Spider-man 3 (2007)

It's been a week and a day since i saw spider-man 3. The main reasons i waited untill i wrote this reivew are 2 fold.

1. I wasn't sure what to say

2. I wanted to gage the opinons of others and see how it did

I'm glad i did. The internet site IMDB is basically your one stop shop for all movies. They do a feature called "top 250" and it is a list of 250 "best" films, in terms of votes by users of the site. It's pretty loose and nearly anything can make it into the list and any big opening film usually makes it into top50 for at least a month or two. So imagine my shock when one of biggest hyped movies of the year, Spider-man 3, did NOT make it into this list. Not only that but currently holds a pretty low score of 6.8/10. Not taking into account, it's part of a major franchise and a summer blockbuster, i am so suprised that it did not feature. So the feedback must of been pretty bad to keep it from a list that any old movie can get into

and the feeback was bleak. Ok so here's my input. First off, i don't think it is as bad as people say it is. For instance, really apart from some storyplots its not far removed from Spider-man 1 or 2 so how come they are good but this isn't? Acting was fine for a comic book movie (or summer blockbuster for that matter). Plus did you see those special effects?? i mean the "birth" of Sandman, when he emerges and takes his first few steps only to crumble is one of most engaging things i have ever watched on the screen. If that is why this movie took so long to come out, to get the special effects done just for that shot, its worth every extra waited week. Sandman is in fact the best thing about this movie. That is not to say it doesn't have other highlights, it does. One of those is the comedy. Now i do NOT mean the "evil" "cocky" "EMO" peter scene, at all. what i am reffering to is a scene where peter meets MJ in a restaurant to ask her to marry him. He trusts the ring in the hands of the Maître d’ and the moments that follow are very funny. Also the character J. Jonah Jameson is also funny, and funnier than his two other performances. Venom is great once you see him but this brings me onto my first negative point....

You wait over half the movie (maybe more) to see full pure evil form of Venom and he keeps ripping his Venom "mask" (lack of better word) to reveal Eddie Brock (actor Topher Grace) 's face. Which seemed very harsh to an audience who i'm sure just wanted to see Venom. Majority of the harry stuff including a convenient placement of a butler who happens to explain to harry death of his father :) The MJ / Harry stuff also seems out of place and well, boring. the movie is also way too long.

Also theres one scene in which during his "evil" (aka EMO) stage peter strikes MJ to the floor. Now i'm sorry but if you are going to do that, shouldn't it at least be mentioned again in the film?? it isn't. She just seems to forget it.

There are issues, but it also features brilliant fight scenes, good comedy, interesting villians (Sandman mostly.). Maybe not quite spider-man 2, it is for sure too long but given amount of charatcer i guess this time was needed. I think people to some extent are just crapping on it because it has soe issues, but hell, it was fun right? had explosive fights? had a good villian and one great one? so i'm not complaining.

all in all, narrative overload is a problem, time is a problem, but action and the sandman more thna make up for it. see it, and enjoy it!