i am SO disappointed...

Rating: 4/10 (7 May 2007)

my main question after seeing this film is, "why?"
why, of all people, was Sam Raimi chosen to tackle the Spiderman juggernaut? he made this movie suck. venom isn't scary, and he acts like an episode 2 Anakin Akywalker by saying, "you know, you ruined my career. i think i'll kill you now." the whole snapping of the fingers and jazz club and peter parker's emo-awareness moment made me sick. he lacks the darkness that Christian Bale's Batman had. Tobey Maguire is just not good at being an angry man. in a word, only one thing saved this film: Sandman. Marko didn't mean to kill Uncle Ben; he accidentally shot him when his partner (the guy Peter threw out a window in the first film) bumps into him. All Marko wants is to get enough money to save his daughter, and he tries to tell Spiderman that, but unfortunately the symbiote won't let Peter sympathize. He throws Sandman into a sewer drain and washes him away, and the apathetic Spiderman thinks him dead. Sandman doesn't go down that easy, and actually takes his anger out on Venom later on in the film. Sandman's humanitarian effort to save his daughter and the sudden ability to do so gives him a reason to rob banks and stores, though I'm not promoting becoming a part of a strange physics experiment that makes you a walking sand castle to save your loved ones. all he wants to do is to save his daughter, and in the process accidentally becomes a monster. so sad, so human, so un-Sam Raimi-like.
why was Kirsten Dunst chosen to play Mary Jane? she is so plasticine and her role in the film is basically "i can't make up my mind about the whole Peter/Harry thing." why didn't harry have a cool suit like his daddy? he looked like a snowboard punk with bombs. why didn't (SPOILER!!!! LOOK AWAY!!!!) the butler tell Harry sooner that his father killed himself? where was he in 1 and 2? and what in the world (ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT!!!!) gave Sam Raimi the idea to kill Venom off in the end? Venom can't die! he's a recurring villain and is supposed to be Spidey's arch-nemesis and alter-ego? you don't even get a snippet of the evil he truly is, and Topher Grace is a pathetic villain.
all in all, i am so saddened. the 4th one better be good.