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*MORE LOS ANGELES OBSERVATIONS…
– The reason why all these celebrities are getting busted for DUIs all the time is because there isn’t a viable public transportation system to take their drunk asses home.

Growing up in Boston, this way key. Coming home from the clubs on Lansdowne Street, Kenmore and Kendall Squares. Coming home from Red Sox and Bruins games. Grab a sausage and head down to the T before it stopped running.

-There are movies playing here that you will not find anywhere else. It’s great. I guess they’ll show something here for a weekend so it can qualify for the Oscars or something.

-There are beautiful things here that are so easy to miss. Apple groves. The canals of Venice. All sorts of trees and foliage.

-Oh..and that Hare Krishna restaurant is called Govindas.

*SPIDERMAN 3 REVIEW…
It ain’t horrible…But it ain’t really good either.

Exactly as I figured it would go. I had a bad feeling about the movie years ago when it was announced that another Goblin, the Sandman and Venom would be the villains. All three together could not hold a candle to Doc Ock, the best Spidey villain of all.

Just way too much of everything. This movie could’ve easily been 5 22 minute episodes similar to the superhero soap “Smallville”. Episode one: “Harry seeks revenge” Episode two: “Mary Jane can’t sing” Episode Three: “Rise of the Sandman” Episode Four: “A Taste of Venom” Episode Five:”The Final Battle”

Instead, we have a 2 hour and 17 minute mishmash of juggled storylines, similar to X-Men 3 (But I won’t say it’s as crappy as that Ratner debacle).

Good stuff:
*J.Jonah Jameson
*a few Spidey action scenes
*not using the Goblin mask (if you don’t show the faces, it looks like bad Japanese Giant Robot battles)

Bad stuff:
*Faux close-up/hand-held action shots that are impossible to follow (early Harry/Peter chase)
*Gwen Stacy
*The whole Black suit thing
*The horrible retread musical sequence that worked well in #2 …(it’s like when you laugh at what a kid does, and they do it more and more til it’s not funny anymore)
*Harry’s butler’s speech near the end..(why didn’t he do that a long time ago?)

I guess with the success of #2, they were pressured into trying to top it. But less can be more. I hope they remember that when they make #4. And you know with the bank this film is making, they’re gonna make several more of ’em.

*I’LL BE IN PHILLY THIS MONTH…
at the East Coast Black Age Comics Convention on the 18th and 19th at Temple University. I’ll also be doing my “Comics is Serious Business” workshop on that Saturday, so git yer ass there!