I no longer live in the U.S., so I am pretty amazed it came out here in Geneva before the U.S., but I'm definitely not complaining. Damn, I really enjoyed it! The film was busy as fuck so there are some areas that feel rushed and a little camp. But surprisingly nowhere near as much as I expected. There was so much to juggle in this movie. I can't believe they pulled it off so well. There were several moments where damned near everyone in the theatre was smiling from ear to ear. Some of the coolest shit that I've seen in any action film period. As is the case with the previous two, this movie is one of few that transcends being just another comic book movie. This should practically erase Ghost Rider from most people's minds. I really only have one major complaint with the film. But I want to refrain from speaking on that until after a few folks have seen it.

Anyway, check it out. I think the majority of folks that dug the first two, will be very pleased. I'd even say the majority of those that read the comics will be pleased overall, but I know there will be a fair share that will say otherwise.
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Brace yourselves. I know what he is to Marvel and Spiderman, but dayum! Its even more annoying than a lot of the more recent Michael G. Wilson cameos in the Bond films.
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Hell, Bruce Campbell's cameos in the first two were better (was it really a cameo in the first one?).



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i saw it coming a mile away...

he's in EVERY marvel flick...exept the blades

I didn't find his cameo to be *that* egregious

Bruce Campbell's either
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where was he?

He was the maitre'd at the French restaurant (the scene where Peter's planned MJ proposal failed)

It was a pretty long "cameo"

And he got a credit

So technically, it's not a "cameo"

More like a special appearance
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its no big deal that he is in the movie. as far as i'm concerned, it should be his right if he wants. it just rang like a "one to grow on" segment. if anything, they should have put more thought into coming up with a great cameo for him. the other cameos he's done were much better.

bruce campbell's was entertaining.
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ferrigno...matt murdock stopped him from getting run over....

i just don't see how we are upset about ..a cameo..by stan lee. especially since he's not gonna be with us too much longer.

and bruce's should be better...he's a actor....stan is not

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in the long run, wasn't a big deal. when i mentioned it, it was just a word of caution for those that were already sure to nitpick over the movie (which i enjoyed overall). in my later posts, i was just saying that his others were done better regardless of how brief they were. he's got every right ot be in the movies. i just expected sam raimi to incorporate something better. perhaps my wording was a bit harsh saying it was annoying.
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sometimes it got a bit too dramatic with the MJ shit but its whatever
i saw venom fuck a MJ

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I think they could have worked a little harder on Venom's design only real noticeable in a few close-ups. But the involvement of Venom was definitely dope. Raimi had an interesting challenge of incorporating a relatively new villain like Venom, and an older one like Sandman. Spiderman has so many generations of fans, and to incorporate both old and new surprisingly well was a surprise.

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VENOM FUCKS MJ? I'm so there.

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Seems pretty simple.

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Well i didnt like Spiderman 1 and 2, so yeah i prolly aint gon mess with this one.

I don't know how that plays out

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and some of the acting is some of the shittiest i've seen. but anyway decent film and some of the fight scenes are wicked. i just wish Spidey woulda stayed bad and started robbing banks and shit...


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the Regal Cinema at Atlantic Station in ATL is showing it 24 hours straight. You could show up to the theater today at 4:15AM and catch this flick if you chose to do so. The amount of money this thing is about to make is gonna be obscene.....



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- Probably the worst acting in the series. Like, "Star Wars: Episode III" bad.

- So a grenade will leave a scar on one man's face but cause another man to explode? Alright, then. Carry on...

- Thomas Hayden-Church did a good job. I'm glad he made the decision to cut 70% of his dialouge, though. He managed to tell more with his face and body than he could have with the hokey dialouge they gave the characters.

- Peter's "Black Suit" scenes were hi-larious.

- The CGI looked great, especially when Sandman is first "revealed".

- Topher Grace was awesome on his own terms, but not as Venom, IMO.

- Nice Bruce Campbell cameo, although I was hoping he would be Mysterio (don't ask, I heard rumors).

- You can tell Sam Raimi's heart just may not be in the franchise anymore. The film was alright, but it's certainly a departure from the first two. Not "X3" bad, it's a good popcorn film, but maybe not a worthy entry in the franchise. 3/5, maybe 3.5/5 I guess.

