Spider-Man 2

I don’t need to tell you how perfect Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 is. Although I think that 2.1 is a slightly inferior version to the theatrical cut, it doesn’t change the fact that watching this film in theaters for the first time since 2004 with my best friend was such an incredible experience. However, I want to use this review to talk about something else. A cinema is NOT your living room. There was a family that sat in the back of my theater that laughed, talked, shouted, and stomped up and down the stairs the entire screening. It was so bad that at one point (more specifically, the most emotional point of the movie), one of the family members loudly called their sibling a slur, making everyone in the theater turn their heads around in disbelief. When someone sitting next to them tried to tell them to quiet down and to be mindful of the things they were saying aloud, the redneck father told them to “fuck off.” Everyone in my cinema ended up complaining about these people to management after the movie (and even during, in which management proceeded to do nothing). This inexcusable behavior goes beyond the cinematic experience and is obviously indicative of much larger issues. That awful family ruined the entire movie for everyone in attendance. But perhaps the saddest part of all of this was the youngest member of that problematic family was a girl around the age of six. She’s growing up in a home expressing some outright hateful views, and that breaks my heart. I hope that those people can someday learn not just about theater etiquette, but more importantly, to respect others that are different from themselves.  To quote the great David Lynch: “Fix your hearts or die.”