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Summary: Getting that tingling sensation
Review: For all you web fans, you will not be disappointed with this movie nor the performance of the actors, Tobey does a wonderful job as the teenage Spider Man and the story line remains true to the original comic book characters. The suit is perfectly detailed in the movie and the wall climbing shots are excellent. Take a look at this movie and add it to your collection-ASAP.-Raymon Q.
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Summary: Great Movie...Bad DVD Interface
Review: I thought the movie was great onscreen and now on TV Screen. Yet I got to wonder with all the hype and all the money spent on this DVD set why they didn't work on a better Interface for the DVD Navigation (this includes the DVD-ROM as well). Even my friend said it was difficult to get around in it (so it is not me...and he buys a lot of DVD's) Small, hard to see icons to indicate where what you have selected and very non responsive (push the button five or six times and it might respond). The background commentary can be fascinating...though sometimes they fight for stuff to say. Would have liked if Toby had been part of it since he was involoved in a lot of the movie and could have gotten his perspecitve (he is the star after all). My roommate was a wrangler for the crowds and I learned a lot more from him about some of the stuff going on...so it was a bit more interesting what I got to see on the DVD. The second DVD is throwaway stuff for the most part...E-entrainment the making of (now that ought to be deep investigative reporting) and some screen tests and clothing shots (though finding out that the guy who does JJ is bald in real life was fun and great to see how he enhanced the character) So I would recomend getting the DVD don't let the interface ruin your movie going experience.
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Summary: Spider Man DVD Review
Review: The biggest hit of the year is now available on DVD. Spiderman, I think, was one of the best films of 2002. It had a good story, great acting, good special effects, and great action sequences. I really enjoyed this movie. I had a smile on my face all the way through it. It's big and it's fun. The DVD is also quite good. Movie: Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is hopelessy in love with Mary Jane Watson (Kirstin Dunst). Peter gets bitten by a genetic spider while on a field trip. Suddenly, he is able to shoot out spiderwebs, and basically be a spider. After the tragic death of his uncle, Peter decides to use his new powers to fight crime. From then on, he becomes Spider Man. But, he must also fight the Green Goblin (William Dafoe) in order to save those he loves. A great action-adventure movie everyone will love. DVD: Video: The disc comes in a 1.85:1 widescreen transfer. A Pan & Scan version is also available. The image looks quite good, if not great. There are a few flaws, and the picture can occassionally be a little bright. All in all, pretty good picture quality. (4.5/5) Sound: The movie comes with a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix. I was hoping for a little more enveloping sound, but good overall. (4.5/5) Features: There is an HBO making of, the evoltion of Spiderman, TV Spots, trailers, music videos, and much more. Features are a little bit promotional, but interesting. (4.5/5) Overall: (4.7/5) The 5 star rating is for the movie itself.
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Summary: This is what the hype is!?
Review: Nothing like what we people have hyped up our biggest film of the year, now ranking at #5 on the biggest films ever list, has been this undeserving. If the special effects are supposed to be so great, why does Kristen Dunst seem like she's flinging around like she's made of clay while the Green Goblin holds her hostage?
And besides that, how does our hero recover his power so quickly when the Green Goblin pretty much knocked him out? Looking past this, the movie is pretty much predictable but still okay as far as acting and how they can carry it out. One startling moment in the whole film doesn't amount to much, but it's not a thriller, it's an action movie, and if you want to see action, you're in the right movie. Too bad they hired a teenage heart-throb to play Spiderman.
Moving on. If they need this many special features in a DVD to sell it, then maybe they aren't as confident in Spidey over there as we figure they are. I have another record for Spiderman : Most overhype. B-
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Summary: Excellent Piece
Review: Excellent movie to watch. Full of action and the right format of the first ever comic of Spidey. I can't wait for part 2 and 3 to be released. Amazing effects and camera angles used in this movie
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Summary: Hm...is this the first superhero chick flick?
Review: And I don't mean that as an insult. Chick flicks are well known for dealing with the internals of the characters, and if there's one thing that SPIDER-MAN excels at it's giving us a look at what's going on in the hearts of everyone in the film. I've never seen a superhero film where everyone is so human, so in that way, Raimi carries on the tradition of the original comic book series--the tragedy of a young hero with feet of clay. As a long-time comic reader, I viewed this movie with some trepidation--as much confidence as I had in Raimi the director, I still had to recognize that this one was a Major Hollywood Blockbuster, with Major Hollywood Money and Major Hollywood Politics behind it. After seeing what impact those forces had on the Batman and Superman franchises, I just couldn't help worrying. I shouldn't have been the least bit concerned: Raimi, Dunst, and--most of all--Maguire deliver knock-out punches on every level. Peter Parker is so much the nerd that even the nerdy girls won't let him sit next to them on the bus, MJ Watson is the popular girl from a dysfunctional family with an ache in her heart, and everyone--even the bad guy--garners sympathy from the audience. In many ways, this is a story about pain, grief, loss, and the hope that can blossom from them. It spends as much time on the dark side of humanity as it does in the four-color world of superheroes, and even the hero's motivations aren't always noble. Everyone in this film cares for someone, and everyone pays the price for doing so. The story ends on a maginficent note that is at once tragic and hopeful, and if there's ever a movie that had me ready for a sequel, this is it. It stands as one of my "had to watch it again, immediately" landmark films. If anyone wants to know how superhero movies should be done, they should call Sam Raimi. With this film, he establishes himself as the foremost expert in the genre.
