Spider-Man 3

Are you guys going to se this movie the very first week

it comes out? Or are you going to wait a couple of weeks?

I want to see it the week or day it comes out. :smiley:

I might need to wait one or two days after its release. Just to make sure it isn’t really

crowded.

Well it might be crowded but I

hope not.And it’s going to be super awesome!!! :smiley:

It will most certainly be sold out.

I don’t know about you but this is a really highly

anticipated film. There will most certainly be one.

Well yeah maybe but I hope it won’t be at my theater

TSS. :smiley:

I wonder what new tricks our favorite

web-head will do for us.

I don’t know yet. :smiley:

Well, would you like to make a prediction?

He well beat up another bad guy that’s all I know. :smiley:

No, I meant new tricks that he could use with his acrobatics, webs, spider skills, anything.

I

don’t know it’s hard to tell because the movie is not out. :smiley:

I am just asking for your predictions. I think he could bungee down to

unsuspecting bad guys and take them out one at a time.

For one, my neighbors are the luckiest in the

world- they always get to see famous people since their uncle works behind the scenes on broadway and one of

their kids works for a recording company. They were the ones who told us of the limited tickets (that almost ran

out for us if it weren’t for the fact you were allowed a guest)

They had to have a scanning and you had

to leave your cells and electronics in the car, and during the screening there were these odd men in black in the

corners of the room … kinda freaked me out. They were really worried someone would record the thing.

My

neighbors are so lucky! Their son won the raffle for himself and a guest (his sister) to attend the premiere

after-party right after the movie. Haven’t spoken to them yet as to how it was, but they went to Queens to meet

the stars. I’m so jealous … =P

But the was freakin’ awesome! :smiley: I’m not very ‘into’ these films,

but it was incredible! I love the sandman dude’s side story.
And I love how they included more humor in the

film, but still maintained dramatic scenes well and the action sequences were pretty awesome.

Does anyone

know if this is the last film? Because it seems like it could be. Maybe the ending’s enough of an opening to

leave for the next film, but in the beginning credits they flashbacked to the first and second film, so I’m not

sure.

I’m walkin’ on broken glass here, as to figure what is a spoiler and what’s not. =P

Did you get one?

Puh-haha!! Oh man, those are hilariously awesome! I need that “Venom” one… :laughing:

Thanks for the pictures, “Spidey”! :smiley:

Warning: SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Warning #2: THIS REVIEW IS MONSTROUSLY LONG!
I feel awkward now, reading everyone’s good or ‘okay’ reviews… because…

I am really disappointed in Spider-Man 3; and not only because I’m a fan. (And I’m mostly a fan of the movies, I haven’t read a lot of the comics.)

I won’t go into an in-depth review because I’d rip it to shreds and I doubt anyone wants to read that here, but here are my main problems with the movie:

As many people actually are saying- there were way too many storylines contradicting each other at every turn. Having three ‘villains’ meant they had to compromise each story and I don’t understand how they were okay with that. Maybe because it was the last, they thought they NEEDED to go all out with more then one villain for a ‘grand finale’ and that it wouldn’t matter to people. Very poor decision, I think.

Continuing with that a little, because the movie was fumbling over trying to keep up with three villains and their ‘stories’, it had no time to explain half of what was going on. A lot of the movie was completely random, and left me in my seat lost at the scene thinking “Uh, what just happened?” or “What’s going on?”- things happened randomly; (such as the venom symbiote falling from the sky coincidentally only a few feet away from MJ and Peter- and they don’t even see or HEAR it? And even if you want to ignore that randomness, not once in the film do they explain anything about the symbiote other than it bonds with it’s host, and that it apparently makes the host dance around New York in a black suit and eyeliner.) And then other parts of the film, some parts of the story are only IMPLIED. You had to guess half of what was going on; like the iceburg theory. You see the top, but the majority is under the water. The problem with that is it leaves you blind. (An example, because examples are fun: We see Peter jerk around with MJ at the jazz club, and then immediately afterwards he’s on the cathedral trying to dispose of the suit. We half to GUESS that Peter had this whole long and involved fight with himself over it and ultimately decided to get rid of it because he’s Peter and he’s good. But it would have been SO MUCH stronger to have actually SHOWN this battle with himself, like they did in Spidey 2. But because the film was so compromised in time, they had to leave it for us to guess, along with half of the other stuff in the movie.)

