This is just me, being annoyed and having a few sore spots poked at.
My current chaffing point is over the third movie in the Spider-Man film trilogy.
OH, how I HATE it.
There are SO many things that they could have done better, could have improved or fit together more smoothly.
Venom for example.
In the original comics and in all the original carton series, Venom was a big bulky dude with lots of muscle and enough sharp fangs in that maw of his to give a dentist a seizure.
But what do they do in the movie?
SCRAWNY ASS PHOTOG BLONDIE.
And what the HELL were they thinking with those claws?!
The only white spots on Venom should have been his eyes and the spider insignia, everything else shiny midnight black.
And I don't care what anybody else says, the reporter version of Eddie Brock from the original series makes a HELL of a lot more sense than the introduction of a new little freelancer for Peter to worry over. Atleast the guy had his own shtick to work with.
Then there's Sandman.
Love the animation, truly revolutionary, BUT WHY IS HE IN NUMBER THREE?!!!
The time they took to introduce his character, linking him into the murder of Uncle Ben, and his origins, it could have been put to MUCH better use.
I mean, when one looks back at the previous two films, one can find clues throughout the plot to upcoming events.
In the first film, they mention Doctor Otto Octavious in passing. Don't ask me when, I forgot.
In the second film, they introduced the character of Peter's Physics professor, Doctor Curt Connors. Y'know, the guy in the brown jacket missing one arm?
In the original series, that guy became the Lizard through a botched experiment.
Had they used that outlet, using an already partially established character, they would have been able to spend MUCH more time building the plot that brought in Gwen Stacy and Eddie Brock.
And don't EVEN get me started on Peter's actions under the symbiote's influence.
That was just RETARDED.
SERIOUSLY! What the HELL were they thinking?!
I mean, they took enough cues from the comics in the previous incarnations of the film, why not continue the trend?
They outlined Pete's reactions so well in the initial series, it made so much more sense and was much more subtle, a superior undertaking of the principle.
In the film, they just turned him into a self-righteous jackass with enough ego to inflate the Hindenburg.
The symbiote brought out the darker side of Pete GRADUALLY, not all at once.
And the introduction of the symbiote was LAME.
A METEOR?!
Come ON, you guys can come up with something more original than THAT.
I mean, in the comics, they had Spidey get into this whole big battle in outer space between himself and other heroes, his suit kinda got trashed, and he found a new one by accident.
In almost every incarnation of the cartoon series, Jolly Jonah's astronaut son brought in back from a shuttle launch.
Either of them would have worked a HELL of a lot better and would have been FAR less cliched.
Harry as the Green Goblin actually wasn't half-bad, though the bit with the amnesia was rather half-assed and more cliched that I care to think about, but it was nice to see Harry happy again. I was expecting his death in the end, as I had read the comic series wherein the original death scene occured, and I was not dissapointed in that fact.
The end battle was pretty damn epic, I have to say, and I was impressed by the extensive attention to detail.
Brock and the symbiote's end was pretty suck, and Sandman kinda turned pussy afterwards, but the scene of MJ and Pete by Harry's side as he passed was really quite touching.
They did carry over things from the original series, of that I am glad, but the majority of the film made me sick to my stomach.
Too many villians, too many origins, too much stuff going all at once!
It was like three films all crammed and squished together into one, and not even CLOSE to as well done as the previous films.
Had they done something more like Spider-Man 2, concentrating on one specific villian with one specific storyline, but having the subtle background storylines working in tandem, they might have pulled off atleast the Venom part of the film.
The space shuttle, and the symbiote hitchhiking in on the landing, bonding to Pete after a series of coninciding events, the slow deterioration of Peter's social life, connecting the symbiote to the more unpleasant changes in his life, Brock getting fired and seeking to commit suicide, etc, etc.
If they had pulled that off, it would have been a good third film.
But they REALLY screwed themselves up this time.
I have to wonder just how many fans they pissed off, and I wonder if Stan "the Man" Lee is cursing his choice in director yet.
All right.
I'm done.
I've said my piece, and I have work to do.
0ArmoredSoul0, Out.
