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Just saw Spiderman 3!

MovieCutter said:
Agreed, the dialogue was absolutely horrible, the plot was incredibly lame, and the plot devices just APPEARED out of nowhere over and over and over again (Marko is seen by police walking on the street and there just HAPPENS to be a truck FULL of sand parked on the side of the street...how convenient ((I understand this is Hollywood, but this happened over and over again in this movie)), a meteorite containing the black ooze just kind of "poofs" down with no explosion, just kind of a puff of dust feet from Parker and MJ and nobody notices...odd)

It was just special effects, and honestly, even with them...I wasn't all that entertained, I was bored out of my mind and rolling my eyes every 2 minutes at the overly cheesy and corny dialogue. Kirsten Dunst sings two songs that are completely unnecessary, and that whole scene in the jazz bar with Peter doing some Fosse or something was absolutely the low point of the film. And how many endings does a film need? Are we trying to compete with Return of the King on how many fade-to-blacks we put at the end of a movie???

Lame, lame, lame...I really hope Pirates doesn't fall into the same traps. Sure, they're laughing all the way to the bank, but that's not the point. The point is that this COULD have been a solid conclusion to an already promising trilogy...and this film completely tainted it. It's the Godfather III of the trilogy, but far, far worse.
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I agree completely. They made everything too convienent for the plot. Like you said, having the huge sand truck on the street was just the writers running out of cleaver ideas. There were way too many "coincidences" in the story. Peter's lab partner is the girl who is hanging, then she is the daughter of the chief inspector and was dating Topher's character.

There was literally no plot development since the end of Spiderman 2, except for a character dying. Other than that, nothing has changed. Peter is still in school, he and Mary-Jane are still sorta together, he still lives in a dump and is the photographer for the Daily Bugle.

I also feel like they totally forgot to use any of Spidermans "Spider Sense" in the movie. He never anticipated anything or noticed things before they were too close. For example the meteor with the Venom black gue. As soon as I saw that shot where it landed I thought "Spiderman didn't sense that?".

Another thing that bugged me was that I saw no new previews for movies I hadn't already seen previews for. That is one of my favorite things about going to see big blockbusters is that they usually are the first to debut new previews.

I give this movie a 4/10.
 
I never really thought that the Spiderman series was particularly good, but the first 2 were at least entertaining. Number 3 was horrible, I wanted to walk out of the movie but didn't hoping that the ending would redeem the movie, but alas, the ending was HORRIBLE, the only good part was finally seeing the "actual" Venom suit controlling Eddie Brock, but that only lasted 5 mins. . .

Really, its a rental, or a .torrent if you are so inclined. The visual effects are nice sure, but the movie was just lacking and felt rushed and not very thought out.

Maybe Sam Raimi can move and on make the real movie we all want to see, EVIL DEAD 4.
 
joepunk said:
Even though I have not seen the movie myself, reading some of the reviews makes me cringe.



And I say, more than anything, was the transformation Spider-Man made when he came into contact with that “alien-bred puddle of black goo.” It just made Peter Parker look like the awkward and geeky little brother of 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto in his heavy-eyeliner and stupid haircut phase.

The resemblance is hilariously uncanny.
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Hmmm...I don't know. Looked like a junior Adolph Hitler without the mustache to me...
 
Ok, the jazz bit with all the girls fawning over his retard moves clearly did suck, but why is no one bitching about the 70s dico walking down the street with shooting gun hand motions scene? That was clearly a painfully retarded scene that deserves some more derision.

Oh, and Kirsten Dunst / Gollum? She looked 5x more haggard and 1/5th as pretty than any other random woman in that film.
 
When Peter was dancing in the street (Emo-Peter), is was just hilarious!

Movie very well made, and the action scenes were perfectly done.

Right amount of dialogue and right amount of action.

The only things i did not like where the very beginning and the very end where he starts talking about truth and honesty and stuff.
 
We saw it Saturday afternoon. It wasn't just awful, but it definitely wasn't as good as the first two.

I didn't mind the "Stayin' Alive" street sequence, either. That part was funny (if maybe a tad too long), and it got a lot of laughs in the packed theater where I saw the movie. It reminded me of the "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" sequence from the 2nd movie. It conveyed the point that they were trying to make about the change in Peter's personality.

In contrast, the whole nightclub scene was just embarrassing. It was sort of ike the kind of campy stuff that they used to pull in the old Batman TV series. I think I could be a little more positive about Spider-Man 3 if they had cut that scene altogether.

The other negative for me was that there was way too little character development for the two new villains. I'd rather they'd cut Gwen Stacey from this one and devoted a little more time to the villains -- especially if (as I suspect) we're going to see them again in one of the future sequels. I think there was enough conflict in Peter and MJ's relationship already without throwing Gwen into the mix (and as far as I could tell, that was the only purpose of her character).

Positives: The special effects were great -- especially the early Sandman scenes, when he's trying to "pull himself together", so to speak. I also liked the chase sequence between Spider-Man and Harry, the one leading up to Harry's accident. That was really well done. And I liked the resolution of Harry's storyline, even if it was pretty predictable.
 
I didn't think that it was that good, the "jokes" were horrible
The second spider man was much better, I can't pinpoint it, but something about it was just overall a lot worse than the second one.
 
MarkCollette said:
Ok, the jazz bit with all the girls fawning over his retard moves clearly did suck, but why is no one bitching about the 70s dico walking down the street with shooting gun hand motions scene? That was clearly a painfully retarded scene that deserves some more derision.
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I did! Page 2 :p

And yea the jokes felt absolutely forced. I'm watching Armageddon now to wipe one average cheesy film from mind with a better cheesy film.
 
I thought it was decent. Well worth my money. They did stretch it a bit, they didn't need all that crap at the end. That was the only part that I thought was boring. Although there was a lot of dialogue, I enjoyed it all (except the end). I liked following Peter's life. Emo-peter was funny, a bit on the corny side, but this is Spiderman, a comic book movie.
 
The problem with Spidey 3 is that Venom was not supposed to be the third villain. It was going to Vulture, with a British actor( maybe the guy from the Crystal Maze and Rocky Horror). But they brought in Venom to get the kids interested. Venom is a more recent addition to the Spiderman universe and the producers thought he would bring in more money.:D
 
I agree with all the criticism here but I wasn't expecting much more anyway. I don't think we were supposed to take Peter Parker's strutting as anything other than tongue in cheek. I mean, I think he's supposed to act as if he were Bill Gates starring in Saturday Night Fever. The women weren't fawning, IMO, they were looking at him as if he were Bill Gates starring in Saturday Night Fever.
 
I liked 3 as much as the others, even though the Spanish subtitles were pitifully done.

The one laugh was this quote from Eddie Brock's (pre-Venom) prayer:

Eddie Brock: "It's Brock sir, Edward Brock Jr. I'm here humbled and humiliated to ask you for one thing... I want you to kill Peter Parker."
 
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