Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We liked it, didn't LOVE it but it wasn't a yawner or anything near for us. I'm not all that familiar with the Spiderman comics so I don't have much to be looking for in the way of back stories or characters, I guess that helped. Will someone kindly explain what the "scientists" were attempting to do when what's his name accidently became Sandman? BTW one of my fav special effects was when Sandman's head was partially shaved off by the train. Creepy and interesting at the same time
Originally Posted By danyoung Well, it was a particle physics lab, so I guess they were doing an experiment on how sand particles react when exposed to some kind of force. I thought that was one of the most stupid points of the movie - that they wouldn't at least have a remote camera aimed at the pit, or that they'd just blow off an error reading as "oh, it's probably some bird". Dumb writing.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 ^^agreed! I hope that there was initially more to that scene and it was cut. There several scientists, or people with white coats on, there and you'd think one of them would have said "maybe it's not a bird."
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I thought they would come back later and explain what had happened there, I remember asking my kids when it was over..."What happened in the sand pit? What were the scientists doing, anyway"?
