Recent A/V.
When I have to keep reminding myself NOT to turn my phone on to check the time, I know that a movie is too long. Way. Too. Long. Spiderman 3 was one of those.
Also, way too tortured. Jeez Louise, stop crying and start flying. (Or... leaping or whatever.) Bruce Campbell stole his scene (of course), Topher stole all of his (until he became Venom, and then less so), Stan Lee's Silent Bob-esque cameo made me laugh, as did the J. Jonah scenes. The Tobey Maguire Cool Guy Walk would have been funny for fifteen seconds, but it went on for what felt like fifteen hours. Was it really necessary for the Sandman to look at his daughter's locket every three minutes? WE GET IT. HE LOVES HIS DAUGHTER. HE'S NOT REALLY A BAD GUY. And I almost yelled out "DESARIO!!" at the end, but didn't.
Bad. It had a few moments, but overall it was a BAD MOVIE. And not in a good way.
Cripes, at least I knew this one was a bad movie from the get-go -- that's why we rented it. Bruce Campbell was in this one, too, but really I wanted to see it because of Patricia Clarkson. (So even though I suspected it was maybe not that good, I had secret hopes.)She was creepy, but sadly, couldn't save the movie. I'm usually pretty good at the Suspension of Disbelief, but who leaves their kid at a boarding school where all of the windows are broken and the ivy is growing INSIDE the building?