5.5.2007

While this movie franchise has its moments of craptacularness and as a fan of spidey i have some grips about the small things, like Doc Oct. not having his russian accent. But all and all I've take the spider-man movies in stride. This 3rd installment how ever is very disappointing. (DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS) Im just gonna ramble here so bare with me. first off the Sand-Man story arch not needed at all. This movie tried to handle so many situations, it didn't know which way was up. (and for 250 million dollars you'd think they would of given you something better) every story line was not thought out completely, the venom symbiot had little to no screen time, which I can assure you was what was bring people in in the first place. A meteor falls into the dirt right next to Peter and Mary Jane making out, but apparently there lips were smacking very loudly because they didn't hear a sound. the ooze crawls out of the little crater and latches on the peters bike. You have no idea what happens to the little slime ball after that, until the middle of the movie when it decides to make its appearance again. once peter realizes he's finally wearing the suit, he takes a piece of it to Doc. Conners, while looking at, gives the only explanation to what this stuff is within a span of 1 minute, meanwhile the stuff crawls out from under the microscope and tries to latch on to Peter. but non of them find that odd at all, instead treats it like a lost dog or stray cat with the comment "seems to like you." While the CDC is no where to be found. Also worth mentioning, To give Peter that edgy feel, they turn his hair all "EMO" so you know he's troubled, while he has his little 70s montage walking down the streets of New York.

By the end of the movie venom has made his appearance and you get to enjoy his awesomeness for the span of 15 minutes, until he dies. Venom did look pretty bad ass but every time he had to talk, the mask would go away and Topher was there with fangs trying to be all bad ass. They never explained why Eddie Brock could do all the things spider man could do, or why he had all of his memories. And where the hell is Venom's dangly tongue! By the end you've realized they spent 250 million dollars on a movie that has no end, Everything that happens in this movie is for nothing, IT HAS NO ENDING, not even one of those sequel endings where they leave it open for a new villain or anything like that. they never complete any of the story arcs, Gwen Stacy was in there for nothing, Sand-Man apologized for killing Parkers Uncle unintentionally then blows away into the city, you never find out if sand man gets the money to help his dyeing daughter, you never find out if Peter and Mary Jane are gonna be alright after there falling out. you never find out if Mary Jane finds new work as an actress because she got fired. All and all, very unfufilling movie.

Also, on a side note. The news caster in this movie looks almost exactly like the news caster for the WE SAID SO corporation on the show Dinosaurs. I mean check it out. "This could be the end of spiderman."