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Creativity starves insanity
Printed on the ticket stub, The Amazing Spider-Man. Posters, advertisements and all sorts of junk were plastered with Spider-Man 2 with no indication of a subtitle. By the rating next to the title, what might have been labelled for the M crowd didn't match the audience feasting on their fists and the squeaky popcorn of another Greater Union cinema complex.
All the noise these beasts were generating were rivaled against the near constant bombardment of the film itself. Through the sound effects, manic soundtrack and incidental music, their noise was taken down a few, but only a few and not all the way.
For those who came in late and know how to eat in snapshots of major events, Alex Ross does some beautiful painted work rehashing Spider-Man for those moments beefing the opening sequence.
Spider-Man, while a whole lot more comfortable in his role as the friendly neighbourhood webslinger, doesn't give it up much in terms of sparring quips and lines of wit. Scant liners in the first half are washed away by the whole emotional drain from the rest of the film. Tobey Maguire even looks like he hadn't taken any sleep prepping for the role. His face and entire body looks devastatingly wracked and wrought.
J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) really lets rip, tearing up, chewing on spitting out every line and gesture given.
Soon Van - Sunday, 4 July 2004 - 10:07
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