Spiderman 3 is great in its own heaven

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2007)

Forget what you heard everyone say about it, forget the hype, forget Spiderman 1 and 2 ever existed, and just sit down and watch the show.
The hype is your own fault, anyway. Who the hell even care how much Venom YOU want to see in this movie? This is Sam Raimi's movie and he does NOT like Venom.
Spiderman 3 had an excellent script, an excellent ensemble of characters that delivers an excellent, integrated central theme with a multitude of side plots to drill into. At the same time, it defies newton laws and laws of relativity as per usual and provides us with some of the greatest action sequences without seeing heads fall or limbs severed. OK, maybe sand limbs, but they're not real...
But apparently a lot of the viewers got perplexed. Things apparently have grown out of their scope of understanding and they don't like it. Funny, because an equally if not more confusing and complicated movie won best picture last year. What was that, oh, that was The Departed. Perhaps it's the lack of swearing in Spiderman that spelled its doom.
Or perhaps it's because people don't find REAL LIFE relationship issues, REAL LIFE quagmire of hatred and vengeance, all that interesting, or at all important to be shown on big screen. I beg to differ. I think Spiderman 3 has not only achieved to illustrate, in graphic colors, how severed a relationship can be with the slightest miscommunication, how quickly can a simple vengeance spiral out of proportion before the world is at stake, it has also delivered some of the best antidotes and cures, in the most simple, common words.
Unlike some other films that expose ugly social issues and walk away without cleaning up the mess. Spiderman is up close and personal and soldiers on. Unfortunately... it is too much ahead of its time, or perhaps any time.