Fine with me. As a result, you'll have to forgive me if I don't take much interest in your opinions about movies.

'If it's popular it must be good is nearly (but not quite) as stupid as 'if it's popular it must be bad'

I still love this movie...after years of super-hero movies seen when I was growing up wherein the powers of the characters were played down because the cost of showing them was prohibitive, and where the fil makers didn't seem to have even read a comic book, it was refreshing, exhilarating and stranely moving to see Spider-man more or less as I had always dreamed he would be on the screen...my only caveat was that the movie came thirty years too late...the eleven year old me would have thought he had died and gone to heaven if he had been able to watch the two Spider-man movies

John Byrne wrote: I thought Ock's Wife was hot. ***** So did Jean-Luc Picard. . .

What does the Captain have to do with Doc Ock's wife?

This bothers me not at all.

Don't hold back fellas.

The same actress, Donna Murphy, captivated both Otto Octavius in Spider-Man 2, Captain Picard in Star Trek: Insurrection, and a few readers here, myself included.  I STILL think she looks like an older Maya Rudolph, tho.

I'd agree with this.  I've known plenty of people over the years who automatically dislike something just because it's popular, which bugs the crap out of me.  My sensibilities usually lead me away from popular opinion, but I'd much rather reach that conclusion after observation, not from some knee-jerk reaction.

Kevin Hagerman wrote: ...I STILL think she looks like an older Maya Rudolph, tho.

I just found out that Maya Rudolph's mother was Minnie Riperton, best known for her 1975 #1 pop hit "Lovin' You". Reportedly, at the end of the song, Riperton can be heard singing "Maya Maya, Maya Maya, ..."

Seconded! (Or is that thirded?) Reflexive nonconformists aren't doing themselves any favors. I'm almost always willing to watch a film that has been overwhelmingly popular so I can have an opinion about it. Sometimes I am impressed (never saw GOODFELLAS until last year, and wow!) and sometimes I am puzzled (opposite reaction for SCENT OF A WOMAN).

It's always a joy to be surprised by a work that looks formulaic or lowest-common-denominator. That's how I felt when I saw AMERICAN PIE, MINORITY REPORT, THE MUMMY, FREAKY FRIDAY, UPTOWN GIRLS, and CHANGING LANES. While none of them are classics, I thought each one was a worthy effort that was much better than they had any right to be.

Matt Hawes wrote: I just found out that Maya Rudolph's mother was Minnie Riperton, best known for her 1975 #1 pop hit "Lovin' You". Reportedly, at the end of the song, Riperton can be heard singing "Maya Maya, Maya Maya, ..."

Maya was also part of Matt Sharp's staggeringly underrated band the Rentals.