Sam Raimi Wants Spider-Man 4 "To Get Back To The Basics"

My thoughts exactly Mr. Raimi. There was way too many sub-plots in Spidey 3, it needed to be more focused.

Lizard and Kraven, Raimi.

Heck yeah!!

Amen guys, I cant wait for Sam's return to form

i applaud raimi for admitting what his faults were i for one believe spidy 4 is gonna be a great movie raimi knows how to make a good movie, hiccups happen and if u can admit to them then it just shows that he understands his mistakes

raimi has already shown us two good superhero movies. i pray that the next set will reach for the term AWESOME!!!!!!
i am also glad that he is a humble director. he doesn't blindly defend them but explains his reasons for doing so. and then talks about how those problems will be fixed.
unlike another director COUGH!(Ratner!)COUGH!

He's JUST NOW learning "...about the importance of getting to the point and the importance of having limitations..."?! WTF, people! It sounds like Raimi has run out of ideas on his own in terms of a coherent plot and is setting himself up to pull a Schmacher! I think this engine has DEFINATELY run out of steam - stick a fork in him, he's DONE!

I never doubted Raimi, besides Spidey 3, his record is pretty decent. I think this time around though, less Peter being a little bitch, more smart ass Spider-Man.

I think...more than one villain would work better if the villain had ALREADY been in a movie.

For example, if it was the Lizard, and they brought back Doc Ock, well they don't have a lot of set up for Doc Ock, since they did that in SM2, and Doc Conner has been in all three. Not saying they SHOULD just that it would be easier.
Movies with multiple villains always seem to bring in all new characters...why? In comics it's not a new villain every issue? (Not nowadays, at least.)

I'm thinking Raimi will do justice to SM4.

Spider-Man 2 was my favorite CBM til Iron Man came out. #3 could have done without venom and whatever Harry was... I have faith that Raimi will do justice to SM4, am looking forward to it. How about bring in Fantastic Four in #6???

I dont think the idea of having more than one villain is a bad idea, as long as they connect.Like The Lizard and Kraven. They go together.Im pretty sure everyone else could agree.

MetalHead: yeah, but he was still the director! He's to blame for how poorly the character was portrayed!

Hopefully this just means that we're going to get something a little more like the first two good movies. But please, no more crying whiney Peter!!!

Go Raimi!!!!

Guys, seriously, I like you but you sound foolish blaming Raimi for any part of the Venom disaster. His hand was forced by the studios to include "Venom" after the fact and he was crammed in and rushed. From what I understand, Raimi's intention was to set him up for #4 (in which case, that would be a solid white eye and a tongue with green slime all over it looking through that "4" in the teaser poster). You can't blame Raimi for that. And as you know, I absolutely HATED their "Venom" so it's not like I'm defending what they did to him, I'm just defending Raimi. He did great with the first 2 movies so I think we have to take his word that it wasn't what he wanted to do.

You can't have the sinister six, not if everyone thinks 3 villains was too much in Spider-Man 3

TOBEY MAGUIRE IS A TERRIBLE PETER PARKER!

Imagine how much better "Spider-Man 3" would've been if it went like this:

Eddie Brock is a secondary character, played by someone who actually LOOKED LIKE Eddie Brock! At some point towards the middle of the movie Spider-Man does something to accidentally spoil one of Brock's stories. I know they wouldn't go into the whole "Sin-Eater" thing but they could've done something where Brock thinks he's interviewing The Green Goblin, and the Bugle-- which he didn't actually work for in the comics-- finds out that who he was interviewing is an imposter.

The movie would've centered around Sandman, who WOULDN'T HAVE killed Uncle Ben, and around Peter trying to get rid of the symbiote-- which WOULDN'T HAVE been clothing, and I suppose Harry as the Green Goblin. Oh, and MJ wouldn't have been a freaking opera singer.

After the final scene with the climax resolution, which would be whatever route they decided to go with the Sandman/Goblin 2 plot, we cut to a scene where a distraught Eddie Brock is at a church, praying for his sins to be forgiven (the fact that he is about to commit suicide). Enter: the symbiote. We see Eddie covered in what appears to be a cloud of darkness, the shot cuts to outside the church and we hear a loud "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" End of movie. Awesome.