Tobey's crying

[Comicfan]

Well, I wasn´t bothered by the crying in the movie... when I broke with my girlfrind, trust me I cryied like a baby

The thing that bothered me is that the emotional parts failed to make contact with the audience, everytime the was an emotional scene the people in the theatre I went started laughing... especialy when harry is dying ...maybe that part was a little over the top, I give you that

but my point is that the movie failed to express the emotion in some parts

 

[LadyVader]

I think the scene would've worked a lot better if Mary Jane really made him feel like dirt. Started talking smack about him, about how he's a nobody without the Spiderman persona. How he's just a joke. You know, something that would really make him hurt. And then she turns around and we see she's crying or something. There are so many ways Raimi and the actors could've made that scene work in such a way that it would've had emotion but not be over the top.

 

[JackBauer]

he cries okay, it's just that his face suddenly looks like a raisin when he does.

 

[El Payaso]

spiderman 3 was obviously a comedy, so the crying didnt fit or work....

Nor the comedy aspect.

 

[Comicfan]

I think the scene would've worked a lot better if Mary Jane really made him feel like dirt. Started talking smack about him, about how he's a nobody without the Spiderman persona. How he's just a joke. You know, something that would really make him hurt. And then she turns around and we see she's crying or something. There are so many ways Raimi and the actors could've made that scene work in such a way that it would've had emotion but not be over the top.

Come on if a girl you like tells you is over, that is just enough to make you cry, she doesn´t need to make you feel like dirt

 

[danoyse]

I had a hard time with Tobey's ability to pull off tears since the first movie. Him crying over his uncle was so badly done I still cringe when I see it.

I love the way he played that scene. It hit a little close to home--I had lost my uncle two years earlier, and that "I missed him a lot today," was just spot-on as far as the emotion, because it was sort of how we felt every time there was a family event and got a little sad that he wasn't there to share it.

On another note...my sister saw the movie last night and sent me an angry text message aftewards that they had "the most obnoxious audience ever!!" because of the laughing.

 

[LadyVader]

Come on if a girl you like tells you is over, that is just enough to make you cry, she doesn´t need to make you feel like dirt

Yeah, but for us as an audience I think the scene would've had a bigger impact if MJ was standing there trying to be as mean as possible in order to make Peter hate her. Then even the dance sequence in the jazz club would make more sense. Because he really wanted to hurt her.

 

[Vaportrail]

If you were being broken up with by someone THAT important to you.. your lip would be trembling too. They didn't splice it very well between the two tremblers, but the action itself was quite convincing to me.

Try it. It's hard.
When MJ said "There's someone else, alright? I've fallen in love with someone else", I didn't see that as trying to hurt him.. that was her trying to push him away so he'd stop trying since I knew as soon as she called him that Harry was making her break up with Peter to hurt him.

Whether or not she was thinking about it or not remains in question. She probably figured she'd break up with him, wait for him to take care of Harry then explain what had happened. He is Spider-Man, after all.

-Vaportrail

 

[gimmen64]

The crying in the movie was good. It showed that Peter Parker is human, even if he is the greatest hero didn't mean everything went his way. I know when a girl broke it off with me and learning it was my friend she left me for, I was so hurt yet full of vengence. This movie had my attention so much that at several times in the movie I felt like a was the only one there.

 

[Murder]

I thought that Bridge scene was very well done. To me it was like word for word well not that , but it felt just like when I broke up with my X girl. I felt I could connect with Peter especially when he pulls out the ring as like a last ditch effort. Definitely my favorite emotion scene that rivals the Aunt May Hero speech in SM2.

When I think of this movie , Harry was such a badass. I just wished Venom would have been the one to torture Pete. The cartoon scene where Eddie is over Aunt Mays is vintage and thought would translate great to the big screen. But alas it was not meant to be. Cheers!!!

 

[LostSon88]

he was in the other two movies . . . we even hear his name in the second movie.

No...really?!

So tell me about him then...other than the fact that his name is Bernerd and he's a butler...

....exactly.

