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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
We are the Pirates who try to do everything.
Action, Humor, a bit of Drama and Romance, loads of Betrayal, even a death or two, Priates 3 makes good use out of its 2 hour 48 minute time length though it seems they could have extended it more. The opening moves far to fast to make any immediate sense, and though it slowly comes together later for the most part you'll be a bit mystified. But if you ignore the few gaps in the plot, and just sit through Depp and Rush's wonderful banter the movie is nearly up there with the first one. They stick with the main cast, and while they introduced all the pirate lords of the sea they really became the pirates who didn't really do anything. Its not a bad thing, but it was a bit disappointed that they didn't get more air time. The rest of the main cast play out their characters as they have in last two movies, introducing nothing new to the scheme. If you liked the first two movies, there is no reason why you wouldn't like this one. So, Drink up me harties, Yo HO!
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Why oh why was this movie made
I just got out of Spider Man 3. Thankfully, I can save you from the horror that is this movie assuming you have not bought tickets. For all those who had a very icky taste after the way the second movie ended...this movie has that feeling All over the first 25 minutes of it. It is just plain disgusting and made watching the rest of it a chore. I don't know what was worse...the acting or the script, really they were both terrible.
There are A Grand total of Three cool parts in this movie and in the following order of coolness.
A. Bruce Campbell as a French restaurant guy. Probably the funniest scene in the movie.
B. Evil Peter Parker Dance at the Jazz Club. It was very evil and very cool looking at the same time.
C. The 15 minutes of Venom. I don't like the script they gave Venom, but when he was shrieking and not speaking it certainly made Venom much better then SandMan.
Yes. Thats Right. A Total of 10-15 minutes with the Insanely cool Venom.
But wait, you ask, Sandman wasn't cool? Thats right. Sandman was nicely CGIed, and his first fight with Spidy was decent, but honestly, the threw him in there for no other reason then to make Peter Parker unhappy and want revenge against someone again. By the end he completely lost his purpose, and the screen writers tried their best but it nowhere near enough to make him a full character.
But wait again, you say, Green Goblin returns yes? Indeed he does. Willem Dafoe even gets 15 seconds or so of Screen time. But even Stan Lee got more then that in this movie. Anyway, yes, there is Green Goblin, who gets royally beaten and happens to lose a good portion of his memory for about half of the movie. He returns and plays some severe vengeance (a good scene featuring him and Parker)...but then goes and ruins it completely like every evil maniac seems to do (making it Very very uncool).
Hey what about Gwen Stacy, she's there? Is she hot? Plot device. No character development, and really, I didn't think she was all that pretty.
How this movie could have been better?
A. Peter wakes up from a dream after the first 4 minutes of the horribly disgusting and poorly written (and just as poorly acted) opening and finds out his life sucks. Basically, cancel that "happy" ending they tagged on to the second movie. Make it so the papers still proclaim Spiderman as a criminal as opposed to a hero. That would Immediately make DarkSpiderman much more meaningful. Peter Parker should start in depression darn it.
B. Starting Peter in Depression means you no longer need Sandman as a major character, so you can drop him all together or leave him as a minor villain. If you really really want him there, give him a better story, the whole, "he killed your uncle" line was very poorly done.
C. Green Goblin and Venom vs SpiderMan would be a much more plausible fight. D. Dark Spiderman for first half of movie (start it MUCH sooner then it did), then Venom for the Second Half.
In fact, just redo the second movie, and make the ending much more Empire Strikes Back. Basically, what I'm referring to is the fact that the end of Spiderman 2 was really just to "happy". I know people liked it, but personally I just found it a bit distasteful. Mary Jane SHOULD have married the astronaut guy. The Last Scene should have been Peter eating a piece of Chocolate cake on his bed with the semi-cute neighbor girl next to him. It sets up SUCH a better opening then this laughable thing. Then for this movie Astronaut brings back Venom specimen. Specimen escapes, (insert plot device) and finds Parker to make Dark Spiderman...and I could go on and probably make a very cool plot line for the movie.
The worst thing, is that no matter how badly I personally rate this film, it will probably gross enough on opening weekend to pay the bills it cost. Frankly I hope it doesn't, a SpiderMan 4 would just be really really bad.
Initial D: Fourth Stage (2004)
Well done Stage
Everyone's worries that 4th stage was only going to be 13 episodes went by the wayside as they completely caught up with the manga in this last Stage (24 eps). My only gripe is that two of Keisuke's races are deleted. The rest of them are shown. So any that read the Initial D Manga won't see anything new here (unless you read that Tokyo Pop crap). The animation has become very stylish since the first and second stages, and the CGI for the racing scenes is on par with the Third Stage movie. Eurobeat music continues to be excellent during the races. There won't be any more Inital D until the manga pulls ahead again...(with 2 new stories every 2 months it'll be a while), so this is the last Stage for a good amount of time.