So maybe I lied about keeping this short- but I’m discovering things as I write so… I’m on a roll! XD (I will keep it down to the bigger details though. No sense in whining about how lame I thought Venom was, etc. etc.; fan details are less important! D: Trying to keep these complaints story-specific.)

So anyway; it all goes back to this 3-villain thing. With so many stories, the whole film was compromised. ESPECIALLY the villains. I mean, Harry isn’t even really a villain. And honestly the Sandman doesn’t establish himself as much of one either. So we see him rob a couple banks- whoop-dee-doo. His animation was awesome as hell and honestly probably the character best executed in the film (although I really loved Harry in this too) but in my opinion, he wasn’t even RELEVENT. Cut the Sandman out, and the film could have had the two major conflicts in the film. Harry turning against Peter, and Eddie being consumed by rage which leads to his transformation into Venom. I understand that the Sandman was thrown in as a trigger to Peter’s turmoil over Harry turning against him and MJ dumping him, but did he really NEED that extra little “AND ON TOP OFF ALL THAT, THIS GUY KILLED YOUR UNCLE AND HE’S STILL OUT THERE!!!”? I honestly think Harry turning bad and MJ rejecting him was enough to put Peter over the edge. The Sandman is a great contributing factor, but was it contributing ENOUGH that they waste almost an hour on his storyline and his conflicts with Peter and millions on his animation? Was he THAT relevent? I don’t think so. I think if they never put him in, and only had Harry vs. Peter vs. Eddie, (and I mean REALLY developed Harry and Eddie, way more than they did because they had to also develop the Sandman) then I think the film could have been SOOO much stronger.

I think the last qualm I’ll voice in this ‘review’ is this: the movie is called Spider-Man, and I hated Spider-Man a majority of the movie. And as a Spidey fan, that is severely depressing. Obviously we’re supposed to be UPSET with Peter, but… I was quite beyond that. I guess I wouldn’t quite say hate, but I was about ready to volunteer to wear the Venom suit and kick Spidey’s little emo-tard but. ): Not only for being a jerk, but this film just made Peter look BEYOND downright stupid. And the humor in all of it? Yes, it was funny- but funny doesn’t always mean good. I was laughing but my soul was crying at the sheer ridiculousness of it all- the jirating around the streets of New York? A lot of people keep trying to tell me “Well it was cheesy, it’s supposed to be, it’s a SPIDER-MAN movie!” and I say, “Well yes, but there’s a line between comic-cheesiness and absolute MOCKING of oneself.” Again, with an example: the all-famous dancing scene. To me that scene told me, “So this suit… this suit that is RUINING PETER’S LIFE… is just a complete joke now?” I know it’s ‘all in good humor’, but… seriously. I really think it went too far.

Anyway, that’s my bit. My very, VERY long bit… Anyone who disagrees with anything I’ve said is more than welcome to argue with me. Maybe I missed some things- I dunno. All I know is, I’m depressed that I can’t consider the third Spidey as even half the movie the first was. One and two were AMAZING. Rotten Tomatoes considers Spider-Man 2 to be the #1 best comic movie of all time. The third in the series should have been up in running to take it’s place and shove it down to two. Instead, Spidey 3 came in at number twenty-two.

Why do trilogies always die in the third? I don’t understand. It isn’t even like they switched director’s on this one; which really leaves me disappointed in Raimi.

Anyway-anyway. REALLY time to shut up. I’d say, I’d give it a 6.5-ish out of 10; not a trainwreck, but nothing close to a masterpiece like the first two.

I decided to just skip down to your final saying. A 6.5 ish huh? oh, well that is from your own strong opinon. I see that this is really different from most people say here.

Yeah… maybe I’m just less forgiving and/ or too critical. But I have really thought this through, and why I think it deserves just that. I’m waiting to be presuaded that it deserves better, though. ; ) Any takers?