The only way to get rid of a so-so film aftertaste is to watch a really good one. And so, on Boxing Day (even though nobody celebrates it here) we all went to see the latest instalment of the Spider-Man franchise. And what a great movie it turned out to be!
You don’t need to be a fan of Spider-Man to enjoy it. In fact, it is the only Spider-Person film you’ll ever need, or want, to watch. The superheroes — Spider-Men, Spider-Women and Spider-Ham — are super diverse (to rhyme with “Spider-Verse”), the villains are delightfully evil, the animation is breathtaking... What’s more, it is both very clever and side-splittingly funny. At least, in Spanish it was. What are you waiting for?
According to Wikipedia,
The film’s directors all felt that the film would be one of the few that audiences actually “need” to watch in 3D...Well we saw it in 2D and it was still great, although in the beginning I was wondering if they were by mistake screening an anaglyph 3D version without giving us the red/cyan glasses. Wrong! This is a deliberate design feature, one of the devices the film creators employed to bring the original printed comic book alive. (Another one is the use of halftones.) To quote the film’s animation co-director Patrick O’Keefe:
To stay true to the medium, we decided to go with a CMYK offsetting as our blur. The film actually has no motion blur in it, but, instead, borrows from certain anime techniques to replicate the feeling of motion with a frame. At first it was a real problem because you’d get a lot of [visual] chatter. Despite our best intentions, you still need a “lens” that can focus. So we decided, all the [sense of] focus is done with a CMYK offsetting like you’d get off a four-pass printing press.So be warned: your eyes may hurt a bit.
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