Topher Grace Reflects On The Negative Reception To Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN 3
Among Spider-Man 3's many problems was Topher Grace as Venom. Horribly miscast, the actor was working with some terrible material, and he talks here about why the reception to the threequel wasn't good and why he still believes Sam Raimi did a great job on the movie...
Spider-Man 3 was a mess, but hey, it was still better than The Amazing Spider-Man movies, right? Asked in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter how he feels about Sam Raimi's recent comments that the threequel didn't turn out the way he hoped, Topher Grace (who played Eddie Brock/Venom in the movie) replied: "I know the movie did well for Sony, but I also know a lot of people weren't happy with it. I think Sam is so talented. I remember one time I was on ninth unit. (Laughs.) Ninth unit? It's like he's running a small country." That's clearly a reference to what a massive production Spider-Man 3 was, and Grace went on to compare the kind of criticism fired at it to this summer's Fantastic Four. "This summer, there was a movie like that where people are just slamming a big studio movie. I would love to see anyone who's slamming one of those movies try to fit in Sam Raimi's position. He was like the president of a small country — by the way, it had the gross national income of a small country, too. I have huge respect for him. I think, on a whole, he did such a fantastic job [on that trilogy]." The actor makes an interesting point, but regardless of how hard these movies to make, that isn't a fitting excuse when they end up sucking!
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