For the first time ever I walked out of a movie - midway - today. Amazing Spiderman was screened tonight on my campus. A lot of people, including me, were quite upbeat about it. We planned to finish all our meetings before the screening began - yes, we have late night meetings here. That's our way of acting all important in a B-school (kidding!). Anyway, so dinner and meetings were hurried away and then began the much awaited movie. I had heard some trash reviews about it but I thought just how much could somebody spoil a Spiderman story. Guess it was too early to have my hopes pinned up optimistically. No surprise then that they fell flat on their faces!
After what seemed to be an hour and a half, I checked my watch and realised the nuances of the Theory of Relativity. Only 45 minutes had passed, and the movie seemed to slower down with each passing frame. In another minute I was told that the run time was 140 minutes. It is not in my basic nature to walk out of a movie in between. So I persuaded myself to sit through a little longer. In another six and a half minutes my patience gave way. The amateur special effects, the juvenile antics of the so-called Amazing Spiderman, and an absolutely disgusting lizard monster made it impossible for me to take it any more. Another annoying thing, Irrfan Khan (extra R inexplicable) stars in the movie as a villain. He added the comic factor. I do not know who directed that movie, I'm not even going to find out. But he did a wonderful job messing it up. Marvel should adopt a more thorough procedure before handing out the rights. They can surely do better.
I'd consider this movie, perhaps, at par with Saawariya. I had slept off in less than 15 minutes into that outlandish piece of motion art that Sanjay Leela Bhansali insisted on calling a masterpiece. I don't think I can handle the multiple nightmares. It's taken me an hour of crazy banter and three bars of ice cream to get over the trauma. I'm just glad I did not pay for it.
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