Letters to the Editor
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Bad Movie, Bad Review, Bad Critic
Any person who, after watching the "dark Peter" jazz number, can say Spider-Man 3 is worth $10 and 2 1/2 hours of their life has to take a step back and seriously reevaluate their life and the standards their living it by.
After reading this disappointing piece one has to wonder if Salon wouldn't have been better off going with that article on Dubya's veto.
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A Film About Redemption
I dug Spiderman 3. Sure, it's long and bloated and the Emo Peter sequence is silly, but even that "Mask"-like dance scene builds to a pretty biting and painful denouement. I don't think it's too much to tip that the film is about redemption; ultimately, there really are no bad guys once Parker learns to control his anger and forgive himself and others.
Subtle it's not, but any film with it's spirituality so clear and clean and on message deserves props in my book.
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Spiderman 3 = FEH!
Stephanie Zacharek must have been surrounded by many of the same morons I was who laugh at the most insipid things and are so IQ deficient that they stoop to that most tired and annoying of movie theatre poor etiquette and that is talking back to the screen. UGH!!! And apparently these morons must have influenced her review. The only thing I could find remotely interesting in all of the proceedings was the "sandman" character which must have cost a bundle on special effects. Yes, the action/fight scenes were good and yes, the special effects were good. But we should expect that in a summer movie of this caliber and a superhero movie, at that. And by the way, how many times can we see the same fight/action scenes which really do begin to resemble each other after a while. And this film fell flat on its face every time it tried to inject humor into the story. I'm not sure how many times I groaned in displeasure. But the biggest defect I saw in the film was the script was just not very good. For all the damn money they spent on this film you would think they could hire a decent enough script writer who could come up with better plots and lines than were foisted on us in this very mediocre offering. I wouldn't recommend this film at all and since this is the film that begins the summer movie onslaught, I'm not very optimistic.
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee had cameos in the first two movies, but no lines. He saved people on the street from falling debris.
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spidey 3 review
Just saw this movie and re-read the review ... this review made me wanna gag. I'm in no way against sequels or summertime blockbuster "event movies," but I've seen enough of them to know when not to lavish such praise on a spectacle so overstuffed and unengaging.