Spiderman...who's game?

[Mr N8]

So, anyone else going to see Spiderman tonight? I will be. What do you think, will it be worth it? I've read most of the comic books since I was a little kid, so this should be interesting to see what they do with it.

They cut a scene out where he spins a web between the world trade towers and catches a helicopter. Too bad, I think they would have made a great scene. Oh well, guess we have to be sensitive about such things.

Nate

[HAL9000]

I'll be going to see it after it hits the cheap theater in a couple months... $9 at the regular theater compared to $2.50 at our cheap theater.

[homer15]

kirsten dunst makes it well worth my 9 bucks.

[HAL9000]

Yea, but I look at it this way. When my wife and I go out to a movie, it usually involves going out for dinner first. So by the time we do dinner $30, 2 movie tickets $18.00, popcorn and drinks $14.00 (what a rip off), and 4 hours for a babysitter $12.00, I'm already up to $74 to go out for 4 hours. At that rate, I gotta cut corners somewhere and knocking $13.00 off the movie admission is a good place to start as that alone covers the babysitter.

[KR0316]

I am with Hal. Our expensive theatre is $7.50 so I am going to wait for the dollar theatre.

[figarowa]

i got my tickets already bought and going at the 9:40 show after work....

[doctorgonzo]

I think the last movie I went to on the first night was Eyes Wide Shut. It's usually not worth it to go when it is in the first-run theatres, let alone the first night. Dollar theatres are great!

[Mr N8]

My tickets are free. Well, free in the sense that I did some computer work for free, and now it is paying off. I'm still waiting for Lord of the Rings to hit the dollar theater. I don't see why I would pay $15 for me and my wife to see a movie, when I can pay $3 later, or buy it for $10 when blockbuster gets rid of it.

Nate

[Blankman]

Well I'm waiting for the DVD. I figure if I'm spending $20+ to see a movie, surrounded by a bunch of rude, talking, people, I'd rather sit in my lazy boy, feet up, beer in hand and really enjoy the surround sound. I thank God everyday for DVD.

[audiyoda]

{sitting back in chair}.....So I guess not everyone has a old friend from High School that manages the city's biggest, baddest 20 screen theater...saw it last night at 7:30.

Have I told you about the May15th screening of Attack of the Clones?

Go ahead, hate me......:p

-Craig

[Mr N8]

So, Craig...is it worth the $7 to $10 people will be paying tonight??? And yes, I do have you! O.k., not really, but when you see the next Matrix b4 me, then I will hate you! :D

Nate

[Blankman]

Craig, no matter how bad you make us all feel, we will not hate you, or envy you, well I may covet the nice friend, and well maybe your studio connections, and...well now I'm mad! :<

[Charliey]

The expensive theatre in my town is $13.50 for a single ticket, although my friend works there, so he can get a free pass for himself and a friend anytime he wants, so that usually helps.

I never buy any food there, a large drink is $4, and its really only worth about $0.05 of pop or kool-aid.

We dont have a cheap theatre anymore, there was one, but it was really crappy, and went out of business, although there is a drive-in theatre near-by, and its only $10 for 2 movies (or 3 on special nights).

[DrZaius]

Look like an okay movie, but not worth seeing on the first night. I'll wait a few weeks till the theater's are empty and the tickets are cheaper.

[Streams]

I think i will wait for it to come out on DVD :)

[homer15]

Originally posted by Mr N8
So, Craig...is it worth the $7 to $10 people will be paying tonight??? And yes, I do have you! O.k., not really, but when you see the next Matrix b4 me, then I will hate you! :D

Nate


i'm in the new matrix!!! i don't know which part yet, though...

[edrod13]

Craig,

I worked at the local movie theatre in my area. As a matter of fact Dr. Z, its the Fullerton AMC which at the time was AMC 10 and now it has like 20 houses. I worked there for three years and we got the chance to screen every movie Thursday night before it hit the box office. My manager allowed my to occasionally bring friends and family and boy did that make me popular at school and home.

Edrod13

[audiyoda]

Regarding how good it is (ie...is it worth it): Depends on your perspective. If you love the genre (comics, X-Men movie, Blade 1 & 2....) yes, it's worth it. Best of the bunch so far.

Is it worth it to the eneral movie going public -- maybe. If you like action -- yes. If you want plot -- it's not too bad. Regardless what they say about the kid that plays Spiderman/Peter Parker -- I think he did a great job -- he's Peter in the comics to a tee. Mary Jane on the other hand just wasn't that much of a flirt or that flakey in the comics.