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>- Probably the worst acting in the series. Like, "Star Wars:
>Episode III" bad.

i agree with this for a few scenes, but not the whole movie.

>- So a grenade will leave a scar on one man's face but cause
>another man to explode? Alright, then. Carry on...

uhmmm consider the composition of the one who exploded, which perfectly explains why, not to mention the changes made to the one who didnt explode, as he showed some mutant-like characteristics

>- Thomas Hayden-Church did a good job. I'm glad he made the
>decision to cut 70% of his dialouge, though. He managed to
>tell more with his face and body than he could have with the
>hokey dialouge they gave the characters.

agreed.

>- Peter's "Black Suit" scenes were hi-larious.

yeah, but to me they took away from the movie- a lot.

>- Topher Grace was awesome on his own terms, but not as Venom,
>IMO.

i'
>- You can tell Sam Raimi's heart just may not be in the
>franchise anymore. The film was alright, but it's certainly a
>departure from the first two. Not "X3" bad, it's a good
>popcorn film, but maybe not a worthy entry in the franchise.
>3/5, maybe 3.5/5 I guess.

not a "worthy" entry? considering how high the bar was initially set, then raised, this makes some sense... but for all its flaws, it does a great job on several fronts, tying up a few loose ends and bringing many things full circle. story/acting wise its obviously the third in the series..but lets be clear- this is (as you said) no x-3, and giving it a 3.5 of 5 warrants "worthy", wouldnt you say? i more or less go for 8/10, personally. the last 1/4 brought up the curve by leaps and bounds for me.

>- Oh, and I want to smash J. Jonah Jameson's assistant. God
>damn.

*jeezy voice* yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah

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i pretty much agree with homie's view of this movie overall

here's how i took it without TRYING to spill too much...

the lead characters were great as usual...i always love the fact that tobey macguire kept the peter parker character in its truest form in all three films, and that's being the ultimate nerd/geek...even while possessed from the suit, he still effectively came off as a fuckin' nerd of all nerds....

the best "villian" was ironically the new goblin, and james franco's performance overall was great as well...

the BIGGEST disappointment, yet i sorta expected to be a disappointment, but hoped that somehow he will deliver was tropher grace, ESPECIALLY when he was venom, he DID NOT play a convincing venom at all..even though i DID like the suit, somewhut

i remember sam raimi admitting to say he never really cared for vemon and it was NEVER his intention to have him in ANY spiderman movies, but did anyway because of the demand of the fans, and you can tell thru this movie that it was sorta a forced situation, even though the storyline was PROBABLY the most authentic to the actual comic book (with the exception of how it end, it DID end somewhut similar, but with eddie brock incarcerated & forever trapped with the suit)

the special effects for the SANDMAN was AMAZING, but the storyline was shitty as fuck! and how that ENDED was shitty as hell, as if they wanted to rush that conclusion which really wasn't a complete conclusion.....

also the fight scene were dope, but TOO short which i dunno if that was a good thing or a bad thing, because it somewhut left me wanting to see more...

i think, really, the BIGGEST flaw about this movie was that there was TOO much going on...too many villians all at once, which made most of the storylines feel rushed and incomplete with the exception original storyline that threaded thru the entire trilogy of the triangle between harry, peter, and mary jane....

i dunno the reason BEHIND being so much is so that can conclude this in being a trilogy without anymore spiderman movies, or because they wanted to go over-the-top with it...but truthfully it was too much...


but it's still overall a great movie

i think they tried to tie off as much as they could just in case they don't go further with this. everyone is saying something different as to whether or not they will do more.

so i agree with what you said about where some of the weakest points occurred in the movie. certain parts seemed rushed. certain parts had terrible acting, while other moments i thought rang really true to the characters. i thought they really nailed the symbiote's influence on peter parker, but wasn't entirely impressed with the design of venom. nor was i impressed with topher once he merged with the symbiote. he was better before they joined (as much as you can say for topher grace anyways).

its funny that so many people wanted to see venom. though i love the character in the comics, and in the cartoons, i think the character is less interesting on film. i thought so from the beginning. whereas the older characters such as dr. octopus and sandman are perhaps less impressive in the comics and cartoons, but more interesting on film.

i'd give it a 8/10.
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i give it that same rating...with the issue with venom is that i feel that we didn't have enough TIME to really get into that character...

the venom story should of been a SEPARATE feature....that's the reason we why doc ock and both green goblins worked so well because there was a full progressive character build-up...

with eddie brock & alien symbiote, all we got was the basic run-down which was brock was pissed because peter got him fired and ruined his career & the symbiote being a parasite looking for a partner

had this been a full feature on venom, then we would of understood the progression of obsession to destroy spiderman, in the same way that build-up was with harry osbourne...and also alot of MORE info as to why eddie was so connected with the suit once it left him....

plus the fighting was too limited as well because of so much additional plots in the movie...i mean, the WAY spiderman move and fight is ALWAYS exciting to me on film...and to think you have somebody that's equal to you but with more muscular strength....that battle between the two should of been epic...

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>- Nice Bruce Campbell cameo, although I was hoping he would be
>Mysterio (don't ask, I heard rumors).

I knew about that, rottentomatoes.com is cool

>
>- You can tell Sam Raimi's heart just may not be in the
>franchise anymore. The film was alright, but it's certainly a
>departure from the first two. Not "X3" bad, it's a good
>popcorn film,

In my opinion X3 WAS a cool pop-corn flick. Despite having Brett "Rush Hour" Rat on it, I thought it was actually a fairly capable film. I mean, I understand how pissed some might be cause ole Prof X got nixed by Phoenix and Juggernaut was treated like a mutant(ie: running into wall only to get knocked out cold). Plus the whole slightly more cartoonish feel to it..still I thought it was entertaining as a MOVIE, not a full-on Sin City. I felt it was nothing approaching Oscar-worthy nor was it approaching Electra-depths.

I didnt think many others thought much different on these boards.. am I worng??? ANyone else agree wit me??



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I'll get more in depth after the masses see it

If you read the original comics (and if so, you're as old as me), you may feel a bit short changed. There's no way to follow that storyline, but you have to think there could have been a slightly better compromise than that. As it stood, there was no real way to convey the danger Venom posed to Spidey. And that's a crap way to go out, too (but at least it looked good). I'm also not sold on how GG should have been handled either. He menaced Pete for years, behind the mask and in their personal life. But again, no way to do that in 2:20. The strange thing is even with the runtime, there are more than a few parts that seemed rushed. Trimming some storylines and extending others would have helped. Hell, leaving Venom out completely may have helped, but no way that was going to happen. The masses would have had a fit.

However,

As a movie, it was pretty damn good. They developed Sandman perfectly. What limited time they used for Harry played out pretty well. Lots of nice touches to some scenes in the comic books (the shirt, the church bell). If looked at it from a personality standpoint (power corrupting, revenge is bad, friends and family, etc) how they handled the suit was pretty decent. The 'black suit' Pete was funny as shit, but could have been trimmed. J.K. stole every scene he was in, and Bruce's cameo was well worth it (I am French!). Damn near every role Topher is in he plays Eric Foreman, which is fine by me. The action sequences were fantastic and should look even better in IMAX (although I could have used better lighting in the first one). I wasn't as mad at the acting because this is a comic book brought to the screen, and what is a comic book without crappy dialogue and bad 'acting'? So in that light, it played out OK.

In all, great summer movie and good for the series. Not so great for the comic fan storywise, but good nonetheless.

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well actually, the vemon story SORTA did go off the original comic storyline....it wasn't COMPLETELY accurate, but rarely a comic-based movie ever is (unless you're doing a frank miller flick).

but eddie brock DID have beef with peter parker, because peter parker exposed him as a fraud, exactly like it was in the movie...brock DID knew peter's identity through the alien suit as well as they DID show vemon being the superior one and the only way spiderman to win was pretty much exactly whut he did in the movie...as well as how he got rid of the suit in the 1st place...

so the vemon story was PRETTY well accurate, with the exception for the absolute end.

whut i was disappoint with was that there wasn't enough fighting between them, mainly because everything was so crunched together...so that's why people wouldn't GET the full detailed understanding of the obsessiveness of both brock & the suit against peter parker & spiderman...it was the SAME type of obsessiveness as harry's, but it TOOK damn near TWO movies to reached that point of understanding the length to harry's obsession to destroying spiderman...had vemon had some REASONABLE time on screen to build up that obsession to destroy spiderman...we could understand it and vibe with it better

>but eddie brock DID have beef with peter parker, because peter
>parker exposed him as a fraud, exactly like it was in the
>movie...brock DID knew peter's identity through the alien suit
>as well as they DID show vemon being the superior one and the
>only way spiderman to win was pretty much exactly whut he did
>in the movie...as well as how he got rid of the suit in the
>1st place...
>
>so the vemon story was PRETTY well accurate, with the
>exception for the absolute end.

