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Spider-Man Review

Spider-Man Review

Date: May 15 2002

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It looks like I wasn’t too far off with my prediction that Spider-Man would be one of the highest grossing movies of the season. As it turns out, it had the highest grossing opening weekend in the history of movies, with over $114 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release. But is it any good? Have a listen!

Dialog

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Brett

Miguel

Miguel

Brett:  So, I saw the Spider-Man movie this weekend, Miguel.

Miguel:  What’d you think?

Brett:  I thought it was good. You know, the special effects were pretty high quality. Although, you could still tell they were done digitally, but on the whole it was a good movie.

Miguel:   So, other than it being an action movie, was there actually, like, a story worth paying attention to?

Brett:   As much as you ever see in the superhero-type movies.

Miguel:   But I mean, did you feel like you got to know the characters at all?

Brett:   A bit. I mean, the Spider-Man character himself, you know, we saw him mature from a, kind of the weakling in the high school to this superhero who can, you know, go out and save the city.

Miguel:   And what about the villain? It seems like the villain is always this one-dimensional character, you know?

Brett:   He still is. They tried to do some work where, um, you know, the story is he is originally a wealthy business man who kind of, you know, for a number of reasons kind of switches over to this dark side and, uh, so we see that transformation. But still, you know, fairly one-dimensional.

Miguel:  Okay, I’m not reading you very well here. Should I see this movie or not?

Brett:   I’d say definitely see it. I mean, you’re not going to see, um, you know, Academy Awards for Best Performances necessarily, but on the whole it was a great escapist movie and, uh, I’m really glad I saw it.

 

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Discussion

If you’re looking for a movie with extremely complex characters and several layers of meaning, then maybe Spider-Man isn’t for you. But if you want a movie that has great action sequences and special effect and a fun storyline too, then I recommend you see it. Hopefully Spider-Man will soon be in a theater near you!
Will Spider-Man continue its reign at the box office, or will some other movie make even more in its opening weekend? Tell us what you think on the Movie Madness board!
See you next week-
Brett

 

Comments

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Kona

Kona

Hungary

 good movie

12:37 PM Nov 16 2009 |

deeema

deeema

Saudi Arabia

it is good one

01:19 PM Dec 09 2007 |

batmunkh

Mongolia

it,s a good one

03:31 AM Nov 11 2007 |

Monday

Monday

China

i don't like the spider-man ,but i like english baby!

09:27 AM Oct 08 2007 |

1 person likes this

Monday

Monday

China

spider-man’ girl friend looks older than him

09:18 AM Oct 08 2007 |

thesunalwaysshine88

Viet Nam

very interesting one

 

08:58 AM Oct 08 2007 |

woryat

Egypt

very helpfull lesson and exercize ….thx

12:00 PM Oct 07 2007 |

Josphen

United States

Embarassedits good  exercise i like it can i have more

08:10 PM Oct 06 2007 |

zawahir

zawahir

Sri Lanka

i so happy very good

12:40 PM Oct 06 2007 |

Mu7ammad

Egypt

iam very happy,these lesson help me alot.   thank you all

09:16 PM Sep 28 2007 |

smart baby

smart baby

United Arab Emirates

Thanks alot for this wonderful lesson..

I really benefit alot from it.

 

Regards

07:41 PM Sep 11 2007 |

lola forever

Saudi Arabia

for me,i like spider man movies b/c spider man, depend on the emagination.

11:19 AM Aug 26 2007 |

tayfi

tayfi

Pakistan

wow its very helpfull…thx

09:31 AM Aug 20 2007 |

Erdemoo

Erdemoo

Turkey

it's a good exercise. i like it. and you put a quiz end of it. it's a good idea Smile

05:30 PM Aug 16 2007 |

mini-fish

mini-fish

China

it’s a wonderful film for everyone!

06:19 AM Jun 19 2007 |

Josh K

Josh K

Guatemala

cool movie.

05:38 PM Apr 08 2007 |

kh_nabi

kh_nabi

Afghanistan

If you can speak slowly? That will be better for that student who don’t know English very will. Thank you for this side I really like it. it‘s so nice side for me. yours Ahmad khalid nabi

05:32 AM Mar 04 2007 |

June.Zou

June.Zou

China

it’s a wonderful film for children

03:37 AM Nov 25 2006 |

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