10th
So-So Movie Review
I finally made it to Spider-Man 3. I know, I know, what took a comic book geek like me so long to make it to the theter for this one? The fact that it had three villains is the honest answer. Hearing that and seeing the previews just made me feel like BATMAN FOREVER redux… and we all know how bad that was. Personally I blame that movie for the fall of the Batman film franchise (though reborn with Christian Bale) and not the nearly-as-bad BATMAN AND ROBIN with George Clooney. But I digress… Sandman was interesting, Venom was peripheral, “Gwen Stacy” was not Gwen Stacy, and Tobey MacGuire just looked awful in this movie. And the script was terrible. I mean the plots were vacuous, the dialogue awful, personalities shifted on a dime without reason, and it all added up to a mess. Yes it was entertaining but throw a rumored $500 million and you’ll get that. I mean WATERWORLD with Kevin Costner was entertaining for a miniscule $175M but neither it nor SPIDER-MAN 3 was good, or smart. And I expect that from a comic book movie these days. Because the studios and writers have umpteen years of stories to draw their inspiration from in the printed works of these characters. And there are countless instances of superior writing out there to put together interesting characters protrayals and exciting storylines. Let’s face it, Spider-Man 3 and X-Men 3 were inferior products. Back to the drawing board.
