Spiderman 3

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Bad. Did I mention bad? Bad. Bad. As in not good.

The plot was lame. By having three villains, you didn't have enough time to concentrate on one good through line. Even then, it wasn't about his conflicts with the villains, it was more about his personal problems. I came in expecting a super-hero action adventure film and saw instead Telanovella. And not a good one either.

Spoilers. Let's just say the film is bad and you can stop reading.

What's up with Spiderman reconciling with the Green Goblin. He's one Spiderman's arch-enemies. You don't reconcile with your arch enemy. It doesn't matter how much you love him in a purely physical way, you don't make up. Maybe it's my own homophobia, but the end scenes were just a little too homoerotic for me. Especially when they were both on the flying sled together.. Blech

Venom? I wanted him to be cool. I thought they were keeping Topher Grace out of the ads so they could add a little mystery to his character, so that it would come as a shock when Topher becomes Venom. Not so much. He almost seemed an afterthought. Grace's motivations for his actions all seem really week. Sure he's a go getter, but he's a whiny go getter.

And what's with all the crying. Spiderman is a super hero!! Yet, everytime we see Peter have an emotional crisis out come the waterworks. Stop. Super Heroes don't cry. You don't see Hiro crying do you?

They need to take off about ten years before they do a next. They need to stop seeing Uncle Ben get shot at the car. they need to stop having Aunt May stop spouting feel good sayings all the time. Remember how funny it was when she told Peter he was no superman? They need to find a big threat and they need to have Spiderman defeat it. That's how these movies work. Grrrr

[Drunk Monk]

Wow I’m impressed that anyone bothered to review this here. I watched this over the weekend because  I’m going to a screening on Venom soon (I don’t really care about venom - it’s more to get Patrick to write something for kfm to break up a long string of Man at Arms promos I’m queueing up). For the record, I often confused Tobey for Topher.  

Greg’s review here stands the rest of time. His only error was the telanovela comment (not nearly sexy enough - needed more hardbodies in underwear to make that fall). The rest I totally agree.  This film sucks. It’s Raimi so fed up with the franchise that he takes a crap all over it. It’s all about revenge and redemption, and ugly mess of a film made worse by nepotism (so many Raimis in the credits) and in the wake of villains Dafoe and Molina, it’s like a cry for help - Raimi wailing ‘let me go back to gratuitous splatterfests pul-lease!’ That being said, it’s mildly amusing to see this as a precursor to the MCU formula. Some of the trapping are there in seedling form, like the Stan Lee cameo, but no, don’t even bother.

Hope Venom is better this time.

[Greg]

There isn't enough Spiderman in the world.

I really liked Spiderman 1 and sort of 2. I actually bumped into Raimi on the Planet of the Apes set. He came over from the Spiderman movie set to see what a real movie set looked like. I hated 3. I worked on Amazing Spiderman 2, the one with Jamie Foxx. It was also horrible.