Well, first major disappointment of the Big Movie season. After doing great work on Spiderman, and brilliant work on Spiderman II, they managed to spectacularly screw up Spiderman III so badly, I can’t even begin to express my disappointment properly, so I won’t try. It started so well, which makes it all the more utterly frustrating that after 45 minutes or so the script irretrievably degenerated into a mess. A total train wreck.
‘Nuff Said.
-cvj
‘preachy’ is a word.
Beats the heck out of ‘attrited’.
…Norrin Radd, co-created by the legendary (one of the greatest of all time) Jack Kirby, the choice to only focus on the dark sides of his character as the villain, seem disingenuous at best.
Seriously? We won’t get the “Norrin Radd meets Alicia Masters and learns to appreciate humanity” part of the plot?
I’m avoiding the new Spider-Man movie, at least for the moment; I’ve been pretty sure nothing good could come of turning the Venom plot into a movie. And let’s hope they never try to make a movie out of the mid-90s “Clone Saga”, when I quit reading the comics in disgust (even as a kid, I knew they had jumped the shark then!).
Jeez, the “books” jumped the shark about the same time Fonzi did; and the movies are mere reflections, becoming more and more distorted, of that. While i look forward to the new Fantastic Four sequel, solely because it features one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters from the 1960’s Norrin Radd, co-created by the legendary (one of the greatest of all time) Jack Kirby, the choice to only focus on the dark sides of his character as the villain, seem disingenuous at best.
I enjoyed the original a lot. I thought the script in the second one lost a lot of humour and subtlety; it was overtly sanctimonious and preachy (is preachy a word?) So I don’t have high hopes for number 3. There are very few movie series these days where the sequels have any artistic merit, as opposed to just being a franchise.
I love The New Yorker review. “There is one great scene in ‘Spider-Man 3,’ and you can pretty much leave the theatre once it’s over, but for those three or four minutes you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”