>>149311173 (OP)
I remember standing in an incredibly long line (we're talking out the building, around the corner, around the block) of a large Hollywood theater (Cineramadome which almost seats 1000 people, for an advanced screening of Spider-Man 3 and we were turned away about 100 people still away from the door because it had reached capacity and there was still a fucking long line behind us. And we'd been waiting half a day to get in.
And the movie itself turned out to be more disappointing than not. I agree with the anons who say that the first Raimi movie (and the entire triology) has a lot of nostalgia goggles retrospectiveness that it doesn't deserve. The only thing that I've seen some decades later that holds up, and actually exceeded that memory, was watching the re-mastered re-release of The Matrix in a past theater, although being post Wick Keanusance doesn't hurt the audience response, and packed, interested and involved theater audiences are always fun.