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Summary: I love this DVD
Review: This is such an awsome movie. I suggest that everyone should watch this movie. Tobb Maguire did a great job as Spider-man. They also followed the comic scribt very closely. It was a joy for the whole family.
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Summary: Much better than I thought it would be.
Review: I have to admit I hate movies where most of the effects and even acting are done by CGI (pay attention George Lucas). But this film is an exception to that rule. The acting is fantastic. Maguire and Defoe are excellent choices as Spiderman and the Green Goblin. And the story was extremelly close to the original comic origin of both characters. Something you'll find less and less of these days in comic-originated movies (see X-men for more info on that). There are really only two flaws in this film. One is the suit of the Green Goblin. He has been made into more of a mechanical character than the original. But the most significant flaw is the webbing on Spiderman himself. Although the film did a nice job of utilizing his web-shooting power and subsequent discovery of it, it wasn't orignially intended to be a natural ability. Originally his webbing was synthetically created by "web-shooters" which he created and applied to his wrists. But the overall rating for this film is much better than any other comic-to-film movie to date and is most certainly worth watching.
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Summary: Nice Movie .. Shame about the DVD
Review: I bought this DVD with very high expectations. The movie fulfiled my expectations, it certainly is one of the best comic hero movies out there. BUT ... I was disappointed with the audio in this DVD. I was demonstrating my new Subwoofer to a friend when I first viewed this. We sampled Lord of the rings before this DVD and the difference in sound quality was unbelievable. The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack on this DVD is just terrible. It sounds very artificial, hollow, lifeless, no use of surround back speakers. There is no execuse for a lame release like this, specially for a new movie. I bought this thinking that it will have reference Audio and Video. I was wrong and am very disappointed. I am sure that there will be a re-release of this DVD with DTS and all the works (hopefully a better sound mix). If I did not happen to already have this DVD, I would wait for the Special Edition. Skip this one. Wait for the special edition if you can.
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Summary: A Little Clarification on the DVD Features
Review: Years ago, Spider-Man (and his other Marvel compatriots) were some of my favorite Saturday AM cartoons. So I was thrilled to see such Spider-Man come to life on the big screen. I saw this movie several times at the theater, where it was most impressive, during that 1st record-breaking weekend. (Honestly, I rarely go to 1st run movies until they have a track record of decent reviews, but THIS was an exception!) I, like many others, am now a small part of cinematic history. I bought the DVD on Nov 1st, the first day it was released, then I spent the entire weekend watching Spider-Man over and over in it's various languages and with its special features. The Weaving the Web pop-up production notes are persistent, informative, and often witty. The blue notes are historical and production related, whereas, the white pop-ups compare the comic book Spider-Man to the movie version. The Spidey Sense web-i-sodes were sparsely populated but cool interviews of the man behind the live spiders, Randy "Bone-saw" Savage, and the various set-masters. A few more of those specialist interviews were in order here.
I'm sorry to say I could not bear sitting through even a few chapters of the movie as annotated by John Dykstra and the special effects crew...Dialog may not be their forte. On the other hand, watching the whole movie again with Sam Raimi, Laura Ziskin, Grant Curtis, and Kirsten Dunst was a real hoot-- funny, personal, and spontaneous. It felt informally intimate, as if they were all having a great time watching the movie together in my own living room. Music videos, trailers and TV commercials for the movie are all self-explanatory. DVD-ROM features on both discs, of course, require a blessing from Bill Gates. Gamers will like the Activision Hints & Tips. There are *2* making-of programs on disc 2 (HBO and E!'s Spider-Mania), separate interviews with Danny Elfman and Sam Raimi, and, yes, the Gag/Outtake reel is side-splitting hysterical. Comic book fans will enjoy the Spider-Man Comic Archives with book covers that traverse 4 decades of Spider-history, as well as the interviews with the artists who made Spider-Man possible. The account of the Spider-Man comic book issue dealing with 9/11 brought me to tears. (Actually, I would have liked to have seen those deleted scenes of Spider-Man *with* the Twin Towers in this section-- as a tribute to the courage of the comic book writers/artists involved with that issue number.) Speaking of comic book-- purists, that is: Even Superman was updated (remember the public telephone?). What do we now know about radioactivity in this post cold-war era? It causes harmful genetic mutations, aka birth defects, so if the comic book spider had been real, those mutations would likely have killed it. I find the genetically-engineered spider a much more credible device, just as the organic web-shooters make much more sense since genetic changes cause Spidey's powers. Just be glad they made the webs shoot from his wrists, whereas a real spider's spinerret is located on its posterior. (There is such a thing as being "too" authentic!) A note about the screen tests: Remember when Tobey Maguire was being considered for the lead, everyone KNEW he could do Peter Parker, but many DOUBTED he could BE Spider-Man. He insisted on doing a screen test to prove his physical ability. A "reading" would not have accomplished this, so his screen test was quite "produced". Other "screen tests" were unorthodox and done in foreign countries, so possibly may not have been available or print-worthy. A friend of Willem Dafoe video-taped him in a Spanish hotel lobby as he "performed" the Green Goblin. And a whole entourage went to Berlin (including Tobey who had strep throat) to have Kirsten Dunst "screen test" with Tobey to test their "chemistry". Do you really want to see T.M. in ill health? I doubt it. And don't be surprised if Dafoe's tapes end up on E-Bay! CGI effects aside (some could have been worse, some could have been better), this is one SUPER DVD SET of one SUPER MOVIE. So BUY IT, SPIN IT, SIT BACK and ENJOY!
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