my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film Handlers' Movie Reviews   » Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Author Topic: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 12-14-2018 07:54 PM                        CINEMA: Regal Warren East Wichita, KS AUDITORIUM: 14, SEAT: G15 PRESENTATION: Warren GRAND slope auditorium with standard seating and Regal Roller Coaster Vision with new orange nut crown logo (REGAL! We're nuts about orange!) PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None RATING: Two and one half stars (out of four) THE PLOT: A kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider. Wackiness ensues. Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for around ten years now. He's the only Spider-Man. That is, until Miles gets bitten by a radioactive spider and Kingpin builds a supercollider that...inadvertently?...brings in a bunch of other Spider-people (and one Spider-pig) from parallel universes. Basically, they stole the idea of the Multiverse from the CW Arrowverse and not only made a movie, they released it the same freaking week the Arrowverse had its annual crossover shows revolving around a plot that relied heavily on the Multiverse. The animation sometimes has a very computer look to it, sometimes a very comic book look to it. It's too long and not as fun as it should have been...in fact, I'd go as far as to say it's darker than any of the live-action Spider-Man films...but I wouldn't call it a bad movie either. I suspect comic book fans will be way more into this than movie fans. I'd seen that this was coming but had no idea what it was supposed to be and it wasn't on my radar to actually see until the reviews started coming out over the past couple of days falling all over it.  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 01-09-2019 07:19 PM                     CINEMA: Arclight Hollywood AUDITORIUM: 7, row 4 middle TICKET PRICE: $16 for evening shows on Mondays & Tuesdays; compare to $14.50 at our local Regal ripoffs with tepid presentation but FREE PARKING!!! PRESENTATION: 4.8/5 Arclight doesn't disappoint. Just with it weren't a 30-mile drive! I believe it's Christie laser digital, and it was delightfully bright and excellent color saturation on a huge screen; 5.1 non-Atmos sound with true deep bass and pleasing tone at an aggressive volume. PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: the front three auditorium lights fogged the screen unnecessarily during the previews and credits; they should be killed or angled. Should add Atmos to this auditorium. RATING: Three stars (out of four) Struck me as ADHD sensory overload and totally wonderful at the same time. This is visually unique to the point that I don't know what to compare it to. A movie for all ages - if the older ones can handle how frenetic it is. It's clean enough for kids and not boring for parents, with positive themes of heroism (duh!), courage, family values, and responsibility.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 02-27-2019 02:46 PM                     I loved how the filmmakers combined all elements of the movie to such tremendous entertaining effect - saw it three times, once in 3D, once in Dolby Cinema, and 'oh what the heck' a third time - this so deserved it's Oscar win as Best Animated feature.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.