Spiderman 3 Opinions

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2007)

Just saw Spidey 3 last night and there are a couple things I'd like to touch on. Firstly, the character development from the first two films was much, much more in depth. Then this one comes along and it's just jam-packed with short character development, various story lines and sub-plots. I'm all for action, especially superhero action but the first two movies were much easier for me to latch on to. Being a Spidey Comic fan from childhood, I'd never really been into the Goblin or even Doc Oc but the way the first two movies developed their characters made me appreciate them actually start to like them as "complicated evil villains". But my favorite character has always been and always will be Venom. He was well done graphically in 3 but how much screen time did he get as opposed to the Sandman? Ten minutes maybe after actually becoming Venom and then the character development for Eddie Brock prior to his mutation was no way in depth. He was spouting cheezy one-liners and his disdain for Peter Parker/Spiderman almost seemed to happen instantaneously after one or two encounters which involved what seemed to be no more than playground competition.
Secondly, my issue was with the length of the film. I'm all for long-flicks (LOTR, Saving Private Ryan) in the theater, if they entertain me. But for some reason i was finding myself uncomfortable after about the first hour and a half trying to shift myself around in my chair. The movie actually lost my attention long enough for me to focus on how comfortable I was. That's never happened to me during movies I'm enjoying thoroughly but for some reason it did this time. i can't quite put my finger on it but it just seemed that a few things were somewhat irrelevant and kind of put in as "filler", such as the dance scene. All in all, I'd say it was impressive visually but should have been more in depth with character development rather than Peter Parker development. This movie seemed to combine two flicks in one and really should have been spanned out between it and a fourth.