Re: "Spider-Man 3" Review

Posted by JeffSon on 2007/5/5 8:20:15

The more I think about this movie, the more disappointed I am with the choices they made to convey the story. I won't go into the number of villains thing 'cuz I'm sure that will get dealt with elsewhere.

The symbiote amplifies agression so Pete decides to go emo/goth and become a dick? Wouldn't he have started wearing leather and started fights in biker bars? Plus, with the budget they reportedly had, why not explore the costume's chameleonic abilities. He didn't have to buy new clothes because the alien could mimic any style he wanted to wear...

And this: "Oh, yeah. Your father killed himself. I was just trying to think of the right time to tell you." WTF?

Contrived, moronic, nonsense dialog tied together with incomprehensibly blurry fight sequences that were far too dark and - quite honestly - silly to get fully invested in. That's the movie I walked away from. They zoomed in on action that should have been full screen and zoomed out of sequences that you wanted to see what was going on.

Plus, was there something in the contract that said Macguire's face had to be on screen that much? One of the things about the comic has always been the lengths Peter went to protect his identity (at one point going out to fight with a paper bag over his head - courtesy of The Human Torch). Why would he show up to an event peopled by (presumably) thousands of people with cameras without his mask on?

And don't even get me started on the idiotic cameos...