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According to the magazine Total Film in 2004, this was the 4th "dumbest decision in movie history": the extras duly went on strike, demanding higher wages. Allmusic.com best tracks are "Hold On", "Someone to Die For" and "Spidey Suite.". During filming, Beatty lectured his Russian extras on the capitalist exploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. On the Japanese version of the soundtrack, "Web of Night" by T.M.Revolution appears and was a popular single in Japan. and was nominated for:. On the Australian version of the soundtrack, "I Am" by Killing Heidi appears as Track 17 and is a single. The movie won Academy Awards for:. The track listing for the US version of the soundtrack is:.

It also stars (as witnesses from past events on and before WWI) the celebrated radical educator and peace activist 98-year old Scott Nearing (1883-1983), author Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997) and reporter and author George Seldes (1890-1995). "I Am" debuted at #16 on the charts on July 19, 2004. It was directed by Beatty. "I Am" by Killing Heidi has been added to the Australian version of the soundtrack and has been released as a single in the country. Feibleman (uncredited), Trevor Griffiths, Elaine May (uncredited) and Jeremy Pikser from Reed's memoir. "Ordinary" by Train has also reached the top 20 of the US adult top 40 singles charts. It was adapted by Warren Beatty, Peter S. "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional reached the top of a world composite soundtrack chart in June 2004 and the top 20 of a composite world and US modern rock chart.

Emmet Walsh. The soundtrack for Spider-Man 2 has reached the top 10 of the US album charts and has also reached the top 40 of the Australian album charts. Besides Beatty and Keaton, the movie stars Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Nicolas Coster and M. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Sound and the Academy Award for Sound Editing. It centers on the life of John Reed, the trade unionist, journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. In the 77th Academy Awards, the movie won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. Reds is a 1981 movie starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. The New Yorker rated it as average while Salon.com and Village Voice rated it as poor.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The following publications have given the film good reviews: Film Threat, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, TV Guide, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, ReelViews, Chicago Reader, New York Magazine, Charlotte Observer. Best Sound. The film received excellent critical reviews from the following newspapers: Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Miami Herald, Newsweek, The Onion, Premiere, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Variety, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Austin Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail The New York Daily News, The New York Post, Rolling Stone Magazine. Best Picture. [2] (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SpiderMan2-1133520/reviews.php). Best Film Editing. Metacritic.com gave the film a collective rating of 80 out of 100 based on an average of 41 reviews. [1] (http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/spiderman2/) Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 93%, based on 195 reviews.

Best Costume Design. The general critical reaction to the film was almost unanimously enthusiastic, with the general opinion that the film is superior to the original, possessing a dramatic power and emotional content that many summer blockbusters lack. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. . Worldwide, Spider-man 2 made $783,964,497, which made it the 3rd highest grossing movie of 2004 worldwide (behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Shrek 2), as well as the 15th highest grossest movie worldwide. Though this is not as much as its predecessor, it should still be considered excellent, considering it's a sequel to a very highly regarded movie, and those don't usually do that well in the box-office (such as Jaws 2 and Back to the Future Part II. Best Actress in a Leading Role (Diane Keaton). Altogether, Spider-man 2 made $373,585,825 in the U.S., making it the 2nd highest movie of 2004 (just beat out by Shrek 2) and the 8th highest grossing movie in the U.S. Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson). In its first six days, Spider-Man 2 generated a record $180 million at the US box-office, which is a record as of 2004. It generated $88 million at the box office in its first weekend of sale, and on its first day, it garnered a whopping estimate of $40 million, a record for a movie on opening (it was beat a year later by Revenge of the Sith, which grossed about $10 million more).

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Warren Beatty). Harry now has the option of assuming incredible powers to take revenge on Spider-Man. Best Director (Warren Beatty). His mental state is important, however, since he has discovered his father's villainous secrets. Best Cinematography (Vittorio Storaro). The true state of Harry's sanity is at the end of the film uncertain. Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Maureen Stapleton). However, it is also possible the ghost was not a delusion.

Harry's past friendship with Peter and hostility to Spider-Man, as well as growing bitterness with Peter, haunt him, to the point where he imagines a visit from his father's ghost. In the end, when Harry discovers Spider-Man and Peter are the same man, Harry spares his life, but only because New York City itself is endangered. On the other hand, Harry seems especially grateful for a compliment that he has outdone his father's accomplishments, and also blames Peter for having been more respectable than Harry himself to Harry's father. On the one hand, Harry desires revenge on Spider-Man, who supposedly killed Harry's father.