No way to redo Secret Wars. So use a quick entrance for the simbiote to get to the earth. Eh. The exposure was correct, but if memory served, it was Spidey, not Pete, that exposed Brock, so his hate was directed at Spiderman primarily. In the movie, Brock actually sees Pete and the suit. And it was Richards, not Connors, that figures out what's with the symbiote. Considering there is a FF4 movie, it could have been done.



>whut i was disappoint with was that there wasn't enough
>fighting between them, mainly because everything was so
>crunched together...so that's why people wouldn't GET the full
>detailed understanding of the obsessiveness of both brock &
>the suit against peter parker & spiderman...it was the SAME
>type of obsessiveness as harry's, but it TOOK damn near TWO
>movies to reached that point of understanding the length to
>harry's obsession to destroying spiderman...had vemon had some
>REASONABLE time on screen to build up that obsession to
>destroy spiderman...we could understand it and vibe with it
>better

There was NO time to establish the bond between the symbiote, Pete and Brock. No way there could have been, unless you drop the whole Sandman storyline (or make the movie twice as long). Even then, Venom's desire to try to help the 'innocents', as often shown in the comics, wouldnt have worked either in a 2 hour movie.

It's impossibe to wrap years of storyline in 2 hours, so it's to be expected.

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like is said, it NOT COMPLETELY accurate, but parker or spiderman the point was parker exposed brock as a fraud and ruined his career..that did happen in the comic book, regardless if it was as the role of spiderman or not...that's a bit TOO nitpicky because that's not a drastic change...it's like complaining to the MOVIE version of the origin of spiderman not being accurate (which it wasn't)..you see whut i'm saying?

pretty much whut i was saying the PREMISE of the origin was accurate...parker did get rid of the symbiote by accidently hitting the large cathedral bell...it the symbiote DID find its alternative host with brock which both of them shared the common goal of revenge on spiderman...

eddie brock career WAS ruined thru parker (regardless if he was or wasn't spiderman) due to parker/spiderman exposing him as a fruad

and the way spiderman outsmarted venom was similar to the comic as well....

but i agree, which i did mention had venom had time...there should of been a full separate feature about this

True enough. There was enough to appease the masses and the comic guys, to a lesser extent. Like I said, there would be no way to run it to the letter of the comic, but there were nods to the comic that I was glad to see.

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>And it was
>Richards, not Connors, that figures out what's with the
>symbiote. Considering there is a FF4 movie, it could have been
>done.

FF is Fox. Spiderman is Sony/Columbia. The property rights are owned by two different studios. Which is also why you'll never see a Spidey/Kingpin movie.

>No way to redo Secret Wars.

And to speak on this.... that whole thing was retconned anyway. I just don't understand why they didn't go with the new version of that. They established JJJ's kid in the last flick. Why not have him bring the symbiote back from space? Seems silly.

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I caught a midnight showing, and I was happy. I especially liked the scenes between Pete and MJ and Peter and Harry. It seemed like Tobey Maguire actually learned how to convey emotions. I never really bought his sad or angry scenes before this one. The interacton between Peter and Harry was also good, in my humble opinion. Topher was awesome in the pre-Venom scenes, so-so in the scenes after he becomes Venom. I liked it, though. I was thoroughly pleased, and plan to see it again.

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There was really no point in having that guy in there besides the fact that Raimi is more partial to the old school villians than the newer crop. Raimi does well developing Peter and Harry throughout the film, and even shows Brock's mental/emotional corruption leading up to his transformation to Venom. But Sandman stays one dimensional the whole time and Thomas Hayden Church was only in like 5 scenes. A waste of a paycheck and CGI money that could have been spent on something else. He could have given Peter another reason for wanting revenge, like something happening to Aunt May, to push the symbiote story along. Whether Raimi wants to admit it or not, he made a Venom movie and should have just embraced that. Introduce Venom earlier and make him exponentially stronger so Peter still needs Harry's help, then you have a tighter story and a flick more on par with the first two. Or Raimi could have taken Sandman and developed him more as a character. Either way, Spidey 3 got a lot closer to the 90's Batman franchise territory than I was comfortable with.

All in all, I did enjoy it, especially the symbiote Spidey/Peter moments. I was so happy when he finally popped MJ in the face and I was rolling when he punked Harry. Speaking of the Harry shit, he was absolutely diabolical with his schemes once he got his memory back! That 'I'm fucking your broad' smile once Pete crossed the street was priceless. Cold bloooodeeed!

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i think the 3rd installment was MENT to be sandman as the LEAD villian, but the demand for venom was so large that his part of his story was cut in half

because from whut i gather, his main purpose was that he was a common theif but with a purpose to get enough money so his daughter can have the neccessary medical treatment that she needed, and ORIGINALLY they was going to build upon that, but it was one of those side plots that got deleted due to the addition of venom

- the bad acting was great because it was done in such a camp style...besides, it's a comic-book movie about a guy with spider powers

- still a little long for my tastes. it didn't drag on nearly as much as 2, but I don't think any comic-book movie should go past two hours

- the Sandman scenes were some of the most impressive CGI I've seen in a very long time

- the Parker/MJ love dynamic came off a lot better than in 2

- the movie probably would have been better if it just focused on Venom and tied up the Hobgoblin quicker

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I thought it was just me but 2 was mad boring to me. I actually fll asleep on 2....lol.

DAMN!

all the "love" scenes in 2 were some of the most painful minutes of dialogue I've witnessed in a theater

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I had people tell me "But... but the dialogue was so BAD!"

Go rent Citizen Kane or something. I'm here to see giant sand creatures and evil symbiotes pummel spidermen.

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YALL DO THAT DUMBASS SHIT WHENEVER a movie y'all
BADLY WANT TO BE GOOD FUCKING SUCKS!!!!

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"Its just a fun movie"

"yall taking it too serious"

"Yall need to lighten up"


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If the shit is WACK ITS FUCKING WACK!!!!

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wow. i still post on message boards. lol.

I don't like the way people tear at Spiderman 3 like it's total garbage when it's not. Some folks have been acting like Sam Raimi fucked their momma, and I think you've agreed with me on this. You can still get PLEASURE out of a movie like this, or Transformers, or any other flick like that, even if the story ain't good. Does that make it a good movie? Not at all, and it doesn't excuse the filmmakers either. But this film delivered some terrific CGI and action sequences, which makes it far from a total waste of time.

There will be many summer movies worse than this, including I bet at least one very hyped expensive one. They kinda dropped the ball in storytelling and dialogue, but they never set the bar too high, so I kinda knew going in what I was gonna see. That doesn't make it less excusable, but it does mean that there is SOMETHING redeemable within the course of this film.

The people that hate this movie act like it's on Catwoman's level or some shit. Raimi is a master at staging an action sequence, and he makes sure his CGI is spot on. We can fault the movie for many things, but it wasn't garbage or a disaster or what some of the people who passionately ride against the movie have been saying.

Bad storytelling? Yes. Bad acting? Yes, in places. Bad dialogue? You bet (anything in all three films with May and Ben have been terrible). But irredeemably bad movie? Not at all.

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So chill with the whole "yeah it sucked, but it has some
entertainment value."

I personally got pleasure out of 'Faces of Death'.

Okay, no I didn't, but I'm sure someone did.


My point is, you can get "Pleasure" out of lots of shit.

At some point, you have to have the BALLS TO SAY
someshit is PURE FUCKING TRASH.

>I don't like the way people tear at Spiderman 3 like it's
>total garbage when it's not. Some folks have been acting like
>Sam Raimi fucked their momma, and I think you've agreed with
>me on this. You can still get PLEASURE out of a movie like
>this, or Transformers, or any other flick like that, even if
>the story ain't good. Does that make it a good movie? Not at
>all, and it doesn't excuse the filmmakers either. But this
>film delivered some terrific CGI and action sequences, which
>makes it far from a total waste of time.

Read above about porn on mute.

It is "entertaining" to some degree.

