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The first spider verse movie was a major surprise for me and I loved it. Started watching the sequel a couple months ago and stopped after about 30 minutes. I’ll have to revisit it but I felt like a lot of the appeal from the first one was the charm of the characters, the humor, the soundtrack, the special effects and balls to the wall action scenes. Even the bad guy who turned out to be Miles uncle was enthralling.View attachment 1025990
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 5/5
The chain theater downtown was screening Across the Spider-Verse in the matinee slot at the IMAX all week, so i lied about a doctor's appointment and left work early the other day to catch one of them. i missed it in IMAX back at release because it literally only had a single weekend IMAX run here before getting bumped for the new Transformers movie. so yeah, i jumped at the opportunity to finally see it on the most aggressively large screen w/ the most aggresively textured sound.
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it's no mystery that i fucking love this movie. it's easily my #1 movie of 2023 and it's maybe the only movie released within a decade that i've watched more 10 times easy. and let's put something to bed right now—Across the Spider-Verse is in no way an "incomplete" movie. i assume the people mad about the cliffhanger ending, who act as though it's some sort of catastrophic storytelling faux pas, were too busy texting to actual pay attention to anything. & god bless the unstable tin foil mouth breathers, who have convinced themselves that it's actually some nefarious Hollywood scheme, mired in box office greed, designed to cheat us out of our money by dangling the proverbial carrot in front of our stupid drooling faces.
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the way i see it, Across the Spider-Verse is Gwen's movie just as much as it's Miles's, except i'd argue that it is Gwen's arc (which literally bookends the movie) serving as the heart and lungs at the narrative's core, breathing life into the characters' actions & motivations. idk how people can watch that prologue, w/ Gwen's omniscient first person voiceover narration (that reaches its conclusion when we return to it at the very end) & somehow come away feeling cheated once the end credits roll.
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discombobulated rant aside, people should really just sit their asses down, shut their pretty little mouths, & let the cornucopia of visual delights sex their eyeballs until the crotch of their pants are glued to their pelvis.
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if anyone is interested in way more Across the Spider-Verse screen grabs, i uploaded all of mine to a google drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kH_e5-fW7o5WkD8BTTBlYP1WEvHtonC3?usp=drive_link
go nuts
But with the sequel , at least the first 30 minutes that I watched, it seemed like they were just trying to turn the dial up to 11 on the action and the special effects and they made the humor over the top. The bad guy with the spots who goes from portal to portal was annoying as hell and I just had this bad taste in my mouth that they were so focused on being cool they forgot about creating a good story that the original accomplished.