Then there is the black microorganism from outer space, which is not a villain, but plays one in the movie. And how does he feel in there? Molina always let you know precisely how Doc Ock felt, with a vengeance. He can have holes blown into him with handguns, but then somehow regains the bodily integrity to hammer buildings. He forms from heaps of sand into a creature that looks like a snowman left standing too late in the season.
Recall Doc Ock climbing buildings with his fearsome mechanical tentacles and now look at this dust storm. As an escaped con and the murderer of Uncle Ben, he has marginal interest at best. 3 we have too many villains, too little infamy. 2 had the superb Doc Ock ( Alfred Molina), who is right up there with Goldfinger and the Joker in the Supervillain Hall of Infamy. Superhero movies and Bond movies live and die by their villains.
14) met Peter Parker, she'd have him for breakfast. If there is a "Spider-Man 4" (and there will be), how about giving Peter and Mary Jane at least the emotional complexity of soap opera characters? If " Juno" (opening Dec.
But if you are still dangling in taxicabs at age 20, you're a slow learner. The unique quality of the classic comic books was that their teenagers had ordinary adolescent angst and insecurity. If I argued earlier that Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent were boring human beings, I had no idea how Peter would begin to wear on my nerves.Īnd what's with Mary Jane? Here's a beautiful, (somewhat) talented actress good enough to star in a Broadway musical, and she has to put up with being trapped in a taxi suspended 80 stories in the air by alien spider webs. But I made the mistake of declaring that was because "the movie demonstrates what's wrong with a lot of other superhero epics: They focus on the superpowers, and shortchange the humans behind them." This time, I desperately wanted Peter Parker to be short-changed. Faithful readers will recall that I found " Spider-Man 2" (2004) the best superhero movie since " Superman" (1978).
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