*WARNING - spoilers likely *
Still not sure what surprised me more. How truly bad this movie was, or the fact that it got 8.2 last time I looked on IMDB. Granted its only released today and its the fanboys hit IMDB way before the rest of the world does.
Spiderman 3 isn't a terrible movie. Its not in the same class as say "Crossroads", but its not a fitting movie to finish off the Spiderman franchise. It doesn't try to suck and tries a lot of new things. The problem is it just doesn't work.
The spiderman series have definitely involved a human element to the action, which helps a lot. This movie takes this idea far, far too far. There is probably 15mins of action in this 2.5 hr extravaganza. The action is really quite good. The CGI work on sandman is practically good, but Goblin and Venom look also fantastic.
The problem is everything outside of this action is boring, corny/hammy/cheesy or just plain nonsensical. Theres the entire boring "I'm suck, I miss MJ" scenes, theres the truly stupid hordes of crowds staring and pointing at this giant sand monster thing, instead of screaming away in terror as they well should be, or the truly random laws of physics in regards to pretty much anything. Monster hole punched multiple times and large bits ripped of = perfectly alright. Shoot two small rockets at it and wow it goes down in a flash. Crane is out of control destroying buildings, and Spidy just saves ONE chick and proceeds to chat her up whilst all this carnage occurs nearby.
The romance scenes between Peter and Mary-Jane are sometimes touching. Its a shame that the other 99% of this relationship is so full of corny lines and hammy acting. Speaking of cheese, this movie was GROSSLY full of it. From the people cheering spiderman in random locations, to the well over the top shot of Spiderman arriving to save the scene, landing next to a waving American flag, posing and only THEN attacking.
Theres just so many other bad things about this movie, but its late and I want sleep. Please don't go see this movie, as it'll only justify a fourth crappier one. In the cliched words of the random person in the movie "Even one person can make a difference".
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Yeah, he really should've said "Hi folks, Stan Lee here! In this episode of Spiderman your's truly tells Spidey that even one person can make a difference, despite the fact that at the end there's TWO people who are needed to actually make that difference. I should've done more Maths & Science in High School."
I think the real reason you think there isn't enough action in this movie was that you saw 300 a bit before it. You're just used to that level of action now. Go on, watch Spidey 2 now, you'll be like "dood where's tha action??" 300 has changed your expectations.
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