Posted by sean at threshold5n.jpmorgan.com on May 21, 2002 at 12:36:28:
In Reply to: Loved every minute of it, except Macy Gray then I posted by Duffless on May 21, 2002 at 12:32:42:
: wanted to put a bullet in my head.....I'm sure Raimi was powerless to control it....but what was the point of that scene....? That and Spidey slinging the can of Dr Pepper (which I personally endores)....
: the rest of the movie was wonderful
It was more organic to the movie than Vanilla Ice's appearance in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze".
Not saying it was better. But it's not like the scene was about Macy Gray or anything, it was just that it was set in the roughly now (the here-and-now if you live in NYC, as I do), and they were trying to get across the celebration, so they have a popular performer. Why doesn't that make sense?
[I think the Dr. Pepper thing was played up to be a joke, because most of the theater laughed at it, including me. It was so blatant ... I mean, extreme close-up on "Dr. Pepper". He knew that everybody'd catch the product placement. Hell, he shot the whole scene like a commercial.]