Monday, October 18, 2004

Spider-Man 2.5

That has to be the worst title ever. Except for X-Men 1.5 and Spider-Man 1.5. Those are pretty stupid too.

Spider-Man 2.5 the DVD will be released with new footage, but what's this? Sam Raimi said in an interview that he's happy with how Spider-Man 2 came out. So why the changes?

Money, pure and simple. Sony's making Raimi go and shoot new scenes so as to have a sound reason why anyone should buy two of essentially the same thing, only instead of having a new featurette on the joys of costume designing, or intern-getting-coffeeing, it will have new scenes that will somehow improve this masterpiece.

But messing with the actual film? That's wrong. Sony should call it Spider-Man 2 "Special Edition." I loathe the term "Special Edition," especially after Lucas slaughtered the once great Return of the Jedi, so you could say I'm a little biased.

So, the moral here is, if it ain't broke, then stay the @#*&! away from it.

Spider-Man 2.0 will be released on DVD November 30th, just in time for Christmas, which will be December 12th this year for no apparent reason.

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