Harry's relationship with the memory of his father is also complex. Upon consuming alcohol, a hostility to Peter surfaces, as Harry begins to blame Peter for tolerating Spider-Man, and for ruining Harry's onetime romance with M.J. Two years after his father's death, Harry has become an increasingly bitter personality, as demonstrated by his failure to laugh at jokes. Harry's character is also further developed in Spider-Man 2.

His final act of self-sacrifice redeems him, and, echoing Aunt May's speech on heroism earlier in the movie, he dies with honor. It is only at the end, when Peter makes him realize the true cost of his dreams, that he turns away from the tentacles' influence and reclaims his former identity. The AI in the tentacles then offer him an escape from his failure and agony, and a chance to rebuild his experiment, since it is all he has left; and he willingly listens to them and lets them guide him. His descent into villainy is often interpreted as possession by the mechanical tentacles, but it is far deeper than that: when we see him on the waterfront after the accident, he is a broken man, having lost his wife and his fusion dreams, and he is contemplating suicide ("These monstrous things [the tentacles] should be at the bottom of the river, along with me," he says).

(He tells Peter: "Intelligence is a gift, and you use it for the good of mankind.") This makes it all the more tragic and horrifying when we see what he becomes later on: a half-mechanical lunatic who is willing to risk destroying the city to realize his ambitions. The early scenes in the movie with his wife and Peter establish him as a gentle, peace-loving man who desires to help mankind. Otto Octavius is a deeply conflicted and ambiguous villain. Dr.

"Doc Ock", as he is now called, desperately wants to rebuild his experiment, forcing Peter to use his resurfacing powers to try and stop him and save New York City. Peter's idol, a brilliant, gentle scientist named Otto Octavius, turns into a mechanically-controlled lunatic after a fusion accident. turns increasingly hostile to Peter after he fails to keep a promise to see a play in which she plays a role. M.J.

Moreover, he has learned that his potential girlfriend, M.J., has acquired a new boyfriend. He loses a job, is having trouble with his enstranged friend, Harry, who still thinks that his father's death was the fault of Spider-Man (Harry doesn't know that Norman actually killed himself), struggles with his studies and school work, and finds that he is losing his powers. It has been two years since the end of the last film, and Peter Parker is finding a double life very difficult. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko receive additional screen credit for "comic book & characters.".

The screenplay is credited to Alvin Sargent, with screen story credit given to Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. Alfred Molina plays the role of the villain, Doctor Octopus ("Doc Ock"). The film, directed by Sam Raimi, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco reprising their roles of Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn, respectively. on June 30, 2004.

Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to the popular 2002 film Spider-Man and was released in the U.S. The device he uses seems to be inspired by those used for inertial confinement fusion. Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) uses tritium to create nuclear fusion. The first one million copies of the US PSP included the movie free.

Spider-Man 2 is the first movie to be released in UMD format for the PSP. A hospital scene in which the removal of Octavius' tentacles is attempted likely contains allusions to scenes in Raimi's earler Evil Dead films. Reports claim that the studio hopes to make at least six films. Before Spider-Man 2 was even released, it was announced that Spider-Man 3 would be released in 2007.

In the scene where Parker watches police cars go by, he is actually eating a tofu hot dog. Tobey Maguire is a vegetarian. He is the man in the far right during the scene where Spider-Man stops the train. Voice actor Phil LaMarr makes a cameo as an extra.

Actor Bruce Campbell also makes another cameo as the usher who won't let Peter into Mary Jane's play. Spider-Man creator Stan Lee makes yet another cameo appearance (as he did in Spider-Man) during Spidey's first battle with Doc Ock at the side of building walls. Throughout the whole movie, the only points when Otto Octavius is called 'Doc Ock' or 'Doctor Octopus' are only when Jonah Jameson suggests the names at the Daily Bugle, and in the final battle at the docks, where Spider-Man calls him "Ock." One of the suggested names is Doctor Strange, which is Steve Ditko's other major co-creation for Marvel Comics. Otto Octavious's catchphrase - "The power of the sun - in the palm of my hand" is strikingly close to a slogan for a handheld gaming device called Pixter - "The power of Pixter in the palm of my hand.".

"Doc Ock Suite" by Danny Elfman. "Spidey Suite" by Danny Elfman. "Someone to Die For" by Jimmy Gneco and Brian May. "We Are" by Ana Johnsson.

"The Night That the Lights Went Out in NYC" by The Ataris. "Who I Am" by Smile Empty Soul. "Lucky You" by lostprophets. "Give it Up" by Midtown.

"This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)" by Taking Back Sunday. "Woman" by Maroon 5. "Gifts and Curses" by Yellowcard. "Hold On" by Jet.

"Did You" by Hoobastank. "Ordinary" by Train. "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional.