Originally posted by: CKDragon
Our group was pretty disappointed in it. I won't say it was "bad", but it certainly didn't live up to my expectations. The villains just seemed so lackluster. I remember hearing back at the beginning of the development that
Sam Raimi, who never liked or understood the Venom character, was coerced into using him by the management because all the fans were screaming for him. His complete lack of interest in the character showed through pretty clearly, in my opinion. A whole 10-15 minutes of screentime... boo.
At least it wasn't as bad as X-Men: The Last Stand.
I'm with Sam Raimi on this one. I stopped reading Marvel comics (and got into DC comics) before the Venom character and I just don't understand and get why it's such a popular character. And I don't get the black Spidey suit thingy either.
To me that era of comics was a low point. It was all marketing. Wow, Spiderman has a black suit! Doomsday kills Superman! Multiple covers for the same comic -- collect all 5 versions! Bad stories and all marketing.
Regarding Spiderman 3, I was disappointed. I loved Spiderman 1 and 2 but I felt Spiderman 3 had too many things crammed into it.
I didn't like how they revised the death of Ben to have the Sandman actually be the killer. It was unneccessary. While a pivotal event in Peter's life, I don't want to have it keep recurring and revised in future movies -- the first two did an excellent job with it and it just doesn't need to be brought up and revised again. Let's move on.
I didn't understand Mary Jane breaking up with Peter. Did Harry make her do it? But later on it seemed like she acted like she did it on her own. You would think that if Harry made her do it (I want you to do something if you want Peter to live), you would think she would explain this to Peter after everything was over.
I didn't like how the butler waited all this time before telling Harry the truth about the way his father died. What was that about?
I generally don't like storylines where the character becomes "bad" because of some external factor which causes them to be really mean and do hurtful things. Sometimes they do things that in real life that would cause permanent damage/changes in relationships. Smallville does it too much with the red krytonite storylines which has caused Clark to do things like physically fight his father and hurt his mother and Lana.
The things that I enjoyed in Spiderman 3 are seeing the character interaction in the beginning of the film. Seeing Peter Parker being a nice (but poor) guy and the niceness of other characters such as the landowner's daughter. I liked the friendship between Harry and Peter and I was happy to see Harry redeemed himself at the end.