Cinematical was invited to Sony Pictures on Saturday for a top-secret screening of several scenes from . Needless to say, they didn't have to ask me twice. I would have spent several days after I'd gotten the invitation building web-shooters if I needed to.
Although Peter now uses organic webbing in the movies, so I'd have to try and genetically splice spider-DNA onto my own, which would have been too time-consuming. Thankfully, they weren't that demanding. Okay, before we proceed any further, I should wave the giant spoiler alert flag.
If you don't want to know anything about the plot of Spider-Man 3, then you should read no further. You especially don't want to find out from me that is actually Galactus. Whoops.
Sorry, but you've been warned. Just wait until you see a 300-foot tall May stomping on New York. It's not pretty.
Although imagine the size of the cookies she could bake.
Anyhow, onto the screening and into the swanky Cary Grant theater. Sony, if you're not using that theater all the time, mind if we use it for movie watching and playing video games?
Okay -- here's what happened. himself (dressed in his ever-present suit) came out and introduced the footage to us and called it a "super ..
. sneak ..
.. preview .
.. scenelet.
" He told us the footage was brand-new, hadn't been seen outside of Sony, had a temporary score, and that some things had been shortened a bit for this preview. He then had to run off to do some audio recording with Stan Lee, who was next door, so we begrudgingly let him go. I mean, no one makes Stan "The Man" Lee wait, even if he does have yet another scene in this Spidey flick.
"All the characters in this book are fictitious, and anyone finding a resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, should proceed no further .
.." Disclaimer from the novel 'The Number 23.
' Sadly no such disclaimer was given to the beginning of this film, which could serve as a warning to people who might be wanting those two hours from their lives back, should they ignore it and watch the film. Okay, that might be a bit harsh, but not by too much. This film reunites director with star , who both worked over-the-top together in 1995's .
Oddly enough (although unrelated) that was the same year that gave us . It would still be a few more years, three to be exact, until we would start to see the serious side of Jim Carrey, in 1998's . Since then he's dabbled in more dramatic roles in films like , , , and arguably , but he has never really managed to capture audiences when he plays a dramatic role the same way he does when he's in a comedy.
In fact, grossed more than those four films combined. So, with all that in mind, it might seem strange that Carrey would turn to a much darker role in a thriller like The Number 23. Although on paper the film actually sounds intriguing: a happily married man with a teenage son starts to become unraveled by a mysterious novel his wife gives him one day.
It taps into a hidden obsession that some people have with and he soon becomes obsessed with it. He is also convinced that the book is actually written about him, and that somehow the author used his life as a template for the book. In some of the particularly darker scenes in the film, Walter (Carrey) imagines himself as the main character, Detective Fingerling, in the novel, and his wife Agatha ( ) as the dark and sexy Fabrizia, his love interest.
His wife's friend and academic Isaac ( ) who tells Walter about the 23 enigma is also cast in his dark fantasies as psychologist Dr. Miles Phoenix.
One of my favorite things about the Sundance Film Festival has always been the different shorts programs they offer. These are short films from around the world that you would probably never be able to see anywhere else.
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