Spider-Man 3 (2024)

What makes it different from others?

good back-story, and good acting

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It's not atrocious like The Amazing Spiderman 2, but it's such a wierd film when you think about it for more than 2 minutes. It's crazy how this film was directed by Sam Raimi, it feels nothing like his other films like the first two did. Maybe that's because he wanted to give it a more generic blockbuster feel but it's missing the excellent camera work being used as often and the great action scenes.The film is so concerned with 3 villains that it draws your focus in so many directions it's hard to care about anything or anyone in the film. There are films that can contain subplots that all interweave nicely but this film was just poorly written. Sandman was the best villain here as Harry Osborne isn't really a villain for all that long and Venom is just forced in towards the end. Sandman actually had a good reason to do what he was doing and had a more human and sympathetic element to his character similar to Doctor Octopus.Speaking of sandman, the scene where Flint Marko becomes sandman is probably the best scene in the whole film. It's so well scored and just a great emotional scene. However we go from those heights to the lows of Peter Parker acting like a poser and the infamous dancing that occurs in the last half of the film. It also has a very artificial feel to it and the scenes aren't shot impressively like the first two. There is just an over reliance of CGI and the film just looks so fake. Overall this film is bizzare as it has some good elements, some okay ones and some really bad elements. It's my third favourite Spiderman film.

When Marvel Studios were finally allowed some control over their most bankable character Spider-Man with just enough time to fit him into Captain America: Civil War, even the most die-hard superhero obsessives had grown tired of the adventures of Peter Parker and his red-suited alter-ego. When Tom Holland's definitive incarnation eventually graced the screen in a glorious extended cameo, it suddenly all made sense. Sony, who still held onto the rights but agreed to share with Marvel and allow him into their universe, simply didn't know what to do with him. They were on a roll with Sam Raimi's horror-inflected vision, which placed character above action and made Parker an underdog you could really root for. But the studio wanted more, and forced Raimi to shoe-horn in a fan-favourite villain at the expense of what was so great about this series. The worst part is that they did it again just seven years later with their Andrew Garfield-led reboot.The villain the studio demanded was Venom, the razor-toothed, lizard-tongued alien symbiote who attaches itself to Spider-Man and improves his powers, while turning him into a dancing, floppy-haired douchebag at the same time. But Venom isn't the only Spidey foe appearing, for we also have a new Green Goblin, played by a returning James Franco, and Flint Marko, aka the Sandman, played by an incredibly bored-looking Thomas Haden Church. The evolution of Franco's Harry Obsorn has been set up from the very start, so his emergence as his father's successor to don the goblin mask and wreak havoc for our friendly neighbourhood web-spinner should feel natural and well-timed, until he is hit on the head and develops amnesia. With so much already going on, it feels like both an unnecessary step back in the story and sheer lazy writing. We are also given Marko's backstory, and it turns out the lug-headed escaped con was the man really responsible for Uncle Ben's death, which paves the way for more of Tobey Maguire's constipation face during his quiet time with Aunt May (Rosemary Harris).There's simply too much going on, and when the film allows the pace to slow enough to spend some quality time with its central character, it turns out that Peter has turned into such an insufferable narcissist that we can't wait to get away from him. But, if you've seen the film, you'll know that's not the worst of it. The black alien goo arrives from space without explanation, and just so happens to land nearest to Peter Parker. The posters teased the darker side of Spider-Man, but what we got was spontaneous dancing, winking at girls in the street, and not listening to Mary Jane's (Kirsten Dunst) acting career troubles. I remember hiding behind my hands back in 2007 during the now-infamous dance sequence, and it hasn't improved with age. I've never uttered the words "I just want it to stop" out loud during a movie before, not until I saw Spider-Man 3 for the second time anyway. But it doesn't stop, not for what feels like another two hours, squeezing in Eddie Brock's (Topher Grace) transformation from slimy, unethical photographer into the vengeful Venom, and forging alliances that come out of nothing. As the wasted Kirsten Dunst screams as she hangs from an alien web at the climax, you'll be thinking that everybody involved is so much better than this, and they were, just three years earlier.

Ugh......... This is the worst Spider-Man movie ladies and gentlemen. Because there's more bad than good let's get the good stuff out of the way; Best effects, more J. Jonah Jameson as always, awesome cameos from Stan Lee and Bruce Campbell, and I measure Sandman on the same level as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2. OK let the suffering begin. There are far too many subplots being squeezed in to focus on the main plot of the story, Sandman is Uncle Ben's real killer, and Harry has become the New Goblin and wants to kill Peter as a means to avenge his father and has temporary amnesia after hitting his head, and Peter and MJ are having relationship problems again when we should be focusing on what the trailers promised us, the birth and introduction of Venom, we'll get into that a little later....... *sigh*.......... And while on the subject of Harry, TEMPORARY AMNESIA??? Is that really the best they could come up with? Amnesia I don't think is temporary disease (we'll talk more about Harry later). Gwen Stacey if you ask me is the most pointless character in the movie aside from being there so that Peter can have someone to cheat on MJ with, and they had Bryce Dallas Howard playing her for crying out loud, how could they just flat out waste her like that? Venom is horribly misused in this, we all are familiar with his origin so no need to go over that but here's what these people did, when Peter gets attached to the symbiote it makes him an emo and it's used for more of a comedic tone and what made it so good in the comics was that it's supposed to torment Peter the same way an addict or Gollum was, plus the dream sequence never appears, and then comes the fact that Topher Grace was completely inaccurate with what the character should've been like and Venom gets only 10 minutes of screen time and then gets blown up in the end, and even then most of the time his face is peeled back, we don't want to sit through Topher Grace with fangs, we want to sit through Venom for crying out loud! Finally the romance, more complication between Peter and MJ as always but this is when it gets to the dropping point of how bad it is, in which Peter cheats on MJ with Gwen as mentioned before but after the dramatic dinner argument MJ realizes they need to forgive each other and they make up with one other. BUT WAIT!!! Harry suddenly gets his memory back and forces MJ to break up with Peter otherwise he'll kill him, thus they break up, has MJ forgotten Peter is Spider-Man? When Peter arrived she could've said "Harry's got his memory back and is right over there! Deal with him!" And Peter could've just defeated him and we can continue focusing on the stuff with the symbiote. BUT NO! She breaks up with him! And she never explains to Peter why she did it! Honestly, THOSE 2 NEED COUNSELING!! Finally I must address the worst thing about the movie........ *drum roll*......... *dramatic silence*.......... The jazz club scene................... *BUM BUM BUM!!!!* Peter and Gwen go to a jazz club, MJ is working there, Peter decides to make things right by dancing around, does that sound like a scene from a Spider-Man movie to you? It's so silly and over the top it feels like it's from a Chicago musical, but that's not what makes it fall flat, it's what follows that really kills the movie, after Gwen leaves feeling like something's wrong with Peter he gets into a fight with some of the employees and accidentally hits MJ and is then shown crouching over a church tower while it's raining, THESE ARE 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENE TONES THAT DON'T GO TOGETHER!!!!! THIS is what killed the movie. So overall, don't let the advertising of Venom fool you, because this is just a waste. Don't get me wrong, there are movies that are far worse than this, but as a Spider-Man movie, it's just ridiculous. What they should've done is have the story only be focused on Peter and Harry. The truth is revealed in Spider-Man 2 about Peter being Spider-Man and Harry accusing him of killing his father, Spider-Man 3 should've expanded upon that. THAT is what could've made the movie better.

Classic good versus evil..Old fashioned ideas that some people don't understand. If one forgets about being being good and let evil in to there world..it will take over.but it can be fought.