Better movie?

[mecurdius]

huge argument with my friends and i, some say that spiderman was better, some X-men, i think X-men, because it was a movie. It had a good plot, because it had themeing like racism. Also spiderman may have been the better comic book movie, because of sontinuity and everything, but i think as fdar as Film goes, X-men.

Oh and BTW- brian singer is much better than Sam raimi.

[Yoda]

X-Men was superior...but not by much.

[Mary Loquacious]

I voted Spiderman, although I do love X-Men.

[Raziel1]

X-men by a hair just because I think the action scenes were better, and more frequent.

[Monkeypunch]

Spider-man was better than X-Men, in my opinion. Sam Raimi is one of my favorite directors, so I'm biased there, but I think Spider-man had a bigger scope, a better story, and was just more fun. I do like X-men, but Spidey is a classic character and got a better movie.

[fostersliteice]

Spiderman rules

[sisboombah]

oh that is so hard!

x-men rocked!

but then spiderman has kirsten dunst.

ill have to think about this one long and hard i think.

[jungerpants]

Originally posted by sisboombah
but then spiderman has kirsten dunst.

Am I the only guy on the planet who doesn't think she's all that hot? Her face makes her look like she's 30... she's attractive, but I wouldn't go out of my way to say she's hot.

[Yoda]

Amen, Jason. She's not ugly, of course...she looks good...but great? No, I don't really think so. Quite frankly, the thing I find most appealing about her is that she doesn't look particularly stunning upon first sight.

[firegod]

I'm with you two. Attractive, but not incredible. I was checking out some web site with a top 100 list of the sexiest women alive and I believe she was #8, according to the voting. Huh??

[Naisy]

ok i admit i liked X-men but I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEDDDD Spiderman (if you get my drift) the plot i feel was much better and yes Spiderman was pridictable in some parts but the actors were better as well. kirsten dunst may not be you typically stunning, mouth dropping, tounge rolling babe, but i still wouldnt mind having her to take home to the parents!

[jrs]

SP I D E R M A N ! ! ! :yup:

[renegade]

I THINK BOTH MOVIES ARE GOOD BUT SPIDERMAN IS BETTER AND IT'S FUNNY TOO!!! ;)

[sadesdrk]

as far as laughs, renegade, X-Men had them going on too.......:yup:
I voted X-Men. Spider-Man was just a HUGE disappointment for me. Good, but not what I expected. X-Men went above and beyond my expectations. I remember hearing they were going to make a movie of my favorite Saturday morning cartoon (The X-Men) and I was all disgruntled. Reluctantly, I went to see it and I was impresed; far better than Super-Man.

[Naisy]

spiderman is still sneaking in front, what was it about spiderman that disappointed you sades?

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Naisy
spiderman is still sneaking in front, what was it about spiderman that disappointed you sades? As Kently would say (aw, geeze. I miss Spuds. :( ), "It's Spider-Man!"

Anyways.....
I guess I was just expecting a better movie, that's all. I liked Tobey Maguire, he totally embodied Peter Parker as I remember him from the comic and the cartoon. I got no beef with Tobes.

Kirsten Dunst as M.J. was just weak. I couldn't stand her and usually love Kirsten. Her speech at the end, in the graveyard, was junk-acting, at best.

Willem ( yes, it's Willem, not "William") Dafoe as Norman Osborne was justly cast. He was classy yet creepy, but as the Green Goblin, I dunno...it was much too over the top to be believable. I know, I know, the whole movie is based on a comic book so throw believable out the window...but still, it was corny.

The special effects were nice. I loved all the action sequences.

The script, and this is key to why I didn't like it, was crap. Total and complete crap. I hated it. Stan Lee and whoever his partner is, can write good comics, but it doesn't transfer well to the big screen AT ALL.
So there you have it.

[renegade]

I HEARD THERES GONNA BE SPIDERMAN 2! I HEARD SOME SH*T LIKE IT'S GONNA COME OUT YEAR 2004...

[Holden Pike]

YEAH, FU*KIN'-A, I HEARD THAT ***** TOO, MAN!

