Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film and is the third and final film in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. It starred Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, J.K. Simmons, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell and Rosemary Harris.

Plot
A few months after the events of Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker prepares for his future with Mary Jane Watson and faces off against three new villains: Flint Marko, who is transformed into "The Sandman" after a freak accident involving a particle accelerator; Harry Osborn, his former friend who is now aware of Peter's identity and seeks to avenge his deceased father; and Eddie Brock, a rival photographer who becomes corrupted by an extraterrestrial symbiote known as "Venom".

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It's nice to see that Peter Parker has finally managed to find a balance between having a normal life and fighting crime as Spider-Man. He's happy in his relationship with Mary Jane Watson while also receiving the praise he deserves as New York's masked crime-fighter.
 * 2) Kirsten Dunst's portrayal as Mary Jane finally has some progression as it shows her struggles with trying to get into show business.
 * 3) Venom's suit is well-designed, even if it looks more like Carnage.
 * 4) There are some good funny moments here and there like the walking montage with Bully Maguire.
 * 5) While Peter being an arrogant jerk because of the black suit is heartbreaking, it is quite satisfying to watch him stand up to those who gave him such a hard time in the previous films.
 * 6) The action scenes and special effects are decent, especially for the final battle scene.
 * 7) Some moments are touching, such as the Birth of Sandman.
 * 8) The plot twist of what actually happened to Uncle Ben was nicely handled.
 * 9) The fight between Harry and Peter at Harry's house is actually very good and one of the highlights of the film. Despite the rest of the film feeling weak, this fight advances the story, works with the characters and it's really well choreographed in terms of fighting, camerawork, comedy, harshness, and music.
 * 10) The symbiote in this film is a metaphor for alcoholism or drugs as Peter progressively becomes more and more obsessed with the suit because it makes him "feel good".
 * 11) Topher Grace’s Eddie Brock is basically an anti-Peter Parker and the opposite of the Peter Parker from the first film. Making him a great choice to play this version of Eddie Brock.
 * 12) It has strong themes of redemption, loyalty, revenge, and forgiveness.
 * 13) The acting is still great especially J.K. Simmons and Tobey Maguire.
 * 14) Cameos from Stan Lee and Bruce Campbell are a nice touch.
 * 15) Peter and Mary Jane have a better, more mature chemistry here than the previous films, as the latter begins to wonder if her relationship with Peter is the best thing for her.
 * 16) Christopher Young's score is still passable, with tons of suspense, darker, and almost like horror-style music, making the almost the darkest Spider-Man movie than the first two movies, especially the original theme composed by Danny Elfman. The alternate score on the Editor's Cut and the 4K Ultra HD is also enjoyable.
 * 17) The Sandman is a decent villain that has a nice and touching motivation.
 * 18) Even though it has 7 subplots, this movie does connect its subplots in a more or less decent way.
 * 19) Bully Maguire is the most quotable character with lines such as “You’ll get your rent when you fix this damn door!”
 * 20) It is interesting to see the evolution of Harry Osborn as a character: starting in the first film as a great friend of Peter, but who wants revenge against Spider-Man in the second film after the death of Norman Osborn, which motivates him to follow in his father's footsteps in this third film.
 * 21) The infamous scene where Peter dances is well done and epic.
 * 22) The editor’s cut improved upon certain aspects of the theatrical cut.
 * 23) *Peter sees a haunting glimpse of the symbiote as he looks in the mirror.
 * 24) *Sandman transforms himself into a sandcastle so his daughter can play with him.
 * 25) *Some scenes were rearranged to make the tone and pacing feel better.
 * 26) *Instead of seeing the butler, Harry makes the decision to help Peter by himself.
 * 27) Harry Osborn's death is emotional and heartbreaking to watch.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Comparing to the first two films, this film has a somewhat inconsistent tone, with the film trying to be much darker than the first two, while trying to be campy like the first two.
 * 2) The entire film is overstuffed, with 7 different plotlines taking place. According to Thomas Haden Church, who played Sandman, Raimi has stated that the film “tried to shove 10 pounds of story into a 5-pound bag.”
 * 3) Executive meddling: Although Raimi wanted Sandman to be the main antagonist, Sony insisted on using Venom as he was more popular.
 * 4) Weak villains that need more development and time:
 * 5) * Harry Osborn is not a strong antagonist. One reason is that he conveniently gets amnesia after the first fight. Not only does this not progress the character in any way, but it also just drags things on. Another reason is that his butler, Bernard, tells him the truth later on in the film. Why didn't Bernard tell him the truth before in the second or even first movie?
 * 6) ** Then again, the butler telling the truth could be a hallucination.
 * 7) * The Sandman is intertwined in the forced retcon of Uncle Ben's death and is absent from the movie after the sewer fight for quite a long time.
 * 8) * Venom is underdeveloped and unnecessary. He also only becomes a villain in the last 36 minutes and is only there for 22 minutes of it. Even when he does appear, his face is peeled back most of the time.
 * 9) Venom/Eddie Brock is also somewhat inaccurate to his comic counterpart.
 * 10) * For one, Venom looks more like Carnage and not big and hulky like he's supposed to. Eddie himself is also meant to be somewhat buff to rival that of Peter.
 * 11) * He refers to himself as "I" instead of "we", which is what the character uses in the comics to symbolize the duality of Brock and the symbiote.
 * 12) Certain scenes drag on, particularly the scenes between Harry and Mary Jane.
 * 13) The previous film's plot of Peter trying to balance his life is never addressed in this film to how Peter balanced his life, and his daily schedule is the exact same as his schedule from the previous film, thus making the previous film's plot completely pointless thanks to this film.
 * 14) The betrayal of Harry to Peter so he could follow his father's footsteps as well as blaming Peter for his father's death. It just shows Harry to be a jerk since he doesn't let Peter explain himself.
 * 15) This movie can get a bit flat, as in the dance scene in the Nightclub, Peter hits Mary Jane in the face (although that was an accident due to the suit controlling Peter). Another example is Harry's butler, Bernard, tell him the truth about his father's death after taking a bomb in the face by Peter.
 * 16) Peter and Mary Jane once again have bad chemistry as Mary Jane breaks up with Peter again because Harry forces her to, which makes no sense as Mary Jane could have just warned Peter about Harry instead.
 * 17) As with its predecessors, Mary-Jane serves as a damsel-in-distress.
 * 18) One of the most upsetting aspects of the film is that even though it was marketed over the black suit as the main highlight of the movie (especially in the posters), it has very few scenes with the black suit and much more with the classic red and blue Spider-Man suit. In fact, the only scenes in which Peter wears the black suit are: when he wakes up with it hanging from a skyscraper, when he fights Sandman in the subway (the only fight scene with it), when he rips it off in the church, and when he fights Harry at his house (although this latter doesn't count too much since he wears it under his clothes and not complete).
 * 19) Bully Maguire is pure cringe not only because of him suddenly changing his hair to a more emo style, but because of his arrogance and "bad boy" attitude. However, it does kind of makes sense that Peter would become an arrogant jerk when the suit gives him confidence, considering how he was a loser nerd in the first film.
 * 20) Rather than display Gwen Stacy's intelligence and relationship to Peter, she is barely involved in the plot and only serves as a rival to Mary-Jane, making her even more unnecessary. What's worse is that she feels more like Mary Jane than Mary Jane herself.
 * 21) Little concern after Brock is killed despite the fact that Peter unintentionally killed him.
 * 22) This film effectively killed Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, which was supposed to have a spin-off focusing on Venom and two more sequels, although Raimi admitted he didn't understand Venom as a character.

