What went wrong here?

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2009)

Spider-Man...Spider-Man...The first Spider-Man movie was one of my favorite movies. I watched it so may times when I was younger. After seeing it so much and knowing it so well, I saw Spider-Man 2. I was mildly disappointed at first, but I got over it and realized that though it wasn't as good as the first movie, it wasn't that bad, either. And now I see Spider- Man 3...
This is definitely the worst Spider-Man in the series. It does have it's moments, but it is no where near as good as Spider-Man 1 or 2. After close analyses, (That is what I do best. I can't help trying to figure out what is wrong with things) I have come up with a list of things that could be changed to make this movie better.
First, there are too many villains. How much screen time did Venom have, anyway? Like 5 minutes? There was potential for a great story line with every villain, but they crammed too much into one movie to take advantage of it. They gave Sandman an interesting back story, but couldn't explore it because they had too much going on. Harry Osborn's character also had amazing potential to be made better, but they had too much going on.
Second, the design of the Venom suit. The Venom suit is horrible. I can understand that trying to adapt it from the comic books has to be hard, but they didn't go about it very well. The claws were especially bad. They looked like dirty fingernails. And the thing where Venom's mask comes off every time he talks was a horrible idea. They should have kept the regular solid black suit. The claws should have been something black, like the suit, not big fingernails. And they could have done things to show that the suit was the same stringy black mess that we saw envelope Eddie Brock. They definitely could have demonstrated this around the mouth, perhaps having some of those tendrils connect the top to the bottom or something...
Now, let's talk about the end. Several things about the end really messed this movie up. First, the idea that Venom and Sandman did this huge kidnapping thing with all these people just sitting there watching and everything. First, this is the third movie, and it also happens to be the third movie where Mary Jane was kidnapped and used to get to Spider-Man. That's original. The writers should have tried to put a little more work into making new ideas instead of doing old things over again. And the writing in the web was also horrible. Someone in the studio thought that it would be an awesome idea to use the old "Amazing Spider-Man" font in the movie, but the whole thing was so stupid. And what exactly was Venom doing before Spider-Man came, anyway?
OK, next...the T.V. news. We can see that Spider-Man is getting the crap beaten out of him and may not survive. We DEFINITELY do not need a news reporter to come up telling us "Spider-Man is getting the crap beaten out of him. He may not survive." That, I thought, was one of the worst parts of the movie: cutting to the news program. If that was cut out, the movie would go straight up a couple notches in quality.
And then we have the end fight. Who were the choreographers, anyway? It's obvious that they didn't take any time to work it out. Instead, they took the easy way out. Did anyone else notice that Spider-Man would fight Venom for a while, kick him away, and all of a sudden he's completely gone for like ten minutes while Sandman comes, and then Spider-Man gets Sandman to go away and all of a sudden Venom magically appears out of nowhere again? If you're going to have two villains, have two villains. Choreograph it as such. Don't just fight one, have him disappear, fight another, have him disappear and then have the other one come back.
Finally, we come to the deaths. Venom is the biggest villain of the comic books...EVER. Why did they kill him off after like 20 minutes of screen time. He was a minor character in this movie! If they had put their focus completely on Sandman and Harry Osborn and developed THEIR stories and left Venom for number four where they could have actually done SOME justice to his character, things would have been MUCH better. How about this? Spider-Man is blowing the suit up, Eddie jumps after it, and Spider-Man stops him just in time. He IS knocked back by the explosion, though, and is in critical care...
And here comes MY idea for number four. OK...Connors still has that sample of the suit in his lab. One night, he's working on research and these secret agency people come and kidnap him. As he struggles, he knocks over the container with the piece of suit in it. They force him to experiment on himself to grow back his limb, (For military usage purposes, perhaps) and he turns into the lizard. The piece of suit becomes Carnage. And, perhaps, some of it could become Venom again and give them an opportunity to actually do something with the character.
Please send me your thoughts on this. I would like to hear feedback on my ideas. Thank you.