Yes, no surprise there's going to be a sequel. Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst had signed to do two originally and Spider-Man has already become one of the biggest hits ever, over $400-million now in domestic grosses alone. Reportedly the villains the next time out will be Doctor Octopus & The Lizard. The target date will indeed be summer of 2004.

BTW, the bold-face shouting isn't necessary, we can hear you fine.

[renegade]

Yeah isn't that great...haha :p

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by Holden Pike
BTW, the bold-face shouting isn't necessary, we can hear you fine. Well said. :)

[cherry]

:yup:

id have to say that spiderman is better.

[sadesdrk]

Why would Spider-Man be a better movie? Any reasons?

[cherry]

well i prefered it to X-men
though i did like x-men. dont get me wrong...... just personal preference i guess..... lol

[sadesdrk]

I just like to hear reasons, that's all. I mean, it's one thing to say you liked it or didn't like it; it's another thing, and a much BETTER thing--to tell us why.

[Gracie]

I really love both of them, but I had to go with X-Men. It was really hard to decide, but then I heard a voice in my head...

I was sitting at my desk, staring at the screen of my laptop, when I heard a small voice. I couldn't make it out at first, but it got clearer. "Use the force, Grace", the voice said. "What was that?" I thought. And then an avater apeared before me, and under the username, it said "What would Yoda do?". And then it hit me. Yoda was a big fan of mutants (Especially the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), so he said to me "The movie with Magneto should you pick." And that is the story of how I was locken in an Insane Asilum...

Anywho, did anyone know that Ean Mckellan (AKA Gandalf) was...well...:rolleyes:...let me put it this way, he's out of the closet...

[moviebuff]

Spiderman was a much better film. It was a lot more faithful to the comics, had much more action, and more good actors.

[mecurdius]

thats just the thing movie buff, i love comics, but sometimes i think that quality shouldnt be sacrificed just to make it more like the comics, you know? Like for example, i like what they are doing with daredevil, they are making a movie, not a comic book movie.

[moviefan20]

I am not into the X-men type of stuff, so i am going to have to go with Spiderman. I mean, the movie was great in my opinion!!

[Jozie]

I liked spiderman better. It was (yes, this is a crazy thing to say) more real. The people took themselves seriously but not so terribly seriously, if you know what I mean. It;s all very well to save the world and all that, but it would have to be a day-to-day effort, wouldn't it? And this had a kind of day-to-day feel.

Hmm. I don't think I'm getting through to myself either.

Anyway, I thought Toby Maguire was so cute jumping from building to building.

Love,
Jozie

[Herod]

I'm going with X-men on this one. I just thought Spiderman was stupid, espescially how they took everything about becoming spiderman out of Peter Parkers hands. Yeah, he was bitten by a radioctive spider, so it does have a sense of "this could happen to you". But originally, Peter made his web slingers, which indicated that becoming a super hero took some hard work on his part. They cant have that, now can they? And as far as the Kirsten Dunst angle goes, Natalie Portman, man. She's a Harvard Law student, and a Super-freaky-hotty-star-wars-superhero.

So, as much as I like Sam Raimi, for his work with Bruce "Jesus" Campbell, I'm going X-men

[Dante]

Spider-Man, because it was just funnier, faster, and had a better script. There are spots in X-Men where the scripting is just horrid. Best bad line from X-Men: "Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.." I cringe everytime that line comes up...

[Gollum]

Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring:rolleyes:

[Gracie]

Almost everyone here thinks that LOTR:FORT is superior, but were taling about the films at hand. Choose the one you prefer, and vote on it in in the poll above. Good Luck!

[Herod]

Such sweetness in the face of adversity.
:D

[Gracie]

I'm doing the who with the what with the hey now?

[Monkeypunch]

Originally posted by Gracie
Almost everyone here thinks that LOTR:FORT is superior

Spider-Man was far superior to LOTR in every way possible!! I am, of course, in the minority here, but it really was much more entertaining.

[Herod]

Normally, I'd agree with you simply to get in arguments with people, but seriously, I'm a big Raimi fan, and IMNSHO SpiderMan sucked it.
Sucked it long, and sucked it hard.

The scenes were great, large parts of the movie were great, but it just didn't come together well.

