Watched Spiderman 2 and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind over the weekend. Discerning readers will know which one I thought was better. For the rest of you, it wasn't the sequel. Eternal Sunshine is actually the first Kaufman film I've seen. We thought about watching Being John Malkovich but never got around to it. Eternal Sunshine is a great piece of work. Extols the "It's better to have loved and lost" line with some nice twists and a shiny sci-fi frame. There are some really nice scenes in it too. The series of scenes at the very beginning where Joel and Clementine basically relive their initial courtship is pretty great. And the scene at the end where his first memory of her is being erased is wonderfully poignant.
Spiderman offered little in the way of surprises, but was a decent sequel. Far too much time was spent on drumming into the audience how much it sucks to be Peter Parker, but the villain was enjoyable and the last third or so of the film was fun to watch. I must say that either Tobey Maguire wanted much more of his face seen in this movie or there are far too many people who now know who Spiderman is. I'm not a huge Spidey fan (that honor belongs to my wife) so I don't know if Harry Osborne knows that he's Spiderman or not, but it just seems that he was far too willing to walk around saying, "Hey! Look, it's me Spiderman!"
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