I absolutely loved the first two Spidermans and had been looking forward to seeing the third one since I first heard about it. I saw it on opening night, Friday, May 4th, and was highly disappointed. Peter Parker (Tobey Maquire) is turned into this eyeliner wearing-emo looking-not so smooth talking or dancing-jerk. This is used to depict how the Venom evil-ness is taking over him. He loses Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and tries to use this new character, Gwen (Bryce Dallas Howard) to get MJ jealous, or something. This also happens to be the girlfriend of his new rival photographer at the paper, Eddie Brock (Topher Grace). After humiliating Eddie and Eddie gains the parasite that turns him into Venom, he teams up with The Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) so they can together kill Spiderman. During all this, Harry/Hob Goblin (James Franco) was knocked unconscious by Spiderman, loses his memory, forgets about the Spiderman feud, remembers the Spiderman feud, and then is finally convinced Spiderman didn't kill his father. Harry and Spiderman team up against Venom and the Sandman (who have kidnapped MJ to lure Spiderman to them) and at the end of the fight, a couple of characters die. Overall, there is way too much of the movie put into the part of the plot based on the characters emotions and personal lives. The reason why so many people love the Spiderman movies - the crazy awesome fight sequences - are very, very minimal. And although it is a very long movie (about 2 hours and 15 minutes) there is still way too much stuff that they tried to squeeze in. I would still recommend seeing the movie, just don't go in there with too high of expectations.
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Thanks for the heads up about your group, and thanks for the review. I really liked the first two movies, and I like the emotional angle. The characters are so pure in their motives, it's like they're from another era or something, but I think that's kind of cool in a world where kids can't see a movie these days that doesn't involve huge amounts of sex and violence. I plan to see the film soon, and I hope I'm not disappointed. There comes a time with sequels, no matter how the great the first movie was, when it's time to quit. Sadly, Hollywood sees big bucks and keeps milking that cash cow until it moos with pain. When the scripts suck (Superman 3 on, the new Star Wars movies, POTC 2, Batman 2 on, et all) it's time to quit before you ruin the reputation of the franchise. But producers won't quit on a proven entity. It's sad but true.
1I deff agree with you, I'm looking forward to POTC: At World's End and Batman: The Dark Knight but lately I've been more than dissapointed by sequels so I'm not gonna hold my expectations so high! One movie that I'm sure will be fantastic though is the new Harry Potter movie comin out this summer!
2I cannot wait to see this movie. I wish I didn't hate theaters so much (too loud, major migraine) I could have seen it last weekend with my husband and son
3I've heard some disappointing reviews about this as well. I still want to see it, I'll just make sure my hopes are minimal!
*I reject your reality and substitute my own*
4Thanks for the review. I was wondering if this movie was worth all the hype - but it sounds like it isn't. I'll still probably see it, but I'll wait for a while and catch a matinee, so it's not so expensive. I know that my husband and step-son will still want to see it - but at least I can warn them about what the movie is really like.
I am so looking forward to POTC at the end of the month. I'm also looking forward to Shrek the Third - I loved the first two, and I am hoping this third movie will be just as funny.
5Thanks for the heads up on this one. I was curious about it, but maybe I should wait until it comes out on video. lol
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