Spiderman 1 was everything you could want from a film... it was true to the comic for the most part, had a great villain in Willem Dafoe and an interesting tension between Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
Seriously, i felt that watching Randy Savage beat him senseless, and DeFoe's performance were the only two things worth paying attention to in that movie. Secondly, the way they portrayed Peter Parker just didn't work for me. Peter Parker always came across to me as being anerd, but more of a nerd like Hurley in Lost ya know? A Nerd that even the Jocks like as a person, and not the dweeby, loser with major confidence issues and total lack of social graces that this film's Parker had.
Also, once he said 'Shazam!' while trying to make the webbing work, i got super pissed off, being a DC fan. Plus, Spidey's webbing has never been a biological product of his condition, he's always had to make it himself for God's sake.
Fast forward and you have a filler storyline
His powers start fucking around just as he needs them the most, plus the villain this time around is someone he knows. And by that i mean, he didn't have to work out that Doc Oc was Otto Octavious like he did with Osbourne being the Goblin, so the emotional turmoil is a good plot development as well i felt.
Hearing voices from his tentacles was a bit lame but i still preferred him over Goblin personally. I've always liked Doc Oc so that's probably why.
and the transition of Harry from grieving son, to Green Goblin which could have been drawn out a little more.
Yeah i agree with that. That's something that should have developed over the course of the 3rd film, and teasing a 4th, as opposed to having it take up near enough, the entire beginning of the 3rd movie.
But then they changed him from mad scientist, to scientist who wanted to honour his wife's memory with completing the experiment that killed her.
Not a good back story.
Well that's not quite it, really. Yes his grief over his wife was obvious, but it came across to me that he'd sacrificed everything in his life to achieve his life's work, but not only was he proven wrong, but his wife was killed and he was mutilated as a result. All of that fused with the AI screwing with his mind, encouraging him to try his experiment again regardless of how many thousands of people died, seems pretty mad scientistish to me (yeah, me good with grammar).
Ok, we got Peter and MJ getting together in the end... but it was a little consolation to a poor film.
Meh, could have done without it personally,
Spiderman 3 was better... but suffered from a minor villain in Sandman, to having Venom killed WAY too soon. He was at least good enough to merit a return if needed.
I couldn't watch past the first half hour, THAT's how dire i felt it was. I didn't even see him become Venom. I knew Topher Grace was going to be Eddie Brock (and i knew he'd be shit at it, Eddie Brock is supposed to be a muscle bound, jealous bully, not Eric Foreman with a camera in his hand and a new haircut, which is basically what his character is initially like.), but the events before that just put me right off.
1. Harry attacks Peter as he's on his way to propose to MJ, and what do they do in this scene? Rather than build up the emotional tension and drama by havin Spidey think 'Oh no, my best friend has become a mortal enemy, after i got blamed with killing his old man, and now i've got to stop him from killing innocent people as well as me,' they decided to have him think to himself, 'OH NO! MY ENGAGEMENT RING!!!!!!' L-A-M-E!!!!!
2. The Venom symbiote oozes its way out of some space rock............. Not, Jameson's astronaut son brings it back to Earth during a botched space mission an almost dies, no, no, it oozes out of an asteroid fragment. Uber lame!!
3. During the Spiderman parade, he turns up, speaks to MJ who he desperately wants to spend his life with and..... kisses Gwen Stacy in front of everyone, including MJ. HOW ******ED ARE YOU PARKER?
4. Sandman (i forget the character's actual name) is running across some marshes to escape the cops and ends up in a sandy pit where dangerous government testing is going on.... just like that. He's running, he's running, he's running, he falls in a hole that you'd have to be blind to miss, and then has super powers. (Sigh)
AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDD that's when i gave up caring.
The problem they've had is that they've put forward the worst villains imaginable. Shocker and Scorpion were much more intimidating choices than the two guys I've just mentioned
I agree. What about the Lizard? Jesus, they've even had Dr Conners in the last 2 movies and still nothing. He'd have been a far better choice than poxy Sandman, because they would have been continuing the trend that every villain Spidey faces is somehow personally connected to Peter Parker.
And killing off Venom is pretty shit too. Not as bad as the whole Harvey Dent/Two Face transition. Ally to the Bat, scarred face, dead within 2 days. He's Batman's most tragic villain for God's sake, you can't kill him off just like that!
Anyway, my pick would be Predator 2. Nowhere near as iconic as the original. Most of the acting was atrocious and not even Danny Glover could save this movie (although the chances of Danny Glover saving anything are always remote at best). The storyline was ok i suppose, but everything else was just terrible.
