Spider-Man 2

Allmusic.com best tracks are "Hold On", "Someone to Die For" and "Spidey Suite.". All awards are from 2004, unless otherwise noted.. On the Japanese version of the soundtrack, "Web of Night" by T.M.Revolution appears and was a popular single in Japan. Pirates of the Caribbean 3. On the Australian version of the soundtrack, "I Am" by Killing Heidi appears as Track 17 and is a single. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The track listing for the US version of the soundtrack is:. It can be found in Ta' Xbiex, Malta.

"I Am" debuted at #16 on the charts on July 19, 2004. The Black Pearl exists and is a real ship, one of the last surviving wooden schooners. "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. There is also supposedly a Pirates of the Caribbean 'world' in the upcoming game. "Ordinary" by Train has also reached the top 20 of the US adult top 40 singles charts. Depp is also a cameo character in Kingdom Hearts 2 as Jack Sparrow. "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. In interviews, Johnny Depp stated that he had based his persona for Captain Jack Sparrow upon legendary guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, with some influence from cartoon character Pepe Le Pew.

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. The plot bears similarities to that of the computer game series Monkey Island, also based on the Disney ride. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Sound and the Academy Award for Sound Editing. The script is available here (http://www.hostultra.com/~vampfiles/piratesscript2.html) (popup warning). In the 77th Academy Awards, the movie won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. The wordplay was well suited to both Geoffrey Rush's and especially Johnny Depp's unusual style and worked well throughout the film. The New Yorker rated it as average while Salon.com and Village Voice rated it as poor. Two examples:.

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. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Shrek, The Mask of Zorro) and others created a script noted for its witty lines and challenge-response jokes. 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. As the movie ends, Norrington watches on as Jack sets sail for unknown adventure, impressed by the pirate enough to allow him a one day's head start before pursuing him yet again. [2] (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SpiderMan2-1133520/reviews.php). Will is pardoned for his criminal act while Jack escapes into the ocean, rescued by the crew he assembled to help him and Will earlier in the movie, who now man the disenchanted Black Pearl. 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. This sudden defiance by Will, as well as his confession of love towards her, inspires Elizabeth to break up with Norrington and hook up with Will instead.

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. Back at Port Royal, Norrington is forced to hang Jack as per law, but Will, who believes him decent enough a person to not deserve death, rescues Jack. . 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. Once realizing they're no longer cursed, Barbossa's crew surrenders. 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. Just in time, he distracts Barbossa long enough for both he and Will to complete the requirements of ending the curse, thereby reverting the Black Pearl crew mortal once again and preventing Barbossa from surviving Jack's pistol shot to his chest. 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). This proves to all be part of Jack's plan, however, as soon after the rest of the Black Pearl crew engages the navy, he steals one of the cursed coins and engages in his own battle with his former first mate.

Harry now has the option of assuming incredible powers to take revenge on Spider-Man. He is successful, but convinces Barbossa to hold off on spilling Will's blood and breaking the curse until after they succeeded in destroying the British fleet waiting for them. His mental state is important, however, since he has discovered his father's villainous secrets. Once arriving at the cursed island, Jack convinces Norrington's forces to lay in ambush for Barbossa's crew while he goes in and convinces them to come out. The true state of Harry's sanity is at the end of the film uncertain. Elizabeth and Jack are eventually rescued by Norrington, but is unable to convince him to go back and rescue William until Elizabeth promises to marry him. However, it is also possible the ghost was not a delusion. Elizabeth and Jack are stranded on the same island Jack was stranded on ten years ago, while Will is taken back to complete the requirements to end the curse.

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. Will, however - learning of Jack's intentions to trade him for repossession of the Black Pearl - knocks Jack out and gets them both captured in a failed attempt to rescue Elizabeth. 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. Jack and William confront Barbosa and his crew at the same time they learn Elizabeth is not the child of Bootstrap Bill. 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. After ten years, they have succeeded in fulfilling the requirements to end the curse except for the blood of Bootstrap Bill and the gold piece he stole, and with the medallion (in reality the last piece of the treasure) and Elizabeth in their custody, Barbossa believes he finally has what he needs to lift the curse. On the one hand, Harry desires revenge on Spider-Man, who supposedly killed Harry's father. As such, the crew's gluttony, greed, and lust for worldly possessions corrupts them to the point that they become undead, forced to never die or rest in their covetousness (moonlight reveals this fact, showing the pirates in its glare to be living rotting skeletons).

