Marlon Brando dead at 80. Shame, another great actor passes away…
In a very last minute decision, Phil and me went to see “Spider-Man 2” last night… Erika and Adam were in the pool while we were watching The Simpsons, and Phil says “I’ve got a very bad idea that will piss those two off,” the local cinema was showing it at 8:30 pm but we decided not to go, so we watched Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters, and Marvels instead. Erika and Adam came in and Erika said if we wanted to go see Spider-Man then we could go see Spider-Man, of course the local cinema showing had long since past so we had to go further afield, all the way to the Cobb Galleria by the Perimeter…
We had to rush to make the 9:15 showing, but an insane amount of red lights on the way hampered our progress, so we made the 10:00 showing, with the queue out the door…
So the story picks up 2 years after the last movie, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is still down on his luck, still in love with Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), still taking pictures of Spider-Man for the Daily Bugle and still living the double life as Spider-Man. But something seems to be wrong, his web slinging abilities, while a lot more graceful than the first movie, is cutting out at the most inappropriate moments. Plus a new villain is in town, Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina), who is hell bent on finishing the experiment that created him, add in Harry Osborn (James Franco) who wants Spider-Man to pay for the death of his father in the first movie and life for Spider-Man isn’t so easy…
That’s as much of the story as I’m telling… But if you liked the first one, you will love this. The effects are simply jawdropping, especially in the fights between Doc Ock and Spider-Man… The way they bring Doctor Octopus’ mechanical arms to life is very well done, to the point that they almost show emotion.
There’s plenty of laughs throughout the movie, mostly from J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), and we’re introduced to a few more characters from the Spider-Man universe, Dr. Conners (who eventually becomes The Lizard) and John Jameson (who becomes Man-Wolf) as well as a hint towards HobGoblin (or Green Goblin 2), so it’s really a movie for fans of the comic book series.
Spider-Man 3 is already a given, infact it’s already scheduled for a Summer 2007 release, so this movie leaves a lot of loose ends that’s surely going to be tied up in 3 years time. Otherwise this is highly recommended, especially if you enjoyed the first movie…
Apple counts down to 100 million downloads. If you’re lucky number 100 million you will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for the iPod and the opportunity to create a Celebrity Playlist to be published on the iTunes Music Store. Currently it’s at 94,728,341 at time of writing…
Teacher charged with having sex with 14-year-old student. In the classroom, in her apartment, in a car while a 15 year old drove… There was never any teachers like that in my school. [via]
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Even The Slate, an MSN owned publication, is recommending Mozilla Firefox over Internet Explorer. “You’ve probably been told to dump Internet Explorer for a Mozilla browser before, by the same propeller-head geek who wants you to delete Windows from your hard drive and install Linux.” [via]
Spider-Man 2 sets new opening day record. A huge $40.5 million, beating Spider-Man’s record by a mere $1.1 million, not bad for a Wednesday opening… But can it beat Shrek 2′s single day record of $44.8 million? And The Matrix Reloaded’s $146.9 million six-day box-office record?