The Amazing Spider-Man – # 2 & 3

The Amazing Spider-Man – # 2 & 3

So it turns out that the reason these two episodes are together is because they’re actually a two hyphen parter (allright, I’ll retire the hyphen joke…), so what the heck, I’m counting it as a credit again.

In this episode, one of Peter Parker’s collage professors, for whatever reason, gets some plutonium for his class.  Everyone complains that this is dangerous; but the professor doesn’t listen, so three students decide to prove just how dangerous it is by…stealing the plutonium and building an atom bomb.  The bomb is then stolen by Mr Richbastard, who at first attempts to sell the bomb; but then attempts to extort money by threatening to blow up the president.  In the end, Spider-Man saves the day, etc, etc.

The movie villains were a lot more interesting, instead of being, “I’m already rich; but I want even more money! Nya ha ha! *twirls mustache*”

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

I missed the Stan Lee cameo in 2; I did see him in 1; but I suppose I looked away for a second in 2.  Obviously I saw him in 3.  He’s impossible to miss when he actually talks.

I hate to compare this to Superman 3 but…in Superman 3 you had the good Superman and the evil Superman, then finally the fight between Clark Kent and evil Superman.  In Spider Hyphen Man 3 you have the good Spider Hyphen Man and the evil Spider Hyphen Man, then at the end, Spider Hyphen Man vs Venom.  Luckily the parallels between the two threes aren’t too tight, otherwise Spider Hyphen Man would have had to fight Venom as Peter Parker.

Final rating for the trilogy: hyphen out of hyphen

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

More Spider Hyphen Man! Woo!

So far I’m actually feeling bad for the villains in these.  Interesting.

There’s another Rule of Three here, poor Peter Parker just can’t get himself a snack at the party.

Anyway, I think the takeaway from all of this is that spider hyphen powers require both spider hyphen DNA AND kisses from Mary Jane to work properly.

Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green (1973)

I didn’t know the future was so … retro.  The Computer Space video game, bubble wrap on the sliding door, psychedelic music.

Snape kills Dumbledore.

I only decided to seek out Soylent Green because of the … plot twist; but it turns out that knowing this particular plot twist took quite a bit of wind out of the film’s sails.

With the Harry Potter series, other than knowing about the famous line, I went into it completely blind.  The surprise may have been ruined; but it certainly increased the amount of drama for me; because I would tense up every single time Snape and Dumbledore would appear together.  When Dumbledore finally died it was almost a relief.

Independence Day (1996)

Independence Day (1996)

Wow, Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith!  I should have watched this sooner!

Seriously, you have an airplane flying away from an explosion and a dog jumping away from an explosion.  Why didn’t I watch this 20 years ago?

Holy cow!  Brent Spiner too!

People thought it was silly that they were able to upload a virus from an Apple computer?  It’s almost as if everyone forgot that Jeff Goldblum is just that good.  If he had wanted to, he probably could have hacked the alien computer with only his mind.