May 07, 2007

Film Critic Quote of the Week

Matt Zoller Seitz, on "Spider-man 3":

"I'll accept a world where a super-villain can instigate a crane accident that just happens to imperil a young woman who just happens to attend the same science class as our hero. For that matter, I'll accept that a meteorite containing parasitic black goo that amplifies a person's dark tendencies would just happen to land a few yards from Peter and Mary Jane when they're canoodling in Central Park, and that the same good would just happen to land on Brock later, and that Peter's uncle's murder -- which was definitively established as the work of one crook in the original film -- turns out to have been the work of a duo, one of whom is Flint Marko. But I can't accept that the same protagonist who, in the climax of Spider-Man 2, calmly convinced a homicidally depressed Harry Osborn to shelve his grudge long enough to help save Mary Jane, would suddenly start behaving as if the world were just a big TV show that he could drift in and out of with no big repercussions. (If Spider-Man's vanity resulted in multiple civilian deaths, and made him into a public pariah again -- well, that would be a different story, and likely a more unsettling one than Sony would be willing to green-light.)
Yea, all the false endings, false deaths, and Harry's-good-no-he's-evil-no-he's-good was just a bit too much for me.

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 7, 2007 07:36 PM
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