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Spider-Man 2, a review by DJ Doena

Director: Sam Raimi

Tobey Maguire    ...    Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Kirsten Dunst   ...    Mary Jane Watson
James Franco   ...    Harry Osborn
Alfred Molina   ...    Doc Ock / Dr. Otto Octavius
Rosemary Harris   ...    May Parker
J.K. Simmons   ...    J. Jonah Jameson
Ted Raimi   ...    Hoffman
Bruce Campbell   ...    Snooty Usher

Synopsis: Spider-Man is still the hero of the day but Peter Parker has ever bigger problems to manage these two sides of his life and it's often Peter's life that loses. Which means he loses his jobs, his grades at the university are dropping and the worst: Mary Jane is disappointed of him. And then an experiment of Dr. Octavius's goes horribly wrong and turns him into an obsessed maniac.

My Opinion: I like this movie a tiny bit more than the first - which is saying much because I really love the first part. All the fights against Doc Ock are great but what's really great is, that he isn't a villain through and through and has the capacity to see his error and redeems himself at the end.
It's really sad that after these two great movies the third failed due to executive meddling.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 24th, 2010)

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, a review by Antares

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) 75/100 - The fly on the wall method in which this was shot makes it compelling, but when all is said and done, it is kind of anti-climactic. The one piece of film you want to see is Wallace stepping out of the way after being confronted by the Alabama National Guard general, whose troops had just been nationalized by the president. Instead, we hear, by way of a third party telephone call, what has taken place. I've seen film of that moment before, I don't know why they chose not to use it in this film. If you know nothing about this famous incident at the University of Alabama, then this short documentary will do the job. But I think it could have been done better.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on July 27th, 2013)

[Rerun Marathon] Spaced, a review by Tom

9/10

I loved the slo-mo pseudo gunfights.

(From [Rerun Marathon] Spaced on December 28th, 2007)