Pros:
- The black Spidey suit is pretty cool looking.
- J.K. Simmons' comic relief gags are repetitive but I laughed.
- Thomas Haden Church was perfect casting for Sandman and probably gives the best serious
performance in the movie. His motivation, his origin scene, and his powers are cool.
- Speaking of which, I liked the theme he had.
- Bryce Dallas Howard was great casting for Gwen Stacy
- The action scenes are pretty solid; particularly the armored car chase and that skyscraper rescue.
- The design of Venom is actually pretty cool as well.
- Peter Parker and Harry Osborn teaming up to fight Sandman and Venom is heartwarming.
- It did have a pretty kickass movie trailer.
Cons:
- Sam Raimi's idea of dark and gritty are emo hairstyles and pelvic thrusts?
- Tobey Maguire's crying scenes. Please no.
- I never disliked Kirsten Dunst's portrayal of Mary Jane, particularly for the first two films. But man,
she is really unsympathetic in this. I'm not sure if they planned on killing her off in part 4 but I wouldn't be angry i
if they did after that pancake bullshit.
- Oh right, pancakes.
- Topher Grace's casting as Eddie Brock/Venom on paper sounds ideal, like a corrupt foil to Parker. But damn is he annoying in this.
- By the way, and yes I cribbed this from the How Did This Get Made episode, but no one is shocked or surprised that there's a fucking alien in the movie!!!!
- That overly dramatic reporter narrating the climax who for some reason is British (btw did you know that actress committed suicide?
).
- All the romantic subplots leading nowhere and the status quo being restored. Man, what a waste of time.
- This movie's production and bloated 'storytelling' techniques would be repeated time and again from The Amazing Spiderman series to rival franchises like the DCEU's Batman versus Superman.
...I actually still like the movie okay in spite of all this. I go back and forth ranking it as a 6 or 7 out of ten. It's too bad we never got that Spider-Man 4. It sounds like it'd have been awesome.
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