Comments on: Review: Spider-Man 3 (IMAX)

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:26:36 +0000

I like your idea of Venom possessing a dog. That’d be freaking scary. O_o

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:01:16 +0000

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I cited your post in my own review of the movie. Thanks, and check it out.

By: venom_fan(nick)

venom_fan(nick) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:29:21 +0000

i loved this movie. i am a huge spiderman fan. i never read the comic where i lived thier was ni comic store so i watch the tv show. and read stuff about spiderman online. i think what the should done was when peter got rid of the black suit it would have been thier.
sandman would have died in the subway. and the final fight would have been netween the new goblin and spiderman. like in the comic harry is fighting peter and then peter get stuck ing a fire and harry saves peter but is die because of the formal and would say peter you are my best friend.
then after the formal have eddie in the church. he ould hear someone coming so would go to the bell tower and found the symbotic symbol. and touch it to see what it was and like the snece in the movie right when you see venom would have gone to the credits
i thought this was the best of all the spiderman films

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:07:38 +0000

LOL, yeah… the guy’s actually a friend of mine. We tend to kid each other a lot regarding our respective taste in movies.

Of course, I’m the one who’s RIGHT.

Vic

By: faliklunj

faliklunj — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:48:32 +0000

There’s no accounting for taste but Ghost Rider and S3? Dude…

By: Jay-rod

Jay-rod — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:17:42 +0000

Hello everyone, sorry I’m late. My name is Jared, and I feel that this film lived up to the other two as being the worst trilogy next to the Star Wars prequels. Really, how anyone can say that bad acting, 5 long moments of crying, and inane dialogue, are enjoyable, is beyond me. This, and the other two go on my list as three of the worst films ever created. Sam Raimi, I love all his other films, but, really, this is just a terrible waste of millions of peoples’ time as well as my own. I give this film a 1 out of 5. Well, it wasn’t as bad as Batman Returns, Batman Forever, or Batman and Robin. But…yeah it’s just as terrible as those.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:45:08 +0000

Hap, you sound like my friend Randy, above. He didn’t like the first two either and actually thought this one was better.

Go figure.

Vic

By: hap

hap — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:12:28 +0000

It must have a lot to do with expectations with this one. I didn’t much care for the first 2 movies, but this one seemed okay. It was a little long on some of the absurd Peter Parker stuff, but that could be said of all 3 movies in my opinion.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:45:37 +0000

Matt, that’s always a danger with a movie like this. That’s what I’m going through with “Iron Man”. Everything I’ve seen about it so far looks AMAZING and Favreau seems to be making all the right choices. However I could be setting myself up for a very big disappointment.

Vic

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:08:00 +0000

It’s not that i hated the movie, but when i went to go see it i expected it to be better. I’m onot saying it sucked but some scenes made me want to run out of the theater( peter dancing ). on the other hand there were some really cool scenes (the first fight with Harry). But I think the main reason everone’s dissapointed with this movie isn’t because it sucked, it’s because our expectations were too high.

By: Vic

Vic — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:58:42 +0000

LOL, dude… have you READ some of the OTHER reviews out there?

I’m stunned to hear you say you liked it, really I am! Overall I didn’t dislike it, I just thought there were things that could have been done better. And there’s no doubt this was better than GR.

Vic

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:53:48 +0000

I can’t believe I’m sticking up for stinking Spider-Man. This is easily the best comic book to live action movie yet. It was even better than Ghost Rider. I don’t know if it was meant to be a comedy, but I was rolling in the isle the whole movie. I was a little frustrated by too many villians, but more by the fact that venom appears and is deleted so quickly. In fact, I figured he has to be brought back in a later movie somehow. Peter’s teacher still has a sample…so… The only real disappointment was that Peter took off the black suit. I thought he was doing great as Angry Spidey. I wouldn’t have stood crying when he got dumped. I would have went strait for the blonde faster than he did. This movie was great! One of the best I’ve seen in a long time. It was so refreshing to see Peter wake up, smell the real world, and react appropriately. Getting pissed at people who are screwing me over is an emotion I can relate to. I get tired of the only emotion is some stupid goody goody thing that comes across as rediculous in the live action comic movies. Too bad he took the black suit off.

You were right about one thing Vic. You jokingly said we probably would end up switching sides after seeing this movie. To explain, Vic normally loves Spidey and is sickeningly biassed in his reviews. I, on the other hand, see these live action polutions of good comic books for what they usually really are and it ain’t good. Funny how the only two good ones (Ghost Rider and Spidey 3) are the two Vic rates down.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:38:42 +0000

Even Batman Begins only had TWO villains, where here at least initially we had three. I’ve really never understood the need to have multiple villains in superhero movies… the ones that work best have only ONE bad guy.

