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Showing posts with label Topher Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topher Grace. Show all posts

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Personal Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 - An Absolutely . . .

This is my first personal review appearing on BUwH. When I t movie of this frachise it didn't make me flabbergated but nonetheless it was a good movie. When I saw the second one, I was completely bowled over by it. Be it the story or screenplay or acting or direction or VFX or everythings........it was a perfect balance. Since then I was a fan of the "friendly neighbourhood". See my previous posts, how aggresively I promoted spidey 3. From June, I used up all my hard disk space collecting HD videos and trailers of SM3. After a tedious yet exciting wait of 3 years, I entered the theater with bated breath. After thye screening was over, I came to a conclusion that it's an ABSOLUTE movie. I tell you why.

*ABSOLUTELY awesome action scenes.
*ABSOLUTE no action thoughout the movie. They come as ABSOLUTE compromise, just for sake of the ABSOLUTE trailer.
*ABSOLUTE nonsense emotions.
*ABSOLUTE useless sobbing.
*ABSOLUTE example of Hollywood copying Bollywood craps.
*ABSOLUTE example of shortage of a proper story.
*ABSOLUTE worst screenplay seen in a long time.
*ABSOLUTELY bad storytelling. Sam! What's that?
*ABSOLUTELY lenghty. It crawls and crawls and leaves a perpetual pain.
*ABSOLUTELY no acting from any of the cast.
*ABSOLUTE action & bad storyline ratio of 1:100
*ABSOLUTE useless scenes.
*The screenplay's so occupied to give importance to each sub-plot, that the sory itself becomes ABSOLUTELY impotent without giving any importance.
*James Franco's teeth are ABSOLUTELY annoying.
*Franco puts an ABSOLUTELY decent performance.
*Just like too much cooks spoil the film each of the 3 villain mars everything ABSOLUTELY.
*ABSOLUTE lack of smartness, failure to infuse humour.
*ABSOLUTELY brilliant J. Jonah Jameson (this man's always....)
*If you sum up all the bad guys and merge into one 100 times over, that doesn't ABSOLUTELY touch a bit of Alfred Molina-played Doc Ock or even GG!

*Thomas Haden Church has only one ABSOLUTE squirming countenance and is ABSOLUTELY abysmal.
*Topher has an ABSOLUTELY decent, not great performance.
*An ABSOLUTE example of bad and plastic CG in form of the black sticky thing.
*ABSOLUTELY badly created role and VFX of Venom.
The number of Sandman plotholes/ goofs is just uncounatble.
*I'm a diehard science student. I don't like anyone tampering with that. Okay, Thomas enters the highly radioactive science zone without a >440 v spark. And a demoleculizer turning sandman? Can't take it anymore. It'd take another couple of posts to explain. So better leave it ABSOLUTELY undiscussed.

**************SPOILERS HERE!*******************
*The symbiant actually comes from a hot burning meteorite, but still ABSOLUTELY dies of the fire in the end.
**************SPOILERS END*******************


*When Flint Marko (Sandman) is in the demoleculizer, everything including his belt buckle turns to sand, but the locket with the picture of his daughter doesn't.
*Tobey is ABSOLUTELY better at dancing than acting.
*About Kirsten, it's ABSOLUTELY the less said the better. Quoting another reviewer, I say, you wish Goblin succeeded killing her in the first part.
*Bryce, though decent, is ABSOLUTELY wasted here.
*Bill Pope (DOP) is the ABSOLUTE star of the film.
*Sound Design may win it an Oscar ABSOLUTELY.
*The climax is the ABSOLUTELY the most contrived sequence ever made.

*Sony should ABSOLUTELY think changing every part of cast and crew.
*If you love Bollywood massacres like DHOOM:2 and KRRISH, you may like it ABSOLUTELY.
*It's the WORST movie in the franchise, albeit a bit above the likes of KRRISH, D:2, SUPERMAN RETURNS, BATMAN BEGINS.
*An ABSOLUTE example of a Hollywood crap being produced under popular demand and super success of the prequels. You may know that the release date 5/4/7 was set before the release of 2. So they made it somehow without a thought and respect for Spidey fans like me.
*update: Some dialogues are actually lifted from this film.


To sum up, an ABSOLUTE DISAPPOINTMENT.

If you really love the makers of the film and yourself too, do yourself a favour. Buy a SPIDER-MAN 2 special edition DVD than to watch this. I'd do that. Though some jug head thinks it's better than 2. You can also buy SRK starrer DON, which has better storyline and action.

Bollywood Unlimited Rating
Letter Grade: C-
Stars: * * * * ½ ½ * * * * * (4.5/10)

Wait for a television premiere in case you haven't seen it.

did you like or dislike the film or my review? tell me and give your ratings to the film and the review.

Sunday, May 6, 2007


Very good news for all Spidey fans!! It was expected! The box-office result of Spider-Man 3 is out. That too for 1 day!

It's broken the all time opening day record.

Spider-Man 3 cast the widest web ever—over 10,000 screens at 4,252 theaters—and nabbed the all-time biggest gross for a single day: an estimated $59 million on Friday.

The previous title holder, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, drew $55.8 million on 8,500 screens at 4,133 theaters, contributing to a record-breaking $135.6 million weekend last July.

