Comments on: Spider-Mania: Third time’s a … dud? (Yeah, right …)

By: Nelson Guirado

Nelson Guirado — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:38:10 +0000

I wrote a review. I liked it.

http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/reviews/2007/05/05/movie_review_spiderman_three_3

By: AdamYJ

AdamYJ — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:59:38 +0000

Actually, it makes a fair amount of sense that Venom only appears in the last 30 minutes of the movie. What they’re essentially doing is their take on what the ’90s cartoon called the “Alien Costume Saga”. It’s more about the negative aspects of Spidey that are brought out when he’s wearing the black costume and how he eventually rejects them in the end. Then, Venom is the final part when all that negativity comes back after him. I remember that even in the first season of the Spider-Man cartoon, Venom was a character that only appeared in one third of the alien costume story. He’s not a character that needs to be used too much.

By: gar

gar — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:20:39 +0000

Just wanted to say that I utterly loathed the last X-Men flick, and I know more than a few people whose thoughts mirrored my own.

By: rolando

rolando — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:50:59 +0000

Can we count Superman Returns in the “third-movies-suck” category? After all, it’s clearly meant to come after Superman I and II (ignoring III and IV) and it REALLY did suck.

By: JK Parkin

JK Parkin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:11:49 +0000

I added a warning to Jordi’s comment.

As for the third X-Men movie, I thought it was kind of a mess, but it wasn’t on the level of, say, Superman III in terms of being a bad movie.

By: Rodger

Rodger — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:45:03 +0000

Did people really despise “X-Men: The Last Stand”? I’ll admit it wasn’t the best in the series, but I think its biggest mistake was trying to cram too much in there. Nobody I’ve spoken too even disliked it, let alone despised it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:04:47 +0000

There are still Venom fans?

By: Kevin Huxford

Kevin Huxford — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:35:39 +0000

Glad Jordi is sharing such information without hint of spoiler warning…

By: Jordi

Jordi — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:54:36 +0000

POTENTIAL SPOILERS:

There are two possible sensations after you see the movie:

a) If you go to the movie as a movie and comic book lover, you will enjoy it.
b) If you go to the movie as a Venom’s fan (even is possible that Venom’s fans are much more than Spidy ones), you will be severely disappointed. Why?
• Venom is just seen in the very last 30 minutes of the movie
• Raimi Venom is nothing compared with the look of the Venom in comics. One or two scenes worth it nothing else.
• Venom has a very unworthy ending.

We knew Sam Raimi didn’t want to include Venom in his very own movie, but his revenge against Avi Arad for the imposition, became the most important Spiderman’s foe into a second hand villain.