[Naisy]

Originally posted by Monkeypunch


Spider-Man was far superior to LOTR in every way possible!! I am, of course, in the minority here, but it really was much more entertaining.

I have to disagree with you, although I LOOOOVE Spiderman, the biggest fan LOTR's is far superior in plot, acting, theme, genre. The only thing that contends is the action scenes. Im sorry Monkey your ON YOUR OWN!!! Im standing with Gracie on this one. Although i wouldnt have gone so far as to say it sucked it long and sucked it hard because i still love the movie just loved LOTR's more. :yup:

[Monkeypunch]

oh, I know I'm on my own on this one. Everyone I know is LOTR happy, and I thought it was overlong, dull in spots, and repetetive. weirdly, I will probably end up seeing the second one, because it looks faster paced, more fun, and I really want to see what Gollum looks like in this version....

[Naisy]

LOTR's is basically what i love, fantasy, magic, adventure, i wish the world really was like LOTR's, inside im still a little kid longing for adventure :yup: i will be seeing the whole trilogy

[rudeboyben]

they are both good but i do like spdy that little bit more.

[rudeboyben]

Originally posted by Monkeypunch


Spider-Man was far superior to LOTR in every way possible!!

sorry but i really think you couldn't be more wrong. I have a book on the FX of LOTR and it wipes the floor with spider-man

LOTR FOREVER!!!

[linespalsy]

as a comics fan i have to say spider man won on the basis of the very 'bloodline' the producers were tapping in turning this into a movie (though superior writing, etc. helped, no doubt), for the fact that it eschewed a superior strain of comic book lineage than the x-men movie did. spiderman was silver-age marvel goodness. light, entertaining, americana-filled, superhero pulp-fiction. in my book this stacks the odds heavilly against x-men, which in contrast drew most of it's ideas from a more recent 'hard-edged' marvel/image industry that while being perhaps a bit more violent, and outspoken, (not to mention pretentious) is no less stupid, and suffers for it. maybe if ice-man threw snow-balls, i would have been able to take this movie more seriously, though i doubt it.

still, all in all i have a few complaints about 'spiderman':
the inclusion of mary jane over gwen stacy was a mistake, the osbornes' were missing their famously awesome cross-hatch haircuts (blaspemy!), and the humor took a back seat to the drama for the last half (perhaps this would have been remedied if they had instead chosen to do the 'doctor octopus tries to woo aunt may into marrying him' plotline, though i think they did make the better choice over all, in the end.) still, spidey will easily make my top ten list for 2002, for sure.

now when the hell are they going to do a 'plasic man' movie?
captain marvel, anyone?

[Jozie]

Hi Darlings,
No point quarreling over taste, and anyway, they were both yummy but in different ways. I do like Toby Maguire, and liked it that he was SUCH a nice person. (Really acted like a good person, and not just other characters saying it, or just not killing people, or just being the protaganist.) Actions speak louder than verbiage, y'know.
But LOTR is its own classic universe, and you can't argue with that, can you? So lets just pick both & be done with it.
Love and kisses and hugs,
Jozie
PS to Naisy
If "Best Mofo Friends With Jozie" is not just one of those "usernamehere" thingies, then Thanks!
;-D
j

[John Kinsella]

Tough one...only cause he was always my favorite, and I love both films so much...I would pick Spiderman;)

[Nikki]

Spiderman

[Gracie]

You suck!

[Travis_Bickle]

X-Men wasn't that good. (btw, I was an extra in it.)

Spiderman was the better of the two. The first half of the film was really tight, and they did a remarkable job sticking with the actual story. They fit so much history in so little time, and it never seemed weak and rushed.

The down side of Spiderman though was the second half. The farther along it got, the weaker. If it never had such a good beginning..... it could have been a BAD film.

[jrs]

With X2 coming out May 2003 and Spiderman 2 in 2004, it's going to be harder to decide as goes by.
My original choice earlier was Spiderman but i don't know now.
Also....Daredevil comes out Feburary 2003, don't forget as well as The Hulk supposedly later on in the year.
Like I said..........harder !

[Henry The Kid]

I'll say neither. I thought they were both very mediocre.

[jamesglewisf]

x-men all the way.