Distributor Sony projected Saturday morning that Spider-Man 3 would generate from $135 million to $145 million for the weekend (Friday to Sunday). The studio claimed a $258 million production budget for the Marvel Comics sequel, compared to $200 million for Spider-Man 2 and $139 million for Spider-Man.

By shattering the opening day record, Spider-Man 3 followed the path of the first two movies in the franchise as Spider-Man's $39.4 million and Spider-Man 2's $40.4 million set new benchmarks. Adjusted for ticket price inflation, those days would equal around $45 million and $43 million, respectively.

Additionally, Spider-Man 3 raked in $45 million overseas on Friday. Combined with domestic's $59 million, the sequel pulled in $104 million worldwide, the highest-grossing day ever for a single picture.

Eventually, in India too, where *only* Bollywood films reign, it has surpassed all its Hindi competitors. It has taken the best start of the year in India. It's opening rangeg from 90% - 100 %. No film this year (or any foreign language film ever) has done it before.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Spider-Man 3 Production Video: Aaron Lam discusses the film . . . . . . . . . . . .

Aaron Lam is an assistant of director Sam Raimi in Spider-Man 3. In this video he describes his role in production of the film. He also does a cameo in this film. He teases Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in physics classroom, regarding Gwen Stacy (Bryce Howard).

Tell me how do you like it!

Here too! http://spider-man-3-film.blogspot.com/2007/05/spider-man-3-production-video-aaron-lam.html


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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Spider-Man 3 Production Video: Costumes of Spidey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The release of the most anticipated movie this season is 5 days away (why???, someone give me a time machine!!!). Well, we are always dazzled and enthralled by the excellent looks of our very own superhero Spider-Man. His red-blue color costumes transports us into the world we can never dream of. So the credit goes to the people who work day and night for our visual treat.


In this video, we see how the suits are created. It's truly unbelievable to see how much effort they put forth. Watch this: just to create the web on the costumes they create a back liquid stuff and pour it into the layout and polishing...........it's beyond my reach. I am flabbergasted. In this video, head speciality costumer Shownee Smith and his team demonstrate everything.

Waiting!!!!!!!

Get it here too! http://spider-man-3-film.blogspot.com/2007/04/spider-man-3-production-video-costumes.html


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Friday, April 20, 2007

SPIDER-MAN 3 Production Video: LIGHT STAGE ................................

When we see our favourite superhero on screen, we always overlook the technical aspect behind it. We don't know anything about the things which compel us to believe that the visuals are true. One such technical aspect is the lighting, which forces us to enter the make-believe world. The video here discusses some exotic digital lighting effects here. The Digital FX Supervisor, Peter Nofz elaborates some of the most complex parts very simply. It's possible for anyone to absorb the mechanics behind it. It also shows how they are done.

You can get it here too: http://spider-man-3-film.blogspot.com/2007/04/spider-man-3-production-video-light.html

Tell me how do you like it! I'll be posting all SM3 videos if you wish!

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More videos of SPIDER-MAN 3 Tokyo Premiere ....................................................

Barely two days ago, we posted some exotic videos of Tokyo Premier (Links: 1, 2). Now we are bringing you some other fantabulous videos from the mid-April premiere of Sony costliest production, SPIDER-MAN 3. This page has a number of cool videos:

  1. Kirsten Dunst talks about working with the Spider-Man movie team
  2. Producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad talk about the World Premiere in Tokyo
  3. Producer Grant Curtis on his cameo appearance in Spider-Man 3
  4. James Franco on Harry Osborne's intentions in Spider-Man 3
  5. Rosemary Harris is ready for some stunt work

The videos are accessible here: http://www.spidermanmovieblog.com/archives/2007/04/more_tokyo_premiere_video.php

You can also get it here: http://spider-man-3-film.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-videos-of-spider-man-3-tokyo.html

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Watch videos of Japan premiere of Spider-Man 3 .............................................

Well as we all know, SPIDER-MAN 3 was screened for the very first time in Tokyo, Japan. The cast and the filmmakers assembled there at the premiere. A person dressed in SPIDEY suits (red-blue) entertained the viewers greatly. There are four videos at the page:

  1. Spider-Man swings by the World Premiere in Tokyo
  2. Tobey Maguire talks about what to look forward to in Spider-Man 3
  3. Sam Raimi reacts to the Japanese fans at the World Premiere in Tokyo
  4. Topher Grace and Thomas Hayden Church discuss what's different with Spider-Man 3

The videos are very cool. The link is here: http://www.spidermanmovieblog.com/archives/2007/04/tokyo_premiere.php

Just can't wait!





also availabe here: http://spider-man-3-film.blogspot.com/2007/04/watch-sm3-tokyo-premiere-videos.html

(note: the photo is strictly for informational purpose and not for commercial purpose)
Featuring SPIDER-MAN 3 on BU ....................................................................

Well the hottest movie this season is arriving. That's SPIDER-MAN 3. A production by Columbia Pictures this film is the third part of SPIDER-MAN franchise. We have a sister blog regarding SM3. From now on, we will regularly post updates on SM3 on both the blogs. The previous films were money-spinner blockbusters. They took in about $ 2 billion (including merchandise, DVD sales etc). This film has 3 villains, including venom. So it's really exciting.
15 more days! Can't resist!!!!!!!