Spider-Man 2
Jan. 10th, 2005 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyAre there any mainstream reviews of Spider-Man 2 that mention the thing that made me want to blind myself? It doesn't seem so. They think that it was the 'movie summer's most touching young romance'. Last summer? Whatever (I did manage to find a handful of negative reviews, which actually I agree with -- the movie was talky and obvious, but I haven't yet seen The Scene mentioned). If a manipulative and flaky girl and an obsessed boy add up to romance, count me out. She agreed to marry another man. She askes Peter to kiss her to prove that he doesn't love her. Then he says that he does love her, but now she knows he's Spider-Man, so she has to understand that they can't be together. So, she was in the church, all dressed up for the wedding. She has an epiphany or something, and races out of the church, still in her wedding dress, to tell Peter that she loves him and that she doesn't mind if he spends the rest of his life rescuing kittens as long as she can be there waiting at home for him at the end of the day.
I may have paraphrased a little there. But yes, she's just broken her word and possibly broken a man's heart, and she's glowing and giddy, not a care in the world.
And let's not forget her little, "I think I knew all along." in an earlier scene re: his Spideyness. Really? Then why were you always so upset when he took off without warning?
Seriously, the leaving at the altar, especially without a word of explanation, is pretty low. That guy fully deserves the right to hate her for a while, just as Anya hated Xander for a while. And at least he was angsty about it and he didn't do it so that he could tell another woman that he loved her. He fully planned on marrying her before the horrible vision showing in vivid color his great fear about hurting her. Mary Jane, who loved Peter throughout the entire film, decided only at the very last minute that maybe she shouldn't marry someone else.
She could have told him at any earlier point and it would have been better. The night before would have been better, so still fairly horrible. But to let him get all dressed up, with his family and friends there, and then to leave him high and dry -- she just humilated someone that she supposedly cared enough about to say 'yes' to.
I'm sure that any of y'all that have seen the movie have already gotten past your rage, if you felt any. But this is all fresh and new for me.
Of course, it doesn't help that I don't agree with the wording of Spider-Man's premise. With great power does not come great responsibility. It should, but that's not the same. With great power comes the ability to effect great change. It can be used responsibly or not.
I'm just irritated when a 'should' is presented as an 'is'. It's not true to life as we know it. When Bush because President, he didn't magically become more responsible. He just had more power.
ETA: You know, maybe it's not the wording so much as it is the self-righteous way the characters say the phrase. I'll think further on this.
I may have paraphrased a little there. But yes, she's just broken her word and possibly broken a man's heart, and she's glowing and giddy, not a care in the world.
And let's not forget her little, "I think I knew all along." in an earlier scene re: his Spideyness. Really? Then why were you always so upset when he took off without warning?
Seriously, the leaving at the altar, especially without a word of explanation, is pretty low. That guy fully deserves the right to hate her for a while, just as Anya hated Xander for a while. And at least he was angsty about it and he didn't do it so that he could tell another woman that he loved her. He fully planned on marrying her before the horrible vision showing in vivid color his great fear about hurting her. Mary Jane, who loved Peter throughout the entire film, decided only at the very last minute that maybe she shouldn't marry someone else.
She could have told him at any earlier point and it would have been better. The night before would have been better, so still fairly horrible. But to let him get all dressed up, with his family and friends there, and then to leave him high and dry -- she just humilated someone that she supposedly cared enough about to say 'yes' to.
I'm sure that any of y'all that have seen the movie have already gotten past your rage, if you felt any. But this is all fresh and new for me.
Of course, it doesn't help that I don't agree with the wording of Spider-Man's premise. With great power does not come great responsibility. It should, but that's not the same. With great power comes the ability to effect great change. It can be used responsibly or not.
I'm just irritated when a 'should' is presented as an 'is'. It's not true to life as we know it. When Bush because President, he didn't magically become more responsible. He just had more power.
ETA: You know, maybe it's not the wording so much as it is the self-righteous way the characters say the phrase. I'll think further on this.
