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Movie Fashizzlessss : Spiderman 3

The next anticipated movie of 2007 after 300, is the third installment of Spiderman. After the hype, the leaked out photos and cool trailer, and all those 4 star ratings in the papers, im sorry to say this movie proved to be a disappointment.

Overall, I tink it would have lived up to most people's expectations. But seriously, for you to introduce Venom, you really have a mammoth task of meeting expectations of Venom fans. Ok we know the storyline for this episode. Spidey gets a cult following, hero of NYC. Gets to his head. Wanna marry M.J (not Michael Jordan, nor Michael Jackson, nor Magic Johnson). As the tagline goes, 'The Greatest Battle lies within'. Im not too sure if you can draw comparison with Jim Carrey's character in Me, Myself and Irene. But he has to battle his own demons, and to make matters worse, the fame that comes with being a superhero, and the introduction of the black symbiote making him stronger, sure as hell makes it difficult not to make your head swell.

What happens when your head swells as such? You lose focus on your childhood dreamgirl, you go around kissing blondies and you kill your enemy, instead of just rendering them useless and throw them into Hotel California. So we see Parker take on all these trivial issues, that seems to dog this superhero with very non-superhero issues.

Here I list out the problems of this movie :

1) Too many baddies = too many characters = a messy messy facial affair.
Venom. Sandman. Green Goblin's son (who from now on will be referred to cheesily as THE New Goblin). And spidey himself becoming black. See when you have too many characters, their screen time gets shortened and lose focus. And as pointed out by M:dir, seems Parker and MJ gets too much screentime of their love-dovey fashiznits. We wana see Spidey kick some ass, and get his ass kicked.

2) All the villains become softies. Wat the? Sandman, for all his tough and beefy body, is so soft. Not sure if the motive of him turning to crime (due to his daughter's illness) would look well for someone who has so much potential to create more havoc. Brock, becomes all emo and shite after getting rejected of his job. New Goblin gets all mushy when he lies in hospital wif amnesia. Ewww. Where have all the badass villainssss goneee? Tooo du du. Too du du. Too du du.

3) New goblin's suit sucks. Looks more like a surfer dude. Or a lord of dogtown.

4) And numero quatro. Venom. What a letdown. And to let Topher Grace, he of the retro That 70s show as Brock? Just what was Sam thinking. Dont get me wrong, I love Eric Foreman in 70s show. But you see, as ive seen in the comics and cartoons, Brock was a, wat you'd call the school bully or the playground bully. Beef jerky kinda guy, filled wif frat boy jokes and definitely slightly towering over Peter. And Venom's mouth suppposed to open hugeee, like alligator like that, wif his spiked tongue running amok. Not squeezy small sharp teeth. Venom is supppoed to be beefy, not slim jim. Alas, it juz did not be. Altho the effects of venom were still overall very cool, it juz wasnt enough. Maybe the flint marko dude would have made a better Venom. Just so wrong lah to put Topher Grace. He brought along too much of Eric Foreman. His eye rolling. They way he fold his arms. The way he walks.

5) Yes, the scene of the emo badass Parker, was juz overly done Raimi. When he was dancing in the cafebar while wif Debbie does Dallas, I was half expecting Parker to put on the black venom mask and dance ala the Mask with everyone following behind. My name is Cuban Pete, im king of the samba beat and then I go chick chicka boom chick chicka boom chick chicka boom.

But yea, still watchable lah if you not fussy abt Venom as I was. I have to admit, I did not expect the twist at the final fight scene. Wanna know wat it is? Watch it then. I give you a clue. WWF. And not the animal kind. And Flint Marko, going the Kurt Cobain way, of it's better to burn out than to fade away in his final scene. I hope he'd be back. Sandman that is.

So this gets, hmmm, after all the bashing, still 4 / 5 charkueys lah k.

Next up....



Please dont disappoint me Michael Bay.

You've got the touch, you've got the power!

I found very interesting reads while trawling thru the net and tabloids, and would like to share with you good people. First up, this from http://www.soccernet.com/ about Milan Baros, one of my former favorite ex-Pool players. He received a 3 match ban for doing this.

Baros gets three-match ban for nose pinching
PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - Olympique Lyon's Czech striker Milan Baros was handed a three-match ban by the French professional football league (LFP) on Thursday for pinching his nose in front of an opponent.