All in all, three thumbs up (me, my wife, and a buddy).

-Craig

[troysvihl]

Saw it yesterday morning. (Matinae price, $5! I won't go to cheap theaters ever since a buddy of mine had to be deloused afterwards.) It's pretty good. You get your money's worth.

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by troysvihl
I won't go to cheap theaters ever since a buddy of mine had to be deloused afterwards.

Now there's a flakey statement if I ever heard one troysvihl. You don't have any more risk of getting lice in a cheap theater over an expensive theater. Lice isn't necessarily a product of poor hygene.

[troysvihl]

You don't have any more risk of getting lice in a cheap theater over an expensive theater.

Really? How do you know? Have you done a big study?

I haven't seen any studies on the subject, but I'd be willing to bet that the risk is higher in cheap theaters than expensive theaters.

BTW, why is it that you think it's "flaky"?

[BFD Deadeye]

THX matinee. $2.50. Gonna see it in about 4 hours. Sometimes it pays to live in the poorest state in the union!

[Mr N8]

WEll, saw it, and it was pretty good. Except for the 3 dopes behind me who obviously had never seen or read any spiderman comics. Anyway, if you like the comics, I think you'll like the movie, too. So, for all its worth, I would recommend seeing it in some sort of theater.

Nate

[Blankman]

Hey BFD I live in the poorest state in the union and we don't have $2.50 matinees. In fact my county has one of the highest unemployment rates. Maybe I need to move to Conrad. I could always farm beets on the ol' homestead.

[padawan]

Saw it last night. Unless you are a huge fan of Spider-Man, I think the movie sucks. Very disapointed. Now I wait for May 16...

[DrZaius]

edrod13: Yep, I've been to that theater several times, it's next to the arcade. :D

I don't understand what all the hype is about, it doesn't look like such a great movie. Maybe it's because I've never been a big comic book fan.

[Sauron]

Na...not my type...I am waiting for December 2002............hehe.........expensive theaters and cheap ones..wow I wish we had that choice...lets see, theres about 5 theaters in a 50 mile surrounding, and most of them suck...Whens the new Bond movie going to come out?

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by troysvihl


Really? How do you know? Have you done a big study?

I haven't seen any studies on the subject, but I'd be willing to bet that the risk is higher in cheap theaters than expensive theaters.

BTW, why is it that you think it's "flaky"?

Do you have kids? If so, you should know from daycares and school. The cleanest and richest families can still end up occasionally with kids with head lice.

Why is it a flakey statement, because you have stereotyped that people that go to the cheap theater cannot afford the expensive theater, then you have stereotyped that since they must be poor, that they also have poor hygene. Dirty hair and head lice are not related, head lice actually thrive better in clean hair.

[troysvihl]

Oh please. All I said was that I don't go to the cheap theaters after some of my friends had to be de-loused. From that you derive some sort of disparaging belief of the poor?

There are so many non-sequiturs in your post, that I'm not going to even bother deconstructing it. Lets just say, that you're reading to much into my post.

[figarowa]

I saw it last night, and thought it was rather good, the movie kinda drug along at parts, but the action scenes were done very well, one large discrepancy, that i was suprised that Stan Lee let into production was Spidermans web shooters. In the movie, after he is bitten by the genetically mutated spider, he finds that by flicking and pointing his wrists he can fling webbing. However, the Cartoon, and the Comic series, peter parker makes his own "web shooters" and requires refilling of web fluid every so often...that was my only problem......

[Reedimus]

wife and I are huge angelina jolie fans. went to see her new one (life or something like it) at 11 this morning and the line was huge for spiderman already. couldn't believe it. and they have the thing on 4 different screens. I wonder if this will take some away from star wars on opening weekend.

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by troysvihl
Oh please. All I said was that I don't go to the cheap theaters after some of my friends had to be de-loused. From that you derive some sort of disparaging belief of the poor?

There are so many non-sequiturs in your post, that I'm not going to even bother deconstructing it. Lets just say, that you're reading to much into my post.

OK, fair enough, but then clarify it for me, why do you feel you're at greater risk for lice at a cheap theater?

[whr2206]

I went to the theatre tonight, all the showings were sold out...and there were ALOT of times......

[troysvihl]

why do you feel you're at greater risk for lice at a cheap theater?

I am aware that lice prefer clean heads. And I'm aware that you can get lice from expensive and cheap theaters. (BTW, lice infestations are acctually quite common in the theater business, with all theaters having to delouse a few times a year)

But your analysis overlooks the critical difference between cheap theaters and normal theaters. "Cheap theaters" are exactly what their name implies: cheap. They don't spend as much on delousing as their normally priced counterparts because they run on such thin margins. So while a patron can certainly get headlice from a normally priced theater, I feel that the odds are higher for cheap theaters.

