Spiderman 3
I saw Spiderman 3 this weekend and posted my opinion on the Forum. In line with what is becoming my policy of writing on someone else’s site and then copying my post on my own site, here is my short review:
I thought Spiderman 3 was absolutely horrible. This movie ruined every good plot line set up from the previous two movies, turned the “black suit” story-line into a bunch of nonsense, and made the hero out to be a wimp who can’t tell right from wrong. This movie turned the Spiderman trilogy into one that that’s a lot like the Matrix trilogy: A series that starts off well, but declines so fast that by the end of the third movie you wish you (and the makers of the movie) hadn’t wasted your time.
It’s almost frustrating how bad this movie was because it didn’t have to be. I probably shouldn’t go into many details here, so I’ll just say that I think there are many scenes that could have been cut, scenes that could have been expanded, or small edits in the story line that would have made the movie make more sense. I’m not a huge Spiderman fan, but the black suit story I remember made much more sense. It’s almost like the makers of the movie deliberately made changes that could only make the story more confusing.
I wish the movie makers would have taken the movie seriously. The Saturday Night Fever scene, the scene where he combs his hair differently, the piano bar, the local news broadcast, the message the bad guy leaves for Spiderman, the butler’s speech, the meteor, the bridge scene… give me a break. What was he point in any of that?
I thought the funniest part of the movie was when it ended and people started to get out of their seats, only for the acutal scene to come up. Most didn’t bother to sit back down.
I think there are some real problems with the ideas this movie pushes. It’s hard to make too big of a deal out of the movie when it’s obvious that the movie makers didn’t take it seriously, but I think there is some real confusion between the concept of “vengeance” and “justice.” Also, the movie seems to also talk about the importance of the choices you make, but then the movie ends with the bad guy…. argh, I can’t say without spoiling it.
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, and I was let down. I will never see this one again.
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