  As a note, before starting this movie I was already aware of the 9-minute rape scene. So urlLink BLM thinks that I should continue to do reviews so here goes. I saw urlLink Spider-Man 2 today and much like the first, I enjoyed it. We start out about two years after the original and Peter Parker is fucking up his life because he's spending too much time doing the whole Spider-Man thing. I mean these fucking kids today need to get their priorities straight. When I had a mid-term, do you think that I was out spending all of my time out saving humanity... hell no!
At least, that tends to be the opinion of everyone with whom he interacts. Of course, they don't know that he's Spider-Man, but half of them hate that guy anyway. I don't feel like going into plot because everyone's going to see this movie anyway, so I'll try a different direction this time. Peter begins examining his life and the central question of the film becomes, when you have the power to do something to help others, are you obligated to do that thing, even if it means sacrificing the shit important to you? In my opinion the film answers with a resounding "no. " I mean Spider-Man quits.
He says "Fuck this shit, I'm living my life! I do what I want! " (That's a direct quote from the film, in a rare Spider-Man appearance on Ricki Lake, by the way. ) But Peter Parker is a good guy. At this point in his life he's not Peter if he's not Spider-Man. There's this whole metaphore, of not being able to see clearly that wasn't too over the top, but a little cliche.
Anyway, when he finally goes back to being Spider-Man, the point is made that Peter chooses to be Spider-Man. He does it for the pure reason that he needs to help, not for his ego, which brings us to Doc Ock. Dr. Otto Octavius starts out as a non-descript "scientist" researching fusion and on the verge of a breakthrough. While showing off his new process, he "needs" to utilize the famous Doc Ock robotic arms in order to perform his fusion demonstration. Also, there's something about the AI of the arms being so sophisticated that they need an inhibitor chip to keep them from controlling Otto. I don't really understand this point and I'm sure that no one involved in the scripting process could explain it to me but, fuck it.
Movie "science" is all schlock anyway. That aside, an inevitable disaster comes along killing Otto's wife and assistant, Anij (yes BLM, that Anij), and breaks the inhibitor chip, driving Otto to become the villian in this feature. Anyway, at this point Doc Ock, becomes obsessed with performing his fusion exercise again and on a much larger scale. He and his mechanical arms decide that they must give humanity fusion. But Ock, unlike Peter, is more absorbed with his own recognition and greatness than with actually helping humanity... I mean, he doesn't once look in his notebooks to make sure he didn't make a rounding error.
As a side note, Alfred Molina is fucking great. That guy is a really good actor and plays Ock... well, as he should be played. On the other hand, Kirsten Dunst is a hack. Really, she sucks in this movie (and a lot of things she's been in lately). I mean fuck, she had potential as a kid. It's like she gets worse every year older she gets.
I'm pretty sure next year she'll be retarded. I don't even really want to talk about the love crap between Peter and Mary Jane (which made up a sizable portion of the movie) because I have to think about her awful, awful dialogue delivery. Let me put it this way, at one point in the movie, she's in a play and Peter comes to see it. When she realizes he's there, she falls out of character and forgets her line. I couldn't tell if she was just playing falling out of character or if she, fell out of character falling out of character. I'll end with this conclusion on Ms. Dunst, she's an awful actress but at one point you can see her nipples through her extremely tight dress.
Alright, I'll tie this up soon. The movie is pretty good overall. The science is crap and Dunst sucks, but it is a really fun movie and I'll be damned if I didn't get a little choked up during the urlLink Cool Hand Luke scene and the subsequent scene with the little kids finding Spider-Man's mask. (I'm a pussy, I've fucking cried during the South Park movie. I was very vulnerable at the time though so leave me alone. ) The end of the flick however, was pretty heavy-handed and unnecessary.
It was pretty obvious what was going to happen, but the makers felt the need to spell it out and blatently advertise for the sequal. Plus the love crap could have been done more subtlely, and without as much shit spewing forth from Dunst's mouth. So yeah, watch the movie. Despite all of my bitching, I'll go see it again. I think BLM still needs to see it so I'll be up for it sometime this week. Like I said, it's fun.
Fin. 
