With half of Calcutta going crazy with a ton of superhero movies, Avengers most recently, it seems people have forgotten what taste actually is. I saw the avengers and while it was a decent enough movie, people started comparing it to Nolan's Batman, why? probably because they can't believe how a great movie or a series Nolan has made and the inevitable comparisons will come with crap movies.
This just went to a whole new level this week, while people have been gearing up for the new Spidey flick, reboot as it is called. The reviews were quite positive, I did not read any American reviews about the flick so I don't have a clue as to what the other side of the Atlantic has to say about the flick.
Spidey is just as good as Batman, if not a better superhero at least in being more of a "human" with emotions et all. Hell a paper [ a leading paper] even came up with these 2 comic books fans having a long arsed debate which barely should have been covered in the first place because these comic geeks are only in it because super heroes is now a fad, especially with the new Batman movie and the reboot[ again I said it] of Superman by Nolan.
So the entire city was gaga with the new movie, reviews were good, hell the comparisons started and there were some idiots saying the movie had a more human, emotional element of Spidey which was missing from the last 2 spidey movies, Tobey versions.
The hall I went to was a family hall and I had a ton of kids running about and screaming about spidey but If I was in the normal halls I visit I would have been screaming my lungs out as to how lame a movie this is, by the interval I was completely brain dead and by the end of the movie, I knew I had amazingly wasted 2 hours of my life and this was probably one of the worst sueprhero movies I have seen.
Garfield, as the ladies say is cute but dear lord how have they massacred the movie, Peter Parker was a geek a nerd, someone who would not stand up for himself, ok lets fuck that all up, screw the comics and the canon and lets make him this stand out guy who stands out for right and all. Then the part of being an anchor for Aunt May, in this entire movie, Aunt May is shown for the exact amount of time as Irfan Khan, go figure, seems she was not an important character at all, and Irfan is there just for the Indian audience, they knew spiderman 3 was huge in India, so just put an Indian actor with a few lines and not an important role, hell even a blind man with no talent could have done that role.
Also this movie showed that being a superhero is easy as hell, PP [parker] easily makes his costume, his web device and all, no problems at all. And of course you DONT need a secret identity to be a superhero, in the movie, PP was without his mask with his suit on for almost all the fight sequences. Screw hiding the face, let every person in New York see what or who spidey really is.
The final bit that pissed me off is these sequences of Spidey and Connors, Connors post lizard has control over what he does and follows spidey, finds out it is Parker, again, you dont need to hide your identity do you? Follows him to school and tries to destroy him, which he fails with, the climax of the flick is just as lame , wont spoil that , go and watch it yourself to believe how lame and predictable it turns out to be.
Oh and being a Superhero movie, this is going to have a sequel, oh dear lord.
PS: This movie has had one of the best openings for a foreign flick in Indian screens, even beating the last great movie which was just as crummy but now looks like a far superior movie, Spidey 3. Roll on with the sequel.
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