Rex Reed should do the world and himself a favor and stop reviewing comic book films. Period. He just doesn't get it. He hated Batman Begins - one of the most intelligent and well-directed comic book films of all time - as he hated the original Spiderman.
This is a comic book movie... not Shakespeare. You're going to get CGI battles... lots of crazy villians... and somewhat unconventional scripts that are - after all - based on a comic book! If he got that, and understood the point of what a comic book film is, he wouldn't be knocking plot points and characters from comics written 20 or 30 years ago. There is such a thing as a well-done adaptation (Batman Begins, Spiderman 2) verses a bad or mediocre one (Ghost Rider, The Hulk)... but Rex considers the best of the lot utter garbage (ie. "Batman Begins is for morons").
I'd agree that Spidey 3 is not as good as the second one... and has some questionable scenes... but it's not nearly the train wreck that Rex describes. Two thirds of the critics in North America agree with me. There are a lot of great moments, some pure comedy and some of the best action scenes I've ever seen in a comic book film. If you want to see something really over the top and carried away, just scroll up and read Rex's extremely pompous ("IQ over 25"????) review again.
He truly wouldn't know a good comic book film if it swung down from the sky and landed on his lap... .
Rex Reed should do the world and himself a favor and stop reviewing comic book films. Period. He just doesn't get it. He hated Batman Begins - one of the most intelligent and well-directed comic book films of all time - as he hated the original Spiderman.
This is a comic book movie... not Shakespeare. You're going to get CGI battles... lots of crazy villians... and somewhat unconventional scripts that are - after all - based on a comic book! If he got that, and understood the point of what a comic book film is, he wouldn't be knocking plot points and characters from comics written 20 or 30 years ago. There is such a thing as a well-done adaptation (Batman Begins, Spiderman 2) verses a bad or mediocre one (Ghost Rider, The Hulk)... but Rex considers the best of the lot utter garbage (ie. "Batman Begins is for morons").
I'd agree that Spidey 3 is not as good as the second one... and has some questionable scenes... but it's not nearly the train wreck that Rex describes. Two thirds of the critics in North America agree with me. There are a lot of great moments, some pure comedy and some of the best action scenes I've ever seen in a comic book film. If you want to see something really over the top and carried away, just scroll up and read Rex's extremely pompous ("IQ over 25"????) review again.
He truly wouldn't know a good comic book film if it swung down from the sky and landed on his lap... .