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Review on a Blog: Summer Blockbuster Edition
spiderman 3SPIDERMAN 3
The Good:
The action sequence between Peter Parker and Green Goblin Jr was phenomenal; the effects for the Sandman were top notch; Tobey Maguire was really good as regular old Pete and even better as symbiote-corrupted Peter; Pete's Saturday Night fever stroll; Topher Grace played weaselly like it was second nature to him.
The Bad:
The Sandman and Venom plots never felt fully fleshed out. Sandman looked forlorn and stared at a locket of his daughter yet nothing ever came of any of it. Despite Topher Grace being a hoot as Eddie Brock his transformation into Venom and subsequent leap into comic book villainy seemed to happen in two seconds flat.
This film also would have benefited greatly from having one of the villains completely written out of the script.
And what's with the Osborn butler all of a sudden sharing a major bit of info with Harry so late in the game? He didn't think that Harry could have used that nugget before he descended into stock super-villainy?
Gwen Stacy was a totally useless character. Spiderman doing a song and dance number was uber cheesy.
The Ugly:
Kirsten Dunst is the definition of FUGLY and the only thing worse than a fugly Kirsten Dunst is a fugly Kirsten Dunst singing.
On the Judge Fudge scale Spiderman 3 gets:
SHREK the THIRD
The Good:
The Princess squad, Eric Idle's Merlin and Arties's cliquish high school were bright spots...
The Bad:
But the bright spots were few and far between. It seemed like they ran out of ideas with the second movie and just threw this one together with no real interest in making it good because they knew that little kids would make it a huge blockbuster no matter how bad it was.
The Ugly:
Not enough Donkey for my taste
On the Judge Fudge scale Shrek the Third gets:
PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END
The Good:
Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Geoffrey Rush could make the reading of a Chinese takeout menu entertaining
The Bad:
Needed around 45 minutes shaved off of its running time; the Will Turner/Elizabeth Swann love story was tedious
The Ugly:
They killed the Kraken?!?!? Off-screen?!?!?! WTF!?!!?!
And the Calypso stuff was really anti-climactic
On the Judge Fudge scale Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End gets:
28 WEEKS LATER
The Good:
This movie is bleak and I love bleak. And the first 15-20 minutes of the movie were just about perfectly done.
Also loved that no one was safe not even the characters that you just knew were going to make it.
The Bad:
Could have used more "small group of survivors fighting infected pseudo-zombies as they are picked off one by one" than what was given to me; Harold Perrineau and Idris Elba were sorely underused
The Ugly:
I hated the two child actors in this movie...the little bastards just annoyed the living hell out of me from the first minute they were onscreen
On the Judge Fudge scale 28 Weeks Later gets:
The Good:
The action sequence between Peter Parker and Green Goblin Jr was phenomenal; the effects for the Sandman were top notch; Tobey Maguire was really good as regular old Pete and even better as symbiote-corrupted Peter; Pete's Saturday Night fever stroll; Topher Grace played weaselly like it was second nature to him.
The Bad:
The Sandman and Venom plots never felt fully fleshed out. Sandman looked forlorn and stared at a locket of his daughter yet nothing ever came of any of it. Despite Topher Grace being a hoot as Eddie Brock his transformation into Venom and subsequent leap into comic book villainy seemed to happen in two seconds flat.
This film also would have benefited greatly from having one of the villains completely written out of the script.
And what's with the Osborn butler all of a sudden sharing a major bit of info with Harry so late in the game? He didn't think that Harry could have used that nugget before he descended into stock super-villainy?
Gwen Stacy was a totally useless character. Spiderman doing a song and dance number was uber cheesy.
The Ugly:
Kirsten Dunst is the definition of FUGLY and the only thing worse than a fugly Kirsten Dunst is a fugly Kirsten Dunst singing.
On the Judge Fudge scale Spiderman 3 gets:
SHREK the THIRD
The Good:
The Princess squad, Eric Idle's Merlin and Arties's cliquish high school were bright spots...
The Bad:
But the bright spots were few and far between. It seemed like they ran out of ideas with the second movie and just threw this one together with no real interest in making it good because they knew that little kids would make it a huge blockbuster no matter how bad it was.
The Ugly:
Not enough Donkey for my taste
On the Judge Fudge scale Shrek the Third gets:
PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END
The Good:
Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Geoffrey Rush could make the reading of a Chinese takeout menu entertaining
The Bad:
Needed around 45 minutes shaved off of its running time; the Will Turner/Elizabeth Swann love story was tedious
The Ugly:
They killed the Kraken?!?!? Off-screen?!?!?! WTF!?!!?!
And the Calypso stuff was really anti-climactic
On the Judge Fudge scale Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End gets:
28 WEEKS LATER
The Good:
This movie is bleak and I love bleak. And the first 15-20 minutes of the movie were just about perfectly done.
Also loved that no one was safe not even the characters that you just knew were going to make it.
The Bad:
Could have used more "small group of survivors fighting infected pseudo-zombies as they are picked off one by one" than what was given to me; Harold Perrineau and Idris Elba were sorely underused
The Ugly:
I hated the two child actors in this movie...the little bastards just annoyed the living hell out of me from the first minute they were onscreen
On the Judge Fudge scale 28 Weeks Later gets:
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