Spidey

My first comic was a SpiderMan one - one of the old Peter Parker comics, where he fought Gladiator, so I do have a special fondness for him. But I wouldn’t consider myself all that concerned about how good the movies are, as a lot of people seem to be. I was quite protective of the X-movies and was annoyed at the directions X3 went in. I just see Spidey as a blockbuster, just go in and enjoy the effects. I absolutely adored the first movie - it brings a little manly tear to my eye. Wasn’t too bothered about the second one - wasn’t that impressed by Alfred Molina and the directions it went in didn’t seem true to the comic.
I finally caught up with the third movie on Saturday. It was great, but, and I think everyone probably had this problem, there are a few buts. First up, waaaay too long. You think the Sandman threat is over halfway thru the movie and only then do they start the whole Venom stuff properly. It just seemed uneven.
Lots of storytelling hokiness too - Sandman’s motivations - is he a goody, a baddie? We’re supposed to like him, but then he goes and beats cops up and teams up with Venom. And what a coincidence that the Venom symbiote hooked up with Peter’s motorbike.
I’d also have preferred it if the black costume was a bit more like it is in the comics. I mean, what was it? Just a black material? In the comic it can cover Pete’s body in a flash. It just wasn’t explained very well.
And finally, the whole Peter going ‘wild’ bits - ouch. My jaw just dropped at how terrible it was. These sooo should have been deleted scenes on the DVD. It verged on Batman and Robin badness (yes, that bad).
Oh, and what was the point of Gwen? Plus she looked more like Felicia Hardy anyway. And what was the point of bringing up the whole Ben Parker stuff? And why did they choose to reveal the truth just now?
There were some really good scenes and some really good set-pieces but they shoulda cut out the crap - there’s a really great movie in there somewhere.

Lost the truth revealed

Last night I solved the mystery of Lost. They are all clones. That's why the plane was found and all their bodies were in it. It really all happened - I saw the episode...
Except it was all a dream. I dreamt a whole episode of Lost. It was so convincing too. Sayid became a weird muscular rabbit type monster - a sad, failed clone experiment.
(Good new episode by the way - a few more answers - could we be on the verge of having the whole thing explained?)

Eurovision

Every year we (well, some people) get excited about Eurovision, and then as soon as the voting starts we all remember 'ah, that's right, we don't stand a chance because it's all political voting'. I watched it on Saturday thinking 'what's the point'. It made me feel like 'what's the point of being European - we are outsiders. And they all speak funny!'
I'm glad the drag queen person didn't win, as he/she was expected to. It's about the song, not the act!!!

Rufus

Rufus Wainwright has been doing a lot of media recently for his new album - and I'm quite surprised at how happy he is to let it be known that he is DESPERATE for his new album to be a success. He's had years of critical acclaim but not much commercial success. Apparently his new album is completely accessible and commercial.
It's surprising how blatant he is about it all - and also surprising how badly the new album cover lets him down. It's pretty dire and you can't even read his name on the cover.
I don't think I'll buy it. He's okay, he can write some cracking tunes, but his voice can be a bit of a drone sometimes...

Reviewers

I wrote about a couple of album reviews a while ago, and it actually got me thinking about music reviewers. I mean, how do you review an album? How long do they spend on it? Most albums I get, I don’t like them the first time I listen to them, and it’s only around the 5th, 6th or 10th time that I start to like them, when the tunes start to sink in. I can’t imagine reviewers listening to albums that much. You have to let the album really sink in and get into your head, and experience it.
A couple of years back, Tori’s Beekeeper album got some quite scathing reviews - and I even wrote to a newspaper to defend it and have a go at the reviewer. And I did like the album back then, I mean I love what Tori does, but I can look back now, and compared to the new album, the Beekeeper just really lacked bite and it didn’t really have any driving, exciting tunes on it. So even I was wrong lol...

Ambitions

DK FindOut Magazine's indicia question of the month this month is 'when you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?'. I had no doubt what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a newsagent. I wanted all the latest Marvel and DC comics to myself. I wonder if any other little boys wanted to be newsagents when they grew up.
(I wouldn't want to be a newsagent now. They have to start work far too early.)

Apprentice week 7

You know, i really wasn't convinced Adam would go last night. Fair enough, he's been in the boardroom four or five times, but I do think that is partly down to the fact that his opponents seem threatened by him - that's why they seem to hate him so much. It's sad that Sugar fell for that really.
I honestly can't see who might win now. They all have huge faults.
And it's really shocking seeing how Katie is setting herself up as Public Enemy Number One. So shocking when intelligent people don't realise what they are doing to their image on reality TV. She's a bit of a bitch - but I actually feel a bit sorry for her - another reality TV victim...
Let's hope she doesn't get much worse.....for her sake.