Former Liverpool and Aston Villa player Baros pinched his nose in front of Stade Rennes's Cameroon-born midfielder Stephane M'Bia and waved his hand as if he were repelling an offensive odour during the French champions' 0-0 draw at Stade Rennes on April 18.
The LFP's disciplinary committee said in its ruling that it came to the conclusion the gesture was not racist.

Baros is suspended until the end of the season and the sanction will take effect on Monday, the LFP said in a statement. That means the player will miss his side's last three Ligue 1 matches.
Lyon have already made sure of winning a sixth consecutive title.

Baros has said there was nothing racist in his gesture and that he had only wanted to signify to M'Bia that he should move back and let him breathe. Baros, 25, joined Lyon from Aston Villa in January. ( from http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=427332&cc=4716 )

Wahahaha. I was laughing my head off reading this. Im pretty sure Baros had no racial connotation, his actions implying that M'Bia was so close that he could smell his BO. Who smells like roses on the pitch anyway. In S'pore, if Baros did that, people will imply that M'Bia IS a 'smelly' player, or what we call main busok. What does main busok mean? Literal meaning is play smelly. But it also implies that you are cheating. Maybe you were diving, or a tackle from the back, or doing an andy cole (curi ayam). Still, Im quite convinced that Baros was not being rascist.

Another article I saw yesterday in our favorite afternoon daily tabloid, The New Paper (with its much hyped Think articles wahahahaha). This from the new paper online http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/

FAKE DISNEY
This isn't HAPPIEST place on EARTH
US to file suit over 'rampant' piracy in China
May 06, 2007
DISNEYLAND is too far, reads the China theme park's slogan.
Counterfeit Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck wave to patrons. (Below) The park's version of Disneyland's trademark Cinderella's Castle. -- Pictures: AFP

Their solution was to build a counterfeit Disneyland from scratch - complete with Cinderella's Castle, and everything else you see at Disney theme park's all over the world. In this Beijing attraction, Shijingshan Amusement Park, you'll be able to find actors dressed in Mickey, Donald, Snow White and many other copyrighted characters.

And none of this is authorised by Disney. This state-owned 'Magic Kingdom' has got the US fuming. It announced that it would file a case at the World Trade Organisation over 'rampant' copyright piracy in China, a practice which US companies say deprives them of billions of dollars each year.

'WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?'
But 31-year-old housewife Zhang Li betrays a typical Chinese attitude on the issue while chasing her young son around the park.

'I don't understand why that is such a big problem. Shouldn't others be able to use those characters besides (Disney)?' she asks.

Her view is common in a country where lax societal and law enforcement attitudes toward copyright protection has seen the counterfeit goods industry become a key part of the national economy.

A US Congressional panel says China's own data suggests such goods account for 15 to 20 percent of goods made in the country.

Such numbers seem hard to dispute in Beijing, where one can spend a morning at an imitation Disney amusement park, have lunch at a KFC knock-off, shop for fake foreign-brand fashions in the afternoon and relax at night with a DVD of a Hollywood film that is still in the theatres in the US.

'Its part of living in China,' said Canadian businessman Brian Dugood while he was looking at fake Armani jackets at the Yashow Clothing Market.

'Why buy the original when you can get a pretty good copy at one-tenth the price?'

The US case could result in retaliatory trade measures on China but those may be easier to overcome than the task China faces in changing attitudes in a country where most consumers have little hope of affording legitimate DVDs.

Mr Lei Danni, who runs a small shop selling fake DVD and compact discs, brushes off accusations by US companies that his business hurts sales of legitimately-produced software.
'We aren't stealing from anyone. Most of my customers say they wouldn't buy the real thing anyway because its too expensive. So there is no connection.' - AFP.
Taken from http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,129549,00.html?

Hehehe. I still cant stop laughing. Other people cant use Donald Duck meh?

Akan datang, review on Spiderman 3.

2nd european cup final in 3 seasons! never thought it wld happen in my lifetime. amazing game, amazing anfield, amazing performances from reina,gerrard,mascherano,kuyt! seeing rafa benitez duduk bersila on the blessed turf that is anfield was priceless. A picture of uberzencoolness.seeing ur manager in that position wld calm any player down especially during a penalty shootout!