We finally had a chance to watch Spiderman 3, one week after its official opening. Apparently the tix were sold out everywhere for the first few days following the opening, which was understandable given all the hype surrounding the movie.
The opening credits were cool, which gave a little summary of the past two movies. I thought the movie was a little rushed, addressing too many issues in the 140 minutes. PP & MJ's relationship, newfound powers with the black symbiotic suit, Gwen Stacy, 3 new villians. They didn't dwell deep enough into each of the issues, but instead opted to add bits of everything without explaining much. At certain points it all became like one big rojak with stuff tossed all over the place. But that's just me who has been reading the Spiderman comics. Penny thought it was alright and liked the movie pretty much.
If I was Sam Raimi, this is how I would have broken it up. Just deal with the PP/MJ relationship and black suit, with Sandman (Flint Marko) and the young Green Goblin as the villians. Explore deeper about the circumstances surrounding Mr Marko and Mr Osborn, how they became what they are, blah, blah.
Part 4 will have Peter Parker going to Dr Curt Connors for help regarding the symbiotic suit (although in actual fact he actually went to Reed Richards for help), how to exterminate it, blah, blah. And they succeed! But, suay only, it moves on to take over Eddie Brock who becomes the bad ass Venom. And all this while you have Dr Connors dabbling with lizard DNA in an attempt to grow himself an arm and as a result becomes The Lizard (duh). So BAM! Two villians again.
The opening credits were cool, which gave a little summary of the past two movies. I thought the movie was a little rushed, addressing too many issues in the 140 minutes. PP & MJ's relationship, newfound powers with the black symbiotic suit, Gwen Stacy, 3 new villians. They didn't dwell deep enough into each of the issues, but instead opted to add bits of everything without explaining much. At certain points it all became like one big rojak with stuff tossed all over the place. But that's just me who has been reading the Spiderman comics. Penny thought it was alright and liked the movie pretty much.
If I was Sam Raimi, this is how I would have broken it up. Just deal with the PP/MJ relationship and black suit, with Sandman (Flint Marko) and the young Green Goblin as the villians. Explore deeper about the circumstances surrounding Mr Marko and Mr Osborn, how they became what they are, blah, blah.
Part 4 will have Peter Parker going to Dr Curt Connors for help regarding the symbiotic suit (although in actual fact he actually went to Reed Richards for help), how to exterminate it, blah, blah. And they succeed! But, suay only, it moves on to take over Eddie Brock who becomes the bad ass Venom. And all this while you have Dr Connors dabbling with lizard DNA in an attempt to grow himself an arm and as a result becomes The Lizard (duh). So BAM! Two villians again.
So that leaves Shocker, Kraven and the rest of the baddies for Parts 5, 6, 7, etc, etc (I am somehow of the opinion that the Demogoblin is too diabolical for the genral audience and all the kids will start crying in the theatres).
But the best part I think would be in time to come, they will make a movie with the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, etc) trying to stop a rampaging Hulk, with cameos by X-men, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Spiderman, Blade, Nick Fury (this time definitely will NOT be played by David Hasselhoff) and all the Marvel characters they've turned into movies.
You just wait. In 2003 when I told people there was a Ghost Rider movie in the making, everyone say I siao cos there was no way in hell they would make a flaming skull look believable.
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