Looking back on it......

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2007)

Looking back on Spider-Man 3 after all the hype...
When you re watch Spider-Man 3 today you see the biggest flaw fairly early. Way to many story lines in one.If you were to re watch Spider-Man 2 and 3 in the same day you would notice the flow and amount of development Spider-Man 2 had. It built to everything so masterfully and had great delivery. I know I am not the first to say this nor will I ever be the last, but it has to be said once again.
The movie suffers with the lack of character development in the Eddie Brock character not to mention and I will say it now a major mis cast in Topher Grace.Venom.My all time favorite super villain was thrown is awfully. But the biggest slap in the face and perhaps the biggest thing to anger the fan boys like myself was the very cheap plot device of the symbiote. The symbiote story needed to have a whole movie to it's self.We needed to see the symbiote come from space.We needed to see the JJ's in the shuttle and that's how you bring in the symbiote. not to mention this could have helped the Peter MJ storyline with JJ's son.
Speaking of which brings me to my next biggest grip. Kirstin Dunst as Mary Jane. Annoying. Very annoying. She is written so poorly and whinny. Even if she is mad about the negative reviews never would I treat the person who saved me from being thrown off a bridge, kidnapped by Doc Ock,etc. She is nothing but useless and annoying in this movie. She either needs to bite the dust or be used much better in the fourth instalment.
Sandman is a terrific villain to watch on screen. His background is always great for a villain. Misjudged, but once again not developed enough. Another case of to many story lines this could also have he's own movie. The whole scene of Sandman being born picking up his daughters key chain is amazing CGI and always great to watch.
Harry I thought was done and played off well for the most part....the thing that was just idiotic and stupid was having him have that head injury he became a little....ya know? It was pointless and strange to even go that route again I have no idea why they did it, I am at a loss for words. The way he goes out however was done well. I remember reading the way he dies " your my friend.Best friend" to Peter many many many months before the film was released online. That's interesting.
Now I love Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. But he really needs to keep his mask on more. Anyway we all know him dancing,emo cut,etc was awful now moving on. Spider-Man needs to crack more jokes, but I won't complain about that as much as some people.
Bryce Dallas Howard/Gwen Stacy is the most undeveloped character and was a huge waste. I also felt the way her character was portrayed wasn't to my liking very much. By now I don't even want to see her in the sequel and scrap her. Now onto Felica Hardy/Black Cat.
The special effects/CGI in this movie was strange to say the very least. At times it looked amazing and at other times it looked awful. Example when Harry and Peter are fighting in the alley during the opening fight scene. The CGI on the walls and pipes looked horrid. Like they came ripped from a N64 game. But all the effects before the alley part were terrific and well done. Now I understand we had a new team doing the effects/CGI in this film. Please for the fourth Sony try your best to bring the old team back.
Something that felt very off in the movie was the music. Now all respect to Christopher Young but the soul of the movie felt missing without Elfman. He really defined everything about the first couple movies and I hope Raimi and him make up and Elfman gets back on the fourth. no disrespect to Young I still though he did a fairly good job.
now after all of this you would think I hated this movie. But i didn't for the most part I was letting out my frustrations. Sure it is the worst Spider-Man movie yet and I don't blame Sam Raimi as he is one of my favorite directors and with his newly released horror film "Drag me to Hell" Raimiproves he is one of the best directors in horror. But that's another story for another time. Now that Raimi has creative control over the fourth I hope things get back to the roots that made the first two Spider-Man films great. I still do enjoy watching Spidey 3 now and than despite the flaws. I will like to note Spider-Man 2 is one of my favorite movies of all time and nobody was more excited for this movie to come out than myself.