Spider-Man 3, Review Options

[Supersprynt]

I went to the 12am Spider-Man showing last night. I have to say, very disappointed. This maybe because it was hyped up so much.

I felt that the writing was fairly uncreative. Things just happen with very ltitle to no explanation as to why, or how its figured out. None of the villains had enough screen time to actually create a presence. Editing was mediocre, leaving you wondering wtf just happened?

It simply doesn't compare to either of the other 2 movies. Theres action but it is slow to start up and theres way to much attempt at character depth.

Theres a fair bit of comedy in it, but also some silly moments that could have been cut back on.

I love spider-man, but this movie was a great disappointment to me.

[Supersprynt]

Thats odd because from what I've heard & read, most people are very disappointed. Spidey is my fav. character and I would be more than willing to love this movie, but its just not there. Heres a good review of the movie in which I agree:

First and foremost I have to say that I was a huge fan of the first two Spider-Man movies and had high hopes for the third movie installment, maybe too high. I think it was fair to have such high hopes considering that the entire cast came back for this sequel, including director Sam Raimi. In all fairness the movie wasn’t horrible, but it could have been so much better.

The sense I got upon finishing the movie was that they had actually written a great film, and shot it. Then somebody called Sam Raimi and forced Venom on him. I’m aware that that was not the case, but that was the feeling I was left with. The movie just had too much going on for its own good. The movie features too many villain characters and not enough time to make it all work; because of this the film had a rushed feeling at times that made for some pretty bad storytelling. I felt that the first two movies did an excellent job of taking large chunks of the comic adventures and fitting them into movie scripts, while keeping the chronological events of the books roughly intact. I say that because one of the most questionable additions to this movie in my opinion was the Gwen Stacy character, why was that even remotely necessary? That part of Peter’s life seemed to me to have already been handled in the prior movies, especially considering the type of dynamic that existed between Peter and Gwen in the comics (for those of you who don’t know, the Death of Gwen Stacy is considered one of the greatest comic stories of all time), I felt that most of that was all covered using Mary Jane in Gwen’s stead. Why not use Felicia Hardy instead, that ‘love triangle’ (if you really want to call it that) actually existed to some degree in the comics.

The only thing that really worked in the movie was the retelling of the Harry Osborne storyline, with the exception of the poorly conceived sequence at the end of the movie (in the comic Harry rescued Peter and Mary Jane from a house rigged to explode before dying from chemical poisoning) which was made even worse by the lame excuse for a scene in which Harry’s butler convinces him to help Pete and MJ. To call the scene cheesy is unfair to the day time soap operas where such idiocy is common place. I truly believe that the inclusion of the Venom angle (one of the most ill-conceived villain in all of comics by the way) was what caused for such abrupt and campy storytelling. It just seemed like they didn’t have time to flesh out certain scenes and they cut some serious corners. All the events that take place in movie seem like they take place in the span of like two weeks. Venom is on the scene for all of like two hours, the meeting between he and Sandman seemed like something that would have occurred in the old Batman franchise movies, are you kidding me? And don’t get me started about the decision to keep Topher Grace’s voice roughly the same while in the Venom suit, what the hell was that about?

Every time the movie seemed to be going in a good direction the film just shot itself in the foot. I didn’t mind the singing scenes that much, but the dance scenes where painful to watch, and what was up with emo evil Parker, he was either going to be tougher on crime, or start a lame rock band. I honestly couldn’t believe what I was watching. I will say that the acting in itself was as good as it could be, but the movie suffered incredibly from an over-stuffed plot and in some instances, flat out bad writing. Oh, yeah the special effects were good in case you were wondering, but not good enough to overcome the story completely sucking.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: May 4, 2007 - 1:01 PM