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May 07, 2007

1154: "Why, he's toasterific!"

I am a bad person. I did not see Spiderman 3 over the weekend.

In my defense, it's not my fault. Or, anyway, it's nobody's fault. We were down in Killadelphia to see Pete's family and I'd semi-anticipated that we'd be catching it next weekend with Chris & Loren (a comedy team, a law firm, a fashion brand) in proper IMAX fashion.

I was not bothered by the delay simply because I wasn't -- to be honest -- that excited about the movie in the first place. I liked the first two, particularly because I found myself walking through the set of the second one almost every day for a stretch of time, and who doesn't like to see Bruce Campbell now and then? For whatever reason, I just couldn't get myself worked up about seeing it but I was obviously happy to do so. You'd think that the allure of the black spidey suit would be enough to win me over but I never found myself more than moderately excited about it. Perhaps if they'd thrown in some slow-mo decapitations, I'd be all over it like gold-flecked bronzer on Xerxes -- but, of course, Spiderman usually holds back on that sort of thing. C'est dommage.

Anyway, I know I'm not alone in my vague indifference here because a number of you have admitted to me feeling similarly. The fact that we didn't see Spiderman 3 this past weekend only now bothers me because those same people have come back and told me that it was OMG AWESOME. I'm warned to keep my expectations as low as they had been, which is basically impossible now that I've heard how much fun it was, but I'm doing my best -- a situation which frustrates me doubly because now it seems I won't be seeing it this upcoming weekend either. Chris & Loren will be in California and thus unable to see it with us. Damn it!

Well, there's always this, as The Incredible Amoeba -- another Spidey-watcher -- reminds me:

Posted by ashley at May 7, 2007 10:58 AM

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