December 4, 2004
Why Spiderman 2 is Unrealistic
I watched Spiderman 2 for the first time Thursday night and it's not the most realistic movie I've seen. I guess with most movies, you have to suspend some reality to a degree, and that includes Spiderman 2. I mean, you've got a dude wearing a spider suit!
My biggest issue with the movie was the subway scene. No, not the whole elevated line in midtown Manhattan thing (although that's pretty retarded too), but more of what happens at the end of the scene.
At the end of the scene, people pass an unmasked Spiderman through the subway car. If it were really New York, people would have broke out their cell phones, called their friends saying "you will not believe what I just saw", and/or photographed the happenings with their cameras. Then again, if the MTA goes ahead with their changes, people would get arrested for taking those photos.
Also, did anyone else notice in the opening credits, when they were refreshing our memories about the first movie, they even had the tongue that was in the upside down alleyway kiss? The directors also found another way to get MJ's shirt wet. Very nice.
Posted by tien mao in Movies at 11:31 AM
by not seeing it in a movie theater in manhattan opening weekend, you missed the sudden low chatter that occurred throughout the theater when that elevated train sequence started. i would have been amused by the communal reaction at the time if i hadn't been whispering, "what the hell! are they in the bronx? where are they suppose to be? are they serious?"
Posted by: rion at December 4, 2004 12:14 PM
Yup, suspension of disbelief. Just look at the remake of Dawn of the Dead - there's supposedly an island located off the coast of Milwaukee! Well at least I assumed it was set in Milwaukee, due to a radio broadcast in the film.
I, too, almost gagged at the cheesy 'passing of Spider-Man to the back of the car' scene. How sappy. I think they did that same crap with the first one - New Yorkers throwing stuff at the Green Goblin. Yay! NYC is so nice and cohesive! Hugs!
Posted by: matt at December 4, 2004 1:18 PM
Come on! It is a movie about the NYC that appears in the comic book. It doesn't take place in real NYC, but comic book-land NYC. Then you don't have to suspend anything since it all makes sense!
Posted by: Joe at December 4, 2004 6:37 PM
Yea, forget the spider suit. How about the guy with GIGANTIC KILLER mechanical arms coming out of his back?? That would throw me for a bigger loop than a guy running around in Spider Suit.
Posted by: Matteo at December 4, 2004 9:38 PM
Mary Jane had a lot of nipplage in this movie. I suppose moviemakers thought that by having that, we'd ignore the subway incosistencies.
Posted by: Jen at December 5, 2004 10:19 PM
what i would like is for tourists to come to nyc and ask me, "where is that train that they did spiderman 2 on?" that would make everything perfect and them deserving of a swift kick to the testes.
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