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A decent, but not perfect, sequel
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"Set two years after "Spider-Man's" origin and battle with the late "Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin," (Willem Dafoe, who returns in a cameo) the story of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" continues in a fair sequel featuring the villian called "Doctor Octopuss" (Alfred Molina). Most of the main characters in the first film are back, with the addition of "Peter Parker's" (Tobey McGuire) college Professor and "Dr. Otto Octavius/Dr. Octopuss". Most of whom have their own personal problems. One problem that is not clearly defined is the reason "Peter" keeps losing his powers for brief periods during the movie. I could not figure out if it was the explosion that turned "Dr. Octavius" into "Doc Ock," which "Peter" witnesses, or another reason that is not explained. One of the best parts of the movie is that JK Simmons, who stole scenes in the first film as "Daily Bugle" Editor-In-Cheif "J Jonah 'JJ' Jameson," is a more major character in this movie. "JJ's" son, who gets engaged to "Ma ... "
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"Over the weekend, Wanted had a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.com. It’s since gone down to 81% (at the time of this writing — and with top critics it’s down to 67%), though that’s still pretty good for a movie that initially looked like just another Matrix knockoff. But will the good reviews make for great box office? Last night, while viewing the latest trailer in a theater with some friends, I mentioned that Wanted was receiving great reviews. Nobody believed me at first, and then they didn’t care; they still thought it looked terrible. Good reviews rarely help an action movie, and bad reviews rarely deter audiences from seeing them. However, if we look at the top 5 most critically acclaimed action movies, it’s clear that people do often prefer a good action film to a bad one. The next 5, on the other hand… The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) Rotten Tomatoes’ “T-Meter” score: 94% (top critics: 98%) All Time Domestic Box Office Rank: #9 ($377 million) Sam "
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The Dark Knight: Everything You ...
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"The Dark Knight is everything it has been advertised to be: exciting, captivating, and enthralling. It is the first major category Oscar worthy movie I have seen in 2008, and not just for the gripping and chilling final performance of Heath Ledger, who certainly deserves a Best Supporting Actor nod. This Batman movie bests all of its predecessors. It is the best Super-Hero sequel movie i have ever seen, and may just be worthy of a Best Picture nomination come January 2009. Sequel success is not a new thing in Hollywood, but more often then not Super-Hero follow ups fall short of their first chapters. Not only does The Dark Knight up the ante, it takes the whole pot, which is a relief considering one of the last Super-Hero franchises, Spider-Man, which showed early success, has trailed off into mediocrity. Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker is everything Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus could only dream of being in Spider-Man 2. Maniacal, sadistic, and calculating, Ledger's Joker ... "
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"Let's start with the facts: Transformers, which opened on Monday night, made $152.5 million domestically over its week-long opening weekend. That's enough to give Michael Bay's Ford commercial-with-kissing the record for the best opening week for a non-sequel EVAR; it was not, however, enough to break Spider-man 2's record for the best July 4th opening weekend gross. Now on to the spin: At MTV, Transformers "conquered"; at the LA Times and NY Times, it "dominated". But Canada's Globe and Mail holds Michael Bay's film responsible for not being able to halt "the overall domestic box office plunge." Yes, receipts were down 23 percent from the same weekend last year. Entertainment Weekly calls the fall "inevitable:, but I don't know where you find inevitability in the statis "
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Spider-Man 2 - Before Sunset
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"By Tricia Olszewski Peter Parker just gives and gives and gives. But his dedication to fighting crime and whisking clueless children out of New York traffic as his alter ego, Spider-Man, only gets the perpetually tardy Peter branded as lazy and undependable. Even when he fudges a little, abusing his superpowers to, say, transport some pizzas within his boss’s 29-minutes-or-it’s-free guaranteed delivery time—swinging, with pie in the sky, above congested city blocks in the Spidey suit as a bystander remarks, “Whoa, he stole that guy’s pizza!”—his efforts backfire. The pizza caper leads to dismissal with the line, “I know to you, Parker, a promise means nothing.” Stoic photographer Peter (Tobey Maguire) takes the abuse, though, which also comes from his professors at school, his maniacal editor at the Daily Bugle, and, indirectly, his best friend, Harry (James Franco), who blames Spider-Man for his father’s death. But when ... "
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Spider-Man 2
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"Spider-Man 2 is pretty much as good as the original Spider Man. In the preview, a giant mechanical spider/human climbs a building, and I thought that the sequel had succumbed to cheap special effects, but not so. Again, front and centre, is Peter Parker’s love for his girlfriend, along with his trouble paying the rent, his precarious employment, his surprise birthday party, his apparent lose of spider webbing powers, and his struggle to balance love and saving the world. In the climactic scene, he tells his girlfriend that he wants to avoid her because she will be in constant danger from bad guys trying to get at him through her. She replies that he should respect her enough to allow her to make the decision about her own life. Wow. What a punch line! At present, this serves as a popular conclusion to the movie. In future Spider Man, however, Spidy might reply, “ I wish you would respect "
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