Everyone was anticipating the release of this film. The black suit, a story that belonged on the screen. The story of a man being torn apart by what he wants and his own well being. But what we got was a heck of a lot less.
Spider-man 3 is a classic case of a director tring to please everybody. Fans and the studios wanted Venom, Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire both wanted the Sandman and Raimi realised that he had to tie up the Goblin storyline. This all results in a confusing mess where new characters also have to be introduced and somehow link to the main story. Some also believe that this film is intentionally bad because Sony kept hounding Raimi to put venom in the film and Raimi did this to stop them in future movies.
By all means Spider-man 3 isn't a terrible film, many people have enjoyed it and despite all its flaws it does have good moments, the visuals are stunning and the pace is a little faster than its predecessors. I have to wonder that if Venom was left out of the film how much better a film we would have got and how Raimi would have explored the themes of forgiveness.
Nevertheless, I still think the film is bad. Instead of coming up with new ideas that differ it from predecessors it trys to use the same ideas that made spider-man 2 successful. Making a sympathetic antagonist in the character of the Sandman, an idea that may have worked but they gave him a sob story instead of making him a tragic victim of an accident. The film also revists Peter and Mary Jane's relationship but finds nothing new to do with it so just breaks them up for most of the movie. The main problem is of course Venom but people have ranted on him so many times I can't find anything new to say about him apart from the fact that this movie should have been split in two and he should have been the main villian in the next.
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