>There will be many summer movies worse than this, including I
>bet at least one very hyped expensive one. They kinda dropped
>the ball in storytelling and dialogue, but they never set the
>bar too high, so I kinda knew going in what I was gonna see.
>That doesn't make it less excusable, but it does mean that
>there is SOMETHING redeemable within the course of this film.

This flick costed 200 million bones.

I ain't finna make excuses for its suckiness.

It had EVERYTHING at its disposal.

Captive audience.

Huge budget.

Good cast.

I mean, the shit just sucked.

>The people that hate this movie act like it's on Catwoman's
>level or some shit. Raimi is a master at staging an action
>sequence, and he makes sure his CGI is spot on. We can fault
>the movie for many things, but it wasn't garbage or a disaster
>or what some of the people who passionately ride against the
>movie have been saying.

Porn.

Porn.

Porn.


On


MUTE.


>Bad storytelling? Yes. Bad acting? Yes, in places. Bad
>dialogue? You bet (anything in all three films with May and
>Ben have been terrible). But irredeemably bad movie? Not at
>all.


Porn.

You can say the same shit for PORN.





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-but the sandman scenes were pretty good. he got to be a little too big tho.

-wow seriously no explanation of the comet/sapce suit.

-i wanted more venom cgi.

-i thought james franco was actually good this time around. especially when he had amnesia.

-team up? really?

-the whole bangs=bad spidey was um a lil gay.

-the smooth dancing petere parker was gay too

-ran long

-eh

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LOOOOVED it. It was far from perfect. A lil too Emo for my taste. (At some point in the movie just about every main and side character has a scene where they cry. With the exception of JJ) And the ending left a lil to be desired. However the action scenes were on point. The special FX were crazy. Evil Spidey was a bad @$$! Like I said far from perfect. But still IMHO the best of the 3. Cant wait to see it again.

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It was a lil bit bit on the lovey dovey side but I enjoyed the film. Peter in the blacksuit and evil Harry was funny as shit.

DAMN!

save your money
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Enjoyable, but I thought there was too much of the "Dark Spidey" stuff

(and btw, it's interesting that Spidey/Peter got some "soul" when he "went black"... the odd thing was, I didn't feel like anything he did was "bad"... he just got snarkier and asserted himself more... oh, and he did appear to murder someone, but beside that...)

The shift to Venom came too late in the movie for anyone to really care about him as a threat

This movie was plotted out within an inch of its life, and that was the problem, there was too much of it. The original idea Raimi had was to shoot two movies, and it looks like he tried to stuff as much of the plot of both films into this one

The performances and hokey "cornpone" dialogue were right in line with the first two movies, I don't know how anyone could have expected much of an improvement

And maybe it was the blown up IMAX image, but I've never been so amused by so many overacting-ass extras in my life

That said, I did like Thomas Haden Church's performance, and Topher Grace as well, even though they didn't have much to work with (Church especially)

It felt like Bryce Dallas Howard was wasted

And I certainly liked James Franco better both times he was a heel than the two times he turned babyface

And as O_E has pointed out, Kirsten Dunst isn't that attractive, so when she "dumped" Peter, I didn't really feel bad

Had they started the Venom storyline earlier, instead of farting around with Dark Spidey walking like John Travolta down the street and talking like a hepcat, daddio, I would have enjoyed the movie more

Yeah, fine, the Dark Spidey stuff was fun, but if you're going to have 3 villains, it didn't make much sense to me to add a 4th villain, that being Spidey's Conflicted Inner Identity

Like, who cares at this point

They could have lost all of that and had the black goo invade Eddie early on instead of having it jump on the back of Peter's moped, disappear for 20 minutes, then show up again at Peter's crib after MJ leaves

You could still keep the "Peter wants to propose to MJ but she's jealous and going through a slump" storyline, but we would have gotten to Venom faster, which would have made things more interesting to me

I still dug the movie, but not as much as I would have had they cut back on (or cut out) the "Dark (K)night of The Spiderman" stuff

And it was awesome in 70MM IMAX

Shouts out to the Sony employees that were in the house (including the cute chocolate one I sat next to), being good worker bees by inflating the weekend b.o. numbers*





*(that's a joke, btw, not a serious or accurate accusation)


Also, as a side note, I still like that "Hero" song from the first Spider-Man
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