Harry's relationship with the memory of his father is also complex. In retaliation, Barbossa orders Bootstrap to be thrown overboard, only to realize too late that the curse was indeed real and in order to break it they were required to return all the pieces of the treasure to its chest and give a blood sacrifice from everyone who removed them. 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. Shocked by this action, Will's father, "Bootstrap" Bill Turner, sends one of the cursed gold pieces away to his son in order to ensure a fitting punishment for the crew's betrayal. Two years after his father's death, Harry has become an increasingly bitter personality, as demonstrated by his failure to laugh at jokes. Shortly afterwards, Barbosa and the crew mutinied against Jack and stranded him on a deserted island. Harry's character is also further developed in Spider-Man 2. It is here where we learn the true intentions of Barbosa and his crew: the island contains a cursed Aztec treasure that the crew of the Black Pearl - under Jack at the time - discovered.

His final act of self-sacrifice redeems him, and, echoing Aunt May's speech on heroism earlier in the movie, he dies with honor. After absconding with one of the royal navy's ships and assembling a crew to man it, Jack and Will set off to find Barbosa and the Black Pearl, who themselves are heading towards Isla de Muerta, a mysterious island that's supposedly undiscoverable save for those who already know where it is. 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 next day, Will discovers Elizabeth's disappearance and, thwarted in his efforts to convince the royal navy into pursuing the culprits by lead officer Commodore James Norrington (despite the captain's own feelings towards Elizabeth), takes up an offer by Jack to rescue Elizabeth in exchange for breaking him out. 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. The crew, once under the orders of Jack Sparrow himself until they mutinied ten years ago, kidnaps Elizabeth, whose claim that her last name was Turner and possession of a golden medallion emblemized with a skull and crossbones satisfies the captain of the Black Pearl (and former first mate of Jack), Barbossa, enough to cease his attack on Port Royal in exchange for both the trinket and her. 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). That night, Port Royal is besieged by the infamous ghost ship the Black Pearl, a pure black vessel crewed by a vicious, bloodthirsty crew, and captained by a man claimed to be so evil, Hell itself spat him back out.

(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. It is during these actions that Jack meets Will Turner, the local blacksmith's apprentice who is infatuated with Elizabeth but is too afraid to admit his feelings to her. The early scenes in the movie with his wife and Peter establish him as a gentle, peace-loving man who desires to help mankind. Shortly after his arrival at Port Royal, Jamaica, destitute pirate Captain Jack Sparrow rescues the governor?s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, from drowning and is subsequently jailed for his lifestyle. Otto Octavius is a deeply conflicted and ambiguous villain. Tagline: Prepare to be blown out of the water. Dr. On the other hand, it is still believed that the makers have put intentional references from the games as a tribute.

"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. Most hold that this is coincidental, since both are inspired from the theme ride. Peter's idol, a brilliant, gentle scientist named Otto Octavius, turns into a mechanically-controlled lunatic after a fusion accident. It was believed that the movie was partially inspired from Monkey Island, and similarities have been drawn between Barbossa and LeChuck. turns increasingly hostile to Peter after he fails to keep a promise to see a play in which she plays a role. However, the poor reception received by other Disney films based upon its theme park attractions (The Country Bears, The Haunted Mansion) suggested that the success of Pirates of the Caribbean was an exception and not the rule. M.J. The film also received several Academy Award nominations, including a Best Actor nomination for Johnny Depp.

Moreover, he has learned that his potential girlfriend, M.J., has acquired a new boyfriend. Critics were pleasantly surprised to find the film an enjoyable swashbuckler, and the movie became a huge box office success, grossing over $300 million in North America alone. 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. The genre of pirate themed movies had also seen a string of high budget flops with Cutthroat Island and Treasure Planet, among others. It has been two years since the end of the last film, and Peter Parker is finding a double life very difficult. The concept of Disney basing a movie upon one of its own theme park rides seemed to many a crass marketing ploy. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko receive additional screen credit for "comic book & characters.". When production for the film was first announced in early 2002, movie fans and critics were skeptical of its chances of being a success.

