I forgot to write about this, so I’ll do it now. On Friday, Justine and I saw Spiderman 2 at the ever popular VMAX cinema at Knox.

Off on a slight tangent, I saw Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead on cable TV recently — good film; a little cheesy but great fun (see here for another review).

Anyway, back to Spidey 2. Wow, it’s outdone the first by a large margin. Parker’s inner torment was done extremely well and you could tell that most of the crowd genuinely felt sorry for him. Even sections where characters were talking to themselves ala comics were fantastic (they were cheesy, but the comics are too). The only thing I felt that was missing was the “comic style” fighting that the first had. There was a scene where the Green Goblin and Spiderman were fighting during a parade or something. The character’s movements were — for me — pulled straight out of a comic.

The fight scenes in this were still great, but just didn’t have that same “comic” feel to me. I found the best scene in the film was the one in which Spiderman stopped the elevated train; his mask was off, his identity had been made known, Dr. Octopus was still around… somewhere. This was his darkest hour. The way the on-screen crowd just started at Parker for a second, before deciding to keep his identity a secret was just fantastic.

…and it looks like the Hobgoblin is the next baddie; I just hope that he’s not quite as overacted as the Green Goblin. Pumpkin bombs ahoy.