Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
It does a dreadful job of a number of things it simply must get right: obsession, guilt, losing your marbles, etc. On top of that, it fails to create any sense of dread, hoping instead the stop motion will be enough (it isn't--the icky ending, which you see coming a mile away, included).
Also the initial film-within-a-film is about a cyclops who made a bargain with the gods to see the future in exchange of one of his eyes, but…
I stopped reading comics around ’94 so it must have happened after that, but this weird mystical horseshit that they’ve built around Spider-Man, where he seems to be destined with the power of the spider spirit or some such bullshit, instead of being a dork accidentally bitten by a radioactive spider, pisses me off. It completely rewrites the character and not for the better. I understand this Madame Web character is an off-shoot of that retcon or at least somewhat…