Reception
Spider-Man 3 received mixed reviews from critics, audiences and fans of the previous entries. The film holds a 63% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 262 reviews, and a critic consensus that reads "Though there are more characters and plotlines, and the action sequences still dazzle, Spider-Man 3 nonetheless isn't quite as refined as the first two." Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of possible four and said in his review that there were "Too many villains, too many pale plot strands, too many romantic misunderstandings, too many conversations, too many street crowds looking high into the air and shouting "oooh!" this way, then swiveling and shouting "aaah!" that way." Richard Roeper gave the film two stars as well and said "It's as if director Sam Raimi felt he had to give us more of everything, and in the process lost sight of what made the first two films so enjoyable." Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times said "[Spider-Man 3 has] an ungainly, cumbersome feeling, as if its plot elements were the product of competing contractors who never saw the need to cooperate on a coherent final product." Common Sense Media critic Sandie Angulo Chen said in her review "Kids will be dazzled, but the story falls short of No. 2."

Trivia

 * Sam Raimi, the director of the previous films, admitted that he was unhappy with the film, and he later disowned it.
 * According to Grant Curtis, in early production, the Vulture was originally going to be in the movie as the third villain, and Sir Ben Kingsley was involved in negotiations to play the role before the character's story was replaced by Venom. Kingsley later appeared in Iron Man 3 as another classic Marvel villain, The Mandarin. Vulture would finally hit the big screen ten years later in Spider-Man: Homecoming, now played by Michael Keaton.
 * The prosthetic teeth for Venom bruised Topher Grace's gums.
 * In 2017, in anticipation for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sony released an "Editor's Cut" of Spider-Man 3, which featured unused music from Christopher Young, alternate edits of scenes, a restructured story and scenes both added and removed throughout. As a result, the Editor's Cut was two minutes shorter than the theatrical cut. This version was also released as a Blu-ray bundled with the Spider-Man: Legacy Collection 4K Ultra HD box set.
 * The scene where "Emo Peter" dances is mocked in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by Earth-616 Peter, who does that, but doesn't want to talk about the dance.
 * There were plans for Spider-Man 4 to be released in the early 2010s, but it was cancelled after Sam Raimi quit over creative differences with the writers and producers. As a result of this, all future Spider-Man films were put on hold until the series was rebooted with The Amazing Spider-Man, which was released in 2012, but starred a different cast and was directed by Marc Webb, and it received a 2014 sequel titled The Amazing Spider-Man 2, before hitting the reset button again by introducing Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Captain America: Civil War in 2016, before getting his own movie with Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017.
 * Due to the cancellation of Spider-Man 4, a YouTuber named High Mountain Studios decided to start a fan film project of it based on leaked plot details. The film has yet to be released.
 * In 2018, a month before mh:awfulmovies:Venom was released, Avi Arad admitted his mistake of pushing Sam Raimi to include Venom in the movie.
 * It inspired the Latin-American YouTuber Axl Kss to write an alternative version of the film in which he technically repairs the story and makes it work, respecting the structure but with a different argument and most importantly: telling an entertaining story. Watch it here.
 * It spawned the "Bully Maguire" meme

Trailer
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Reviews
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Recreating the movie
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