Adventure accomplished!
May. 15th, 2007 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kodalaiSo today, driven by a longing to see Spider-Man 3 before it was even more spoiled for me, I undertook an adventure: find the nearest movie theater and go see it there!
It worked out very well. I'd heard from one of my students that it was showing at Favore (in English with J subtitles) but I'd never been to the Favore Mall. When I found it on the map, I was somewhat surprised to find that it was not in the city, but one stop further down my railroad line.
So, since today was a half-day at work, I took the train down to Hayahoshi and hiked over to the mall. (In the SWELTERING heat, hello, summer, bless you, sunscreen.) The mall itself is pretty awesome, with an arcade and a food court and many shops, which I might come back and rummage in some time when I wasn't on a schedule. But since the movie started at 3:30 PM and lasts two and a half hours, it was 6 PM by the time I got out and I wanted to catch the next train before the evening commuter rush really hit.
For the movie itself: I can't be bothered to write any kind of in depth reactions, except to say that I really liked it, despite its flaws, of which I will comment on two:
-Venom was all wrong. Wah. Venom is one of the best SM villains, creepy and alien and violent and dangerous, and he was just plain and not... scary at all. I think it's because he didn't speak in plural. The Venom part of Venom was hardly present; it was just Eddie Brock who happened to have a super suit. If only they'd developed the symbiote attachment thing a little more, then Brock diving into the explosions to re-meld with the symbiote as it died might have been a lot more touching.
(However, the Sandman was done perfectly IMO.)
-People keep saying that 'dark Peter' was "emo" but I really don't think so. Emo is the art of feeling lyrically sorry for yourself, but this is practically the first time in the whole trilogy that Peter stopped feeling sorry for himself long enough to lash out at other people. Even his clothes weren't particularly emo, he lacked the heavy dark-rimmed glasses and the turtleneck sweater.
What the symbiote seemed to do to him, more than anything else, was generate the sort of "up" phase that you see in bipolar people: intense energy, feeling like you can do anything, poor impulse control, greatly increased aggression and anger, social outrageousness. All in keeping with Venom's connection with "adrenaline" highs, so it works out.
It worked out very well. I'd heard from one of my students that it was showing at Favore (in English with J subtitles) but I'd never been to the Favore Mall. When I found it on the map, I was somewhat surprised to find that it was not in the city, but one stop further down my railroad line.
So, since today was a half-day at work, I took the train down to Hayahoshi and hiked over to the mall. (In the SWELTERING heat, hello, summer, bless you, sunscreen.) The mall itself is pretty awesome, with an arcade and a food court and many shops, which I might come back and rummage in some time when I wasn't on a schedule. But since the movie started at 3:30 PM and lasts two and a half hours, it was 6 PM by the time I got out and I wanted to catch the next train before the evening commuter rush really hit.
For the movie itself: I can't be bothered to write any kind of in depth reactions, except to say that I really liked it, despite its flaws, of which I will comment on two:
-Venom was all wrong. Wah. Venom is one of the best SM villains, creepy and alien and violent and dangerous, and he was just plain and not... scary at all. I think it's because he didn't speak in plural. The Venom part of Venom was hardly present; it was just Eddie Brock who happened to have a super suit. If only they'd developed the symbiote attachment thing a little more, then Brock diving into the explosions to re-meld with the symbiote as it died might have been a lot more touching.
(However, the Sandman was done perfectly IMO.)
-People keep saying that 'dark Peter' was "emo" but I really don't think so. Emo is the art of feeling lyrically sorry for yourself, but this is practically the first time in the whole trilogy that Peter stopped feeling sorry for himself long enough to lash out at other people. Even his clothes weren't particularly emo, he lacked the heavy dark-rimmed glasses and the turtleneck sweater.
What the symbiote seemed to do to him, more than anything else, was generate the sort of "up" phase that you see in bipolar people: intense energy, feeling like you can do anything, poor impulse control, greatly increased aggression and anger, social outrageousness. All in keeping with Venom's connection with "adrenaline" highs, so it works out.
