Not Good, Not Bad, But Decent.

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2018)

Ever since its opening weekend, Spider-Man 3 has been the biggest moneymaker for Sony yet, crushing the box office with 890.9 million USD. But over the years, fans have criticized it over and over, calling it "The "Batman & Robin" Of Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy" but is it really bad? my answer is no. And i'm here to explain why.
For starters, let's talk about the plot. Peter Parker/Spider-Man finally wins the love of Mary Jane Watson. But after saving Gwen Stacy from a crane accident, his relationship with MJ starts to fall apart. And when a strange alien symbiote crash lands on earth, it hitches a ride with Peter - changing his Spider-Man appearance completely. With a stronger look and blackish color, Peter starts to love his new suit - until it changes his attitude. Now he must get rid of it - facing new foes such as Harry Osborn, who has turned into "The New Goblin", Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) and the man that was dating Gwen Stacy - Edward Brock Jr. (Topher Grace) Who, with the symbiote, turns into Venom.
Now, the main problem with Spider-Man 3 was it had a strange case of TVO: Total Villain Overload. Let's talk about the 3 villains of this movie.
The New Goblin, for starters, is just Harry Osborn trying to avenge his father's death, believing that Peter/Spider-Man killed him. When it was The Goblin's glider that killed The Green Goblin. But he learns the truth about what really happened, and then teams up with Spidey in the final battle between Sandman & Venom. And it was really cool to see how he sacrificed himself, mirroring his father's death.
Thomas Haden Church doesn't do a bad job of portraying Sandman/Flint Marko in this movie, he's a troubled father who needs money and promises her daughter to make her healthy again. But ends up in a testing site - where all the molecules in his body are scrambled, thus creating the Sandman. It's kind of weird how in one scene, the police informed Peter and Aunt May that Marko/Sandman was the one that killed Uncle Ben, not Dennis Carradine.
But Sandman confesses of what really happened, that his partner (Carradine) was running towards him with the money, and the gun was in Marko's hand - Killing Uncle Ben. But wait, if Carradine was running up to Flint, maybe Carradine must have accidentally pulled the trigger instead of Marko - That's a theory.
Now, to talk about the main problem of Spider-Man 3 - Venom.
Yup, Venom. The possible main reason why the fans hate this movie, they say that it was Raimi's fault venom was in the movie, and that Topher Grace did a horrible job on acting. But I can see why venom is like that - maybe when Sam Raimi was a kid, he must have watched Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) during Spidey's first Venom encounter - Venom was a little taller and stronger, and can shoot webs like Spidey, and uses the term "We" when mentioning the symbote and Eddie Brock. Sam Raimi must have looked back to the series and must have put Venom's somewhat-animated series design in there - to let us know about Venom's first animation design. But Venom always says "I" instead of "We" for some reason.
The special effects are somewhat king of all the movies - the reflection of the mirror, the symbiote, Sandman's final form - it would have been impossible to get that without creating a giant robot. And with green/blue screening, they managed to crop the filming camera out of Spidey saving Gwen Stacy down the building.
There may be some other problems with this film, but all I can say is that Spider-Man 3 isn't a bad movie. Nor is it good, we can all say that this movie is decent according to my studies.
Do you agree?
INFO
Runtime: 2 Hours
Director: Sam Raimi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Should have been R)
BBFC Rating: 12+ (Also should have been 15+)
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures)