Caught Spidey3 at The Cathay yesterday night with Jieming!

(Side-track: Wow, the carpark at The Cathay really puts driving skills learned in the circuits to the test, so small, so tight and so many walls!)

Spidey3 was really a great show to catch. Despite the whole world telling me how nice it was and despite the fact that it is in its 3rd sequel running. Because, usually, when everybody tells me how very nice a show is, it raises my expectation, and i usually ended up disappointed. A good example was The Matrix a few years back, i could never forget the disappointment after watching, and i attribute them to superhigh expectation. I probably would think the show is good if no one had set my expectation in the first place, thus i just had to go in without one.

Frankly, i never enjoyed watching Superheroes shows. X-Men, Superman, Batman, Fantastic-4, whatsoever. I usually give them a miss, unless i was "specially invited" to watch them. I always found the adaptation poor... and lame. Its always the bad guy screwing up the world and getting screwed in the end.

But i caught Spidey 1, 2 and 3. On my own accord. Hmmm.

I guess, spidey is the only superhero that i could agreed upon. (Okie, blame it on my limited knowledge of superheroes, i'm just not too familiar with them). Spidey, is more like your average boy-next-door, looking for a breakthough in life. Its a lot more easier to identify with him, he does not have some dark and sinister past, or some psychic power. He, is just someone in your chemistry class, going through the same agony any college student will face; love, friendships, family etc. And he too had to battle his own "inner demon", manifested in the form of the Venom.

To others, they may be seeing a superhero in action. But for me, i tend to see things a little deeper, why some characters behaved the way they had. I could write a thesis on it. Every character in spidey had a story to tell. Harry Osborne battled the lost of his father, friendship and love. Sandman committed crime becuase of the need to save her daughter. Eddy (the photographer) was consumed with hatred. MJ battled the need to feel love and a boyfriend who dosen't know how to express it.

I went to do a little research on the Osbourne, i wanted to know if the Osbourne had a mental disorder known as Schizophrenia, apparently, it isn't so. Norman Osborne was affected by chemicals. Even so not, it really does seems so that they were Schozophrenic, having the split personality of being themselves and the evil Green Goblin.

Interestingly, i just went through a lesson on Lost and Grief before the show, thus i was able to make connection between the two, pretty interestingly, encountering the entire grief process of Spidey over his Uncle Ben, from anger to finally acceptance.

Could write more on it, but i better go do my homework now. >.<" Besides, i'm experiencing writer's block now... can't write properly already.

Overall, spidey3 is a really good catch! No matter whether you are, or not, a spidey fan.

4.5 out of 5 popcorns! Hahah.