The screenplay is credited to Alvin Sargent, with screen story credit given to Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. It proved to be a success for Walt Disney Pictures and within weeks of release they announced a sequel was in development, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, slated for release in 2005/2006. Alfred Molina plays the role of the villain, Doctor Octopus ("Doc Ock"). As of March 16, 2004, it had grossed at the box office more than $653 million worldwide; the 21st highest grossing movie ever. 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. It was released on July 9, 2003. on June 30, 2004. It is directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to the popular 2002 film Spider-Man and was released in the U.S. This movie stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, and Jack Davenport. The device he uses seems to be inspired by those used for inertial confinement fusion. It is based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) uses tritium to create nuclear fusion. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. The first one million copies of the US PSP included the movie free. Winner, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp.

Spider-Man 2 is the first movie to be released in UMD format for the PSP. Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Keira Knightley. A hospital scene in which the removal of Octavius' tentacles is attempted likely contains allusions to scenes in Raimi's earler Evil Dead films. Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Geoffrey Rush. Reports claim that the studio hopes to make at least six films. Frazee, Charles Gibson. Before Spider-Man 2 was even released, it was announced that Spider-Man 3 would be released in 2007. Hickel, Terry D.

In the scene where Parker watches police cars go by, he is actually eating a tofu hot dog. Nominee, Best Special Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. Tobey Maguire is a vegetarian. Nominee, Best Music, Klaus Badelt. He is the man in the far right during the scene where Spider-Man stops the train. Nominee, Best Make Up, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel. Voice actor Phil LaMarr makes a cameo as an extra. Nominee, Best Fantasy Film.

Actor Bruce Campbell also makes another cameo as the usher who won't let Peter into Mary Jane's play. Nominee, Best Director, Gore Verbinski. 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. Nominee, Best DVD Special Edition Release. 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. Nominee, Best Costume, Penny Rose. 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.". Nominee, Best Actor, Johnny Depp.

"Doc Ock Suite" by Danny Elfman. Winner, Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award, Female, Keira Knightley. "Spidey Suite" by Danny Elfman. Rivkin, Arthur Schmidt. "Someone to Die For" by Jimmy Gneco and Brian May. Winner, Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy or Musical, Craig Wood, Stephen E. "We Are" by Ana Johnsson. Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Johnny Depp.

"The Night That the Lights Went Out in NYC" by The Ataris. Campbell. "Who I Am" by Smile Empty Soul. Nominee, Best Sound, Christopher Boyes, George Watters II, Lee Orloff, David Parker, David E. "Lucky You" by lostprophets. Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp. "Give it Up" by Midtown. Nominee, Best Costume Design, Penny Rose.

"This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)" by Taking Back Sunday. Frazee, Charles Gibson. "Woman" by Maroon 5. Hickel, Terry D. "Gifts and Curses" by Yellowcard. Nominee, Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. "Hold On" by Jet. Winner, Best Make Up/Hair, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel.

"Did You" by Hoobastank. Winner, Top Box Office Films, Klaus Badelt. "Ordinary" by Train. Nominee, Excellence in Production Design Award, Feature Film - Period or Fantasy Film, Brian Morris. "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional. Frazee. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Terry D.

Nominee, Best Visual Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Christopher Boyes, George Watters II. Campbell, Lee Orloff. Nominee, Best Sound, Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David E.

Nominee, Best Makeup, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel. Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp. Anamaria. Zoe Saldana ...

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Cotton. David Bailie ... Angus Barnett .... Mullroy. Murtogg.

Giles New ... Lt. Gillette. Damian O'Hare ... Ragetti.

Mackenzie Crook ... Pintel. Lee Arenberg ... Governor Weatherby Swann.

Jonathan Pryce ... Commodore James Norrington. Jack Davenport ... Elizabeth Swann.

Keira Knightley ... Will Turner. Orlando Bloom ... Captain Barbossa.

Geoffrey Rush ... Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp ...