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Okay, I just got back from seeing this movie. It was probably one of the most fun times I've had in a theater, much to my surprise. The audience was so vocal...usually it pisses me off, but EVERYONE was doing it, even me. Laughing, talking, making jokes, and just reacting to what was happening onscreen. I really love that. The movie, however, confused me. About halfway through, Spider-man turns into Emo-man (I'm not kidding, it was insane) and I didn't know what to think. Actually, I was thinking that if it was meant to be funny, then this movie is utterly brilliant, and considering that it is Sam Raimi's movie, this is a definite possibility. Then again, when Emo-man shows up in scenes that are undoubtedly meant to be taken seriously, I have to question that. He has his scenes that are obviously there for laughs, everyone in the theater was howling, the whole thing was just unbelieveable. And then the mood onscreen changes, but the reactions from the audience stay the same--it's still laughter, or I guess I should say snickering. People (including myself) were yelling "Emo-man!" whenever he would show up onscreen. He was wearing eyeliner for fuck's sake! How can you not laugh? And all the while, the movie is being drop-dead serious about it. I should note that I never see movies like this, so maybe I'm just out of it and I don't know what's happening in modern mainstream cinema, but almost every scene caught me off-guard for some reason or another.

I want to bring up my usual complaints about CGI and how the action sequences were so fast-paced that I couldn't focus on a single thing and generally had no idea what was happening until after it was over...but really, when I left the theater, that's not what I was thinking about. I was thinking about all the stuff I wrote in the first paragraph. The movie just boggled my mind. I don't even have the words to describe what I am thinking right now, so I'm going to stop there and wait for someone else to comment on it.