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Too. Much. Wangst.
Seriously. Why did they have to revisit Parker's romantic troubles AGAIN? He doesn't have to win the girl in every single film. Why can't... you know... he just KEEP her and move on to other things?
If in Spider-Man 4 he breaks up and then makes up with Mary Jane AGAIN I'm going to be sorely disappointed. #spiderman
10/17/09
10/18/09
The angst in Spider-Man 4 seemed kind of pointless in my opinion. Hence, wangst.
I'm all for angst as a means to create drama. But when it gets needlessly cyclical... #spiderman
10/19/09
10/17/09
So is he saying DMTH was a good thing or bad? #spiderman
10/17/09
What it really comes down to is having a solid story that develops the villains right and good directing. Spider-man 3 fell short on both those things. Raimi doesn't have the scope as a director to handle a lot going on in a movie and neither did the people who wrote the script.
The Villain pairing was just wrong, the two didn't have a damn thing to do with each other and that hurt the overall effect of them pairing up at the end. Venom could have carried spider-man 3 himself, and should have, but they wasted him completely. Sandman was a joke that no one cared about and made matters worse by retconning what happened to Uncle Ben in the first movie. If they never made these mistakes, as well as never making Peter emo or dance, the movie would have been able to hold its weight fine. Also had Raimi not lost his mind and alienated a lot of the people who used to like working with him either during production of 2 and 3 things could have been different too.
Every thing about 3 was just wrong and its on good part Sam's mistake for allowing them to happen, same goes for the producers, that's why he's got to listen to that criticism. If he doesn't he won't have a career any more, I'm sure of it. #spiderman
10/17/09
In fact I would say that the dark knight failed in the fact that it tried to do two. Great movie, don't get me wrong. It all fell apart when they rushed two face though.
Its an underlying story flaw in any movie (Batman, Spiderman, anything else they try) when they start throwing too many bad guys in. #spiderman
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I just saw Spiderman 3 for the first time last month and I remember I kept going "wait... ANOTHER bad guy?" It was an okay film altogether but wow, it needed to be simplified... #spiderman
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Side note: The girl who plays Alia in David Lynch's Dune was apparently up for the role of Mary Jane. Look her up on IMDB. She is attractive. #spiderman
10/17/09
She's signed on for the 4th film and Maguire and Raimi seem to like her
The question is why? #spiderman
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09/29/09
Where are the trademark lawyers?
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