It would be fundamentally impossible to remain a nightmare in the glorious presence of Tahani.

Meanwhile, that the principle cast is made up heavily, though not entirely, of foreign-born talent (Gosling from Canada, Claire Foy from Britain, Jason Clarke from Australia, Ciarán Hinds from Ireland) threw gas on the argument that First Man was erasing the “America” from a great American achievement.

though I’ll give you this: the scene where he tells his kids about the moon landing mission is excellent. When the older kid asks him if there’s a chance that he won’t come back, Goslings squirm, and reading of the line “thats right” is brilliant.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

that’s exactly what he’s saying. he’s saying the dark knight changed the perception of superhero movies for the mainstream public and that marvel eventually benefitted from that.

The best F4 movie is called “The Incredibles”

Michael Clayton, 3:10 to Yuma, Ratatouille, Hot Fuzz, Atonement, Juno.

“When you’ve made both sides angry, you may have done something right.”

It’s a bit of a hipster cliche to say “Seinfeld wasn’t that good”

Eh, I’d give it second-best if we count Tobias Fünke’s Fantistic 4! stage production.

Tarantino had already done it with his Kill Bill volumes.

I always thought the intention, never quite made explicit enough, was that Peter Parker was such a dork that when he turned evil, he turned dorky-evil.

Good things about Spider-Man 3:

(through sobbing) I LIKE SPIDER-MAN!

“We also have Harry Osborn’s amnesia, a storytelling device so cheap and clumsy that they stopped doing it in sitcoms a full generation ago.”

It’s fun to watch how precisely all the anticipation/corporate synergy for Spider-Man 3 in Knocked Up - James Franco’s E! interview, the pregnant Heigl covering the premiere, Paul Rudd’s ultimate betrayal of Leslie Mann when he sees the movie without her - places the movie in history.

I saw it when it first came out, then rewatched it for the first time a few weeks ago. It's fine. Not the best Spidey movie, but not awful (I haven't seen the Garfield ones). 3 feels the most like an old comic book story to me, with villains teaming up for no particular reason, but whatever: it's a comic book!

I never got the hate for the dancing sequence, because it’s a glorious bit of comedy. Aside from Ms. Brandt and Ursula, both of whom were already crushing on Peter and are enjoying the attention (Ms. Brandt maybe not as much? but go with me here) just look at the reactions from every woman he passes on the street…

Had splitting a movie in two been a thing at that point? I thought Harry Potter pretty much invented it in 2010, it’s sort of hard these days to believe there was a time executives hadn’t discovered that way to milk a franchise. But yeah, the big problem is one too many villains, I’m not a huge fan of the Sandman also…

How would I rate Spider-Man 3?