Monday, August 02, 2004

At the Movies

Spider-Man 2 finally came to Hot Springs, South Dakota. It was a decent movie but it could have been better. It seemed to me that Toby McGuire must have been stoned throughout the entire shooting of the movie. In just about every scene where we could see his eyes, they were blood shot and watery. Further proof is that there is a scene in the movie where Peter Parker is just eating chocolate cake with his land lords daughter. There was absolutely no reason for that scene to be in the movie. The whole point was that she eventually gives him a message from his aunt.
What was worse was that Doc. Oc. who could have been a really cool villain, was really shallow and one dimentional as a character. He doesn't even get that much screen time compared to how much time is spent on Peter Parker trying to ballance duty and booty. What really bothered me was that he quit being evil just as soon as Spider-Man tried reasoning with him. Shouldn't that be a hero's first response, especially if its one academic to another? And who gives machinary artificial inteligence complex enough and dangerous enough that it needs an inhibitor chip? If you know it's that dangerous, redesign the software with the inhibition built in!

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