Vic

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:32:31 +0000

I am amazed that the studios and Sam Raimi let this movie be released. Watching it was kind of hard. Way too much going on. I kind of liked the way the Sandman was done and I think if he had been fleshed out more, the storyline might have been really touching. The Venom storyline was wasted, you could tell Sam was not a fan of the character. I did like how they handled Harry. They could have shown Spidy in action with the balck suit more too, he wasn’t instantly bad with the suit in the comics. It just seemed bloated. The only superhero movie to ever get the multiple villian scheme to work was Batman Begins. How do they let this stuff get released? Raimi is a quality film maker, I am surprised by this. If they do decide to release another Spiderman movie, it is time for a new creative team to have at it. And hands down, the best scene in the movie was the restaurant with Bruce Campbell.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:52:17 +0000

Jersey, I’m with ya, bro. I had to pick and choose what to include in my review or it would take longer to read than to watch the movie.

Vic

By: jerseycajun

jerseycajun — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:35:44 +0000

Agreed overall, though I gave it 6/10 personally. Among several complaints already listed, I’d like to add the inexplicable changes in character and apparent motivations that turn out to be dead ends.

The script makes it clear that Brock is dating Gwen Stacey, but makes nothing of it later on in the movie, when it could be used for additional motivation for Venom (which is desperately needed as we find out later. Relying on the petty humiliation as motivation is somewhat weak. Love, and betrayal are much more potent motivators.)

Also, the motivations for the Sandman are mixed and diluted. Why, for instance, when he states he doesn’t want to hurt Spider-Man in their first conflict, does he strike up a bargain with Venom so quickly to kill him? He must know by then that Spider-Man isn’t much of a threat to him, so why go out of your way to kill him when he already doesn’t want to? It’s too easy, and out of character the way it’s been portrayed up to that point.

Then, inexplicably, Marko decides to ask forgiveness for no apparent reason immediately following his repeated poundings on the wall-crawler that nearly kill him. What event did I miss that caused such a dramatic change in tone?

It’s like there were key scenes cut that would have pulled some of it together, and maybe were for time constraints. The obvious solution would have been to concentrate on a single villain as the previous two films did. Both Topher Grace and Thomas Hayden Church do really good work with limited material. I am a bit disheartened that neither of these got the chance to show what they could do if each was the villain-of-focus of their own film. It’s a sadly missed opportunity, and the yet elusive “best overall superhero trilogy” remains yet unseen.

The dialogue, while on track and on par with the previous entries up to the third act, falls apart in the end, degrading into “buddy-hero” territory, with characters invoking lines in the vein of “I’ve got your back”. The dialogue used to be more mature in this series, and the sudden drop in quality startled me and took me out of the moment.

All that said, it was still a good movie as you said, though I think we all expected more – a lot more. All the funny bits with Campbell, Jameson, and disco Peter, as well as the performances in general were good enough to elevate the move above mediocre and middling, but it’s flaws are significant, and can’t be overlooked. Spider-Man 2 will remain the penultimate Superhero movie of the modern era, full of promise and anticipation in the brief period between it and it’s disappointing series finale.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:13:35 +0000

Well I’ve got to talk about the movie somewhat to write a review. I try to paint a picture with general items and not give away anything critical to the plot.

What specifically are you referring to?

Vic

By: jubba

jubba — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:09:52 +0000

your spoiler-free review is full of spoilers, dude

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:09:41 +0000

Oh, I didn’t think it was horrible. Beyond my issue with the reason for the creation of Sandman, the actual “birth” of the character was extremely well done. Raimi managed to make the scene really touching and emotional even without the face of an actual actor due bring that across.

What was good in the film was really good, and not enough to label the entire thing awful in my opinion.

Too many characters crying, though, that’s for sure.

Vic

By: Adenydd

Adenydd — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:35:56 +0000

Iagree 100% that gwen stacy should’ve been cut out, and a foreshadowing/ending having venom (the guy) come in Spiderman 4 would’ve been great (Carnage on 5 would rock as well). If they really wanted Venom in 3, then they should’ve kept it to the suit and ended the movie with the bell tower scene.

Parker dancing was a riot and one of the actual few scenes that worked for me, the rest was just plain horrible. I feel like I was ripped off >_:E