What I was getting at was even though he was in the entire trilogy, we have no idea of the extent of his relationship to the Osbornes...hence why his lines about "loving" them came off as rather odd.

Get it?

 

[chamber-music]

was it really necassary for peter parker to cry so much in the film. I know Spider-mans sensitive and no Batman but it got ridiculas after the first couple of times.

 

[Spiderine]

How many times did the guy cry.

 

[LadyVader]

Enough times to warrant the creation of a drinking game!

 

[Black Goblin]

yeah, in my theatre everybody would laugh everytime he cried and everybody laughed at the serious moments.
not a good sign

 

[da3dl3us]

Did Peter cry in SM2? I don't recall. I just remember him getting teary eyed with Aunt May (and rightfully so), but I don't recall him bawling.

 

[The_Shadow]

This Is why I'm waiting until tonight (Sunday night) at 10:15 pm, the last show to see It. There won't be any kids, or dumb high schoolers there to ruin It.
All these people *****ing about how he looked when he cried.... Tell me, how are people SUPPOSED to look when they are crying?

 

[LostSon88]

Apparently with dignity. LOL.

 

[Spidey]

Tell me, how are people SUPPOSED to look when they are crying?

They're supposed to look foolish and broken, which is exactly what the Tobes gave us, in my opinion. He looked like someone just told him his new little baby girl had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had less than a month to live. Brilliant.

 

[Tempest19]

Exactly, it's raw emotion.

As someone who has felt the need to get revenge recently, I also loved that performance.

The look of annoyance, in a way- that he gives MJ... signaling that he just wants to be alone, because he knows that he might "lose it" due to all of these conflicting emotions was really well done. That's exactly how I responded to people during my days of considering revenge about someone important in my life dying because of possibly somebody else's actions.

Tobey emits RAW and REAL emotions, which I think- for some- is uncomfortable to watch, because it is real to a point that it makes you feel like you're "invading" this private real moment between the two.

 

[14k london spider]

It's funny i guess so much depends on the audience you're with - the audience i was with seemed very into it, and did not cry at any of the scenes mentioned - i didn't realise it was even an issue until i saw this thread. I was very much carried with the emotion in this movie especially when Harry dies, so i guess it wasn't funny to me.

 

[cheungcheung]

there was WAY too much crying in spider-man 3.

and when i saw the scene on the bridge, i kept thinking back on pretty much the exact same scene that happened on Smallville less than two months ago... and how much better it was on Smallville than Spider-man 3.

basically the exact same premise happened - lana does not go through with her plan to get back together with clark because she is told by a lionel luthor (lex's father) that if she does not marry lex, he will kill clark... (the gal breaks up with the dude to protect him) and clark doesn't cry like peter does but the emotion is way stronger...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kSBj3Xslt9Q&mode=related&search=

 

[Liquid Snake]

there was WAY too much crying in spider-man 3.

and when i saw the scene on the bridge, i kept thinking back on pretty much the exact same scene that happened on Smallville less than two months ago... and how much better it was on Smallville than Spider-man 3.

basically the exact same premise happened - lana does not go through with her plan to get back together with clark because she is told by a lionel luthor (lex's father) that if she does not marry lex, he will kill clark... (the gal breaks up with the dude to protect him) and clark doesn't cry like peter does but the emotion is way stronger...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kSBj3Xslt9Q&mode=related&search=

Yeah, spiderman has always had very uncomfortablly chessy unrealistic and uninteresting scenes when people are normally talking to each other. That scene is directed better and acting in betteer than anything kirsten dunst can do.

 

[LostSon88]

And in response to that clip as an example, the end of that paticular SV episode invoked much more of an emotional response in me than the breakup scene on the bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwomUqIBxo

You see, the thing that kinda gets to me about the Spidey films is their lack of subtlety. Granted I think the trilogy is amazing but the thing is that they pretty much beat you over the head with the messages they try to get across...esp. during the Aunt May scenes.

Sometimes, less is more Mr. Raimi.

 

[Liquid Snake]

You are right, the aunt may scenes, the awkward cringe worthy dialouge filled with unusual slowness of every :talky" scenes its really pathetic.