This was crap

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2007)

Okay, I understand certain things have to happen in movies. I understand things like dramatic license, and I understand that you have to fudge things around to take that 30+ years of history and make it work.
Maybe it's cause I have a standing subscription to the current three Spidey titles, maybe it's cause I have a small collection of all the back issues from way before I was even born...
Maybe it's cause I know who Todd McFarlane is... I don't know the maybe's could go on forever....
But the simplest way to say this is this...
THEY TOOK SPIDER-MANS GREATEST VILLAIN EVER (even greater then the Goblin)AND GAVE HIM 20 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME!!!! Essentially i saw this, and felt that I was ripped off. I totally wanted my money back. Oh yes it had venom, but it didn't have Venom. It had Venom as supporting cast. I mean what is that? They took Sandman, and instead of leaving him as the two bit crook that he was way back, and still is today, turned him from a villain to a tortured character.
...and Spider-Man getting honored? ...Spider-Man getting the key's to the city?? ...Spider-Man getting anything other then ridiculed and hated, and always being at the wrong place at the wrong time?????
The whole movie was just to much, and not enough. I mean throwing random characters in the mix just cause they are in the books? Why not just have had JJJ kill off Gwen Stacy while your at it?
I liked the cast. I liked Topher Grace. I liked Hayden Christiansen. I liked Tobey McGuire. I liked pretty much everyone else... However...
Looking back at the Spider-Man Franchise as a whole, I have come to realize that there was one element that desperately needed to be corrected. Kiersten Dunst is no Mary Jane.
Mary Jane is the hottest chick you could imagine. She isn't cute. She isn't pretty. She's smoking HOT. She's the party girl. She's the one that every guy wants and no man can have. Dunst does not do that justice at all.
For all intent and purposes, she's a lot like Lindsey Lohan, minus all the drugs, alcohol, car wrecks, and random sex. That's who Mary Jane is...
Anymore, I have come to realize that all Hollywood needs to do anymore is slap a familiar name on the titles, and droves of sheeple (sadly in this case myself included) will flock and give Hollywood millions of dollars on crap. But hey, don't forget that no matter how much you hated it, your still going to buy the DVD wont you? I certainly wont. I'll save my money and give it the real artist at Marvel.
...And thus concludes my fanboy rant...