was so-so but this one was great because of well . . everything. I agree with some other posters that after a while, it felt like half of NY knew what Spidey looked like. And I would like to see Sandman as the villian in one of the movies at some point.

Shilex

Moved to Mature Forum

Shilex

Just saw the making of Spider-Man 2 on E!. Raimi was talking about Spider-Man 3 and the release date: May 4, 2008. Looks like it's gonna be a long wait.

greg9x

Saw it today and really liked it... glad they made the identity reveal to MJ (thought for sure she would have been knocked out in the lab and not seen Peter), how many SM movies are left ? 2 ? 3 ? Can't drag this stuff out too much.
Really enjoy the dramatic aspects, some people want a full out action movie but to me that's how you end up with cheesy superhero movies that are all flash and no substance.

Seems others are curious about the landlords daughter too... does she play a role in the future or was she just a red herring for Peter's romantic affection ? She played the sweet infatuated girl pretty well for the short amount of time she had, wonder if there was any resolution to her.

Just a casual SM comic reader but the "Go get 'em tiger !" line was a 'Yeah !' moment

Dsilva71

Dr. DVD, I am suprised no one gave you credit for this by now. You got me, badly!!!

kuyax

Yeah, aunt may discover peter's secret by accident. I think it was revealed in Amazing Spiderman #39/40 (?). You can buy the paperback in amazon, just look for J.M.Stracynski as the writer.

Gattman

Mageina Tovah played Ursula

candyrocket786

Just saw her on some tv Public Service Annoucement about school drop-outs.

PacMan2006

Anyone else find the close-ups of people screaming into the camera to just be so ridiculous? It felt like I was watching a 1950's horror movie. Maybe that was the point...to make an inside joke or something...but honestly, I don't want any jokes like that. I want the film to feel real, and everytime I saw the camera dolly into a woman's face who's screaming with horror into the camera, it just made me laugh. The Doc Oc scene in the ER could have been so incredible and suspenseful, but instead we see people screaming their heads off and silly stuff like the woman scratching her nails and making imprints on the floor while being dragged away.

It just felt overly dramatic and silly. Anyone else feel the same at all?

Abranut

Comic books are overly dramatic, and sometimes when transferred to a film, can have silly results.

But that scene didn't bother me that much. I thought it could've been gorier, but that's it.