Classic Raimi

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2007)

What people don't seem to realize about this movie, is that its a B-movie masquerading as a giant Hollywood blockbuster.
I, for one, freakin loved it. I hated the first two. They were cliché, over-acted, and tried to make me care, but I couldn't. It seems Sam Raimi had a wake-up call while writing this script... "Wait a second... I did Evil Dead.... and that's what I'm good at.... F*** America." And so began the epic saga/ movie soup/ laugh-fest that is Spidey 3. Bruce Campbell is a genius, and no one in this film can act. It's kind of great how retarded all of the actors and actresses come off as, except for Campbell, the newspaper editor, and Sandman.
Conversely, I thought the Venom element was well done in how the physical paralleled the psychological. Only Raimi could have done this so well. I was actually surprised at how deep and dark this was, and how it worked on so many levels.
Of course, nothing else worked, and it was stellar.