Spider-Man 3
May. 6th, 2007 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevekensonChristopher and I saw Spider-Man 3 last night.
Overall, a good movie, but not as good as it could have been. It definitely fell victim to the attempt to pack too much into one film, with plotlines involving the Peter and MJ relationship, Harry Osborn, the Sandman, and Venom (both the “black costume” plot and Venom’s origin and revenge scheme). Given the amount going on, the writers handled it fairly well, but I feel like they’d have done even better if they didn’t have so much going on at once.
I was mildly disappointed in Harry’s lack of a supervillain identity (call me old fashioned, but I like my costumed types to have code-names and masks and stuff). Would have been a cool nod if he had adopted the Hobgoblin motif. Speaking of masks, I understand acting behind one can be limiting, but it started to bug me just how often all the masked characters doffed or lost theirs. I’d swear it was a point of contract negotiation, it happened so much. Would have also been nice if Venom had been named in the dialog, even only peripherally (”Eddie Brock is gone, you destroyed him, all that’s left is pure venom!” or somesuch).
The action scenes and special effects were great, of course. It’s gotten to the point where, if a big-budget flick doesn’t have amazing CGI effects, that’s unusual. On the other hand, I felt like some of the action sequences were too fast and hard to follow, maybe because I’m not a member of the video game generation and my visual coordination is too slow.
So an enjoyable flick overall, but not quite so much as 1 & 2 and suffering from the sequelitis Spider-Man 2 managed to avoid. On the other hand, Christopher enjoyed this one better than No. 2, so, to each their own.
Overall, a good movie, but not as good as it could have been. It definitely fell victim to the attempt to pack too much into one film, with plotlines involving the Peter and MJ relationship, Harry Osborn, the Sandman, and Venom (both the “black costume” plot and Venom’s origin and revenge scheme). Given the amount going on, the writers handled it fairly well, but I feel like they’d have done even better if they didn’t have so much going on at once.
I was mildly disappointed in Harry’s lack of a supervillain identity (call me old fashioned, but I like my costumed types to have code-names and masks and stuff). Would have been a cool nod if he had adopted the Hobgoblin motif. Speaking of masks, I understand acting behind one can be limiting, but it started to bug me just how often all the masked characters doffed or lost theirs. I’d swear it was a point of contract negotiation, it happened so much. Would have also been nice if Venom had been named in the dialog, even only peripherally (”Eddie Brock is gone, you destroyed him, all that’s left is pure venom!” or somesuch).
The action scenes and special effects were great, of course. It’s gotten to the point where, if a big-budget flick doesn’t have amazing CGI effects, that’s unusual. On the other hand, I felt like some of the action sequences were too fast and hard to follow, maybe because I’m not a member of the video game generation and my visual coordination is too slow.
So an enjoyable flick overall, but not quite so much as 1 & 2 and suffering from the sequelitis Spider-Man 2 managed to avoid. On the other hand, Christopher enjoyed this one better than No. 2, so, to each their own.
