Last night I discovered that everyone in my entire Vodo class loved that smarmy, predictable dreck of a movie that was “Little Miss Sunshine.” Bleh. At one point Vodo turned to me and said, “Listen Black T-shirt, go blog your bitterness. We’re happy. We celebrate life.” Or some such bullshit.
Anyway, Johnny the Greek (new favorite classmate, but more about that later) made a crack about how I only watched movies with superheroes in them and that’s why I hated “Little Miss Sunshine.” So, I have to admit, the burn was fair. I had talked earlier about how excited I was to see Spider-Man 3 today.
Somehow, I managed to drag my ass out of Supergenius HQ (which wasn’t easy people because I didn’t get home until 3 in the a.m. this morning) for the 1 o’clock show. Let me tell you this. Spider-Man 2 is the best of the bunch.
There. I said it. And it is the truth.
But, that being said, 3 is not that bad. It’s just scattered. There’s too much going on. Romance between MJ (bleh why can’t we just let her die already) and Peter, MJ’s fledgling career, some creepy Sandman with a dying daughter, Harry as the New Goblin, and (the best part of all) Eric Forman as Peter’s new competition/arch-nemesis. It’s just too many stories for one movie.
Of course, the whole thing is about Peter/Spidey wrestling with his darkside, and that’s probably the most entertaining part of the movie. Goth/Playboy Spidey rocks the casbah. It’s actually quite funny, and the only bit of humor that works in the movie. The rest of the humor, mostly being forced on ol’ J. Jonah Jameson, falls flat because it’s so forced. It’s not a good thing when you can see a joke coming a mile away, and most of the ones in Spider-Man 3 were that easy to see which caused a great deal of eye-rolling.
The problem here is that Spider-Man 3 is ultimately frustrating. Sitting in the theater, I could see how much potential the movie had, if only someone would have scaled it back a bit. The whole Harry-MJ-Peter storyline was enough, but then they had to throw in all the Venom/Sandman stuff which kind of gets the shaft. And that’s just too bad, because the whole Eric Forman vs. Peter Parker stuff had the potential to be so so awesome instead of just sort of the best thing in a so-so movie.
Is it worth the price of admission? Maybe if you do the matinee like I did. I’d be a bit pissed if I paid more than $5.50 for this movie. However, it’s still about 38 kajillion times better than Little Miss Sunshine.
I hated Little Miss Sunshine. I bought the DVD because of all the hype. After watching it I got up walked over to the DVD player and threw the entire sha’bang away. Right into the trash. I would not even think of giving that shit to anyone.
I knew there was a reason I liked you!
Huh, I liked it. But I’m uncouth and a heathen, so I suppose that was to be expected.
Dear UH,
With so many movies out there surely you are kidding. That movie was shite and I imagine still is. I’m not abot to find out again.
Best wishes on finding a movie really worth your time. Who’s grandfather dies and then they rejoice about it after manhandling his dead body and throwing it through a window. Shite!!
Respectfully,
Kristy
p.s. I did not throw away my DVD player…though I thought about it because it was tainted. Instead I said a monk like chant to remove the tainted’ness.