I have no for-sure proof to back that up claim. However, several people I know have got lice from cheap theaters. And when I mentioned this topic to my girlfriend, she told me that her aunt, uncle, and their kids had a lice problem after they decided to start taking their kids to the cheap theater to save money. (and they haven't had a lice problem since then)

And that's why I won't go to the cheap theaters.

[homer15]

another thing about this whole lice situation:
cheaper theaters tend to be used less then the expensive ones, which is another reason that delousing routines are a little lax (and they are lax, but not by much.)

[troysvihl]

I guess to sum it up, my remark wasn't disparaging of poor people. It was disparaging of cheap theaters.

[HAL9000]

OK, fair enough, I may have been a little quick to the assumption as whenever I hear about lice, there is always somebody waving their arms in a panic of misguided info about lice. I can't argue what you have experienced, but at the same time, the cheap theaters in my area are the ones that are actually turning a better profit and you can see that they are better maintained than the regular theaters. In my area, I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone getting lice from either one of them.

[troysvihl]

Yeah, I already knew that stuff about lice. We had a lice epidemic at my high school when I was younger. They were doing headlice inspections and sent home half the school because of lice. But in the end, most of them didn't have lice. Turned out the inspectors were just untrained.

There was a whole chain of cheap theaters in the twin cities that made the headlines because of lice infestations. They were all boarded up the last time I drove by one.

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by figarowa
I saw it last night, and thought it was rather good, the movie kinda drug along at parts, but the action scenes were done very well, one large discrepancy, that i was suprised that Stan Lee let into production was Spidermans web shooters. In the movie, after he is bitten by the genetically mutated spider, he finds that by flicking and pointing his wrists he can fling webbing. However, the Cartoon, and the Comic series, peter parker makes his own "web shooters" and requires refilling of web fluid every so often...that was my only problem......

See this is where I always had a problem with the comic -- he's bitten by a spider and has all the characteristics of a spider except the ability to spin a web? My feeling is that the movie corrected Stan Lee's error (at Stan's blessing from what I've read).

-Craig

[Timberwolve81]

Originally posted by figarowa
I saw it last night, and thought it was rather good, the movie kinda drug along at parts, but the action scenes were done very well, one large discrepancy, that i was suprised that Stan Lee let into production was Spidermans web shooters. In the movie, after he is bitten by the genetically mutated spider, he finds that by flicking and pointing his wrists he can fling webbing. However, the Cartoon, and the Comic series, peter parker makes his own "web shooters" and requires refilling of web fluid every so often...that was my only problem......


GEEZ, it's a movie figs, lol. quite picking fly $hit out of pepper

[Mr N8]

Actually, I thought the web shooter was a good addition. There were some parts that weren't entirely accurate to the comics, but it helped the movie move along faster and probably made more sense to people who don't know the first thing about spiderman. My friend was mad that he made his own costume in the movie. I think that that's just a little too picky.

originally posted by homer15
i'm in the new matrix!!! i don't know which part yet, though...

I hope that's still true! Did you know they are re-recording a lot of it with the new character, since one of them died? I was really dissapointed when I heard it wasn't coming out until next year, but its understandable. It's got to be hard to be an actor / actress and try to redo scenes without thinking about the fact that your friend should be there acting with you.

Nate

[homer15]

Originally posted by Mr N8


I hope that's still true! Did you know they are re-recording a lot of it with the new character, since one of them died? I was really dissapointed when I heard it wasn't coming out until next year, but its understandable. It's got to be hard to be an actor / actress and try to redo scenes without thinking about the fact that your friend should be there acting with you.

Nate

damnit, you're right! she was in the scene i was in (in the streets of oakland). i have no idea what they were doing, though, i was walking in the back. oh well, i made my hundred bucks.

[Kassia]

The Spiderman movie looks awesome! Can't wait to see it!

[whr2206]

The only thing I'm worried about is it might just turn into some love story between the two. Kinda like Pearl Harbor....thought I was goining it to see a piece of history, but it turned into "Japn wages war on an american love triangle...." it disapointed me.

[Hot Rod]

About the web shooters.....If he really inherited the traits of a spider when he was bit....I doubt the webbing would come out of his wrist. I think Stan Lee had him make his own web shooters because it would not be too appealing to see Spiderman shooting webbing out his hind end. he he he